Supermarket vegan food - healthy or not?

Since the vast majority of ready meals contain garlic they’re all out for me as I’m strongly garlic intolerant. I have yet to find a veggie/vegan ready meal without garlic. Allium intolerance is quite common. And I really, really don’t like tofu!

I’m vegetarian but not vegan, and have had a few spells of iron deficiency anaemia and low b12 over the past 40 years. I think most non meat eaters will need a b12 supplement.

For the majority of us, fortified nutritional yeast (half tablespoon) gives the daily RDA for B12.

I think ready meals in general (vegan or not) should be occasional and tend to be low in nutrition - insipid and tasteless.

Most people do know how they should be eating but still buy rubbish in the supermarket. Have you looked in trolleys at the checkout and wondered how/why people choose things - and how they survive?

There's a convenient disassociation with how that food is produced, marketed and presented that allows people to 'enjoy' consuming meat and dairy:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-50986683

Harrigran - you don't need meat for iron; it's found plentifully in spinach, broccoli, tofu, legumes or my personal favourite, dark chocolate.

Oh lots of iron in pumpkin seeds and quinoa too