Yeah! A lot of the time we are hosting our non vegan friends and we make them all eat vegan food. But tomorrow some of our vegan friends are hosting and they are much more connected with other local vegans. Should be good to reconnect with some people from last year and then meet some new ones.
Before covid we did have success with hosting vegan meetup groups but haven’t gotten back into the yet
I love homemade seitan. How was it and the cheesecake slice?
And yeah if you do want to homecook seitan it will definitely be cheaper. If you make it from scratch you wash starch out of flour to get the vital wheat gluten. That process is a bit of a mess but that’s the cheapest way to do it. Otherwise they do sell vital wheat gluten but that’s more expensive for the convenience.
I had similar thoughts for the heroes.
And hopefully the dinner plate is good. We did that last year from a local place and it was delicious. But this year i missed the order list since they only post on Facebook which i don’t have. Oh well!
You do great with the questions, don’t sweat it.
And yeah we gave up on family Thanksgiving long ago. Friendsgiving or bust
I also don’t really have any real life heroes. Though since it’s been on my mind lately: anyone willing to fight for social justice or animal welfare. Protest/civil disobedience/steal neglected animals/etc. They’re the real ones. I hate complacency and people’s tendency to just roll over and accept shit. I’m in that group more than i would care to admit.
Anyway, got invited to a friendsgiving this year. All vegan. Very excited. I’ll be bringing a Jamaican red bean stew which i think has always been a hit
Best of luck on your project. Also if you haven’t already look into a vertical mouse. Can help with the wrist strain for at least your mouse hand. Helps my carpal tunnel syndrome
Hope your recovery goes well! And don’t overdo things too quick. I did that one time and it drastically set me back even further than where i started 🤦
Had to look up the kratky hydro thing but looks pretty neat!
Also i hate how unhelpful doctors are. Product of healthcare systems trying to churn patients out as fast as possible. Hope you’re able to lose the weight and figure out the rest of the health stuff.
Tell us about a personal project, hobby, side thing, activity that you’ve been getting into lately
Ive actually had to scale back a lot of hobbies due to time constraints. But I have been working on building a portfolio since i am concerned about my employment long term. Havent made as much progress as i would like but I’ve been trying to get back onto a stricter schedule so i can work on it a little bit each day.
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Unrelated but had to say goodbye to one of our dogs today. She had been part of the family for 12 years. Shits rough.
A small habit…hm. that’s a tough one (but good!).
I think for us we generally double our recipes so we have enough for 3-4 days. Then we can eat leftovers or we can freeze half for a lazy day.
Also for some of our favorite recipes like jambalaya we prep a bunch of ingredients and pre-portion them out, then freeze them. So when its time to make then it’s just gathering the ingredients and dumping them in at the right time.
Both of these let us eat healthier during the work week since it reduces the amount of time we need to prep/ cook after work. It’s just taking advantage of the time savings when we make extra or prep ahead.
Our tofu press really upped our tofu game. Not only made it loads easier to do, can do it better, and quicker too.
Thanks! It was inspired by this recipe that i had wanted to share around the time i made my acct lol.
But exactly! Last year our friend group went on vacation and everyone was happy to let us cook vegan food for all our meals. It averaged less than $4 per person, per meal compared to the area would’ve been 5x that to eat out. The friends were genuinely shocked when i told them how little it was for a week. We cheated a little bit by bringing pre-portioned spices for the recipes but bought everything else fresh. Most of the dinner recipes were also just slow cooker meals. We made a simple breakfast, packed a lunch, and threw something in a slow cooker while we went out to explore. Really showed everyone how making healthy food doesn’t have to be expensive or take a long time
I haven’t had any major discussions guiding people to veganism that i can recall, i mostly just try to host my friends and cook them delicious vegan food so that they know vegan food can be delicious too. All my friends and family know I’m vegan and know they can ask me questions. A lot ask me for the recipes i make. If they ask questions about being vegan then i answer and ask them what’s stopping them and see if theres any misconceptions i can help with. I wouldn’t say those are major conversations, just small guiding ones
It’s funny because I’m having a similar experience with arch Linux meme. after seeing it so much i started reading about why it’s so great and i have considered using it when i switch my main pc over to Linux. right now just my servers run on Linux so I’m not unfamiliar with it, but haven’t switched my daily driver yet.
Appreciate hearing your story! And best of luck with your freelance web dev.
Also you mention surviving on vegan junk food- have you ever tried cooking some recipes? It can take more time but cheaper and healthier. We usually make enough to have leftovers for a few days so then we can just reheat on day 2-3.
I can’t tell if this is hilarious or genius. I guess both! But im glad it worked!
I wanted to be supportive of my SO and when we started renting a new place i agreed that it would be meat-free (she was Vegetarian at the time). Within a few months she wanted to become vegan after 20 years Vegetarian. I said no problem and we made our house vegan. When we went out to eat i just ate vegan with her and after 7 months or so i realized i had been vegan so i might as well just commit to it.
So yeah, kind of silly. I do take issue with the meat* industry and all that but what made me decide was basically just “that wasn’t so hard” and i just kept doing it. That was about 7 years ago? Crazy.
How has becoming vegan improved your life?
So many ways, but the one I’ll say is i eat much healthier now. I used to never eat my fruits and veggies, and i lived out of the freezer with prepackaged meals. Now i could go live in my garden
Shoes - ahimsa
Very much relate to the scared dog and not being able to sleep. The dog we said goodbye to last week (old age) was like that. Hope things go relatively well with storms. As far as concentrating one thing that helped me was starting using a pomodoro timer. Basically try to do distraction free focusing for 25 minutes, then take 5 minute break. After a few intervals you get a longer break. It was hard actually staying focused for 25 minutes with things out of my control (dog), but it has helped me from getting off my phone and such. Still need to get better at consistently doing it though
Also neat about the CAD! Hadn’t heard of openscad before