googlesux wrote:

Another question from a newbie. How do you all handle going to someone
else's house for Thanksgiving dinner (or any other meal)?

Any food offered with love and in the spirit of gratitude is holy. To
deny it is to profane all that is good, blessed, and right. Surely you
can find something offered that is edible despite your peculiar
obsessions with food.

Do you bring
along a microwavable container filled with your oen vegan meal and ask
to use the microwave?

Do you give thanks by isolating yourself from others? Do you seek to
profane that which is offered to all in attendance out of love and
gratitude to a higher power?

Or do you just eat whatever you can from the
meal that's served?

Yes.

If it's thanksgiving, it'd be nice to have some
mock turkey, so how do you handle it?

I'm sure you can discuss well beforehand your insecurities and peculiar
food obsessions with the person in whose home you will be guest. Perhaps
that person will sanctify a fake turkey -- a mockery to God -- to
satisfy your eating disorder. What better way, though, than to show
others that one can be a cheerful participant of the rest of the
thanksgiving feast without eating the bird.

I don't want to offend, but also
don't want to compromise.

What's wrong with compromise on one bloody day of the entire year?
Surely love of God and family outweighs the specious issue of veganism
the entire year.

Thanks. I'm sure this is a common question, so sorry to bore anyone.

It is common, and it is boring. That's okay, most people here are both.
Why are you a vegan?