Cracker Barrel Old Country Store serves up homey, classic American comfort food. The good news? A lot of that homey, comforting goodness is vegetarian! You will find a list of vegetarian menu items at Cracker Barrel below, verified by their corporate office. Enjoy!
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Vegetarian Menu Options at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Restaurant
Eggs
Pancakes
French toast
Grilled cheese
Eggs in a basket
Mashed potatoes
Red skin potatoes
Biscuits
Sourdough bread
Grits
Macaroni and cheese
Tossed salad
Oatmeal
Baked potatoes
Corn
Carrots
Fried apples
Take note of this message from their corporate office regarding their vegetarian offerings: “It should also be noted that all of our fried vegetables are fried in the same oil as our meat products. We want to make sure you know that some of our offerings, like turnip greens, green beans, corn muffins, hashbrown casserole, and pinto beans are made the old-fashioned way using meat seasonings and are not strictly vegetarian.”
How about cole slaw?
Vegetarian, though not vegan.
Uh, not vegetarian at all! Meat juice is not vegetarian.
What meat juices are in the has brown casserole. Bacon grease? That’s so unhealthy
The HB casserole is made with cream of chicken soup.
Cream of chicken soup l think…….
What source says Cracker Barrel’s Cole Slaw has meat juice in it? Dairy, yes.
There is no meat juice in the coleslaw
Is the white gravy vegetarian, too?
No, there is pork sausage in it.
No, it has a pork base
You realize that this is the most meagre vegetarian menu what about some decent and delicious protein substitutes like vegetarian baked beans? Quinoa and bean salads? Vegetarian curries and stews? Please hire a decent culinary consultant and offer something healthy, yummy and also vegetarian. Your current offerings really lack not only imagination but don’t even show a basic understanding of vegetarian food. And while you’re at it, it isn’t that big a step to offer vegan menu items. Come on crackerbarrel, get with the program!
Oh shut up! It’s a country cooking themed restaurant. I don’t know about you but having grown up in the actual country there are no true vegetarian options, almost everything is cooked with meat of some sort. How about you get with the program and stop demanding that the world cater to every need.
It’s a smart business move to add options for everybody not only for the individual with dietary restrictions but for the family of that individual as well. There are plenty of easy, non noticeable substitutions that could be made (ex. Texas Road House soaks their potatoes in bacon grease which causes anybody who does not eat beef to have less options). Not all of the menu needs to be catered but it would be nice to have some type of food that isn’t carbs and cheese. Living in the south, I’ve had plenty of people alter the food being made for gathering easily. There are also countless Southern Comfort Vegetarian cookbooks that have some great recipes (that my non dietary restricted family prefers/can’t tell the difference). It’s just smarter to have more options for all people, not just from a consumer standpoint but from a business one as well.
I live in Arkansas in a county of fewer than 15,000 people and I am vegetarian as is my sister and my oldest child. I do it for health reasons. My father died of heart disease at the age of 55 and my mother had to have a pacemaker put in two years later. I do it because I don’t want to have to do either of those things at the age they did. Stop acting like we are trying to put anyone out because we don’t want a lot of sugar or fat or meat products in our food. I tried Keto before I went vegetarian. I ended up with food poisoning from a fast-food chicken place. That was over a year ago and, I still can’t eat many fried foods. If I have to do a restrictive diet so I don’t die five years from now then I will take Vegetarian over Meat any day of the week. At least this way I can have cornbread, and wheat rolls though apparently not at Cracker Barrel.
People do have dietary restrictions. Stop being an idiot.
Eat elsewhere.
I am actually allergic to meat but love to bring my family to different restaurants. Having a couple of things that aren’t cross contaminated helps people like me buy meals for family and enjoy vacation. I like seeing the different decors and buying trinkets too.
I totally agree with you Beth. It’s Country Cooking. I was raised on this kind of cooking. But since I gave up meat for Lint, I planned ahead. I’m having lunch with a friend on today. I already scanned the menu, I will be ordering a vegetable plate. Most importantly is me having a good time with my friend. We can’t always get what we want, so choosing to make the best out of what’s on the menu, works for me.
Uh no Beth how about YOU shut up . Maybe your elderly self should get with the program not everyone wants dead carcasses in the green beans . There’s plenty of ways to do country cooking with out death coming from someone from ky. Get a grip it’s 2022 , the world is changing and yes they need to cater to more . It’s not hard to have veggie opt w and w/o pork
Wow, Beth, no need to be so mean.
grow up, Beth. people have dietary restrictions, gods forbid they want food that accomodates that.
