Hungry Jacks veggie burgers are not vegetarian! (Let alone vegan!)

I was thinking of having a Hungry Jacks veggie burger today and obviously the cheese on it isn't vegan but I was going to get one without cheese. I thought I should look up the ingredients of the patty online to make sure that it didn't have any animal products in it (I was pretty sure it was going to). Well, what I found out was astounding. The cheese and the veggie patty have rennet in them! The burger itself is not even vegetarian! What kind of a company makes a veggie burger and then puts rennet in it?! I guess this is why you should research fast food to see what's really in it rather than assuming that you're not being lied to. Or mislead, I should say. It's not a 'vegetarian burger' after all, but still, who's their demographic?!

Saturday 14 January 2012

Breakfast
Two slices of raisin toast with Nuttelex, a tub of Danone Strawberry Greek Style Yogurt, a white nectarine, and a glass of breakfast juice (replace dairy yogurt with non-dairy and you have a vegan breakfast).

Lunch
Lunch at my local shopping centre food court. I had a toasted cheese and tomato sandwich and a pot of chamomile tea. Depending on the type of cheese used though, this may have had rennet in it and therefore is not vegetarian. It is very frustrating when eateries do not understand that cheese is often not vegetarian.

Dinner
A delicious dinner of fried haloumi wraps. Haloumi is a type of cheese and you usually fry it. It is fried cheese, therefore it is amazing. I use Lemnos Haloumi Cheese because you can buy it at the supermarket and they use non-animal rennet. Don't be put off by the idea of frying cheese, it is really easy and haloumi doesn't melt all over the place like other cheeses would. It is also really yummy in a salad. You can find a recipe for fried haloumi wraps here.

Snacks
A danish from Rhineland Bakery. Mmm.. :)

A Woolworths Fruitless Hot-Cross Bun (vegan). They are not so good cold, trust me.

Some more Blanxart 80% Cocoa Chocolate (vegan). There's not much left now!

Monday 9 January 2012

First day back at work today after holidays and then out to dinner at an all you can eat diner for my cousin's birthday. I found myself hungrier today than I have been for the past few weeks, early childhood education burns a lot of energy!

Breakfast
Heinz beans on toast with nuttelex spread, an apple, and a glass of breakfast juice (vegan).

Lunch
Leftovers from last night's dinner, Heinz tomato soup with little pasta shapes (again, vegan alternative: use egg free pasta).

Dinner
All you can eat diner, not too much vegan food, and I even question the vegetarian-ness of some of the food I ate. For example, cheese on a pizza probably contains rennet, chocolate mousse or chocolate pudding could contain gelatin. The cheese thing in particular really annoys me in restaurants because usually everything on the 'vegetarian' menu comes with parmesan on it. Parmesan cheese is not vegetarian. I want to tell them this but I'm too shy. Maybe if they had some kind of anonymous feedback sheet...

Anyway, I started off the night with cauliflower, broccoli, and cheese bake, baked potatoes, roast carrots, and roast pumpkin.

Next, a slice of vegetarian pizza, some sort of bean salad, tomato, and cucumber.

Then, chocolate pudding with chocolate sauce and chocolate custard. Mmmm...

Then last, a bowl of chocolate mousse with sprinkles.

I think it's needless to say that I made myself a bit sick. I always feel like you have to go home sick from an all you can eat place though, otherwise you haven't got your money's worth.