I just bought 8 stalks of broccoli and 2 heads of lettuce and my two measly drawers at the bottom are flowing over.
Any good fridges for vegans even if they aren't purpose-built?
Dough recipe: * 3/4 C White Flour * 1/4 C Whole Wheat Flour * 1/4 tsp Yeast * Salt * 1 C Warm water
Makes a very wet dough that I can mix with a spatula. After the initial mix, I wait about 10-20 minutes, then hit it with the spatula again. I do a press, scrape, stretch then fold motion, and repeat. Then I leave it alone for a while. I can be pretty impatient and use it after only an hour. It's better to let it ferment for longer.
Sauce (makes like 3 pizzas worth): * 1/2 C Red Lentils * 1/2 tsp Onion Powder * 1/2 tsp Garlic Powder * 2 C of Water
Bring to boil, then turn the heat down and cook until the lentils break apart. If you want to, use a hand blender to make the lentils disappear.
Once cooked, add: * 1 Can Tomato Paste * 1 tsp Italian Spice Mix (I think walmart's Great Value brand is what I used) * 1 Tbsp Sugar (start with a tsp and sweeten to taste) * Salt If you like spicy: * A healthy squirt of sriracha sauce or some crushed cayenne peppers
Put it on the lowest heat on your stove, and let those Italian flavours happen. If it gets too thick, add some more water. The sauce should be thick. If you take a spoonful it and tip it, it shouldn't run off quickly. Generally, I use it the day after I make it, and it gets thicker in the refrigerator.
Get a baking pan, line it with parchment paper. Scrape the dough into the middle of the paper. Wet your hands and spread the dough out. You can also use olive oil in lieu of wet hands, and olive oil in lieu of parchment paper. I justify eating the whole myself by not using oil.
Put a few spoonfuls of the sauce around the outside, and spread it inward. More sauce toward the outside than inside.
Add your toppings. In the picture, I cut up 1/4 of a vegan sausage, and 1/3 of a red pepper.
Hello!
I’ve been teetering on the edge of vegetarian and vegan this whole year, but I’ve been cooking exclusively vegan these past several months. In general, I do not like cooking, but going vegan helped me enjoy cooking a lot more since there’s usually no other option. That gives you an idea that my recipe question might be a “no-brainer” or a stupid question, but I’m such a novice at cooking so please be nice!
My favorite thing to cook is Spaghetti and vegan meatballs. I’ve found a base recipe but I’ve perfected it and made it my own, coining my recipe name as “Heatballs” since I like it super spicy.
I’ve decided to alter the recipe and make a “Heatloaf” for my family gathering tomorrow for Christmas. So what I did was just make the main ingredients and put it in the 8x3x2 inch foil pan. Most of the ingredients are kidney beans, flax meal, chia seeds, caramelized veggies, breadcrumbs, oats, bbq sauce, and some other random spices. This is all done and currently sitting in my freezer. The rest of my recipe (for heatballs) is to cook at 350 degrease for 40 minutes. I’ve noticed some other vegan meatloaf recipes stated to only cook for 35 minutes.
With those ingredients in mind, how do I keep this as fresh as possible on a 3 hour car ride? My current plan is this. Right now, it’s sitting in my freezer with the plan of taking it to my destination and cooking it there. But I have honestly no clue how much time I should cook it for.
I have so many variables to take account. This is a loaf and not little balls so should the oven temp be different? Should I keep it in the freezer since it’ll most likely thaw in the 3 hour car ride? Or keep it in the refrigerator so it’ll be room temperature when I arrive? How long should I bake it for when I get to my destination? Or is it better to just bake it tonight or tomorrow morning before I head over and just warm it up when I get there?
Thanks for reading! This my first time bringing THE main dish and not just a side and I can’t tell if I’m thinking too much into it or not.
TLDR: What is the best way to transport food to survive a 3 hour car ride? Should I bake it now and reheat it tomorrow? Or should I just let the ingredients sit and bake it when I get to my destination?
I've lurked for a while now and I made a reddit account just to say: I can't do it anymore. I can't continue contributing to the exploitation of animals. I've thrown out all the animal products in my refrigerator and I'm reading up on practical, easy ways to eat cruelty-free. I'm pretty lazy so I'm worried about getting enough calories with minimal effort, I tend not to eat much because I don't feel like getting up or I get engrossed in a project, so when I do eat I eat calorie dense things so I'm not undereating. If anyone has any tips for minimal-effort ways to get calories without having to eat a pound of almonds every day I'd appreciate it lol.
