Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!
Question of the week:
What’s a tip you’d give to someone transitioning to veganism?
Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone’s up to!
A lot of people say they are vegan but they mean mostly plant based. People will tell you something is vegan and it won’t be. Plant based means nothing. Accepting that and being okay with describing you restrictions and understanding when you should ask more specific questions is important if you want to eat food you didn’t make/accept food from others.
Read up on plant based capitalism. It’s cheaper, healthier, better for animals, better for people, better for the earth to avoid most substitutes, especially PBC kinds.
Related to #2, try and learn about cuisines that have vegan dishes. Trying to substitute and only eat versions of what you are used is going to make it harder, mentally. A delicious vegan meal is delicious, but a vegan version of a carnist food is probably not going to be as good as you remember.
You are going to mess up. You are going to learn about things that are animal derived that you hadn’t known before but eat all the time. It sucks. Just learn and move on.
Yeah all good points, although I do enjoy the occasional lazy hotlog (badumtss) day. Shit is expensive though.
I need to work out a good way to make seitan in bulk. Washing flour takes so long but could scale easily I think.
I have never made it using the flour wash method. Do you have an opposition to buying vwg? I imagine it’s much more expensive, but otherwise?
Flour cost per kg: 3 bucks, yield 20% or so. Seitan cost per kg = 15 bucks
Vital wheat gluten cost per kg: 20 bucks per kg. Some loss rinsing bitter flavour.
Hmm not that bad actually. Maybe I should just bite the bullet. I think last time I checked I could only find it in organic health food stores and it was a million billion dollars.
bulk orders We eatin’ chickenesque congee forever now!
Ive considered just doing VWG because the wash method makes a bomb go off in our kitchen. I’ve never really done the cost calculation but if that’s all the difference then that probably is worth it