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Win Vegetarian Christmas feast from Linda McCartney

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What do you cook for Christmas lunch when some of your family members are vegetarian? I put this question to the folks at Linda McCartney and they offered to send me out their range of festive products to try.

We had some vegetarian friends coming for Sunday lunch, so it was the perfect chance to carry out a bit of research for the big day to see what might be in the running for the Christmas table.

Linda McCartney Vegetarian Roast

Linda McCartney Vegetarian Roast

Vegetarian Roast

It looks like a big sausage – so not that visually appealing when you put it in the oven really. But when you slice into it the ‘meat’ is tender and pretty convincing. It took 55 minutes to cook, and because it’s cooked inside a plastic jacket it retains flavour and a juicy texture.

It went really well with all the traditional roast trimmings, and I made a delicious red onion gravy to go with it.

Vegetarian sausages

Linda McCartney red onion and rosemary sausages

Red onion and rosemary sausages

These chunky bangers were full of flavour and really substantial – a great little extra for your veggie roast dinner and ready in 18-20 mins straight out of the freezer.

Mini snack sausages

These were delicious and would again be great as an extra trimming for the roast or to serve as party food over the festive season. Very easy to just bung in the oven and 20 minutes later they’re done.

mini sausages

Linda McCartney mini snack sausages

WIN WIN WIN!

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YOU can win a vegetarian feast from Linda McCartney right here! Here’s what you get if you win:

  • 2 x Vegetarian Roast
  • 2 x Cranberry & Camembert Burgers
  • 2 x Rosemary & Red Onion Sausages
  • 2 x Mini Snack Vegetarian Sausages
  • Selection of seasonal vegetables
  • Bottle of sherry
  • A game for the kids
  • A carrot for Rudolph
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To enter:

1. For your first chance to win the prize please comment on this post telling me what is your favourite vegetarian Christmas dinner.

2. For a second chance to win please tweet this post Win Linda McCartney Christmas vegetarian feast with @cookingkt http://wp.me/pU5T8-11H #win #prize and comment HERE telling me you have done so along with your twitter username

3. For a third chance to win please follow me @cookingkt on twitter and comment HERE to tell me you have done so.

4. For a fourth chance to win please go and ‘like’ Feeding Boys on Facebook, and come back to this page to comment you have done so.

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GIVEAWAY RULES

This giveaway is open to all readers with a UK mailing address.  The winner will be chosen using an online randomiser and announced in a subsequent post.

I am running this competition on behalf of Linda McCartney who will be sending the prize out to the lucky winner. Their decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. 

There is one main way to enter and several ways to get bonus entries.  You must leave a separate comment for each bonus entry otherwise they will not be counted.

Closing date: 10pm Monday 28th November 2011

*****THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. NO MORE ENTRIES PLEASE*****

Thanks to Linda McCartney for sending me samples of their range

Comments

  7. Stacey says

    Favourite veggie Christmas dinner is currently a nut roast spread with a spiced cranberry sauce and then baked in the oven served with all the trimmings (except sprouts – can’t stand them!)

  8. Suzanne says

    My favourite is a mushroom & stilton Wellington – I make extra & freeze so I can have again (well, if meat-eaters can have turkey leftovers…)

  15. Suzanne Heath says

    I like all the seasonal vegetables and sauces alongside roasted tofu marinated in ginger, soy sauce, garlic and honey.

  17. Janice Papworth says

    My favourite veggie Christmas Dinner is from a Rose Elliot ‘Vegetarian Christmas’ book and it is a filo streudel filled with mushroom, tomato and cashew nuts and I usually add some Stilton as well

  21. Bea says

    Parsnips. Seriously. Give me a whole dish of honey roasted parsnips and I’m done for Xmas AND Boxing Day! Oh ok and my special potato and vegetables salad to which I add raisins, apple and walnuts for a more xmassy feel

  23. Maxine says

    Last year I had pizza! (well, I was working Christmas Day!). I do love making a good filo parcel stufffed with goat’s cheese, sundried tomatoes and basil though for an easy centrepiece to a Christmas meal

  28. Hazel Thomson says

    As a vegetarian amongst a family full of meat eaters I usually bring my own food to my mums at xmas time. Last year however, I was treated to a lovely homemade creamy veg pie, which was amazing and everyone else enjoyed too after seeing on how much I enjoyed it. This year I’ll be trying the veggie roast from LM. And I’ll be encouraging everyone to have a taste of this too. Even if its just one slice 🙂 I’ll have this with all the trimmings, same as everyone else. Stuffing, lots of veg and roast potatoes! P,s I love sprouts!!

