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No but like seriously, why are vegan and vegetarian options always MORE expensive at restaurants. Whenever I cook my self, the meat is BY FAR the most expensive part of any meal. Meanwhile stuff like soy strips are DIRT CHEAP, not to mention they last basically forever!
The canteen I go to for lunch actually sells the meatless meals for 2/3 of the price, always a taunting reminder. Like hell yea, that's how ya convert me!
I've been saving so much money since I made the switch. I'm in huge debit so I really need it. I'm also taking home all the salads people bring to potlucks that no one else will eat. One of the family sized salads last me a week. I'll be pooping green, but eating free.
At least where I live chicken (frozen) & dairy are some of the cheapest sources of protein, followed closely by beans & similar legumes.
I don't eat meat because my doctor told me to stop for my weight. But damn do fucking love a bloody steak.
I can't speak for restaurants, but I can speak for vegan replacements for non vegan foods(e.g. Vegan cheese). Its simply, more expensive, because people are willing to pay dor it and RhE company can make more money with it.
I'm really liking lemmy. A post like this in vegan reddit would have been taking down and OP called a bloodthirsty animal. Those folks are crazy.
Posts like this is how we change the minds of people and how they see food.
The problem is this doesn't really stack up if your eating a lot of stuff thats been put on reduction. Full price meat is really expensive but 90% off meat works out cheaper than vegetables on a per calorie basis. (Vegetables never go on reduction)
At my place meat rarely goes for above 50% or even 30% discounts. And even then, 500g of meat usually costs me in the 150czk range, with 50% off that's still a solid 75czk, meanwhile my soy strip bag costs up yo 30czk max. Like I wish we had 90% discounts on meat lol xD
As for veggies, some like potatoes, carrots and lettuce are dirt cheap already and you're not putting the whole thing into a single dish. Shit is like rice, the 5kg bag is almost cheaper than meat, and it'll last for MANY dishes.
Oh potatoes and rice go in more than half of what I eat, a lot of cababge too. My point is less about meat specifically and more that based on where you live a vegan diet may or may not be the more affordable option. A lot of us just end up on the 'whatevers on sale' diet.
How could I get ~160g protein a day on vegan diet? Is protein powder only option? Also tryin to stay around 2400 cals
Beans and nuts
Soya strips? Soya anything really. Per gram there is WAY more protein in soya strips than any meat. My 80g pack says it has 49g protein. Shit is more than half just straight up protein. Find me any meat with such density, the best I can find is 32g/100g. And for calories you'd be hard pressed to beat nuts, not even sugar beats em.
Any Brands you recommend?
I'm not really a brands guy, I just try to grab whatever is cheapest at any store I'm at (within reason, bought shampoo once that was basically just water, never again). Also I live in Czechia, I'm assuming we might not have the same stores and brands available. Tho anyways, soy strips/chunks are a pretty basic ingredient, so I'd assume just about any should be fine, and for nuts, over here we quite often have nut mixes, sometimes even salted or otherwise spiced, tasty stuff for snacking :) For cooking purposes, again, very basic ingredient, just about any will do. There are many Asian and even western recipes that make wonders out of peanuts for example, not to mention countless desserts, but that's probably not what we're going for xD
i've had the opposite experience. Vegan substitutes here for example are wayy more expensive than the meat counterparts, or they're straight up trash. And cooking anything nutritious enough is by itself expensive enough, irregardless if its meat or vegan
Because vegan substitutes are junk food, not something you should actually be eating a lot of. Tofu for example is very cheap
Nutritious meals based on lentils/legumes are astonishingly cheap. wtf are you smoking? mock sausage etc is a luxury good, it is not a standard feature in any diet.
"Meat substitutes," ie impossible burgers and vegan cheese, are more expensive. There's a complex process and decades of trial and error that have gone into trying to replicate specific flavors. But "things in place of meat," like tofu or beans (dried beans especially), are often cheaper.
There is a little more work to make those veggies taste good.
Sometimes some of the vegan food I eat I feel like cooking it was closer to witchcraft.
Just add some garlic and or onion, it's the secret behind many sauces, even meat ones :)
Tho yea, you're right, ya can't just throw some salt and pepper together with (insert not meat) and still call it a delicacy, sadly...
Imagine if legumes and grains were subsidized like animal meat and dairy is now. The meals would only cost the labor and heat energy.
Just imagine
Its crazy how far 20 dollars in veggies will go. A bag of carrots is like 2 bucks
Not where I'm at :(
The problem is that fresh food is more expensive than frozen food, but meat freezes better than vegetables. There's some veggies that can be flash-frozen and retain some taste and texture, but often the comparison is between fresh veggies and frozen meat, and they're about the same price around here at least.
