when youre so :LIB: that you make your own brunch
pretty much following this recipe except with a bunch of crumbled regular-firm tofu shoved in to make it more shakshuka-y. even had some coriander to make it super fancy. was good on a rainy saturday morning.
:chickpea: :tofu-cool:
For a second I read that as "tofu swastika" and thought I was about to see some weird new age ecofascist shit.
My brain is so broken.
This looks really good though.
lol i was in vietnam recently and all the legit buddhist swastikas (and the lucky number 88s) everywhere kept messing with my head real bad
pretty damn cheap, the bulk is mostly canned chickpeas and canned tomatoes and onion and tofu which are all about as cheap as you can get
a bunch of spices, but spices are the key to making cheap food delicious and if you use them regularly their cost per meal is very cheap (especially if you buy them in the big cheap bags from asian groceries).
i did it all in a big frying pan so no special equipment or anything
probably the most expensive thing in there is the capsicum/bell pepper
Sweet, I'm going to start seriously cooking vegan soon I think. So far from what people have been telling me it's the cheapest you can go food wise and the added benefit is that it's healthy and ethical. Can cats eat vegan food too?
:greensicko: thats awesome, all the very best with it!
people think being vegan is expensive cos of all the fancy fake meats but i eat sooooo much cheaper now im vegan, i posted some of my favourite staple recipes the other day, most of which are cheap and pretty easy and use a lot of the same core ingredients, if you want some more ideas
ive heard that cats can eat plant-based but that its much harder than for dogs and you have to be a bit careful, but i really dont know any details sorry
Can cats eat vegan food too?
It might be possible, but afaik it's very close to impossible. I know with dogs it's relatively doable with a vit D supplement. Should be similar for cats, but the supplements makes them more likely to develop some issues (kidney stones maybe?). Personally I just play it safe and feed them the store bought food lol.
Bear in mind that the target audience is relatively affluent, and that you can safely make it without some of the more expensive items (idk how much avocado oil costs, but I'm guessing it's more than I want to spend on cooking oil).
oh yeah definitely, 90% of these vegan recipe sites will have an infuriating habit of taking a dirt cheap meal and for whatever reason make sure it has at least one bougie ingredient thats impossible to find, crazy expensive, and guaranteed that youll never use again. the good ones at least tell you which ones you can swap out for something more sensible (or exclude entirely)
i used bog standard vegetable oil, brown onion, and maple syrup rather than avocado oil, shallots, and coconut sugar and i never felt like it was worse for any of those
