/r/vegetarian

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Welcome to r/vegetarian, a community for anyone interested in a vegetarian diet. While you don’t have to be a vegetarian to participate, we ask that you respect the focus of our community by staying on topic and refraining from promoting non-vegetarian foods. Most of us are based in the U.S. and consider vegetarianism to include dairy and/or eggs. Please take a moment to read the rules and familiarize yourself with Reddiquette before posting.

Full Rules HERE


Rules of Veggit

1. Be Civil and Follow Reddiquette

Follow Reddiquette and remember the human behind the screen. This means don’t be a jerk, no trolling, bullying, name-calling, hostility, badgering or mocking individuals or vegetarians as a group. People who violate this rule will be permanently banned. Users who harass other users or moderators will be reported to Reddit’s Admins.

2. Vegetarian Requirement

Posts and comments must be directly related to the vegetarian (human) diet (i.e., food). The connection must be clear, relevant and directly specific to a vegetarian diet. Evangelism, proselytizing and/or derailing discussions by arguing against vegetarianism is not welcome here. If you would like to discuss the ethical implications of the various vegetarian diets, egg/dairy industries, pet ownership, fashion, etc., please create a thread on the general subreddit r/vegetarianism instead.

3. Respect Other People’s Choices

If your only contribution to a discussion is to derail it, berate other users, and/or push or encourage a lifestyle or diet without provocation, the moderators will take action. Users who violate these policies will be warned or banned. This includes evangelism, proselytizing, or any other activism with the intent of converting users to another diet or lifestyle.

4. Vote Manipulation & Cross-Posting

Reddit prohibits brigading & vote manipulation, which applies when a call to action is made either directly or implied. This applies either to or from /r/vegetarian. If a post is suspected of such activity, it will be locked, removed & reported to the Reddit admins. Users who violate this policy will be permanently banned. Cross-posts to and from the subreddit must be formatted using a non-participation link: http://np.reddit.com/r/vegetarian/

5. Recipes Requirement

To ensure all meals posted are actually vegetarian, complete recipes & clear titles are required. Photos must present the dish in an appetizing way (i.e., in clean surroundings, not in your lap, on a plate or in a bowl, not half eaten, in good lighting, properly focused, etc.). More info. Low effort/overly simplistic dishes which don't need a recipe (i.e., raw fruits & vegetables or dishes made entirely from store-bought ingredients) will be removed.

6. Vegetarian Grocery Items & Faux Meats

New info about vegetarian products or faux meats being available at grocery stores/restaurants should be given the ‘News’ flair. If you'd like to share a product you tried, please use the ‘Product Endorsement’ flair & include the product name & the name of the store where you purchased it in the title. Per Rule 5, if you use a faux meat, it can't be the main component & must meet the requirements (i.e., homemade spaghetti & meatballs is fine, store bought sauce with Beyond meatballs is not).

7. Restaurant Meals

If you would like to share an experience you had in a restaurant, please use the ‘Travel’ flair and include a good quality photo of the dish prior to being eaten. Add the name and location of the eatery. As with Rule 6, we do not want to be a free advertising channel for big corporations & fast food chains, so pictures of faux meats from chains using Impossible, Beyond, Gardein, Linda McCartney etc., will be removed at moderator discretion. More info.

8. Common Questions

If you’re a beginner, please read this post. If you are new to this subreddit, please consider that your question may have been asked before & perform a basic search before asking your question. Please read our wiki & FAQs before posting. Moderators will remove vague and open-ended or general requests for recipes, advice or meal suggestions.

9. Food Restrictions Beyond a Vegetarian / Vegan Diet If you have specific foods that you are unable to eat for reasons beyond a vegetarian or vegan diet, there are better resources than this subreddit. If due to a medical condition, please seek help from a healthcare provider or post on /r/AskDocs. If due to reasons other than medical, help can be found on /r/PickyEaters and /r/EDAnonymous.

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Vegetarian Holiday Meals/Kits?

Hello, everyone!

My wife has been a vegetarian for 15 years now and I spend 6 days on, 1 day off vegetarianism throughout the week.

Normally I am the one who does all of the meal cooking because I have a lot of experience. This year I have to work on Christmas and every day surrounding it.

We would like to get an easy Christmas dinner meal kit or a full meal that we just heat up. Something that is more than just a standard weekday meal, or just thrown together here and there.

Tons of meal kit and meal prep companies offer amazing holiday meals. Issue is that I can hardly find anything that is vegetarian. We live in a rural area of Texas, so local places are not an option.

Does anyone have any recommendations??

