I find it strange that vegans and vegetarians don’t eat meat but buy food shaped like meat, cutlets, sausages, meat pies.
That's because there's all there is if you want to buy rather than make. As someone who doesn't eat meat because I don't like the taste or feel of it, I find that distressing. Fortunately I can cook. I think much of the veggie food industry is aimed at the health food market now, there's more money in that
My daughter went veggie when she was 11, she's 27 now and a much better veggie cook than I am.
I ate meat until the day after the referendum, when I felt so sick that veg was all I could face eating. But I still tend to mentally prepare meals and feel I want something to 'go with' the veg, rather than having a vegetable dish as the centrepiece, so that's where the veggie sausages or whatever come in handy. I'm getting better at it but it does need a different approach.
I find it strange that vegans and vegetarians don’t eat meat but buy food shaped like meat, cutlets, sausages, meat pies.
I don't think it's fair to say sausages and pies are meat shaped. They were both originally just ways of holding stuff into easy to cook and eat packages.
I don't eat a lot of meat but I find the amount of meat in pre-packaged food these days to be very excessive. A whole chicken lasts us the best part of a week, probably more if we make soup with the stock, but I see ready meals crammed with more meat than I'd eat in a week sometimes.
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I think much of the veggie food industry is aimed at the health food market now, there's more money in that
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