Recently Rudi’s Organic Bakery asked me to try, and review, two types of organic bread and I gladly agreed. I received a loaf of Harvest Seeded Bread and a loaf of Rocky Mountain Sourdough Sandwich Bread in return for an honest review.
I made a humus sandwich with the Harvest Seeded Bread.
I started with raw veggies.
I assembled the sandwich by adding humus and the veggies to two pieces of the Harvest Seeded Bread.
Just one bite and I said “wow!” The bread is soft, earthy, hearty and slightly sweet. I gave my husband the other half of the sandwich and he agreed. Great bread.
I grabbed the package to see what delectable ingredients were included. The package says “Know what’s in your dough.” Um, yeah, I should have looked at the package before I took a bite. That sweetness? Honey! Rookie mistake on my part. When I was offered the samples I asked if the bread was vegan and the response was yes, it’s vegan.
Some self-described vegans eat honey. I am not one of them. But I am human and I made a mistake. I let my husband eat the rest of my half of the sandwich.
Many of my readers are not vegan, or are raw foodists who eat honey, or are self-described vegans who eat honey. For that reason, I will continue to review the product. It is very good and holds up really well as a sandwich bread (you know what I mean–some types of bread crumble when you eat it as a sandwich). Ingredients include: organic whole wheat flour, organic pumpkin seeds, organic sunflower seeds, organic flaxseeds and organic poppy seeds. You really taste the range of flavors so no need to go overboard with condiments if you’re making a sandwich (or toast). The very basic humus, with simple raw veggies, allowed me to experience the taste of each item in the sandwich, including the bread.
I will be back tomorrow with a review of the Rocky Mountain Sourdough Sandwich Bread–it really is vegan, I just checked! I’ll even have a giveaway!
Leave it to me to have the vegan “oops” moment during Vegan MoFo. Geesh. Ever have a vegan “oops” moment of your own? How did you handle it?
24 thoughts on “VeganMoFo 25: Tuesday = Lunch (Humus Sandwich) + A Vegan “Oops” Moment”
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Yes, I have occasionally had an Oops. I wrote a post a few months ago where I was worried that I might mess up and serve a long-time vegan something with an ingredient I had overlooked. I’m getting better, but it does occasionally occur….
Yeah, I think we’ve all made the mistake before. I sometimes feel like I’m playing the game of 20 questions with regard to eating out.
If you haven’t had an oops moment your not a vegan. It isn’t a matter of if but when. You correct the situation and move on. Fwiw Rudi’s should have known better. Honey seems to be very prevalent in dark breads. Unfortunately is isn’t an allergen and doesn’t show up at the end of ingredient lists.
Please don’t say you are vegan with a qualifier when you are talking about food if you knowingly consume any animal product or animal derived product. If you have to say “I’m a vegan but I eat …” then make life easier for everyone and say, “I eat mostly a plant based diet.” There is more to veganism than food.
You’re. (Arrgh)
I was visiting some very old (as in age) friends who really had no idea what vegan meant… but they had gone out to their local shop and bought me some special margarine for my bread and ‘butter’ – they live in a small town in England. They showed me the container and said this is OK for you isn’t it? You can eat this? Well.. it contained milk solids but I said sure… and I ate a piece of bread with some spread on it. They were stressed enough trying their best (both of them well in their 80’s) and I was not going to make them feel bad by refusing to eat what they had bought. Now when I visit them I take my own margarine to help them out.
I have had plenty ooops moments. Honey often gets me too and now my husband and I are eagle eye on labels haha.
One of the first recipes I tried called for a red chili paste, I think it was for soup. After I made it, the soup had a fishy taste and I looked at the label, and sure enough…anchovy paste was in it. Eww! We tossed the jar, and the soup and realized that we need to be really careful with labels. I really try and make everything at home now, sauces, relishes, condiments, bread, everything… you just never know.
I bought a can of vegetarian chili (that was the label on the can) that had chicken stock of all ridiculous things. And I’ve had instances where I’ve ordered a salad and it came with cheese or bacon bits even though it wasn’t listed on the menu. In these instances I do my best to give the item away vs. throwing it away. For me the only worse thing than killing an animal in the first place is an animal losing its life and it going to waste.
We all have oops moments. Honey seems to be the biggest problem. I have read labels and missed honey only to see it later. All you can do is try harder next time. When I was eating out, the chef said the bread did not have eggs in it but I found out later it did. You live and you learn.
Rraaarr raaar those are the sirens of the vegan police! Coming to get ya! Just kidding. Don’t be too hard on yourself, JL. We are all only human. I have made a few mistakes (and been tricked) a few times and I just brush it off. Small potatoes in the grand scheme of things vegan. Glad your husband was there to help you out. I hate throwing away food. I made a dummy mistake recently and was eating something with small amounts of gluten in it for a whole week. Bad reprocusions there. Even with my super vigilance reading labels, I too messed up.
I’ve had several vegan “oops” moments from rice broth mix-ups to honey in the WF hot bar dishes. Each time, I stop eating if I find out during, and if it’s afterward I use it as a learning experience!