What tipped me over the edge was two pieces of footage. The first was from the Dairy Is Scary Erin Janus video of a dairy cow's newborn calf being dragged away from her as she cried out for it. Every single time I put nutella on my toast that's what I'm paying for because nutella has milk powder in it. Fuck, I can't do that. The second was footage from Earthlings of an elephant being tortured for the circus. How can you do that to an elephant? They're such magnificant, intelligent, social beings, they don't exist for us to abuse for amusement.
No more for me. I live in America and I know it's virtually impossible to live 100% cruelty free but I've got to try. Veganism it is.
I store vegetables and fruits in the refrigerator, often in separate containers with paper towels to help them last longer.
I go grocery shopping once a week and buy only ingredients I know I will use to cook.
Still, I end up throwing away $50 in spoiled vegetables and fruits. Some of these things only last 2-3 days before they spoil!
What am I missing out on, here? I just want the stuff to make it to the end of the week, at least.
Dude, other people eat produce, too, I'm not the only one!
The great thing about this is that you can adjust the recipe to whatever consistency or flavor you prefer.
These measurements are for thick, eggy mayo that tastes just like Hellman's Real Mayonnaise, but with olive oil because I also used to love the Kraft olive oil mayo. I don't like sweet mayo, but you can add a sweetener to the recipe if that's what you like.
Imgur link to show consistency and color.
This makes about a cup or so of vegannaise.
You must blend the tofu really well if you're not using silken tofu in order to get the desired level of smoothness. I prefer a completely texture-less mayo, so I blended it a lot. You can remove the bullet, shake to rearrange, then blend again.
I've been getting really annoyed by these fruit flies recently. Instead of throwing my banana peeling in the rubbish bin I put them in a trash bag in the freezer. I also put all my fruit in the refrigerator.
My question is, if I put my bananas into a trash bag and tie it airtight, will flies still grow in the bag?
And I'm actually kind of happy about it. My son who is a health nut has been trying to get me to go vegetarian or vegan for a while. I have crazy high blood pressure a history of heart disease in my family and they are all big Dutch people who love meat and potatoes and bread. After having heart pain scare a couple weeks ago I decided it was time to make a change. I went all out vegan and threw out everything in my refrigerator and replaced it with all fresh vegetables nuts Etc. Well after being really good for the first 4 days I kind of forgot and went and got my usual caramel macchiato the other morning without even thinking about the dairy.. I was about a third of the way through it when I got violently ill and ended up throwing up several times. It's hard to imagine my body could adjust that quickly. Has anyone else experienced this going vegan for the first time?
Newbie vegan here, so my cupboards and refrigerator aren't yet booming with veganism. I live with other people who aren't making the change, so I'm leaving any non-vegan food to them and starting right away as vegan, but making a slower transition from processed junk food to a whole foods diet.
In doing this, I have looked online at a couple different foods which list ingredients for the products that make the product non-vegan, but the box I have at home doesn't list that ingredient (e.g. Oreo Os online state it contains gelatin and my box at home does not).
I already bought the food, so the damage in my eyes is already done, so it wouldn't be a humongous deal for me to have accidentally consumed some animal byproduct by mistake, but I'm wondering what gives and if anyone else has experienced this?
Hey, vegan family! I'm looking for some advice for vegan eating on the road.
I'm about to start a new job with my boyfriend that will require us to travel and stay in hotels for 2 weeks at a time. I'll have access to a refrigerator and microwave but that's about it. I know I could get by with eating fries, chips, etc but I'd reeeally rather not. I'm just not sure where to start as far as making sure I'm getting adequate nutrients.
How would you handle this situation? Y'all always give the best advice. Thank you so much in advance!
Someone told me that they never put their tomatoes in the refrigerator but I forgot to ask them why. So that's why asking here.
I've put tomatoes in the fridge before and they seemed to be OK for several days. But I'm wondering if you have any anecdotes or advice/links that could help me either way. Thanks!
so, i'm going to summer camp for a week, beginning this monday. unfortunately, it isn't a vegan summer camp, and they can only accommodate to dietary restrictions to a certain extent (i.e. salad, fruit, etc). i spoke with someone and the director said that i'll have access to a toaster oven, microwave, and refrigerator. (i had the idea to go to natural grocers and buy a bunch of amy's frozen foods, but i'm not certain whether or not i will have access to a freezer). that being said, i need to find what foods i can bring with me to make. any and all recommendations will be appreciated! 😊
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Contrary to the beliefs of some, veganism is not a religion. Here are a few quotes on the matter from prominent atheists, skeptics, scientists, and freethinkers:
“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.”