  30. Kelly Anderson says

    I enjoy a quorn roast family dinner, along with roast potatoes, and veg, and i use a vegetable stock gravey.

  33. Natalie says

    My usual Christmas dinner is mushroom, brie and red currant filo parcels, all the trimmings and apricot and hazelnut stuffing. This year will also be adding the Linda McCartney Red Onion and Rosemary Sausages as they are delish and all the kids love them.

  35. redrosemummy says

    I made Leek and Mushroom en croute for a vegetarian cousin at Christmas. She loved it and everyone else was eating it too! @RedRoseMummy

  44. Jo Galloway (@PottiJo) says

    Oh I love some of the many recipes that Linda McCartney cooked up and shares in her recipe books…. particularly the Festive Roast that features in her book Home Cooking. I also add chestnut puree to it. Festive Roast is fab with all the xmas trimmings and great with pickles for Boxing Day.

  45. TT says

    Hi there, I have tweeted your link on Twitter and now following you on there… Look forward to reading more soon.
    My favourite veggie Christmas dinner is nut roast (please don’t groan!) I love it and don’t really bother making it very often – there’s always plenty of people round to share it with over Christmas though.
    thank you

  46. Sarah says

    My favourite Christmas dinner was roast potatoes, mashed potatoes with a little houmous mashed in, garlic gravy, peas, sprouts, roasted peppers parsnips and onions, mint sauce and cranberry sauce (yep both of them!) and Linda McCartney vegetarian sausages (which our rescued dogs had too, they love ’em!!) and dessert…..swedish glace chocolate, strawberry and vanilla dairy-free ice-cream – deeeelicious:] P.S Might have put some dairy-free thick cream on the swedish glace too……

  50. Tina says

    I’ve been veggie for 10 years now, and have tried all sorts for my meat substitute on Xmas dinners. I have to say the Linda McCartney nut cutlets from about 8/9 years ago were fab, but I haven’t seen them for ages.
    I have all the usual trimmings you’d expect (roast potatoes & parsnips cooked in vegetable oil), all the veg, Yorkshire pudding and sage & onion stuffing (not stuffed Ito anything though)! And appple sauce & gravy are a must! (I have tweeted & followed cookingkt too)! (I am @themothergeek) x

  58. Grant Corr says

    Yeah went to feeding boys and a fire fighter page and liked it, great page as so many of my friends kids have turned veggie lately good tips.

  59. Grant Corr says

    My favourite Christmas dinner is a homemade vegan tart with the traditional festive vegetable roast potatoes, brussel sprouts and a special vegan onion gravy made with the juices of cooked veg. And vegan christmas pudding to follow with homemade vanilla soya custard.

  60. Azra Dedic says

    Mm my mouths watering! My fave veggie Xmas meal is a goats cheese cranberry Wellington! Yum yum!
    Azra

  63. Louise says

    A couple of years ago had the tastiest curry but am rather partial to roasties so def roast this year!

  72. Hayley says

    My fav veggie Xmas dinner I’m torn on because the carrot and courgette bake my mum makes is amazing but I have to say it’s her veggie lasagne and roast veggies! Delish!

  81. Emma Hunt says

    My fave is a layered nut roast made with chestnuts, mushrooms, spinanch and loads more yummy stuff 🙂

  94. Michelle Mullen says

    I love nutloaf with lots and lots of roasted veggies (potatoes, parsnips and jerusalem artichokes from the garden). Also, brussel sprouts with wholegrain mustard and chestnuts.

