Well, what I do for office party (or any party for that matter) is suggest that everyone brings along something to eat and drink. This gives the opportunity to make some tasty vegan nibbles. At worse you’ll at least have something to eat...but what usually happens is everyone ends up enjoying what you’ve brought, and therefore rethinking their image of vegan food.
If the party is a more formal affair, where catering is provided, or everyone is going out for a meal, then it is easy to ask if the caterers/restaurant could provide a vegan option.
Most will make the effort if they’re asked nicely - and if the concept is new to them, it’s also a good opportunity to give them a copy of the booklet produced for professional caterers by the Vegan society, ‘Vegan Catering for All’, as a Christmas present.
Lorraine Haines. No challenge for me :o)
Because my work doesn't want to be done for discrimination (and possibly because I gob on about animal rights regularly but not in a dictatorship manner) we will be having our work "do" at a Vegan restaurant. HAZAAAAA!
Family functions.... I refuse to go if they will be eating animals and because I am constantly filling family and friends up with loads of lovely Vegan goodies they now love them so much they don't seem to mind having a Vegan get together - in fact many of them prefer it. As one said at a party in February:
"I love being able to bite into a sausage and not worry that I will bite into something hard and not know what it is". (She was referring to the fact there are herbs in veggie sausages and you may find a piece, but you know that is not a piece of bone or tumour!)
As for getting an inappropriate gift, I thank them but explain that I cannot accept it and why.
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