take economics. supply/demand.

reduce the demand, and in order to not have surplus waste, they in turn will reduce supply.

kthanks.

i eat plenty of meat but that still is painfully obvious.

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12/17/2008 6:09:55 PM

Quote :

"How do people make the leap in logic that by not having a plate of steak they have done their part to prevent unnecessary animal death, pain and suffering? How does you not eating Bessie...ensure she gets to lead a fulfilling, healthy, humane life?"

That's not the only reason people are vegetarian/vegan.

12/18/2008 1:20:16 PM

Various holiday vegan goodies for parties and gifts

12/21/2008 4:12:31 PM

What are those 2nd from the bottom? They look delicious.

Tonight: Chickpea Cutlets w/ vegan mushroom gravy and brussel sprouts with Earth Balance, mmmm.

[Edited on January 21, 2009 at 7:05 PM. Reason : asdf]

1/21/2009 7:05:19 PM

Ginger cookies! They were the most dangerous out of all the things I baked over Christmas. I could have eaten the whole batch in one evening.

Mom's Ginger Cookies
1 1/2 cups Earth Balance
2 eggs - used the powdered egg replacer
1/2 C molasses
4 t baking soda
1 t ginger
1 t salt
2 cups sugar
2 t cinnamon
4 cups flour

Cream butter and sugar, add "eggs", molasses and baking soda.
Add dry ingredients.
Chill several hours or overnight.
Make into small balls and roll in sugar.
Place on greased cookie sheets.
Do not pat down.
Bake at 350 for 7 minutes.

1/21/2009 7:34:20 PM

heard this one the other day for an easy snack....

pot stickers stuffed with squished tofu and spinich. super easy, and apparently very tasty, i haven't tried it yet myself, this lifetime at least.

1/21/2009 8:44:06 PM

^^ I'll try that tonight. I believe I already have everything I'll need. Thanks!

1/22/2009 7:39:19 AM

attn: vegans

how much do groceries usually cost you a month? i'm going to try veganism again (tried it once while i was living on campus, utter fail) and i'm trying to make sure i can afford to do this healthily.

[Edited on January 22, 2009 at 10:20 AM. Reason : ]

1/22/2009 10:20:41 AM

Around $300 but that's just an estimate because we buy for two people.

1/22/2009 11:38:39 AM

hey, i'm on a very low carb diet plan now...but i need my potassium...i bought a large hass avocado...what's the best way to eat/prepare it...would like it to be portable too

can i just eat it raw? do i peel it? do i mash it up?

1/27/2009 11:35:56 AM

http://www.avocado.org/

You need to cut around the pit in the middle, and remove it. Then scoop out the goodness and discard the skins. There's a bunch of recipes on that website above. Avocados are great on sandwiches but since you're doing a low carb diet i guess that wouldn't work out well...

1/27/2009 3:01:22 PM

Quote :

"tried it once while i was living on campus, utter fail"

haha yeah, what could you eat? pretty much just salads... on campus food options are not very plentiful

1/27/2009 3:19:15 PM

Tonight: Ribeye steak au poivre, potatoes with cheese, sour cream and crumbled bacon and asparagus.

1/27/2009 3:28:46 PM

welp, there's asparagus.

1/27/2009 4:15:24 PM

I spend probably $20-$25 at WF each week. It'll go up if I'm planning a weekend with leftyisreal or my folks.

1/27/2009 6:54:02 PM

Quote :

"haha yeah, what could you eat? pretty much just salads"

literally, i ate the fresh fruit and veggies they had, salads, carrot sticks, and celery. it didn't last long.

i currently spend ~$220-230/month on myself (but i buy all organic) so that makes me more comfortable with trying it out again .

1/27/2009 7:18:50 PM

Peanut Butter Newman O's cake with "buttercream" icing from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World



nom nom nom

2/8/2009 7:49:18 PM

Dang that looks tasty!

2/8/2009 8:16:08 PM

oh, what the fuck. when i lived on campus we worked hard to get the dining hall to have reasonably edible vegan options at every meal, at least at fountain. dont tell me they slacked off?

2/8/2009 9:35:32 PM

alee, your food always looks delicious. I wish I had your cooking/presentation skills. Consider me green with envy... So I have to ask you: do you have a cheese-like food that you make? I have been craving cheese for weeks (which is normally not the unusual, but lately it has been super-strong) and I cannot seem to quiet it with my usual faux-cheese methods. Any ideas?

2/8/2009 11:26:52 PM

My boyfriend has a student here in Japan who is a vegetarian. Japan doesn't know what a vegetarian is so there's pretty much nothing on the market for vegetarians here (snacks/mixes/etc). He's going home next month and wants to get her a vegetarian gift.