“I became vegetarian when I was nine because my mother cooked spare ribs in a manner that made the connection to meat from an animal particularly clear.” Greene explains. “So at that point I said I’m never eating meat again and proceeded to go to the refrigerator and make a salami sandwich, because, a city kid, you know, what is meat? You don’t know what meat is, really. And my parents said, ‘Well, that salami is meat,’ at which point I just put down the sandwich and never ate meat again.”
"I am totally grossed out by the idea of eating an animal. Started when I was 9 yrs old and my mom cooked spare ribs. I was a city kid and to me meat was just another thing that you bought at the supermarket. Had no idea meat was from animals. But when I saw those ribs, tasted that flesh--I was done with meat."
"I deplore the tendency to treat the human species as if it were unique or on a pedestal, as though somehow there are people and there are animals, and the big divide is between people and animals. It's a matter of mere historical accident that the intermediates that link us to chimpanzees are extinct. If those all happened to be still alive or we discovered reliced populations of them, such that we could interbreed with a chain of intermediates all the way to chimpanzees, then immediately the pedestal would crumble. I suspect that in a hundred or two-hundred years time we may look back upon the way we treated animals today in something like the way we today look back on the way our forefathers treated slaves."
"In many ways I aspire to be a vegetarian."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znMBG5DQn14
"I have to confess that [veganism](see context) is morally superior."
"I think ideally I would like to see in the future, a world in which we are all vegetarian"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgmjh7bh7Ks
"You are a much more moral person than I am, and I have to say that […] You're perhaps the most moral person I've ever met" (Discussing the ethics of eating animals with philosopher and atheist Peter Singer, writer of Animal Liberation and vegetarian for 40+ years.)
"I don't find any good defense. I find myself in exactly the same position as I might have been 200 years ago talking about slavery."
“…the fact that I participate in a system that does this knowingly (animal factory farming) more or less condemns me as a hypocrite… We are two people who have admitted to participating in a system that is not only in some sense objectively bad, but perhaps so bad as to be the kind of thing that would be on the short list as to be an embarrassment to our descendants.”
"One of us asked the other, what would be on the short list of things that will just mortify our descendants on our behalf. You know the way we look back on Thomas Jefferson and are just agast that he couldn't see the wrongness of slavery; we have this supremely ethical and intelligent person who still couldn't see what an abomination slavery was. So what analogous blind spots do we have? And what will our descendants be scandalized by when they look back on us? On both of our short lists was the horror show of factory farming. None of us can defend it."
"I'm a vegetarian and an aspiring vegan."
"There is a moral high ground to the position [vegetarian/veganism] that I find very attractive, because I felt like a hypocrite as a meat eater."
"When you read the details of how our dairy and eggs are gotten, it's arguably as bad if not worse than much of the meat production."
"The details about chicken farming is almost the most horrible."
"Suffering is one component of it, but there's just the question of what sort of experience can this creature be deprived of?"
"Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish. Our genealogical connectedness, demonstrated through evolutionary biology, provides a scientific foundation from which to expand the moral sphere to include not just all humans—as rights revolutions of the past two centuries have done—but all nonhuman sentient beings as well."
“Ugh. Watched The Earthlings [animal agriculture documentary] last night researching moral progress. Feels like moral regress when it comes to animals,”
https://twitter.com/michaelshermer/status/388364946611793921
"What I think is almost more powerful as an argument for vegetarianism is not the cruelty we do to animals […] the main reason to be a vegetarian is not for the animals but for humans, because the production of the kind of food that we eat is destroying the environment for humans."
"The point is, it's the unnecessary-ness of the act. The standard argument that is given, which I gave at one point and I think you convinced me out of when I was reading [Animal Liberation] is that this is natural.
"If a being suffers, there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the being, the principle of equality requires that its suffering be counted equally with the like suffering - in so far as rough comparisons can be made - of any other being. If a being is not capable of suffering, or of experiencing enjoyment or happiness, there is nothing to be taken into account. This is why the limit of sentience (using the term as a convenient, if not strictly accurate, shorthand for the capacity to suffer or experience enjoyment or happiness) is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interests of others. To mark this boundary by some characteristic like intelligence or rationality would be to mark it in an arbitrary way. Why not choose some other characteristic, like skin colour?"