  103. Carrie says

    My favourite vegetarian Christmas dinner is the following:
    Garlic and herb crusted roasted potatoes with gravy
    Glazed parsnips and carrots
    Butternut squash and swede mash
    Buttery broccoli and peas
    And the pièce de résistance is my mom’s “Glazed Ham” – a roll of Frys Slicing Sausage, baked in the oven with pineapple
    Yum! 🙂

  104. Jessica Sjoholm says

    I love nut roast with piles of vegetables, sage and onion stuffing and my mum’s delicious roast potatoes smothered in veg gravy 🙂

  112. Katie Jeavons-Golding says

    Our favourite Christmas dinner is quorn roast (though going to try Linda’s this year now!) Veggie sausages wrapped in facon, sprouts, cabbage, carrots, roasted potatoes and parsnips, mashed potatoes, yorkshires and loads of onion gravy! Yummm! Can’t wait to share it with my one year old this year, my mini veggie 🙂

  115. Katie Jeavons-Golding says

    Liked you on Facebook @katie Louise Jeavons-golding.

    Sorry to keep entering, but you have set this pregnant Mummas cravings off! Haha x

  119. maz says

    It’s only me and my little brother that are vegetarian in my house, so while everyone else has turkey we have a christmas veggie lasagne. Last year I did a wicked asparagus and cottage cheese one.

  124. Ami Pilbrow (@Ami_ibrow) says

    My nan was a vegetarian from a very young age. As this was many years ago she had to cook her own vegetarian dishes as there was very little you could buy in the shops. One of my favourite childhood memories is going to her bungalow in the countryside at Christmas as she used to prepare the most incredible shortcrust pastry pie filled with a decicious mixture of potato, peas, spinach in a creamy sauce. I always knew it as ‘nanna’s Christmas pie’
    Sadly she passed away before I could get the recipe and despite my best efforts I have not yet been able to replicate it. It makes me feel Christmassy just talking about it.

  129. yvette says

    I must say I do keep it traditional with a west Indian kick.
    We have rice and peas, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puds, all the veg (Broc, carrots, brussels)
    honey roasted parsnips and roast stuffing .
    This sounds really greedy but I cook for a big family, we also have quorn roast, Lindas sausages and mock duck.

  136. Kirstie says

    The roast sounds good to me! I normally have a pie with my Christmas lunch but will have to try the roast this year 🙂

  145. Trudie says

    Nut roast with all the trimmings, including veggie sausages wrapped in veggie bacon!

    Have tweeted the message and followed 🙂

  146. Chris Davies says

    I loved the sainsbury’s nut roast I had once, much easier than making it myself too! 😉

    @billyboychrisd

    liked on fb

  148. Loma Wood says

    Last year I made a pie with leeks, potatoes and cheese. I flavoured it with lots of sage and it was delicous.

  149. Fran Light says

    My favourite vegetarian Christmas dinner is homemade vegetable quiche with new potatoes and peas! I’ve tried nut roasts and the like, but I find them too heavy and have decided that nothing beats a creamy, homemade quiche!

  150. alex cook says

    Mushroom and chestnut wellington – it is the best thing i’ve ever eaten full stop! I’m trying to get my wife to make it again this year.

  154. Isobelle Forde says

    I am an avid carnivore..but a homemade moist nut roast( with loads of chestnuts) served with a mushroom sauce and seasonal vegetables would win me away from the traditional meaty Christmas dinner .. its super tasty!

  158. Maya Russell says

    My favourite vegetarian Christmas dinner has veg. sausages, gravy, roast vegetables and a cheese spread afterwards.

  167. Bella says

    I love to make different kinds of stakes. Often with celery, all kinds of nuts and maybe potatoes, or sweet potatoes(or other roots). Serve it with red cabbage, small potatoes fried in sugar and kale cooked with cream.
    But I really would love to taste Linda’s roast, it sounds amazing.

  185. claire woods says

    We love vegetarian quorn roast. We are a family of vegetarians. I’ve been one for 25 years and so has my husband. Our son Samuel 6 has been since born. I hope Tesco stock some of these new things.

  189. Christine Ball says

    It has to be a Vegetarian Roast because we all know it is wholesome, nutritious and tastes quite delicious

  190. The Boy and Me (@TheBoyandMe) says

    Filo parcel containing cranberries, risotto rice, asparagus, blue cheese, thinly sliced mushrooms, leeks, butternut squash. Then the usual mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, brussel sprouts, carrots and stuffing. With a thick onion gravy. Scrummy!

