Even the shit-to-average stuff we have now is so expensive (even though it probably costs cents on the dollar to produce vs dairy)

  • GothWhitlam [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I've dropped the fake meat for the most part, a little bit of seitan if I can get my hands on it cheap, but for the most part I just took the time to learn to cook tofu a little better and have a mix of legumes and the like in my meals.

    As for cheese - just replace that shit with olive oil most of the time. It's like a million times tastier than most vegan cheeses. I'm starting to get real iffy about the amount of capitalist buy-in vegan shit has had recently, trying to learn to strip things back to the basics.

    • MudasirSalmanOTP [she/her,any]
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      4 years ago

      Nutritional yeast has a nice cheesy flavor too. There's a recipe for a queso style dip I've done a few times that involves cashews, cumin, jalapenos, and a ton of nutritional yeast and it's actually pretty fuckin good. I might be forgetting an ingredient or two. I can dig it up if you want

      • GothWhitlam [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I live in Nooch. I'd fucking marry Nooch.

        That dip sounds incredible.

        • MudasirSalmanOTP [she/her,any]
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          4 years ago

          https://minimalistbaker.com/roasted-jalapeno-vegan-queso-7-ingredients/ sorry for late reply, I'm lazy af lol. But this is what I use. It's goooooooood

          • GothWhitlam [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            That looks so god damn good. Maybe I'll whip up a batch tonight, light some candles, get nude and go to town on it. Damn. Cheesy.

    • Owl [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Seitan is worth learning to make on your own. It's easy and super cheap. And the ingredients keep forever.

      • GothWhitlam [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I might give it a go. Just read you can make it from scratch from whole meal flour. Got tonnes of the stuff for baking so that sounds best.

        • Owl [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Oh interesting! I've always started with vital wheat gluten.

          • GothWhitlam [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Apparently you make that with the flour and then the seitan with that.

            Love doing things from scratch, so I'll go the long way round, haha.