She’s super creative with instant mashed potato’s and using them makes:

Potato patties

Black bean burgers

Shepard’s pie

I actually made some black bean burgers using the recipe and they came out great!

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    4 months ago

    Unfortunately while being vegan is cheaper, fresh greens are still expensive. It’s much harder to mass farm most vegetables to the same scale as grains and pulses.

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      4 months ago

      My parents were in a Community-Supported Agriculture and they paid roughly 100€ per month for vegetables (100€ / 30.5d ≈ 3.28€/d) for 3 to 4 people year round. Having to process vegetables also changes the nutritionary behaviour to a more healthier way as a side effect too.

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        4 months ago

        It’s totally possible, but not accessible to everyone, unfortunately. I think the community garden way is the best way to make vegetables affordable for everyone, in exchange for a bit of labour. Wish more municipalities supported such initiatives.

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      Unfortunately while being vegan is cheaper

      This is the wrong comparison, there’s no need to make it about being vegan.

      Fresh greens are required for every human every day and every place.

      Try to avoid making such tangential comparisons since you’re implying, by accident, that a non-vegan diet magically has those nutrients from greens, while a vegan diet is expensive because of leafy greens. Then we end up with ignorant dieters who eat 800 kcal/day and become silly ex-vegans.

      A lot of people conflate “going vegan” with “eating vegetables”, and that’s simply wrong and a bad approach to eating a vegan diet.