Vegan Fast Food Restaurants?
January 21st, 2010
I was just reading an article about Vegetarian Fast Food available in regular fast food joints like Burger King, McDonalds, Taco Bell, etc.
Unfortunately, the list of vegetarian meals also include dairy (cheese, sour cream). Yet if you are a little creative, you can still find a few "vegan" meals at these fast food restaurants.
For example:
Burger King tops the list because it does offer a "Veggie" burger. It is a Morningstar Garden Burger. Get it without cheese or mayo, yet add lettuce, tomato, onion and mustard and you have a nice Vegan fast food burger. Burger King's french fries and onion rings are vegan, yet fattening. You can also order a salad and ask for an oil & vinegar dressing to keep your meal vegan.
Taco Bell gives vegans a choice too. Since their Fresco items are made without cheese, you can order a Fresco Bean Burrito.
McDonald's doesn't give the vegan many choices at all. You could order a salad with the Paul Newman's Basalmic Vinegarette dressing. There are the french fries too. (McDonald's stopped using beef tallow for frying).
Wendy's like McDonald's does not have very many vegan items either. Again, there is the french fries, side salad and the baked potato -- nix the sour cream, cheese & brocolli toppings though.
Maybe sometime in the near future the fast food industry will start adding more vegan choices. What do you think?
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I agree with you. I think fast food restaurants should innovate new veggie dishes. They can offer a more healthy diet for their customers too.
Oh man, I have been vegan for about two years in boston and majorly struggling to find cool places to eat where I can actually leave feeling full. But, alabama??? Good luck! The south is like the capital of eating meat, meat, and more meat! If you can really accomplish this, then there is hope for all of us! I wish you the best of luck with that.
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I wonder how many vegans are like me and would actively avoid going to somewhere like McDondalds for ethical reasons even if they did offer a better choice of vegan food there? I tend to think of it in terms of who I give my money too and what it is going to fund. I’d therefore feel uncomfortable about putting money into the pockets of companies like McDonalds even if they did offer some decent vegan food.
I’d be interested to see what others think though.
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I would love to have vegan meals but I didnt get it at any restaurants as McDonalds is one of them.
Its always a hard life for vegans in US and Europe, I suffered a lot when I was in both of these places for my business trips.