Gronklies.

I meant to go grocery shopping today. I didn't. But at least I had some food around. So, spaghetti for lunch, gardenburger ribs for dinner. (I generally avoid imitation meat. Three of my exceptions, veggie hot dogs, veggie meat balls, and Tofurky, are because they're just really cheat easy protein to add to cheap easy carbs. The other two, Morningstar Farms buffalo wings and Gardenburger riblets, are because they're just that good.)

I love quorn

edit: and I am so not a vegetarian.

I left my frickin' phone at work. This is so annoying.

I need to go get hair dye tomorrow, and go to the grocery store. And I need to call a friend to cop a ride. Dammit.

I sometimes have Quorn, too. I'd forgotten about that one. That was a diet food staple for me for a while -- the Naked Quorn (no breading) topped with tomato sauce and soy mozzerella, with spinach or green beans or asparagus.

my favorite is curried quorn salad with grapes and celery but I think the quorn roast does a better job than chicken in most chicken salads.

Hill, you mention vegan but I wasn't sure--are you one?

I did vegan for three months. I wasn't a particularly inventive one, and I hate tofu and resent meat substitutes, so it was never going to be more than an experiment. But I am glad I did it.

We hang out with a vegan couple sometimes, and they do stuff like take us to raw food restaurants which is incredibly traumatic if you're me, because the menu's a big old lying tease. But even here in West LA their eating out options are reasonably circumscribed. I can't imagine trying to work that way--I didn't eat out during my foray into veganism.

Sometimes we go to vegan places, and sometimes they come with us to sushi or Indian. But I'm glad I have little in the way of dietary restrictions (my migraine triggers are fairly easy to avoid). I don't have a healthy enough appetite as it is. Couldn't handle cutting down opportunities to eat beyond my sheer laziness.

Ah, children of the quorn, unite.

I'm not vegan. Vegetarian, and I don't eat eggs, but I'm not terribly careful about the egg thing when it comes to baked goods and other prepared foods. Anything I bake myself has no eggs, though. (The egg thing is halfway for animal issues, and halfway because the last time I ate eggs, I got food poisoning, so just looking at them makes me feel sick now. But at that point, I'd been thinking about giving up eggs anyway.)

I will try anything. In general I don't like fish unless it's raw or smoked and I don't care for lobster, shrimp or crab except for ceremonial purposes. I'll do clam chowder and raw oysters but mussels are just icky. I didn't like brains the one time I had them but I adore blood sausage. I think I'll pretty much eat anything else.

Not a vegetarian, but I really like Smart Dogs. Taste like real hot dogs to me, but without the fat and nitrates and stuff. Curious among those who like veggie hot dogs any brand/style preferences?