u/More-Onion-950

Hi guys
Me and my girlfriend are strict vegetarians, and have autism, so food regularity is important.
She loves bbq sauce and eats it with a LOT
today she had a different one to usual and it contained anchovies.
As we are students we normally buy the cheap one, but this one was branded (hellmans I think?) as she was at her family home.
does anyone know if this is common for bbq sauce, and if so of any readily available brands in the UK that are vegetarian or vegan?

Thanks

I went on a rabbit hole of researching how some local authorities (in the UK but possibly elsewhere) are rubbish at recycling glass and it ends up in the local area and hurting animals (particularly pigeons as they are around the most) and going into water like rivers and canals.
Anyway this made me sad. Me and my gf have also had a real bad record recently of smashing glasses 😭
So any large enough jars I've been soaking to get the label off, scrubbing the sticky residue and making sure there's no smell and just using it as a glass!

I've got a real nice ice coffee / ice matcha glass from a Mrs Elstree pickles jar when they were on a deal.

Stopping things from going to landfill, being recycled incorrectly, and saving money!

Managed to arrange a free air fryer pick up from Facebook. Will be getting it on Tuesday. I've wanted one since my first year of uni (I'm now nearly finished second year) but I haven't been able to justify the cost, but now I'm getting a free one and saving one from going to landfill!

Me and my gf got the vivera salmon fillets for the first time! They are such a good substitute. Salmon is the one thing we both 'miss' and we made a delicious garlicky, cream lemony sauce with pasta and the fillets. Oh it was delicious. They also have omega vitamins in them so that's a bonus!
If fish is something you enjoyed and want a good sub for I recommend these

I didn't get around to submitting the form (they gave me paper) I requested the e form but they've sent it for assessment with no evidence.
What do I do

Does anyone else get random flares where there's no obvious cause. It's been nearly a week, in the middle it got a bit better and I ate normally for one day but now I'm back to flat lucozade, plain rice and apple sauce

Feeling frustrated

I've been veggie for just over 6 months now. Life's been great. It's greatly improved some of my health issues and I'm happier because of animal welfare and environmental issues (my two reasons for turning vegetarian, the health issues improving is just a bonus)

When I told my family i wasn't going to be eating meat anymore so when I'm home from uni I'll be eating vegetarian (I said I'd cook my own protein and just have the veg and pasta/rice etc) I got some silly comments

The main one was 'you're defying nature'.

I wish at the time I hadn't been so taken aback. I was sick with the flu but if I'd been more spritely I'd have hit back with my usual comments of 'if eating meats so natural why do we need slaughterhouses to murder the animals, predators can kill prey with their paws/teeth why can't we etc' but I just sat there baffled.

Luckily my partners family is all veggie except one of them, so when I'm there there's none of those comments.

What if any comments did you guys get

Hey so the doctors knew I had PCOS since i was 16 (saw it on a scan) but no one decided to tell me till i was nearly 20. So for 4 years ive been blaming myself for my weight even though my food didn't change.

I've been given orlistat by my GP, it's been like 3/4 days now, I'm just wondering how anyone else has done on it.

What was it like coming off? Did your weight maintain or go back up due to hormones?

Did orlistat even work? (I've lost 2lbs so far)

Anything i should know other than the normal warnings