Carnists: “Poor people can’t be vegan because meat substitutes are too expensive”
Wdym? Being vegan is about replacinf your healthy, natural 80% red meat diet with an 80% impossible burger diet.
$5.08/lb
Nowhere near that cheap nowadays, more like $6-7/lb for the cheap stuff and $9-10 for the super lean
how does anybody actually afford to live in America anymore? like for real what are people doing to cope
Peanut butter has a higher protein per dollar ratio higher than all non-vegan proteins I could find.
It is still a ridiculous amount of calories though even without sugar. 180 calories for 8 grams of protein is barely making a scratch in the amount you need for a high protein diet. It has 6x the calories per gram of protein as chicken breast.
If you ate nothing but peanut butter, you’d need about 12.5 servings or 2250 calories of just peanut butter to reach 100 grams of protein. That doesn’t mean you should start eating meat of course, but I honestly don’t have a good solution to getting body builder levels of protein as a vegan.
The calories are still pretty high. In our opinion it’s mostly a quick fix recovery food for if you are feeling sick after workout
Again, bf is competition level weightlifting. He’s huge. So a bit different than just getting toned or muscular looking
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a lot of beans are kinda the devil for anyone with stomach issues or are trying to weight lift, hard pass. soy is kinda the exception because a lot of soy products are refined to remove fodmaps.
the only things in my diet that the vegan version is noticeably more expensive are cheese and milk, cheese because tesco cycles between two cheese brands every two weeks to have a decent discount, milk because it’s heavily subsidized
everything else is either a few pence more expensive at most or significantly cheaper
the amount i save on the rest subsidizes my violife and bougie nut milk
I’ve found that the only vegan cheeses that are “good” are straight nutritional yeast, fermented cashew yoghurt soft cheeses, and any of the magic cheese sauces which really are the most impressive. Also you can get vegan lactic acid! Real game changer that.
I haven’t been impressed by any store bought ones except tofoodie cream cheese, not that I can afford them anyway.