What are some good tasting, non-perishable stuff you can recommend? I told him to get her a thing of rice milk because that would blow her mind. "Rice... milk?! WHAT?!" but he wants to get her something else too.

Also, if it's something you cook/prepare, it needs to be something with the recipe on the box. It's been a couple years since I've been in a supermarket in the States so I have no idea what's on the market these days

2/9/2009 1:27:25 AM

Quote :

"So I have to ask you: do you have a cheese-like food that you make? I have been craving cheese for weeks (which is normally not the unusual, but lately it has been super-strong) and I cannot seem to quiet it with my usual faux-cheese methods. Any ideas?"

There is only one kind of premade fake cheese that I am in love with and that's Teese's mozzarella cheese. I have made so many pizzas with it, that it's just getting silly. It actually melts and tastes great.

I haven't made any homemade cheese, but I do have countless friends who have wonderful things to say about the Uncheese cookbook. http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Uncheese-Cookbook-Delicious-Dairy-Free/dp/1570671516/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234320049&sr=8-1

2/10/2009 9:44:22 PM

^ I seriously would love to hire you to be my chef. ahha. your cooking looks good. kudos on going vegan/veg.

2/10/2009 10:20:07 PM

I'll probably get my PhD in Biochem and then end up in a bakery.

I have two different cupcake recipes planned for this weekend and I'm getting a shiny new camera in the mail soon. Yay.

2/10/2009 10:37:06 PM

I finally tried quinoa in the form of http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Quinoa-and-Black-Beans/Detail.aspx

I am a big fan. But the recipe needs some tomatoes to suit my liking better. I topped it with salsa.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cheesy-Quinoa-Pilaf-with-Spinach/Detail.aspx and the green-wa from the last page are next on my list.

2/18/2009 12:18:52 PM

Cupcakes since Christmas. All from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World.

Carrot:


Vanilla:


Red velvet:


Cappuccino:

2/28/2009 1:30:55 PM

Quote :

"My boyfriend has a student here in Japan who is a vegetarian. Japan doesn't know what a vegetarian is so there's pretty much nothing on the market for vegetarians here (snacks/mixes/etc). He's going home next month and wants to get her a vegetarian gift. What are some good tasting, non-perishable stuff you can recommend? I told him to get her a thing of rice milk because that would blow her mind. "Rice... milk?! WHAT?!" but he wants to get her something else too. Also, if it's something you cook/prepare, it needs to be something with the recipe on the box. It's been a couple years since I've been in a supermarket in the States so I have no idea what's on the market these days"

I've gotten a few suggestions that have been pretty good but still looking for more

3/1/2009 9:09:10 PM

I'm pretty sure the country of japan has vegetarian items...

3/3/2009 8:37:01 PM

^ You've obviously never been to Japan. It's a common misconception that Japan knows what a vegetarian is.

For example, I was buying ingredients to make vegetarian lasagna. I get to the checkout counter and one of my students is the cashier. She asks what I'm making for dinner, and when I tell her she goes, "But don't you need pork?" I feel bad for my vegetarian friends here.

3/3/2009 10:35:57 PM

I'm a member of a organic/health/alternative food buying club (https://www.unfi.com/Default.aspx); let me know if you're interested in joining. If can't be til after April, as the guy who runs it is an accountant

If you want, I can try to get an electronic catalog for you. They have lots and lots and lots and lots of things that are gluten-free, vegan, cruelty-free, etc...lots of specialty items, basically.

The downsides? Pickup location is past the 15/501 split, and every other month, you devote ~1-1.5hrs to helping unload the truck, verifying the delivery is correct, and splitting cases.

3/3/2009 11:21:14 PM

^^i am EXTREMELY sure, without having been to japan in this lifetime , that the country of japan has vegetables, grains, and fruits. tell your friend to cook some shit.

[Edited on March 4, 2009 at 4:36 PM. Reason : d]

3/4/2009 4:35:12 PM

Here's you...
















































Here's the point of my question.

We want to get her a gift from America that will make her go, "Wow, this is cool! I wish Japan had something like this!" And since it's Japan, and they don't make food products that cater to vegetarians, there's a lot to choose from in America.

Obviously she cooks for herself, otherwise she'd either not be a vegetarian or she'd be anorexic.

3/4/2009 6:11:31 PM

Quote :

"^ You've obviously never been to Japan. It's a common misconception that Japan knows what a vegetarian is. For example, I was buying ingredients to make vegetarian lasagna. I get to the checkout counter and one of my students is the cashier. She asks what I'm making for dinner, and when I tell her she goes, "But don't you need pork?""

I get that kind of shit here too. People everywhere are misinformed/dumb/what-have-you.

