On the off-chance you’ve not scoped this place out yet (just off Sauchiehall St)… https://qualityvitamins.co.uk/ might be worth a visit.
Shitty shit name. And it’s got fairly strong dickhead alt-medicine vibes (which seems to almost inevitably come with the territory, mores the pity), but, ignoring all that caper (and it’s nowhere near as bad as some places) - and this is the important bit - they have a strong food selection: especially yer chilled n.d. stuff like cheeses, sausages, cold slices, pastes and whatnot.
I once went vegan for lent. I only did it to one up someone that said they were going veggie.
It was fine when you are cooking for yourself and I tend to cook most things from scratch anyway. You just had to make sure you checked the labels of everything when you went shopping. Things like stews, soups and curries were much better than making like an approximation of meat and two veg.
Found it tough if I went out to eat though. I didn’t like making a fuss for vegan food when I wasn’t really vegan for any real reason.
I missed dairy a lot more than meat.
I only ate vegan. I didn’t look at what beers were suitable for vegans.
the last 5 years for me have been nothing but disappointment bar tesco’s smoked soya & sainsbo’s spready garlic and herb. their feta is alright but sickly (coconut oil). wasted so much money on cheese
A lot of beers are vegan. Some use lactose (from milk) but that’s pretty rare. And some use isinglass (fish swim bladder) for purifying beers, but that’s dying out as well. This will tell you:
Heh. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest. 's all good.
But it’s one of the reasons it’s why places like that are places like that*, and CCA, Stereo, Mono, The 78, 13th Note, etc, are not**. Preachy vibes (or the perception of 'em) are a turn-off for most people innit.
'* veggie place on a back street, ticking over.
'** busy veggie place, and actual destinations in their own right.
Went to the supermarket not realising they all close early for new year…so ended up at local Tezza where I got some vegan muffins I can have with honey for breakfast then retry Sainsburys or somewhere for the soya milk and all that gubbins. Might need to be 80% this week though as still have a load of collective yogurt to eat…