Not vegan, but making a vegan meal...

[bandgeek]

...for a potluck. I'm PRETTY sure all my ingredients are vegan, but just want to double check that I actually know what I'm doing. In the ingredients list I'm not seeing any animal products and none of them say "includes dairy, ect". A couple contain wheat. An extra one I got does say it contains eggs and dairy, but I think I'll bring it anyway and leave it on the side in case people want to throw it on theirs (it's a vegetarian/vegan thing).

Am I on the right track?

[wytchywoman]

Sounds relatively vegan to me aside from the eggs and dairy in the second dish. I'm not sure what dishes you are bringing but honey may be an item in one of the dishes that is not vegan. Don't know if you knew that or not.

[smallmama]

There's a list here of hidden animal products that may be in foods - names you wouldn't automatically recognize as animal-derived: http://www.cyberparent.com/eat/hiddenanimalsinfood.htm You could double check your ingredients for those things to be on the safe side.

[bandgeek]

Ok, well good thing I asked. I knew honey wasn't vegan, but I guess I didn't expect it to be in my pizza crusts. But upon closer inspection, it is.

I'm making mexican pizza. Just realized my refried beans aren't vegan...they're not even vegetarian! There's LARD in them. *barf*

Anyone know what brand of refried beans are vegan? Supposedly they exist.

I read somewhere that the kroger brand pizza crusts are vegan...is this true? I have time to do a little more shopping before the dinner tonight.

The optional ingredient would be the morningstar "hamburger" crumbles. I was just going to put them on the side and label them vegetarian, but not vegan.

[alicia622]

growing up, we always made refried beans with margarine instead of lard.

[smallmama]

Old El Paso makes "vegetarian refried beans", and "fat-free refried beans," both of which are vegan. They should be next to the other refried beans, just with a slightly different label.

As for pizza crust, do you have a Trader Joe's nearby? I love their ready made pizza crusts (they have white, wheat, and "herb" which are all vegan).

[somegirl99]

It's helpful at potlucks if you bring a little card with the ingredients listed and leave that next to your dish, just in case someone is wondering.

[bandgeek]

Originally Posted by somegirl99

It's helpful at potlucks if you bring a little card with the ingredients listed and leave that next to your dish, just in case someone is wondering.

Yup, that's one of the things they are asking us to do. I'm only trying so hard to do a vegan dish because I expect most of the food people will bring will be vegetarian and not vegan. So I want the vegan people to eat too.

Ok so I think I will maybe just make the refried beans myself so I know what's in them. It doesn't look hard. No trader joes, but I will look at krogers and see what I can find as far as pizza crust goes.

Worst case scenario, is I end up with a veggie dish instead of a vegan dish and label it as such.

[bandgeek]

Update in case anyone is interested:

I did manage to find all vegan ingredients and had one of the ladies there double check for me (I ripped off the a couple of the ingredient labels and brought them with me ). It was great! And everyone loved my dish.