Yes, maoz is great if you like standing around a tourist area stuffing a falafel into your mouth while tourists push past you. Its really just a kiosk. And you'd seriously be missing out on some awesome veggie food if you simply went for a pizza in Paris. In fact, the last time I had pizza in Paris I got food poisoning from it! :D And how do you know the cheese in Pizza Marzano is vegetarian? It may be affiliated with Pizza Express but will get its cheese from local sources, not UK sources. And their recipes will be designed to appeal to French, not British palates. Has someone from Pizza Marzano assured you their cheese is vegetarian?

About a 2 minute walk from Maoz is my fav vegetarian restaurant in Paris:
Le Grenier de Notre Dame http://www.legrenierdenotredame.net lacto/ovo, vegan dishes are available and all of the cheese is rennet free! I recommend the cassoulet.

watch out! make sure to ask about fish stocks and the like if you go here - these people think fish is vegetarian apparently. :dizzy:

watch out! make sure to ask about fish stocks and the like if you go here - these people think fish is vegetarian apparently. :dizzy:

Who are 'these people'? What are you talking about?

None of the vegetarian restaurants I posted serve fish nor do they use fish stocks in anything they cook. In fact, in my experience fish is more apt to be served as a vegetarian dish in the UK than in France.

Who are 'these people'? What are you talking about?

None of the vegetarian restaurants I posted serve fish nor do they use fish stocks in anything they cook. In fact, in my experience fish is more apt to be served as a vegetarian dish in the UK than in France.

'these people' wasn't intended as an insult.
I clicked your link out of interest, and the menu appears to include a couple of fish dishes, is all. Possibly it is some kind of 'mock fish' and I am mistaken. I am sorry for any offence :)

from http://www.legrenierdenotredame.net/menus.htm
- La soupe de poisson --- 6,00 €
- accompagnée de fromage, sauce rouille et croûtons
- ( fish soup with cheese, spicy sauce and crust of bread )
...
Le gratin de poisson --- 13,00 €
Cabillaud, purée de pommes de terre fraiches, fromage
( fish, potatoes, cheese.)
again, no offence is intended. This may well be a vegetarian 'mock' fish, I just didn't read it as such at first glance.

'these people' wasn't intended as an insult.
I clicked your link out of interest, and the menu appears to include a couple of fish dishes, is all. Possibly it is some kind of 'mock fish' and I am mistaken. I am sorry for any offence :)

oh my you're right! Le Grenierde Notre Dame is now serving fish dishes as well as vegan and lacto ovo dishes! They are really good about what listing what is vegan and what is not on the menu you get at the restaurant, though.

I've written to Happy Cow to get them to change the classification for this restaurant to 'not 100% vegetarian'.

I have not had a pizza in Pizza Marzano,just the dough balls and garlic bread.They did have a menu list on the site but now we considered it more we doubt we be leaving the resort as its too much messing about with 2 young kids and a pushchair. Going on metros and what not we be risking my partner and my daughter getting bad asthma.Last time we went to Paris was just me and my partner last Easter and we got there on a Sunday and come back Wednesday by mid day Tuesday my partner got ill with asthma and chest infection. When he got back home Dr confirmed what he knew anyway,he probably developed it cos of the traveling on the metro.Same thing happened when we went a few years back to London and we were hopping back and forth on tube all day so we try to avoid underground travelling as it makes him ill and probably make my daughter ill.I never took her on an underground train in London due to this,we usually walk,its bad enough pollution in city with all traffic but using undergrounds make things worse.
Could say I'm against cars,I think too many people have them and they don't need one,or at times they just using them for sake of it,to nip out for getting a loaf of bread when the shop 5mins walk away.

http://www.paul.fr/uk/produits/us_pains.htm

I was told on another board to contact these as there is 2 in that Val Europe Shopping Place which I think you can get a bus to as its very nearby,there is apprantly these in there and I was hoping they be able to help with whats in their products.

Perfectly understandable about not wanting to metro into Paris with kids. I was usually quite tired after a day running around the park to have the energy to go into town!

I would imagine the choice of food at the resort would be a bit limited especially after 6 nights. You'll probably be eating the same dishes a couple of times but you'll do fine. Be sure to bring a french phrasebook and write down the word for 'rennet' in french and be prepared to be able to explain in detail what you do and do not eat in French. Most people speak english but they may not have a detailed knowledge of the obscure English words for meat products. You'll need to be able to communicate this effectively.