"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal."
"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties.… The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery."
"The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man."
"The fact that the lower animals are excited by the same emotions as ourselves is so well established, that it will not be necessary to weary the reader by many details. Terror acts in the same manner on them as on us, causing the muscles to tremble, the heart to palpitate, the sphincters to be relaxed, and the hair to stand on end. Suspicion, the offspring of fear, is eminently characteristic of most wild animals. It is, I think, impossible to read the account given by Sir E. Tennent, of the behaviour of the female elephants, used as decoys, without admitting that they intentionally practise deceit, and well know what they are about."
"There is no impersonal reason for regarding the interests of human beings as more important than those of animals. We can destroy animals more easily than they can destroy us; that is the only solid basis of our claim to superiority."
Hey! Vegetarian here seriously thinking about being vegan. I am trying to learn the basics before I truly commit. I figured I would ask you about lunches since I do Sunday meal prep and start a summer job on Monday. Last summer, I had a yogurt and trail mix bar everyday. I want to do better this year with salads or something healthy, light, and filling.
Soon, I will possibly sharing a refrigerator/freezer with 4-5 other people and only be grocery shopping every 2 weeks or so, carrying everything uphill about half a mile from a bustop. Of course, this is a worse-case senario if I get really busy or lazy. I will try to go grocery shopping more often if possible.
I want to stay plant-based with mostly whole foods, but vegetables only last around a week at most and are not very calorically dense. I made a list of what I feel are sufficient as staples for this type of diet and take up as little space as possible, but would love suggestions for things to add or substitute:
For instance, the reason the only "nuts" listed are peanuts is because they're highest in protein. I've also found carrots last longer in the fridge than most vegetables, and dried beans take up less space than canned.
Just a bit of background information. I am one of many chefs at large university in the deep south. Butter, bacon, and/or cheese are in almost every regional dish. I am not a vegan, though my diet is around 95% plant based. For anyone interested, I consume eggs and fish sparingly. True free range eggs from my uncle, and fish when I go fishing. Anyway, my girlfriend was more of a meat eater for the better part of our relationship and she gradually started going more plant based because of me. I'm lactose intolerant and have kept an assortment of nut milks in my refrigerator for longer than we have dated. I also stay stocked up on fresh produce and since I showed how awesome food can be without meat. Anyway last October I got home from work and started to prepare our dinner, trout poke bowls, and she told me that she woke up that morning and knew she wanted to be vegan and asked if I would hold the fish and eggs in the bowl. I was shocked and a bit confused, but I'm the chef and she gets what she wants. Her transition was seamless and as far as I know she hasn't slipped once. So I upped my vegan cuisine knowledge, with lots of help from Thug Kitchen, and started producing meals that made me cut back by animal product intake. In that process everyone at our local Trader Joes labeled us the surprise vegans because we don't fit the small and skinny stereotype of a vegan who "doesn't get enough protein." I'm 6'4" 250 lbs and she is 6'2" 190 lbs.
Fast forward two months, my company Christmas party was coming up and the menu didn't have a single vegan option. I brought up that my girlfriend was vegan and asked if they would accommodate her diet. Of course, the two chefs in charge of the menu scoffed and were pissy, but our VPO insisted that it be done. The vegan option offered was piss poor to say the least and I again complained and then offered to make something. So I got to prepare a vegan version of a very popular french dish. I did a Cassoulet slow cooked, loaded with tons of herbs and a banging vegetable stock, cherry wood smoked tempeh, and shiitake bacon. The dish was such a big hit. The VPO spent most of the party talking to my girlfriend about veganism and how he could implement it into our program at the university.
So starting in January this year, every cookie dough, salad dressing, and mayo we ordered was vegan. Thank you Hampton Creek! Our menus, including catering menus had several vegan options, thanks to my girlfriend and I trying things at home and then plugging them in.
Since my summers are usually slow, I will try my hardest to post pictures and recipes of my favorite things to cook. If there happens to be a vegan in this sub that attends the university I work for, just know that this is just the beginning and I will be pushing for even more options. Rock on!
Making scrambled follow your heart vegan eggs for the first time. It requires cold water which I added and mixed but just found out my breakfast partner is running 30 min late. Should I put the whole thing in the refrigerator or leave it out?