How much is Tofu? Thats always a good cheap option if fresh veg isnt affordable
I've only ever been able to make enjoyable tofu in curries. Got any good recipes?
Buy the super firm stuff and, if you're willing to spend the extra time, put it in a tofu press to get out even more water. Marinate in the same kind of things as meat. Fry in a pan, cook on the grill, or on an open flame is my favorite :)
The drier the tofu, the more meaty it gets and will brown a lot better too. I don't care what people say about oil, I think its much better for flavor and Browning.
Exactly! Whenever I was low on cash as a student, I'd just buy some tomatoes, throw on some lettuce and mayo I already had for sandwiches and boom! Maybe add some pasta and or an egg. Depending on how fancy I go that's anywhere between like 2~3 bucks a big ass bowl!
Right!
Every person pays $49 dollar a year on average in Canada towards the $2 billion animal agriculture gets in subsidies.
Ironically, as a toddler, my mom tried offering a fair bit of money (for the time for a toddler, so probably like $20 or $100) to try to get me to eat meat and I still refused. Taste, texture, smell or presentation was icky so nty. Weird people pay extra for it.
Taste, texture, smell or presentation was icky so nty.
Side note, but I think that's a huge part of the disconnect between vegans and meat-eaters. A lot of vegans for whatever reason just never liked meat in the first place, so they think it's the easiest thing in the world to give it up and are genuinely baffled why people keep eating meat.
I drank like a gallon of milk a day before I went vegan and products containing cheese, eggs, or chocolate were a good chunk of my diet. I lost a lot of weight changing diet because there was very little left to eat out of my already very limited diet, so I just didn't want to eat. Also, I never really considered myself a vegetarian before going vegan... like I didn't eat meat, but like I also didn't really eat vegetables for the same reason.
No that's just not true at all. Before I was vegan my favorite food hands down was meat - ribs, steak, ham, brisket, chicken, burgers, etc. I loved it, not to the degree of luffy from one piece (🤓) but my favorite by far. That said, once I realized pleasure is never a good reason to kill someone, I stopped eating animals, and when I learned how fucked other animal ag (dairy, eggs, etc) is I went completely vegan.
Now when I walk by places cooking dead animals it smells good and then I think about the massive injustice behind it, and there's just no way I could go back to supporting that no matter how good it tastes. I love stuff like Juicy Marbles, Beyond, and Meati Mushroom steaks tho, cause they're the best replacements I've found.
Even though animal flesh is one of my favorite flavors I've ever tasted I'm still baffled that people continue to eat it when the reality is it's killing and hurting animals for pleasure, which is insane and not ok at all.
Nah this is just cope. Vegans come from all walks of life.
Ease of doing something or degree of missing it doesn't really tip the moral scales much when compared to the yawning abyss of horror that is farming. Plenty of us loved all the hedonistic pleasures of carnism, just once you realise what you're doing it's completely indefensible and change is required.
for a toddler, so probably like $20 or $100
Mate what the shit
Not sure what you mean, so gonna just shotgun approach my response and maybe one of the things are somehow relevant.
By "toddler", I meant like sometime between infant and kindergarten. Idk the actual age.
I was young enough to not remember, so I just don't know what it was. Just that it was a lot.
I was a stubborn eater. My mom also tried other things like not letting me other things until I tried something new. But found my tolerance for starving myself was more than their tolerance for me staving. I lost some absurd about of weight (like 10lbs per week) for a few weeks straight over being a picky eater in 2nd grade (that was not my mom's doing nor was it intentional).
Was gonna say, I remember when I though 5 bucks was a lot, and I was probably like 8 or 10.
Meat always tasted gross to me.
I grimaced every-time as a kid as I ate chicken nuggets because there were weird bits inside of them.
But now with vegan nuggets, I don’t find those weird bits anymore.
Seriously, I just discovered impossible nuggets. They are hands down better than meat nuggets.
Having heard that vegan is better my whole life, I’m convinced that it will only get subsidized/better logistics when the price of meat goes up.
And the price of meat going up will just make people into red hats angry that their burgers got taken away by the left.
Many of MAGAs don't even understand that much of the beef industry already has subsidies. From the farm, to the feed, to even the price of beef itself.
But these subsidies aren't doing much to keep the price of beef down.
Absolutely, this study from Berkeley from 2014 said beef should be $30 / lb, without subsidies. Inflation-adjusted (with caveats), it'd be ~$40 / lb today.