3/4/2009 6:11:43 PM

^ lol true, but the misunderstanding is more prevalent here. I think it's mainly that most people here haven't even heard of vegetarianism. Or they think it's something only Buddhist monks do. I figure it's because of how expensive produce is here that it hasn't caught on more as a regular diet.

3/4/2009 6:15:11 PM

Yeah, that makes sense.

I really have been trying to think of a good suggestion for you, but everything uniquely vegetarian I can think of is refrigerated. Like Tofurky Italian Sausage. Yum.

Maybe just go look around Whole Foods or Trader Joe's or something. That's the best I can recommend.

3/4/2009 6:20:22 PM

Yeah, I really wish I could bring back some fake meat stuff. That would be hilarious to give to someone here. I wonder if I kept it refrigerated until the day of the flight, then kept it next to something cool in my carry-on, if it would still be okay after the 18 hours flight...

3/4/2009 6:28:01 PM

probably. that stuff is hermetically sealed. i would recommend freezing it first, maybe. a frozen ice pack beside it would do just fine. the tofurky italian sausages are the best of the bunch, but i dont know how that translates to japanese tastes.


there are lots of weird fake meaty things you can get in chinese groceries here. dried tofu skins, wheat gluten stuff and the like. soy products, wheat gluten and beans were the protein staples of my vegan diet, is that stuff really that hard to get there?

[Edited on March 4, 2009 at 7:16 PM. Reason : freeze it]

3/4/2009 7:15:14 PM

You can get the dried tofu skins, or fried tofu blocks, etc, but those don't really look or taste like meat. I've never seen wheat gluten stuff here.

But also remember that China has a large sect of Buddhism that practices a strict vegetarian diet and even more people that adhere to a looser form of vegetarianism, so it would make sense that a Chinese market would have more vegetarian products.

3/4/2009 8:16:19 PM

Back to the discussion of whether or not Oreos are vegan (pg 3)...

Quote :

"Ingredients: SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), HIGH OLEIC CANOLA OIL AND/OR PALM OIL AND/OR CANOLA OIL, AND/OR SOYBEAN OIL, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CORNSTARCH, SALT, SOY LECITHIN (EMULSIFIER), VANILLIN - AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CHOCOLATE."

http://www.nabiscoworld.com/Brands/ProductInformation.aspx?BrandKey=oreo&Site=1&Product=4400000820

The bag I bought last month said it had calcium phosphate. How do vegans know whether the calcium phosphate is from bone ash or some other source? This would be relevant to 1,000's of foods, so I'm using Oreos only as an example.

3/4/2009 10:12:45 PM

oh! another funny ass fake meat product you can buy in the US is quorn


its made out of fungal chitin and its pressed into the shape of a chicken breast with a little wing

it comes frozen and ive found it at kroger and of course, whole foods

[Edited on March 4, 2009 at 10:16 PM. Reason : ^that was an issue with my vegan ex, we cut the chase and bought hydrox. not as rich, but pure veg. ]

3/4/2009 10:13:59 PM

^ hahaha, I'll have to look for that.

3/4/2009 10:15:57 PM

or how about morningstar frozen veggie bacon. again, that stuff is frozen and hermetically sealed.

3/4/2009 10:17:05 PM

Check out the line of Quorn stuff carried in England. It's insane. They have minted "lamb" and all kinds of crazy stuff.

^ I tried the bacon a few weeks ago. I had high hopes considering I love the sausage. But I found it quite gross.

[Edited on March 4, 2009 at 10:19 PM. Reason : .]

3/4/2009 10:18:38 PM

Quote :

"Introducing 2 new Delicious Possibilities from Quorn Foods: the Cranberry & Goat Cheese Chik'n Cutlet and the Southwestern Chik'n Wing!"

I wonder if that's as good as it sounds.

3/4/2009 10:22:09 PM

i forgot the brand but we found vegan chickn nuggets that were awesome. sadly i think they started putting milk in them or something

3/5/2009 5:29:04 AM

Do they still make the Morningstar (I think that was who made them, anyway) hot wing things? Those were so good, but I haven't seen them in a very long time.

3/5/2009 9:15:02 AM

More desserts

Baby blueberry muffins


Baby s'mores cupcakes


Black bottomed blondie with soy ice cream

3/27/2009 6:38:39 PM

So do you guys just ignore Calcium Phosphate because it's easier to do so or what?

3/28/2009 11:39:53 AM

what is a really good cheese substitute? what are some basic things i should stock my cupboards with?

i'm a bit nervous about transitioning to veganism, to be honest

[Edited on April 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM. Reason : ]

4/5/2009 11:38:01 AM

set em up

4/5/2009 12:01:20 PM