13 Comments
2024/12/01
22:31 UTC

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What "Wet" Ingredient(s) Would You Use to Panko Crust Tempeh?

I am NOT vegan. I am looking to do a faux Chicken parmesan using Tempeh and do in the air fryer. I've seen reference to cornstarch +water, AP flour +water). What will help this stick the best? I am not against doing eggs

10 Comments
2024/12/01
18:07 UTC

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Which Tofu to use?

I'm wanting to make a mock Panda Express Sweet fire chicken using tofu. Would extra firm tofu be the best choice to substitute the chicken with? I'm a tofu newb.

The recipe I am using lightly coats the chicken in cornstarch/flour mixture and pan fries it before tossing in a sweet chili marinade. I'm wanting to do the same thing with tofu.

12 Comments
2024/12/01
17:01 UTC

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Ham alternatives?

Hi All,

What would be a good alternative for uncooked cubed ham? I have a recipe that's calling for it and not sure how to replace it. Buying and baking a fake ham roast for it seems excessive to me. Do you think a fake chicken substitute would work? I know the flavors might not be exact but think it might work. I'm challenging myself to work through a cookbook and try every recipe (it's a bean cookbook but not all recipes are vegetarian) but struggling with how to adapt this one.

16 Comments
2024/12/01
14:27 UTC

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Vegetarian indonesian cookbook?

I'm looking for an authentic indonesian cookbook for my mom. She's vegetarian, so a vegetarian book would be ideal, but she would be fine with a regular indonesian cookbook as long as it is authentic and has a good amount of vegetarian options!

2 Comments
2024/12/01
02:47 UTC

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Pork fake meat?

The quorn chicken nuggets are perfect and my go to meal but their other meats are kind of gross. Any pork replacements you've found that don't taste like pork but still good?

4 Comments
2024/11/30
22:29 UTC

42

Veggie pepperoni?

Anyone here have a good recommendation for Vegetarian pepperoni? My partner and I transitioned to vegetarianism about 2 years ago, and while we’ve found we don’t miss most meats, he REALLY misses pepperoni pizza. We tried a brand recently that sucked. I’ve heard of Beyond pepperoni but can’t seem to find it in anything other than bulk restaurant cases. Any comparable recommendations that can be bought in smaller quantities? It’s his birthday soon, and I’d love to be able to make him a “pepperoni” pizza.

95 Comments
2024/11/30
17:38 UTC

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Anybody have holiday treat recipes??

So every Christmas season I make candy cane brownies! Going to make them again this year, but was wondering if anybody had any other go to holiday dessert recipes??

15 Comments
2024/11/30
03:40 UTC

128

How to politely ask family to be less creative in their cooking for me?

My mother and mother in-law are wonderful. I'm very grateful to them for many things including how much effort they put into cooking for me and my partner when we visit. However they both always try to make us something "a bit different" as they say.

I have tried to politely tell them that whilst I will eat anything and am always pleased not to have cooked, I generally have the same palette as most people and they are free to give me the same as everyone else, just with the meat swapped for a vegetarian protein such as lentils or Quorn etc. or a premade substitute.

For example (we are British) they might make a standard pie and mashed potatoes for dinner. The meat eaters having something traditional like chicken and mushroom/ steak and ale but for me it will be curried sweet potato pie and a vegetable stock instead of gravey.

This has been going on for a decade now and I really can't stomach another morrocan fusion or basically raw piece of chunky vegetable.

I think they feel being vegetarian is unusual therefore I must love weird food generally. I suspect they also think just buying something premade and normal sounding is some form of cheating. Like they won't buy normal vegetarian sausages despite my hinting that's what I usually buy, it will be some unusual exotic twist in a sausage shape.

I really don't want to offend them, seem ungrateful or reveal that I haven't been enjoying their hardwork. They seem so proud of the things they have found or made for me, I hate that they make so much effort when it's not even what I enjoy.

Sometimes I feel like saying if this sounds so good why haven't you been tempted to make a meat version. I would obviously never say something as mean/ungrateful as that.

Any suggestions welcome.

48 Comments
2024/11/29
16:06 UTC

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Cute Turkey with a Message!

6 Comments
2024/11/29
13:17 UTC

1,605

Happy Lasagne Day, folks!

We always have Italian food on Thanksgiving. This year we’re being really lazy, and making “Ravioli Lasagne”. Did you know you can bake raviolis in a casserole without boiling them first? Just make your layers, and bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes. Add five minutes for frozen raviolis.

Do you have a Thanksgiving dish you eat every year?

