Vegetarian Society of Ireland

Hey All!First time in here :D I have friends coming round for dinner on wednesday and 2 are vegetarian. Im thinking of buying a veggie lasagne or quiche. Could anyone recommend somewhere that does a tasty one to buy thanks? Im not a great cook but if anyone also has a relatively easy recipe that would be good too thanks.

hi guys,
Ive been a veggie for a couple of years now. I find myself hiding this from people as the majority jump down my neck and ask about 20 questions (understandably their just curious). Anyway... when people find out this information , I tend to get the same thing "why are you veggie?" "do you actually think its cruelty to animals?" following with the statements "we are MEANT to eat them..." and "that is very hippyish..."
so..any good comebacks instead of trying to brush it off??, Im sick of being embarrassed!
thanks! :)

Would the vegans on boards.ie like to post there current weights, height, age, how long they are vegan etc. Im curious to see how healthy vegans are..would anyone care to start?

I myself am vegan just 1 month now. :eek:

want to send some choc to american relatives for st patricks day and thought of these brands

I couldn't find anything similar to this so I thought I'd start this thread.

The main reason I started this thread is because of a guest myself and Missechan are having over. We're both organisers and coordinators for a new Irish anime convention starting in August http://www.nom-con.com and we're having a special guest over; voice acting veteran Chris Patton. Thing is, Chris is a vegan and I was wondering if anybody could recommend any (good) vegan restaurants or restaurants with vegan options in Dublin?

I guess you could use this thread to list vegan/vegetarian restaurants around Ireland with your own rating and listing your favourite meals here :)

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Apparently, Tom will be interviewing someone who's written a book on why we should all give up meat, on his radio show this morning - Newstalk 106fm.

Aha, it's Jonathan Safran Foer..."Eating Animals" - so, sometime between now and midday, if you're interested.

hey guys, I'm 2 days into my third attempt to becoming veggie! I'm determined to stick with it this time and have ordered the vegetarian student cookbook, at the moment I'm living off Quorn products from tesco's but plan to learn the secret behind chick peas! my downfall previously was not learning how to cook veggie for myself so I'm definatly going to give it a shot this time around


during work however I'm really stuck for brunch/lunch ideas the last two days I've just eaten crossaints+crisps! anyone have any easy to make/buy alternatives to get me through?

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