You must be a hipster. I’ve been vegetarian for 33 years and don’t complain like you.
Cracker Barrel is based on a meat and potato meal. The basic farmers menu that your grandparents are. The comfort foods. I have never heard salad or tofu products known as comfort foods.
I heard when bacon is “Canadian” that means vegan. Is this true at Cracker Barrel?
Lol, you heard wrong. Bacon is bacon, Canadian or not. Canadian bacon comes from pigs.
I at down there at the Cracker Bar the day after yesterday and I could of swore that the little lady servings us says that the sausage was plant based.
I’m vegetarian, I also avoid gluten. Are the vegetables cooked without meat & are the biscuits made with shortening or lard?
many of the vegetables are cooked around or in the same area as meats, for the biscuits, i have a gluten allergy and found out from eating cracker barrel biscuits, i don’t know really what shortening or lard is, i know that it caused a gluten reaction.
How are you going to eat biscuits if you don’t eat gluten? Go eat at home.
Canadian bacon is ham. It is round ham often used on bisquits or as a pizza topping. There are conflicting reports on their baked potatoes. Cooks there claim they may be rib in lard. Texas Rpadhouse for certain does that. It really gripes me that the few things a vegetarian or vegan can eat are being rubbed down in grease not to mention the way they must put meat in every freaking bean..
Non-meat eaters go out with meat-eaters and there are many other restaurants with better options. Eggs or a plain vegetable plate are boring.
Then tell your friend you want to eat somewhere else. Do you have difficulty with meat or decision-making?
Does Cracker Barrel fry their chicken in lard???
As an RVer I would eat CB all the time if veggies were vegetarian
Some people are not vegetarian or vegan by choice. There is a very real syndrome called alpha-gal, from tick bites, that makes people allergic to mammal meat, mammal by-products and some are even allergic to dairy. So vegetables and breads made with lard or bacon grease could cause a severe allergic reaction. So many places are just off-limits because restaurants aren’t more allergen-friendly. This syndrome is very real and spreading more rapidly than anyone knows. Many people go months if not years before they even realize what’s causing the reactions. It’s taken 13 months for me. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. So yes, rubbing a baked potato in bacon grease when olive oil could work or not having safe options so people can dine with family and friends safely is something restaurants should be looking in to.
I have a simple solution: go to a vegetarian/vegan restaurant.
That would be a great solution if vegan/vegetarian restaurants were located along the interstate or any traveling roadway. Most of us know the vegetarian/vegan restaurants around our own towns and tend to stick with those while at home, but locating these restaurants while traveling is not as easy as one might imagine. Which is why having better vegan/vegetarian options at chain restaurants (like Cracker Barrel) would be a good business move since they are everywhere when traveling!
Took 13 months to realize you are a hypochondriac? Congratulations, that’s much quicker than most.
Totally agree Wallis!
Does eating meat make you mean? These comments are incredible.
No, apparently bxitching and moaning about this stuff when there are 5,000,000 other places to eat make you mean.
In contrast, meat eaters seem to be quite rational.
Just saw that they added Impossible brand plant-based sausage which is vegan! 🙂
That would be great if they didn’t cook it on the same grill as the meat. Therefore the vegan sausage is no longer vegan. Which most restaurants that offer Impossible or Beyond meats including Burger King and KFC do not have a separate way of cooking their vegan products so all are cross contaminated making them not vegan. Also beware of Cracker Barrel’s egg sandwich, their bread is toasted on the grill they cook their meat on. Only took one bite to make me brutally sick all day long since my body doesn’t produce the enzyme to digest meat. Who would have thought I would have been done in by bread?
The primary method of making cheese involves the use of rennet which comes from the stomach of a calf. Look it up. Cheese is not vegetarian.
Not all cheese. Come visit my grandma when she makes Mozzarella.
Pozzo family rulez!
I simply do not understand why businesses do no actively cater to the ever growing vegitarian market. I also don’t understand why so many people seem angry at vegitarians and vegans. Why would anyone care?
When I worked at Cracker Barrel the biscuits were full of lard and the baked potatoes were slathered in lard before being baked.
My husband also has Alpha Gal Syndrome (which is from a tick bite that makes you allergic to beef, pork & lamb). it’s very difficult for him to go out to eat with friends & family & enjoy a meal. The menu choices are very limited. Many times he eats at home before he goes out to keep from being too hungry. It’s sad he has to do this.
Why not just keep your vegetable soup vegetarian?