36 Comments
2024/11/28
23:49 UTC

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Would you eat this at a work potluck?

Hi! My office is having a holiday potluck next month and the only main options on the sign-up so far are "beef" and pulled pork (we're in the south). I'm not a vegetarian, but even I feel that nothing but BBQ is a bit much. Found a recipe for a lentil & pearled couscous dish that sounds nice, might even try to figure out how to serve it warm. As vegetarians, would you appreciate this as an option? Would it be out of place for a holiday thing? I just thought something light would be nice.

47 Comments
2024/11/28
17:19 UTC

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Vegetarian pesto

When out for food I’ve often noticed many places list “x pesto dish” as vegetarian. Despite standard pesto not being vegetarian, a lot of people I’ve spoken to often never realised about the rennet. So with that in mind do you think restaurants like this would use an alternative or just like many assume pesto is vegetarian and flag it as such?

37 Comments
2024/11/28
16:58 UTC

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Adding vital wheat gluten to a recipe for structure?

I've made seitan from scratch, but haven't experimented with adding gluten to other recipes. I'm curious if anyone has experience just adding a little to other dishes, and if a tablespoon or two would work with other semi-wet ingredients to firm it up a bit.

I'm making a dish that's pretty much just mirepoix, yam, white beans and spices, baked with a little ground oatmeal. I was thinking of increasing the liquid a bit and adding a bit of maybe 3-4 tbsp wheat gluten at the end (for the 5-6 cups of other ingredients).

Any thoughts?

6 Comments
2024/11/28
09:55 UTC

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I need recipes for eggplant.

In my country eggplant is sold in every supermarket but it's still not a vegetable used a lot. Growing up I only knew moussaka, and with the help of this sub and a random wrestler cooking on social medias, I now know pulled eggplant and eggplant parmesan too. So I'm looking for something new to try.

84 Comments
2024/11/28
07:28 UTC

75

Please help me prepare this thanksgiving!

My niece is bringing her boyfriend to our house for Thanksgiving this year and I am thrilled! I have met him once and he seems like a great kid, but I did not know he was vegetarian until just yesterday. I am not used to cooking a vegetarian menu, so I am scrambling to try and prepare some food options for him so he isn't stuck eating "just the sides" so to speak.

My wife and I have already purchased the ingredients for all of our normal items, but when I went through looking, it is surprising how many items contain meat or meat products (like chicken broth!!!).

Can anyone give me some ideas on a main entre option for him so he doesn't feel left out or like we didn't consider his dietary restrictions when we prepped. I am already going to make a vegetarian stuffing, and have a recipe for vegetarian gravy to go with it and the mashed potatoes, but I'm missing a main choice. My non vegetarian mind keeps gravitating towards a veggie burger (or something similar) but that seems weird. Cooking for my friends and family is my love language, please help!!!

The alternative option is I could ask her or have her check with him to see if he has any preferences, but I don't want to put that on him or make him feel awkward or like he is being an extra burden or causing extra work.

If youve made it this far, thank you for reading and thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Sincerely, Concerned and stressed uncle :-)

Edit: I'm more of a lurker than a poster so apologies if the format is off...

Thank you to everyone for the suggestions and your time! I spoke with my niece and the boyfriend and he said he would rather me not "make anything special" for him but he appreciated the thought. I told him there would be plenty of vegetarian options and that I will let him know when he gets here what is veg. I added a roasted Brussels sprouts side and also modified my green beans to remove bacon so they are vegetarian as well! Prep and Cooking is in full swing and I am so excited. T-minus 7 hours till dinner!

You all are awesome and I hope you have good quality time with your families if that is on your agenda for this weekend! Much love

97 Comments
2024/11/27
21:53 UTC

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Moosewood stuffing recipe

So I used to have the little moosewood cook book and made the best stuffing one thanksgiving. I no longer have the cookbook but I would love to make it this year. I know this might be a long shot, but I thought I’d ask! Thank you!

9 Comments
2024/11/27
01:33 UTC

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best vegetarian gravy?

i’m looking for a good vegetarian gravy for thanksgiving, but one that actually attempts to resemble real gravy (turkey, chicken, beef, etc.). i only ever see onion or mushroom gravy as alternatives but to me those taste too much like onion or mushroom and nothing like real gravy, besides the texture. they’re like what a veggie burger is to a beef burger, but i’m looking for the gravy equivalent of an impossible burger. obviously you can’t recreate the exact flavor of real gravy without meat, but do you guys know of any recipes or store bought gravy that are close to what i’m looking for? thanks :)

90 Comments
2024/11/26
19:52 UTC

33

Bringing my own meal this Christmas ?

