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Confused about fruit and veg! :confused:

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Kermit wrote:
    the wife
    Does that feel weird?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ilora-Danon wrote:
    I don't eat the stuff. Why do vegetarians want to eat something that's meant to taste like the one thing they won't eat!? I don't understand it.

    If you don't eat meat, why are you eating a substitute that is made to taste like meat!? :banghead:

    Ilora x
    er because its not made from dead animals maybe.
    I thought that was slightly obvious?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It seems to me that a lot of vegetarians do like the taste of meat, jut not the thought than an animal died so that they can eat.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Raisins are fruit btw. so are dried apricots and prunes etc.
    This is not a licence to go and eat a big bag of chocolate raisins though.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No, it's the whole 'I don't like meat' and then they go and eat Quorn (that's made to taste like meat) that I just don't get!!!

    Ilora x
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    well I like the taste of meat, but im a vegetarian because I dont want to support the meat industry, therefore I eat meat substitutes.
    The more realistic it tastes the better.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    rainbow brite wrote:
    Raisins are fruit btw. so are dried apricots and prunes etc.
    This is not a licence to go and eat a big bag of chocolate raisins though.

    But i got a big bag free at Holland and Barretts, cause it was the first day of opening. So if theyre covered in chocolate theyre no longer fruit? I did say i was confused! lol
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    they are still fruit, even when covered in chocolate. They have more vitamins in them than normal chocolate, but I think the fact that they are covered in fatty sugary chocolately loveliness, kind of outweighs some of the benefit to eating the fruit.
    I still love them though. And yoghurt raisins.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    rainbow brite wrote:
    And yoghurt raisins.

    omg mmm

    julian graves checkers mix *drools*
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No i don't like the yogurt raisons, but i'm addicted to the chocolate ones!! :yum:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    rainbow brite wrote:
    well I like the taste of meat, but im a vegetarian because I dont want to support the meat industry, therefore I eat meat substitutes.
    The more realistic it tastes the better.

    aye, and i like the taste of white meat, but finding lumps of fat and veins and blood clots in it makes me want to heave, so 9 times out of 10 I eat quorn instead. It tastes like chicken, and you're 100% guaranteed not to find veins :thumb:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    the quorn southern style burgers taste almost exactly like chicken burgers.
    Mr Brite agrees with me and he still eats chicken.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    aye, and the pieces might be a bit tasteless on their own, but so's a plain piece of chicken, really. once you get them in sauce, or whatever you're serving them in, they taste great.

    although i like the cauldron lincolnshire sausages loads more than the quorn ones. they're really tasty.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    or VegiDeli sage and marjoram sausages from holland and Barrett.
    They are my favourite at the moment. Theyve got good texture too.
    We even managed to get my die hard meat eating mother in law to try one, and she reluctantly admitted, they were actually OK lol.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    rainbow brite wrote:
    Yes you are.

    Oh well, very rarely anything stays in my fruit bowl long enough to go rotten. And tomatoes and peppers usually need ripening up a bit, sometimes I keep them on a sunny windowsill.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm a veggie, I don't buy quorn much but I buy veggie sausages and veggiemince so I can have the same meals as meat eaters do - like spag bol and toad in the hole which are quite hard to recreate using just vegetables
    Its more a case of trying to replicate a meal than trying to substiture the actual meat
    Also quorn replaces the protein you miss from meat and its MUCH lower in fat! And no animals are kept in cages smaller than themselves so you can enjoy your sunday dinner
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I personally don't understand how people can eat meat after they've seen what it looks like before it cooked!
    A whole lambs liver came through my checkout today (I work in safeways) and i was nearly sick right there!! :sour:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    im considering becoming vegetarian, but i just love chicken too much!

    i just really dont agree with the meat trade...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Miffy wrote:
    Am I the only person who keeps tomatoes and peppers in the fruit bowl then?

    Lol, seems like it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Miffy wrote:
    Am I the only person who keeps tomatoes and peppers in the fruit bowl then?


    no, i have a fruit and veggie bowl...it helps if you change the name of the actual bowl ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Blah_x2 wrote:
    im considering becoming vegetarian, but i just love chicken too much!

    i just really dont agree with the meat trade...

    yeah that was my problem, and the fact that my boyfriend is like some raging carnivore, so i decided if worst comes to the worst i could probably kill a chicken, so i can justify still eating them, but i would never be able to kill, a cow pig etc so i haven't ate that kind of meat for about 3 years, and have chicken about once a week, which pleases the bloke enough to shut him up :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Tullia wrote:
    no, i have a fruit and veggie bowl...it helps if you change the name of the actual bowl ;)

    But tomatoes and peppers are fruits.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    "Moral" vegetarians who eat fish amuse me greatly, it has to be said.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Though if you believe Kurt Cobain it's ok to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
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