Hi,

Does anybody know anyone who's vegetarian in Canada? We are hoping to get our PR through soon and I'm vegetarian along with my daughter. Will we be seen as strange in Canada?

Not worried for myself but worried for my daughter I want her to fit in, do schools offer a choice of meals or will it be packed lunch everyday?

We visited Niagara recently and when we told a waitress we were vegetarian her chin hit the floor, although she did her best to accommodate us. It seemed a bit like the UK 15 years ago.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Hi,

I am a vegetarian. I don't live in Canada any more but did from16-18.My family still live there so I visit once to twice a year. I'll admit when I first moved to Canada being a veggie was seen as a novelty over there.

However, times have changed. There is plenty of veggie choices in restaurants and supermarkets even have a dedicated veggie section in the chilled cabinets. You won't have any problems.

You can't get things like Quorn but they do have similar.

Unfortunately there are no vegetarians in Canada due to statutory laws deeming vegetarianism illegal. To comply with PR status an immigrant must eat at least 1KG of meat for 2 out of each 5 years.

Thanks good to know

Perhaps I'll form a secret society of vegetable worshipers

Is that raw or cooked meat,,,lol

As long as you've shot it, it doesn't matter.

Yup no quorn or linda mccartney type food there, people seem to think your a weirdo if your a vegeterian and from what i have seen restaurants and supermarkets do not cater well for vegeterians.........

MR79

Dh has been a veggie for many many years and I have no problems finding him stuff in the supermarket.

This is generally what you can find in the shops plus President's choice do have a few things. Also find plenty of veggie pizza's, lasagne etc in the frozen section. Not been to many restaurants but Pizza Delight has a couple of veggie options and DH has eaten there with no problems

http://www.yvesveggie.com/

One of my daughters was vegetarian for most of her life (she's omnivorous now). She even worked as a "raw food vegetarian private chef" which I suppose is flower arranging by another name. She said it was fine in Toronto and Montreal but elsewhere the options for eating out were limited to house salad and Indian restaurants; this was particular a problem in very white provinces such as NS. One year we drove out to California, through the meat eating belt of Nebraska and Kansas, that meant salad bars and supermarkets for hundreds of miles.

I don't think vegetarianism really works in a hunting, shooting and fishing country, not only is the food going to be less accessible than in Europe but the degree to which one is considered an affected weirdo is much greater. I suppose one could regain some measure of social acceptability by killing something. Do you foxhunt?

You can imagine my Canadian redneck father-in-law's utter disgust when he realised his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren were all vegetarian and of course it didn't help that we lived in the Church and Wellesley area of Toronto. As you know vegetarianism and gayness go hand in hand and it's contagious.

Indeed. It's a wonder you didn't all start speaking French.

Oh the horror!!

Coffee now snorted all over keyboard.
WINNER funniest post of the Year.

But i thought gay men prefer to eat meat?