Proprietary meals, was I'm a new Vegan and I'm hungry all the time...help?

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Hi all,

 

Agree about all that has been said on the use of faux foods, with the

addition that it's something you either welcome or prefer to avoid (as

previously mentioned on this mails, I'm personally for avoidance).

 

Associated with this, another dichotomy: there are those who will make

judicious use of proprietary foods (ready meals etc.) and those who

prefer to prepare everything from (almost) scratch. Only in the last

way can you be really sure that what you eat is veg*n, despite all the

certifications from vegetarian organizations etc.

 

Here too I previously belonged for the most part to the last group,

but today I was persuaded to buy a proprietary pasta sauce (in fact a

lady in the store was giving samples, I didn't try them as she'd

prepared a bolognese version with me*t - but if you bought 3 you got a

free cook book). So I acquired it, adding of course a few of my own

ingredients, and the result was delicious - I certainly didn't feel

hungry afterwards! But thinking about it later, the ingredients were

82% tomato puree plus some herbs etc. which I could easily have put

together myself - a considerable markup for just the idea, which I

could probably have got from another recipe book or from our excellent

Files!

 

Conclusion: use proprietary foods with care, or better still not. What

do you think?

 

Piers

 

PS the make was Bertolli, a Unilever brand better known for its olive

oil. And yes, it was certified by the national vegetarian org.