  195. carol phile says

    Spanakopita – Greek cheese and spinach pie with Mediterranean roasties, mushrooms a la Grecque and a big ol’ bowl of Greek salad. Yum.

  197. Stacy Fenemore says

    My veggie Christmas dinner is usually Linda McCartney country pie with all the triimings 🙂

  202. Jo says

    A leek and stilton pie that my mother, bless her, always made. We had a welshman that lived near us who had no family come and spend the day with us so he was never alone and I think she initially made it for him (in some kind of welsh leek stereotype).

    It sums up kindness warmth, and most importantly is so cheesy and delicious!

  206. Linda Gray says

    I am not a vegetarian, however, my eldest daughter, Lisa has enjoyed my vegetarian cooking on Christmas day since the age of eleven (she is now thirtyone.) Her favourite Christmas dishes include home made stuffed mushrooms, goats cheese and savoury custard tartlets, nut roast with cinnamon carrots, brussel sprouts and roast potatoes and any rich chocolate dessert (she has a sweet tooth!) These are just a few of her favourites; the list is endless!

  208. Dawn Chapman says

    got to be a nut roast complemented by lots of roasted veg and plenty of sprouts covered in cheese sauce!

  210. Lorraine Bishop says

    Filo pastry pie with mushrooms, cheese (not sure which type) & leeks. My mum has made this for me for several years now and it just wouldn’t be Christmas without it now

  237. olivia kirby says

    i like to give my veggie family members a stuffed butternut squash, stuffed with jewelled couscous

  239. Sue Warr says

    I think you can’t beat a nut roast for ANY occassion! You have to serve it with a huge plate of mixed vegetables (roast parsnip has always been my absolute favourite and my pregnancy craving of 20 years ago!). It also has to have the option of a cheese sauce for the cauliflower and broccolli)

  251. ali thorpe says

    I hate to be dull but I just have extra roasties, sprouts and yorkshire pud! For me, a roast dinner and Christmas dinner is all about crisp, tasty roast potatoes anyway!

  255. Gillian Holmes says

    Favourite veggie Christmas dinner is currently a nut roast spread with a spiced cranberry sauce

  266. lisa beattie says

    My favourite veggie Christmas dinner is puff pastry parcel with spinach and ricotta cheese inside, served of course with sprouts and all the trimmings.

  267. ksenia zywczuk says

    starter: carmalised red onion and goat cheese tart
    main: home made ravioli stuffed with parmeasan and spicy olive mix

  268. L P Mulligan says

    A vegetarian roast is something different that never had the opportunity to eat before so bring it on!

  269. piper and daisy says

    We usually have a quorn roast for christmas dinner surrounded by the usual trimmings, just adapted slightly. Our roast potatoes are done in vegetable oil, our stuffing is gluten free and veggie friendly, and of course we have carrots, mash and sprouts! We also have mince pies but these don’t have any suet in them and I also do a veggie trifle using carrageenan instead of gelatine for those who don’t like mince pies.
    Last year though we didn;t have our usual roast, instead I used quorn pieces and made pies of quorn, mushrooms and onion with a soya cream sauce. It was very, very yummy!

  273. Colette Mellor says

    Lentil stew with all the seasonal vegetables (although the vegetarian roast sounds very appetising!)

  290. Ian Campbell says

    My favourite vegetarian Christmas dinner is Wild Mushroom and Nut Roast, a sumptuous feat of delicious food (chestnuts, mushrooms, marsala bread, and shallots, just for starters!), and guaranteed to please the whole family.

  294. Catherine McAlinden says

    For years I used to have Linda MCartneys Chilli Non Carne. Was gutted when they stopped making it, Christmas just isn’t the same. Now I just have something like Enchiladas.

  297. Kevin Mayers says

    I love to have a nut roast with most of the usual vegetables, but chestnuts thrown in. I usually top this (apart from the chestnuts, which Iove) with either a little cranberry or mint sauce depending on my mood 🙂

  300. Kevin Mayers says

    I’m following Feeding Boys (& your firefighting husband, lol) on Facebook.
    FB name is Eppy Taff

  306. silvia says

    Egg tagliatelle with cream and porcini mushrooms, followed by roast vegetarian sausages with potatoes and, of course!, spouts,

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