Another idea is to do a form of cooking in your room. You can bring an electric kettle and a couple of wide mouth flasks and cook up soups and noodle dishes quite easily. You basically put ingredients into the flask, boil the water and then fill the flask up with boiling water. You then put the lid on and let it sit for an hour or so and everything comes out cooked. I've done this on more than one occaision and have made some pretty interesting things.

http://www.paul.fr/uk/produits/us_pains.htm

I was told on another board to contact these as there is 2 in that Val Europe Shopping Place which I think you can get a bus to as its very nearby,there is apprantly these in there and I was hoping they be able to help with whats in their products.

There's a 'Paul' in the Eurostar station as well! They're all over the place. They're a bakery but do sandwiches as well.

I will be contacting Paul nearer to the time.
We are taking a travel kettle and noodles and pot noodles and the supermarkets have a lot of these pot meals like rice etc that you just add hot water too.I'm planning on us to eat a lot of salad and fruit there,and I will be taking a lot of snacks too. I know for some the part of going on holiday is to eat out makes it more of a holiday for them but I couldn't imagine going in to any table service places with 2 children,my son is autistic/aspergers ( we never had a diagnosis and as time goes on we finding it less and less for them to see us as he is doing fine in school they always says possibly...)and quite lively and hyper at times so he wouldn't behave in such places,cos they not used to it anyway as we don't even eat out a great deal.

I will be contacting Paul nearer to the time.
We are taking a travel kettle and noodles and pot noodles and the supermarkets have a lot of these pot meals like rice etc that you just add hot water too.I'm planning on us to eat a lot of salad and fruit there,and I will be taking a lot of snacks too. I know for some the part of going on holiday is to eat out makes it more of a holiday for them but I couldn't imagine going in to any table service places with 2 children,my son is autistic/aspergers ( we never had a diagnosis and as time goes on we finding it less and less for them to see us as he is doing fine in school they always says possibly...)and quite lively and hyper at times so he wouldn't behave in such places,cos they not used to it anyway as we don't even eat out a great deal.

Oh don't worry about hyperactive kids in Disneyland. Virtually every restaurant table is filled with kids that are over-excited or over-tired and there are lot of facilities for disabled kids and more. They are used to dealing with all sorts of kids and yours will be no different. Disneyland caters to kids first, adults second.

Yeh anywhere we go I usually theaten to leave until they behave,5mins later its just as bad!
Just be able to get some pizza and chips and a cheese sandwich each day would suit us just fine.I not that particular for eating in Summer anyway and I'm more concerned about the kids,our son won't be willing to try anything new,if he doesn't like the look of something then he won't try it.
There is a McDonalds on site I'm going contact them nearer time too,see how it works with them,I use McDonalds like twice a yr if that,we not really ones to eat out and not into bringing home takeaways and fastfoods anyway.
In U.K the fries are vegetarian,but in America they have beef extract on them,I was looking at the sites other week,so I don't know how it work for the one in DLP.

I haven't been on for 3 days (shock horror) so I'm catching up.

Iso, If you ever make it to OOTW, we have Genesis Organics toiletries all only 99p at the minute (deodorants, toothpaste, although this does taste very bicarby I think, and mouthwash). It's an animal-free Australian make and obviously it's organic as well.

Not trying to plug our shop just to help out, honestly! I'm not sure about other brands but that's what me and my mum use at the moment.

Hey everybody! I'm a vegetarian from the US who is thinking about doing a youth exchange program for my senior year in England. I can not request what part of the country I would live in. I was wondering how much of a problem this would be with my diet (I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarian) and if I could make it work. Thanks, Tim

Depends on where in Britain you come to. Most places now are more accommodating to veggies. Brighton is great for veggies, so is Edinburgh and I should think Bristol is also.

Hey everybody! I'm a vegetarian from the US who is thinking about doing a youth exchange program for my senior year in England. I can not request what part of the country I would live in. I was wondering how much of a problem this would be with my diet (I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarian) and if I could make it work. Thanks, Tim
I can't imagine you'd have any problem al if you're l/o. I don't know that I've seen a restaurant yet that doesn't have a couple of vegetarian options, even if it's just egg salad or a veggieburger.

