Gregg's vegan sausage rolls

Perhaps the punters realise they're saving the planet, but I suspect it's more for compassionate reasons.  10-4.

I have to go to Brixton next week kenny and there is a Greggs near the tube station so I'll try one then and let you know what I think.

I'll have to try one. The Linda McCartney little sausage rolls are surprisingly good but pretty fattening.
For Kenny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_FOS1GvZOY

If Vegan food is so tasty, varied, nutritious and healthy, why the need to recreate stuff that carnivores eat, but in vegan form.  And why would you even consider buying it from that hotbed of quality produce that is Greggs.  Even serious carnivores don't eat there do they?

"If Vegan food is so tasty, varied, nutritious and healthy, why the need to recreate stuff that carnivores eat, but in vegan form."
What a stupid question. I mean really. This forum never ceases to depress me.

Visiting anyone Slippy? lol

My hairdresser recommended them to me yesterday in Leeds, but the store said they'd sold 2 dozen in 2 hours and they are stepping up production, so I'm not sure they'll be available yet. I then went to Pudsey near where I live (Len Hutton was born there) and they hadn't been supplied with any despite clearing their first batch of 20 in 2 hours.


Noted the LM sausage rolls, JC, although I've not been enamoured with her products. The video was funny.

Nutrition:
Energy kJ     1282 kJ     1295 kJ
Energy kcal     308 kcal     311 kcal
Fat     19 g     19 g
of which Saturates     9.3 g     9.3 g
Carbohydrate     21 g     21 g
of which Sugars     0.8 g     0.8 g
Protein     12 g     12 g
Salt     1.8 g     1.9 g

So pretty high in fat (though probably about same as the non vegan).
Something for the odd treat, not something to live off of!
Actuatlly .. the normal one is :
Energy kcal     317 kcal     327 kcal
Fat     21 g     22 g
Protein     9.1 g     9.4 g

So higher in fat and lower in protein, so the Vegan one appears healthier.

blackbarn 17 Jan 19 18:05 Joined: 02 Jan 05 | Topic/replies: 10,300 | Blogger: blackbarn's blog
If Vegan food is so tasty, varied, nutritious and healthy, why the need to recreate stuff that carnivores eat, but in vegan form.

Nice easy one, it's because we still could murder a bacon sandwich etc and it reminds us. Of course vegan food is not as tasty as meat, but it's not at all bad, and a compassionate person will make the sacrifice.

All Linda's produce is high in saturated fat. I always check the labels.

Quorn isn't (their massala and rice is delicious) neither is Cauldron (my favourite)

"Frys" do decent veg sausage rolls as do "higgedy piggedy",the former also has schnitzels which are the nearest i ever came to a meat substitute.

Kenny that nutrition is for the Greggs one, from the Greggs site, lower one is for the meat sausage roll (edited down).

Kenny as value for money goes ready meals aren't the way to go, you are paying a premium for rice and sauce and little quorn.

Maybe you're a lotter winner of course. PSychic cat that chose the numbers I'll guess!

If the forum depresses you so, JC, you should consider leaving. Would do all of our mental health the world of good.

oh right, lol, didn't realise that JC. An odd one won't harm though.

Not a lottery winner (don't play it) but have been a semi pro gambler (arber Slippy calls it, but a fair bit of trading too) and have made 1/4 million on here since 2002. Sounds a lot, but it's not as it just boosts my smallish works pension (took redundancy at 47)

Oh it's Michael the leftie troll, not missed but back anyway. If you think that "question" was anything other than mind blowingly stupid (so stupid it in turn might actually be just a troll) then you are beyond help.

Rice is dirt cheap you'd be better getting a good sauce, the Quorn chunks, making your own rice, you'd get about 4 meals for the price of that one!

For an intelligent chap, Blackbarn sometimes surprises me with his ill though out questions.

I was eating some quorn one day and this guy says to me "Soy Boy", I was about to get annoyed then I realised he was just introducing his gender in Spanish.

Greggs is a highly successful business in a competitive sector, you can be sure they have done their homework.
Veganism is a growth market and probably one with decent margins.

Jan 17, 2019 -- 12:09PM, kenny mann wrote:

Visiting anyone Slippy? lolMy hairdresser recommended them to me yesterday in Leeds, but the store said they'd sold 2 dozen in 2 hours and they are stepping up production, so I'm not sure they'll be available yet. I then went to Pudsey near where I live (Len Hutton was born there) and they hadn't been supplied with any despite clearing their first batch of 20 in 2 hours.Noted the LM sausage rolls, JC, although I've not been enamoured with her products. The video was funny.

No mate, I have to go to Sports Direct to exchange some hiking boots my brother bought me for Christmas. He got size 42 and I'm a 43 so just have to swap them over and no doubt I'll have a mooch around Brixton market and have a pint in the 'spoons whilst I'm there, 'The Beehive' on the High Street.

Good evening Foinavon.

Great old video from 1902 I was looking at the other day from your neck of...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_lvKyqTKdQ

Slippy, is that the spoons next to Nationwide?

I saw nothing stupid in Blackbarn's question, at least you had the manners to answer it kenny.

Yes, I was well brung up saddo.

Hello Kenny, I hardly recognise the place, all those white faces, it's a different world.

It was a bit stupid though. Anyone should know that veggies and vegans still miss meat, or a lot of them.

Kenny feeds trolls, I don't have the patience :)

Indeed it is Foinavon, as is Bradford. I've been spending a lot of time (too much) on memories of Bradford sites on Facebook, there's a few of them. Political comments are barred, but it's patently obvious from the older posters that they are not happy the way the council destroyed some lovely old buildings, but moreso the takeover by stealth  of the indigenous population.

Yes kenny, turn right out of the tube station and past the Nationwide and Halifax and it's just before the cop shop. They show RUK in there and a few doors down there is a Billy Hills, I do enjoy going to Brixton, my place of birth after all

i quite like greggs cheese and onion pasties, if i'm hungry
when passing.

i've never been tempted by veggie alternatives to meat, dunno
why not...maybe one day.

Hats were so prevalent in those days I'm surprised the runners weren't wearing cloth caps held on with twine :)

I was hoping you were going to ask, "yes it is kenny, have you been", then I'd have replied "No, I just looked it up on Google Earth".

I was hoping you were going to ask, "yes it is kenny, have you been", then I'd have replied "No, I just looked it up on Google Earth".