The phrase "a veg" is correct and usable in written English, though it is informal.
It can be used when referring to a vegetarian dish or a vegetable in a casual context.
Example: "For dinner, I think I'll just have a veg and some rice."
Alternatives: "a vegetable" or "a veggie".
In two studies, of a fresh RM versus a vegetarian (VEG) diet (six males and six females) and of a nitrite-preserved red meat (PM) versus a VEG diet (5 males and 11 females), we investigated whether processing of meat might increase colorectal cancer risk by stimulating nitrosation and DNA damage.
Or I could make a veg lasagne in a small casserole dish, so it doesn't look weird.
A veg patch may provide food for slugs and robins as well as the family.
His voice is a bit too high for a veg patch idol, somewhere between Alan Bennett and Orville the Duck.
I know there's a veg garden in Downing Street, planted by Sarah Brown.
Beano runs a veg box scheme, and bread comes in daily from six Yorkshire bakeries.
"They're like those knives that get thrown in for free when you order a Veg-o-matic".
This was a place where the head chef at the Savoy created a national recipe for a veg-and-oatmeal pie as tasty as it was patriotic.
There are still more than 11 fractious, exceedingly long months before the 2012 election, but already the main players' approach to the truth is rather like a Veg-o-Matic's to carrots and celery.
Dinners usually end up with us going to a veg-friendly restaurant with him being mopey, or us going to a meat-filled establishment and us eating limp side salads.
The first is a veg-packed pie, stacked with carrots, aubergine and chard – good for lunchboxes or, if you're lucky enough to enjoy a ray of autumnal sunshine, picnic boxes too.
