This is why backyard and community gardens are about to get a whole lot more important. A few of us have been trying to convince my job to set one up and Iām hoping tariffs are the push we need to get it done.
Which ones? Iāve yet to encounter a recipe with eggs where I couldnāt satisfyingly sub in tofu, mung bean liquid (Such as Just Egg) or starch+tapioca replacer (Such as this) depending on the egg preparation.
Tofu is good for scrambles.
Mung bean is good for frying.
Stratch+tapioca is for baking.
Itās not even a push. My elderly mother was telling me about her elderly friends who were going on āmissionsā to find eggs where they spent tons of gas driving around all day just trying to find eggs to buy since theyāre scarce.
It floored me. I literally said to her ādo they not understand if they stop buying them the demand will decrease and so will the price?ā She shrugged and agreed that it was really foolish and wasteful.
Some people are just really ingrained in their habits and donāt even consider changing things like this in their lives.
TVP is so amazing that i canāt help but feel like itās being actively supressed by the meat industry, itās incredibly close to the generic mouthfeel of meat and utterly trivial to manufacture.
I used to get Bobās Red Mill brand TVP from Safeway but it disappeared from their shelves a few months ago (Tried multiple locations) and hasnāt cone back. Considering that itās basically just soy and pulses, and also that Safeway still carries the rest of the Bobās Red Mill lineup, it does feel suspiciously intentional.
Thatās not how the modern American thinks, weāre so used to things just being always available in mass quantities, weāve all but forgotten shortages happen and life requires problem solving. Look at what happened with the toliet paper thing, you can easily just use/wash a cloth (obviously not ideal, Iād recommend a bidet first and foremost) but your average American would rather rally at Costco and get into a fist fight over their precious rolls because they canāt comprehend or cope with adaptation, lol.
Isnāt easier to justā¦ stop buying eggs?
Wonāt the prices come down if people, you know, stop pushing demand for them?
Seriously not a bad time to consider vegetarianism or veganism.
You say that like we donāt import a fuck ton of our produce from Mexico.
Everything is about to get way more expensive.
This is why backyard and community gardens are about to get a whole lot more important. A few of us have been trying to convince my job to set one up and Iām hoping tariffs are the push we need to get it done.
Wonāt prices come down if people, you know, stop buying vegetables?
But eggs are vegetarian. Avoiding meat is easy, but eggs are in a ton of recipes and not all of them work with egg substitutes
Which ones? Iāve yet to encounter a recipe with eggs where I couldnāt satisfyingly sub in tofu, mung bean liquid (Such as Just Egg) or starch+tapioca replacer (Such as this) depending on the egg preparation.
Tofu is good for scrambles.
Mung bean is good for frying.
Stratch+tapioca is for baking.
Agree.
There is a great push towards this stuff. Mostly trough the meat industry whos products getting shittier by the day.
A good meal is texture + flavor. As long as you give me the texture and flavor I want I couldnāt care less how it is accomplished.
And if I have the choice between 2 products who are equal in texture and flavor, I pick the option that caused less suffering in the world.
Itās not even a push. My elderly mother was telling me about her elderly friends who were going on āmissionsā to find eggs where they spent tons of gas driving around all day just trying to find eggs to buy since theyāre scarce.
It floored me. I literally said to her ādo they not understand if they stop buying them the demand will decrease and so will the price?ā She shrugged and agreed that it was really foolish and wasteful.
Some people are just really ingrained in their habits and donāt even consider changing things like this in their lives.
I recently was at a friends house and they had made vegan chilli, NGL best chilli Iāve ever had.
I agree with you on your food preference and itās like a breath of fresh air encountering someone who thinks the same way about food.
Send me that recipe if you can!
I wish I could but they havenāt shared it with me yet
They did laugh when I asked and they said āitās basically chilli but with crumbly tofu, and donāt slack on the seasoningā
Super Firm Tofu. The vacuum sealed stuff.
also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textured_vegetable_protein
TVP is so amazing that i canāt help but feel like itās being actively supressed by the meat industry, itās incredibly close to the generic mouthfeel of meat and utterly trivial to manufacture.
I used to get Bobās Red Mill brand TVP from Safeway but it disappeared from their shelves a few months ago (Tried multiple locations) and hasnāt cone back. Considering that itās basically just soy and pulses, and also that Safeway still carries the rest of the Bobās Red Mill lineup, it does feel suspiciously intentional.
Thatās not how the modern American thinks, weāre so used to things just being always available in mass quantities, weāve all but forgotten shortages happen and life requires problem solving. Look at what happened with the toliet paper thing, you can easily just use/wash a cloth (obviously not ideal, Iād recommend a bidet first and foremost) but your average American would rather rally at Costco and get into a fist fight over their precious rolls because they canāt comprehend or cope with adaptation, lol.