Vegan ready meals

There was a thread about vegetarian chicken pieces during the week.

Some people like them that’s why the manufacturers make them. If you don’t like them, don’t buy them. Simples.

I find them. Very high in salt so therefore avoid them.

Try Cooks. They have a good range of vegetarian and vegan meals with decent ingredients.

vegansrock

Some people like them that’s why the manufacturers make them. If you don’t like them, don’t buy them. Simples.

That's it, in a nutshell. Some people don't eat any kind of ready meals, others find them quite convenient on occasion. Why shouldn't vegans have that same choice? No-one is being forced to buy them.

I decided to try the M&S vegan range as I had a discount voucher for them. I had a sweet potato and cashew nut curry. Sounded nice. However, I really didn't like flavour or texture and noticed that although it was very high in salt content it tasted very sweet somehow. The sheer number of ingredients was massive.
Think I'll stick to our usual mix of meat and/or veg meals. Simpler the better for me.

My post wasn't about criticising people's choices. I picked up the leaflet because I thought it might give me some ideas for healthy eating. I like to cook from scratch mostly but I would like to eat less meat. The Plant Kitchen range was heavily promoted and the list of ingredients didn't sound particularly healthy. I just wondered about the opinions of others.

I don’t understand why the ready meals have to have “pretend” meat.
There are thousands of beautiful combinations of vegetarian and vegan dishes, I suppose it’s to encourage people to try them that ordinarily wouldn’t.

I did try one of the plant kitchen ready meals- it was a Thai curry, it didn’t have pretend meat. It was tasty but the list of ingredients was enormous. I wouldn’t buy one again but it has inspired me to try to make my own version.

I bought a vegan Christmas dinner centrepiece on the 23rd of December . It was a veg curry in a filo pastry case. No pretend meat but lots of veg in a curry sauce. It was really nice but at £10 it was overpriced, at the £3.50 I sound it was good value. Even my vegan hating son enjoyed it.

Vegans are vegans for the animals. If someone wants to eat healthier they are called Whole Food Plant Based. Vegan food can be healthy or unhealthy, of course. Chips and bourbon biscuits are vegan but not healthy! Vegan ready meals are similar to omni ready meals - handy for some.

The sheer number of ingredients in vegan dishes is outnumbered by the sheer number of ingredients in the muscle tissue of some little food animal.

I did see somewhere' if your granny doesn't recognize the ingredients don't buy it' I have got a pressure cooker,/instant pot and just put all your fresh ingredients in, and it is
done in no time. Simple is best. Processed food I think is more expensive. It is good that people are buying non meat meals though.