Hey everyone,

This year will be my first Christmas as a vegetarian. My family is supportive and cool about this but I am wary that they will not add a veggie meal or that the only vegetarian meal will not be fulfilling.

In your opinion and experience, would it be okay to bring my own meal ?

I don't want them to take this the wrong way and look "arrogant". Also, bringing a meal for everyone isn't something we do in my family/culture, only the host will prepare meals.

PS : English isn't my first language, sorry if I made mistakes !

39 Comments
2024/11/25
22:02 UTC

5

I need recipes for stuffed squash/pumpkins!

Hello! I’m hosting Thanksgiving this week and I want to try making stuffed squash/pumpkins as the main. Does anyone have any recipes they’ve tried and really liked? I have some that I found on google but I prefer getting recommendations from people who’ve made it before :)

Thanks!

7 Comments
2024/11/25
14:32 UTC

14

Price of plant based food in your area?

Went to the store today and everything marked up for the holidays (of course). The milk based cheese is ridiculous. My hubby and I went to the "natural foods" section and surprisingly the foods didn't seem marked up. The plant based cheese is the same price (since last time I was in the store) for Vivolife and Follow Your Heart, meaning it was LESS than the marked up milk based cheese.

What about the rest of you? Are regular groceries marked up but plant based foods the same price? Curious.

9 Comments
2024/11/25
00:05 UTC

177

Do you feel scared or ambarassed to say you're vegetarian to people in general?

I'm vegetarian since only a few years now and wanted to know if more people felt the same way? While being totally ok for others to eat wathever they want?

I'm always scared someone would offer me to eat and I would answer I'm vegetarian, basically being seen as annoying or causing ambarassement to them cause if they knew they would have done something.

217 Comments
2024/11/24
22:20 UTC

25

What to serve with baked potatoes?

What would be a good dish to go with BP?

55 Comments
2024/11/24
21:24 UTC

93

Mushroom Paprikash

5 Comments
2024/11/24
03:00 UTC

40

Is there a meal delivery service with plant-based meats?

All of the vegetation options I’ve seen from meal delivery services are basically plates of beans & veggies. Is there anything with decent plant-based meats? I’m in Atlanta if that makes a difference.

55 Comments
2024/11/23
17:44 UTC

10

Dairy-Free Ice Cream with no added sugar

I’m on a mission to find some decent dairy-free ice cream with no added sugar. Only thing I’ve found is so far is So Delicious Vanilla.

Any recommendations for brands that have flavors beyond just vanilla or chocolate with no added sugar?

I’m US-based and haven’t searched at any high end supermarkets like Whole Foods, Gelson’s, or Bristol Farms.

23 Comments
2024/11/23
03:14 UTC

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Which seasonings are commonly used in Indian vegetarian dishes?

A little background, I'm fairly experienced in the kitchen and generally know how to season most of what I cook, including curries. But I'm curious to know which seasonings a typical Indian restaurant would use to spice their vegetarian dishes like a Masala or Chili Paneer.

I know Garam Masala is likely common, but I'm interested in drilling down to the individual spices that are usually used. If I wanted to do something like make a Dingri Masala with a fair bit of heat, and emulate how Indians do it, which individual spices would I be using?

42 Comments
2024/11/22
17:00 UTC

11

Fable Mushrooms

Okay so, disclaimer, I am not a vegetarian. I used to be but no longer, but I still love vegetarian foods.
I ordered this KC Mushroom Piece Sandwich for some food (The Federalist Pig, located in Washington D.C.)... it It is ASTOUNDING. It's actually is so rich for me that this going to take me a few days to finish.
I'm not kidding, it legit tastes like brisket, it's incredible, beefy texture and even taste! If I was served it, I would think it's beef. There's surprisingly little about them online but they do have a site. Anyone else had it? I highly recommend these. I'm highly sensitive to taste so this was actually too much for me because I really wanted a mushroom experience (not the fun kind lol) but this is more like beef bbq. But it is remarkable!

2 Comments
2024/11/21
03:40 UTC

39

What is the Veggie Burger brand with the cheese inside???

I've had a type of veggie burger from a few restaurants that uses cheese for binding, and I'm wondering where they can be purchased privately? Of the top of my head, I know they're used by Elevation Burger and my college's cafeteria run by Aramark used to get them in once in a while.

Google's not been my friend here and I can't see that the question has been asked on this sub before, does anyone have any clues?

29 Comments
2024/11/20
19:10 UTC

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