I've been kicking around the idea of going vegetarian for a while. I'm not talking full blown vegan, but ovo-lacto vegetarian. I love cheese far too much to give it up. I'm not a huge egg fan, but so much is made with eggs, I'll keep them in the diet.
I just can't take the slaughter of animals anymore... I also can't stand the damage to the environment. It's such a waste! It doesn't make sense to me. What about the dairy cows, you ask? Well... Again, this journey is about convenience. I guess to me, the killing is worse than the environmental impact. It's a catch-22. I can't avoid it, and I can't really explain it. So, lets leave it at that, okay??
So... Going the way of the fast-food vegetarian...
I found out the following in order by restaurant:
Arby's
- Turnovers are vegan
- Shakes are made with carrageenan, not gelatin
- They use 100% vegetable oil
- The cheese products are made with microbial rennet, not calves rennet
Baskin-Robbins
- The plain and sugar cones are vegan
Burger King
- Some places carry veggie burger, but they are usually cooked in the same oil that is used to cook meat.
- Hash browns are cooked in the same fryer they use for meat products.
- On their Web site Burger King states "Burger King Corporation makes no claim that the BK VeggieTM Burger or any other of its products meets the requirements of a vegan or vegetarian diet."
Chili's
- The French fries are cooked in the same oil that meat products are cooked in.
Domino's Pizza
- The pizza sauce is vegan.
- Only a select number of stores carry one crust which is vegan.
- Their cheese is made from non-microbial enzymes.
McDonalds
- Fried and hash browns contain beef flavoring (unlike Burger King)
- Vegetarian items include: Granola, shakes, Butter Biscuit (but not the biscuit dressing), McDonaldland ® Cookies (contain honey and sugar), buns, and McSalad Shaker salad.
- Some of their salad dressings contain anchovies.
- The special sauce contains eggs.
Panera
- The Broccoli Cheddar Soup contains a chicken base.
Pizza Hut
- The pizza crust, regular pizza sauce and marinara pasta sauce are vegetarian.
- The French, Italian, Fat Free Ranch and Creamy Cucumber dressings are vegetarian (don't contain eggs).
Uno (not "fast" food, but good)
- The regular and Uno pizza sauce, breadsticks Marinara Sauce Pasta and the House Salad are all vegan.
- The grilled vegetables are cooked on the same grill that meat is grilled on.
- The Muenster, cheddar, and mozzarella cheeses do not contain animal rennet.
Taco Bell
- Vegan dishes are Bean Burrito (without cheese), Bean Tostada (without cheese), nachos without cheese, Mexican Rice (without cheese), Seven Layer Burrito (no sour cream or no cheese) and the Guacamole.
- Vegan sauces are mild, red, hot, fire, Soft Tortillas, Pizza Sauce and Green Sauce.
- Corn tortillas (hard tacos), burritos tortillas and wheat tortilla (soft tacos) are vegan.
- The soft burrito tortillas are not vegan, they contain non-fat dry milk.
- Both the refried beans and pinto beans are vegan.
- Their supplier during the production of the cheese uses a non-animal genetically engineered coagulant (an enzyme) derived from a genetically engineered strain of dairy yeast, Kluyveromyces Lactis (and the cheese is kosher).
Wendy's
- Taco chips, applesauce and French fries are vegan.
- None of the cheeses contain rennet derived from animal products.
- The French fries are normally cooked in their own oil, but if demand is high for them they may be cooked in the same oil that chicken or fish is also cooked in.
- All the sauces normally put on the pita sandwiches are non-vegetarian.
- The baked potatoes and some of the salads (side salad & deluxe garden salad) are vegetarian.
Source: http://www.vegetarian-restaurants.net
Hmmmm... Now what to do with that pork roast that's sitting in the fridge.
-S
Hmmmm... Now what to do with that pork roast that's sitting in the fridge.
-S
1 comment:
Ah, good luck with this journey, dear husband, since your daughter is a certified carnivore. :)
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