Vegetarianism is an increasingly common lifestyle choice, for a variety of reasons.

Some people want to lead a perceived healthier lifestyle. Others are adhering to strong religious, moral or ethical beliefs, while some are concerned over the meat-related health scares in recent years.

Whatever the reason, a vegetarian is someone eating a diet of grains, pulses, seeds, vegetables and fruits with or without the use of dairy products and eggs.

What should you eat?

The key thing to remember, as with any other dietary choice, is maintaining a healthy, balanced diet – if you are cutting out certain protein foods such as meat and fish, you need to ensure they are replaced with suitable choices such as pulses like lentils, beans and nuts. If you are cutting out dairy foods you will need alternative sources of calcium. 

Base meals on starchy carbohydrate foods like bread, rice, pasta, potatoes, oats, try to have 5 servings of fruit and vegetables a day, include high protein foods like pulses, and calcium containing foods.

If animal product free, bread is suitable as part of a balanced vegetarian diet and is a useful source of non-animal protein, iron and calcium.

How Warburtons can help

Most of our products are suitable for vegetarians. Those that are not suitable are clearly labelled on the packaging.