Our tofu press really upped our tofu game. Not only made it loads easier to do, can do it better, and quicker too.
Thanks! It was inspired by this recipe that i had wanted to share around the time i made my acct lol.
But exactly! Last year our friend group went on vacation and everyone was happy to let us cook vegan food for all our meals. It averaged less than $4 per person, per meal compared to the area would've been 5x that to eat out. The friends were genuinely shocked when i told them how little it was for a week. We cheated a little bit by bringing pre-portioned spices for the recipes but bought everything else fresh. Most of the dinner recipes were also just slow cooker meals. We made a simple breakfast, packed a lunch, and threw something in a slow cooker while we went out to explore. Really showed everyone how making healthy food doesn't have to be expensive or take a long time
I haven't had any major discussions guiding people to veganism that i can recall, i mostly just try to host my friends and cook them delicious vegan food so that they know vegan food can be delicious too. All my friends and family know I'm vegan and know they can ask me questions. A lot ask me for the recipes i make. If they ask questions about being vegan then i answer and ask them what's stopping them and see if theres any misconceptions i can help with. I wouldn't say those are major conversations, just small guiding ones
It's funny because I'm having a similar experience with arch Linux meme. after seeing it so much i started reading about why it's so great and i have considered using it when i switch my main pc over to Linux. right now just my servers run on Linux so I'm not unfamiliar with it, but haven't switched my daily driver yet.
Appreciate hearing your story! And best of luck with your freelance web dev.
Also you mention surviving on vegan junk food- have you ever tried cooking some recipes? It can take more time but cheaper and healthier. We usually make enough to have leftovers for a few days so then we can just reheat on day 2-3.
I wanted to be supportive of my SO and when we started renting a new place i agreed that it would be meat-free (she was Vegetarian at the time). Within a few months she wanted to become vegan after 20 years Vegetarian. I said no problem and we made our house vegan. When we went out to eat i just ate vegan with her and after 7 months or so i realized i had been vegan so i might as well just commit to it.
So yeah, kind of silly. I do take issue with the meat* industry and all that but what made me decide was basically just "that wasn't so hard" and i just kept doing it. That was about 7 years ago? Crazy.
How has becoming vegan improved your life?
So many ways, but the one I'll say is i eat much healthier now. I used to never eat my fruits and veggies, and i lived out of the freezer with prepackaged meals. Now i could go live in my garden
Also, where did my spinach go?
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https://www.noracooks.com/about/ - Everything we've tried from there has been good. The blueberry pancake recipe is great (and also works as waffles)
Also check out your library. Few years ago we got a ton of books and just copied a bunch of recipes that sounded good. Still trying new things from that because we found a lot of favorites.
It's the result of the meme factor that both groups will self identify themselves. It's the age old joke of "how do you know someone [is/does] Z"? (They'll tell you)
Doesn't bother me though
Alright I'll try calling my SO agavendicksaft. If you never hear from me again then you know what happened
Plant- based is literally worthless. It's just marketing fluff. You can have a plant-based stew with rocks, sand, or meat in it. The BSI definition would say this isn't plant-based but plant-based its not a protected term. Also even with the BSI definition it can still contain less than 5% meat derived ingredients which is not vegan. Aka worthless
Same, long day and took too long to read it right lol
Neat. I never considered using an air fryer with soy curls. It makes sense, i just have always soaked, drained, then cooked in a skillet with water and vegan no chikn boullion until all water dissipates.
Our stores also have just a small section like that, but not all hope is lost. Theres other products that can be vegan that are stocked with the rest of their product types. Just about the only thing we buy from the store vegan section are some apple sage vegan sausages that we use in jumbalaya .
There's also just making stuff some scratch which can be a lot cheaper in terms of money than even a non- vegan diet but you'll be paying with the 20-60 minutes time it takes to make a meal. My SO and i usually end up doubling recipes and freezing the extra batch to reduce this time burden. Our library had a lot of recipe books and then there's some sites like nora cooks which have great recipes.
I lead similarly with "i love animals" and then i watch to see how much cognitive dissonance they have
A small habit..hm. that's a tough one (but good!).
I think for us we generally double our recipes so we have enough for 3-4 days. Then we can eat leftovers or we can freeze half for a lazy day.
Also for some of our favorite recipes like jambalaya we prep a bunch of ingredients and pre-portion them out, then freeze them. So when its time to make then it's just gathering the ingredients and dumping them in at the right time.
Both of these let us eat healthier during the work week since it reduces the amount of time we need to prep/ cook after work. It's just taking advantage of the time savings when we make extra or prep ahead.