There are vegans in the house.
Contrary to popular opinion they have not got more energy than their carnivorous neighbours. My family has been up and about for hours but the two fruit bats are still asleep, snoring their heads off under a feather filled duvet - heh!
They are a seasonal favour, friends of a friend in London, who needed a bed for a couple of nights.
They are a lovely young couple but the first words they uttered were "We're vegan, hope it won't be a problem".
Don't get me wrong, I'm mostly vegetarian myself (I don't process meat too well, so to speak), but I am not adverse to the odd meaty treat in the steak department, but this is taking it to extreme! So far they have grated up a few cabbages and have emptied my fruit basket twice over. They shun hot drinks, in favour of some sort of greeny powder.
My fridge is full of dairy delights and animal offcuts, we like our full cream milk and our bacon with a good slab of fat on it. When I stay anywhere else, I make sure that I have a stock of 'quick foods' that I can replace the meat with and not offend my host.
What did they come with? Nothing, not a bean or a lentil burger in sight! Well no that's not true, they came with a suitcase full of supplements to replace all those natural vitamins and minerals that they are denying themselves!
They are leaving today and I have just found the ideal last supper (see picture above).
Not a scrap of meat in sight and no animal products - I'm sure they will love it!
12 comments:
I was a vegetarian for 18 years until I became really anaemic. That soon scared me into eating meat again, though I don't touch red meat (apart from lamb's liver occasionally, which is really high in iron).
Visitors! I am a vegetarian- tried to be vegan for a bit but gave up- verything tasted like cardboard- or what I guessed cardboard would taste like.
Marie, I eat loads of dried apricots to keep my iron count up but have to limit my meat intake to about twice a month - a bacon sandwich does the trick!
Jude, hello and welcome. I think everyone is entitled to make their own choices about diet. These two, bless 'em, have just fallen into a fad and I'm sure cardboard would be a tasty morsel for them!
I think we were designed to eat a little bit of everything. You have to be quite imaginative, even as a vegetarian. Vegans lack this, I feel, and they definitely look on the sicker side of healthy! Wonder if they would like a nice plate of stew and dumplings?
was tempted but not going to raise to the bait, you can lose good friends that way
stop engaging in dietism
Two of my sons were vegetarians for close to 15 years but at least not vegans, which meant some very frustrating cooking rituals for me - mostly the proverbial double trouble. Naturally, now that they've moved away from home - sort of - they eat meat.
Dietism? Me?
What I was trying to say was that you have to make informed choices about what you put in your body - I do!
These two haven't. They also have decidely bad taste in tie-dye clothes and all my linen now smells of patchouli oil! They didn't want a pot noodle either...wonder why?
minx - you are awful, but I like you ;¬)
You mean you didn't take back loads of Cheddar so they could gorge on it?
(Or is that out for vegans? I'm never sure.)
Thanks Cailleach, you're awful too!
No cheddar CFR, no Brie, no Camembert, no Lancashire, no fun at all in the cheese department!
And Steve, my Granny Annie smoked for seventy five years, she died at 95 with a packet of Black Cats in her apron pocket, and was buried with them! No every bad thing kills you off early!
Has anybody got any ideas as to how me Pot Noodle pot sunk into the post below. I have tried to tidy it up but it won't play the game - sorry about the mess!
Personally, I find smiling abhorrent. Meet you over at Ted's place, Minx! Hugs and Kisses!
Hello Hmmm, long time no see!
I am sorry if my sense of humour got in the way of a quite serious issue here.
What I was trying to say was that these two have NOT made any informed choices at all. In talking to them I found that they have just fallen in love with the word 'Vegan' with no idea as to what it really means. Up until a couple of months ago they were living off MacDonalds! They are 27 and 29 and their parents are still worried about them as they seem to lurch aimlessly from one thing to another.
I care deeply about what my own family are eating. All our meat and veg comes from a local organic farm run by friends. With two of us suffering from Gilberts Syndrome it is vital that we keep our food as 'pure' as it can be and it has to be varied. I make my own bread, cakes, biscuits etc and make most meals from scratch. Dairy products, especially yogurt, are helpful to my condition as is a small amount of animal fat. I have never eaten a Pot Noodle in my life but would not be adverse to having one in an emergency!
This post was not a real dig at Vegans, (well just two pseudo-Vegans) - just a quirky look at the ways of the world - which is usually what my blog is all about!
I'm coming Susan...wait for me!!
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