As a newcomer to the vegan lifestyle as well as your blog, I thoroughly enjoy your insights. Transitioning to a plant-based diet has certainly been educational, and I have had several oops moments. I think the best way to handle the moment is to practice forgiveness and compassion. For me the reason I chose this lifestyle is because I wanted a more compassionate lifestyle – compassion for animals, compassion for the environment as well as compassion for those who working in large packing plants. I don’t think it’s possible, though, to have compassion for others if you can’t have compassion for yourself. We are all human and therefore fallible; rather than beating oneself up about a mistake, which is sometimes the easy thing to do, practice forgiveness.
I have oops moments all the time! Normally, it’s when I buy something and don’t notice the ingredients until right before I go to cook it. But sometimes, I eat stuff and then look at the label. Oops. If it’s honey, I don’t sweat it. I don’t buy honey, but if someone cooks for me and uses honey, I don’t shun the food. It’s not as important to me as say, cheese or eggs. Also, I’m SURE I have oops moments all the time in restaurants, like with buttered bread or veggies seasoned with butter. Sometimes, I ask before I order. But I also try to avoid asking too many questions because I don’t want servers (or nonvegans at the table) to think it’s hard being a vegan. Or to think that vegans are annoying. If I ever do accidentally eat something, I don’t worry about it. Tomorrow is a new day. And no vegan is perfect.
My stupidest oops moment happened when I was on a road trip. We were in Buffalo, NY and stopped at a really amazing co-op. There were so many vegan options, so I was in heaven. “I could get practically anything here!” I thought. It was morning, so I wanted a bagel with some vegan cream cheese, so I went to the shelf and saw what looked like their own take on vegan cream cheese with veggies in it. Great. So I got that and a bagel and went to town. It tasted a bit funny, but I figured it was just cuz I was used to Tofutti. It wasn’t until my friend looked at the label that I realized “Veg Cream Cheese” is NOT the same as “Vegan Cream Cheese.” So so so so stupid!
You are all WONDERFUL! Thank you for your honest and thoughtful responses to this. I’m truly appreciative!
Candy corn got me earlier this month. I knew it had honey and egg whites(both of which I’m fine with). I did NOT know it had gelatin. In fact, I thought strongly that it didn’t until something compelled me to look at the ingredients after eating a bag. Whoops! Oh well. Not doting on it and now I have a vegetarian brand I enjoy so all’s well that ends well.
I think my most recent ‘Oops’ moment was eating some Planters peanuts given to me by my mother. I had got through about half the jar when I finally looked at the nutrition label and saw that there was gelatin. In peanuts?? Crazy. It was a definite reminder for me to look at nutrition labels even of things that I think should be pretty basic. I had a really rough time in Japan, since I couldn’t read anything or speak the language, and vegetarian means that you eat fish in Japanese culture. It often came down to a choice between not eating and picking something that looked meat-free. Sometimes it wasn’t, and I just didn’t eat that part. Who knows what was in the various soups, though. In that situation, eating possibly not vegetarian food seemed the lesser evil to not eating at all. I lost weight on that trip anyway.
just this past sunday the elderly mother of a family friend (she’s in her 80s) brought a homemade pie to dinner and she was SO excited that she had adapted her recipe to make it vegan for me. she made a crust with vegetable shortening, used raspberries from her own garden and even sought out a dairy-free whipped topping. one bite in she told me how easy the filling had been to make and it only took a bit of jell-o. eeek. i managed to nibble away at the crust and was happy when someone volunteered to finish my piece!
these thing happen. and then we move on. 🙂
Hi JL! Here are the ingredients in R Harvest Seeded bread! There is no honey listed in the ingredients!
Harvest Seeded Bread Ingredients: Water, organic whole wheat flour, organic wheat flour, organic
evaporated cane juice, yeast, organic pumpkin seeds, organic wheat
gluten, organic sunflower seeds, organic high oleic sunflower/safflower
oil, organic honey, organic oat bran, organic cornmeal, organic
flaxseed, organic potato flour, organic rolled oats, organic poppy
seeds, sea salt, organic vinegar, organic oat flour, organic cultured
wheat starch, ascorbic acid, natural enzymes.
Let us know if you have any questions!
Thanks!
Tighe -Rudi’s Organic Bakery
Hi Tighe! Actually, if you re-read above you’ll see that organic honey is listed after safflower oil and before oat bran.
Hi JL,
I apologize for R mistake! We need to update R information on R website about Vegan breads. Thank you again for understanding and we R sorry for the Oops! It truly was R oops!
Thank you again for helping us understand about honey and eating vegan. Rudi’s thinks your blog is awesome!
Thanks,
Tighe
Rudi’s Organic Bakery
xo
Most of my ‘oops’ moments were a while back when I didn’t really know a whole lot about ethnic cuisines. Like that Thai food or Japanese food can be quite liberal with the fish sauce and bonito flakes. But now I know what questions to ask when I’m eating out! And it’s really no big deal, I like how you handled your honey incident! It’s an honest mistake and a learning experience, and nothing worth getting grumpy over. 🙂
I ate gecko last year because it was in this medicine my acupuncturist gave me. It said “herbal” so I didn’t think much of it. In fact, I used up an entire bottle and then was perusing the label of the next one when it occurred to me that maybe it wasn’t referring to some plant called gecko, but to the actual animal. A little internet research verified, sadly, that it’s common in Chinese medicines to dry and powder the lizards. My acupuncturist let me return it and gave me something else that we both verified was entirely plant based. That was my most unusual oops, but of course we all have the occasional restaurant mix-up and we just go on, because we’re doing the best we can. 🙂