Hey everybody! I'm a vegetarian from the US who is thinking about doing a youth exchange program for my senior year in England. I can not request what part of the country I would live in. I was wondering how much of a problem this would be with my diet (I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarian) and if I could make it work. Thanks, Tim

It'll be easy :)
Every restaraunt and even some fast food places have a couple of options for lacto-ovos, and they will probably be marked. Vegetarian food including meat replacements is available in all the supermarkets. Will you be staying with a family? This is the only problem you're likely to encounter, but again it should be fine. Most Brits are very familiar with vegetarianism. I think something like 10% of our population is veg. If it IS an exchange where you stay in someone's house and they have a fair number of families to choose from, they may even be able to make sure you are in a house where one of the family members is veg, if you ask :)

I haven't been on for 3 days (shock horror) so I'm catching up.

Iso, If you ever make it to OOTW, we have Genesis Organics toiletries all only 99p at the minute (deodorants, toothpaste, although this does taste very bicarby I think, and mouthwash). It's an animal-free Australian make and obviously it's organic as well.

Not trying to plug our shop just to help out, honestly! I'm not sure about other brands but that's what me and my mum use at the moment.

I'd like to try that stuff.
Did you read my PM about our navigation skills though? :lol:

Thanks for the replies! I will be staying with 2-4 different families during the nine month stay. It sounds like it will work! Thanks, Tim

Thanks for the replies! I will be staying with 2-4 different families during the nine month stay. It sounds like it will work! Thanks, Tim

You should be fine :-) Any of my mate's families i visit are able to accomodate me and what i eat.

Yes, should be fine! There are quite a lot of vegetarians in the UK although it doesn't seem to be as widespread as it was for a while (seemed like it was trendy in the 90s and has now gone down again a bit, anyone else think that?), so the families should all be fine about it and may even ask before you go there if you are veggie or not. :) you can definitely find plenty of veggie food over here anyway!

d'oh. I should have remembered the advice all yous gave me about toothpaste. I bought Tom's of Maine since that seems to be the official VB brand, near enough. I also vaguely remembered what Spidergrrl said about some of them containing a bee product, but it said "no animal products". Bleh. I got the nonvegan one though and didn't notice until I got home.
Ah well, I figure nearly-vegan toothpaste is better than not-at-all-vegan toothpaste until it runs out. I got J/A/S/O/N brand deoderant, I think it's called.

And if anyone cares, right now H&B are doing Buy 2 get 1 free on absoloutely everything :)

And if anyone cares, right now H&B are doing Buy 2 get 1 free on absoloutely everything :)

WHAT
Im so there!!!!!!
I take it absolutely everything includes fooood

I found a random health food shop on thursday and spent er, too much.
they had all the stuff i hear about but h&b doesnt have - like extra melting cheesely! aand garlic tofu! and vegan ravioli and tortellini eeeee. oh and a carrot cake which tasted like fruitcake ew.

anyone know anywhere in the UK that does either vegan cakes (birthday stylie - or at least so i can stick it together with jam and ice it and go "look its a birthday cake!!!" or vegan cake mixes? Sainsburys sucks and theres no other places round here =( (is home from uni) - my cooking skills suck and i need a birthday cakeee. oh deer next week i'll be 21 how scary

WHAT
Im so there!!!!!!
I take it absolutely everything includes fooood

I found a random health food shop on thursday and spent er, too much.
they had all the stuff i hear about but h&b doesnt have - like extra melting cheesely! aand garlic tofu! and vegan ravioli and tortellini eeeee. oh and a carrot cake which tasted like fruitcake ew.

anyone know anywhere in the UK that does either vegan cakes (birthday stylie - or at least so i can stick it together with jam and ice it and go "look its a birthday cake!!!" or vegan cake mixes? Sainsburys sucks and theres no other places round here =( (is home from uni) - my cooking skills suck and i need a birthday cakeee. oh deer next week i'll be 21 how scary

yeah, it includes food.
I freaking love extra melting cheezly. The H&B near me sometimes has it...but it's a bit hit-and-miss.

Now Isowish, you know dem bees ain't no animals! Yes, Tom's is a better toothpaste than others. Did they have AloeDent? We think that is miles (or is that kilometres?) better than any other vegan one. Glad you found a deodorant. Hope it works and you don't get stinky.

As to H&B--I will hop on over after easter and see what I can get. Thanks for the heads up!