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a vegan and vegetarian thread (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i'm sure with the influx of people we have enough of a community for this to be a thread, or at least people who are interested in veganism and vegetarianism and incorporating aspects of the diet/lifestyle into their current life. so yeah, pop off! share your struggles, experiences, good times, recipes, all that kind of stuff

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm vegetarian since forever and have considered going fully vegan, but I can't leave cheese and eggs behind.

Vegan cheese is allright, but I don't know of any egg replacements

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Vegan cheese is allright

I don't like it, honestly. But when I went vegan it was rare anyways so I got used to not have cheese. Just eat ridiculous amounts of hummus instead ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

For eggs, JUST Egg is pretty good and cooks and bakes just like it. Tofu scrambles are good as well (and usually cheaper). For baking, there's an even wider number of options ranging from stuff like flax seeds to premade mixes to even just changing ingredient ratios and many many more

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Scrambled eggs - replace with tofu scramble or JUST egg. I'd recommend the former since it's much cheaper. Buy some black salt to sprinkle on your tofu. It'll give it the signature sulphury egg taste.
Eggs for baking purposes - replace with apple sauce, flax seed, aquafaba (the water that you drain out of cans of chickpeas), or JUST egg. I recommend flax because you can buy in bulk and it doesn't expire for a good while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

As someone also mentioned scrambled tofu is a great replacement for scrambled eggs. Any type will work but silken works best in my opinion.

That said though, you don't have to cut eggs out completely to make a positive impact on the environment or animal welfare. Locally sourced free range eggs will be better than supermarket in those regards, and probably taste better too.