5 Tips For Avoiding Feeling Like A Turkey On This Day Of Feasting
Thanksgiving dinner parties can be challenging for vegans and vegetarians, but enjoying the holiday doesn’t have to revolve around what’s on your plate. With advice from a vegan who knows the situation firsthand, here are five ways to enjoy the food, the company and the holiday without feeling left out of the celebration.
By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Editor & Publisher
It has to be difficult to be a vegan and vegetarian on Thanksgiving.
All your friends or family are gathering for big feasts involving turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and all other sorts of belly-filling meats and food.
But what can you have to eat at these happenings while everyone else is gorging on food items that are off limits to you? If you’re a true vegan, you can’t even have any deviled eggs!
And heck, should you even go to a Thanksgiving dinner?
According to Nyisha Rylander of puravidavegan.com, here’s how to not only enjoy Thanksgiving dinner as a vegan or vegetarian, but to truly relish being at one. She provides these five easy tips to follow:
Bring A Couple Of Dishes Everyone Can Enjoy
1.) Bring at least two dishes for you, that you also know others will enjoy, such as a green bean casserole and sweet potatoes.
Don’t Arrive At The Party Hungry
2.) Don’t show up starving. Eat a little at home before going to the party. That way, if there’s not a lot of food options for you, you won’t be hungry.
Keep The Dinner Conversation Friendly
3) Don’t make snide remarks at the table when people are eating meat. Conversely, if you’re a meat eater, don’t make snide remarks at the vegan or vegetarian.
Be Polite About Your Dietary Preferences
4.) Don’t bring up the fact you are a vegan or vegetarian unless you are asked. Be polite. This is a big one.
Remember That Thanksgiving Is About Family And Friends
5.) Remember you’re there to be with family or friends and not really to eat. Keep that in mind. And keep calm.
So you see, you don’t have to be like a cold leftover on Thanksgiving if your a vegan or vegetarian. As for watching all that football, well that’s another issue.
Kevin Wilkerson is the founder of PubClub.com, an award-winning journalist and nightlife expert who has covered destinations, events and nightlife for more than two decades. While working as a newspaper reporter, he received an Associated Press award for investigative journalism.
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