The Archive · Page 2
Guides, grocery finds, restaurant tips, and everything plant-based.
Grocery
I’ve eaten more frozen veggie burgers than any sane person should cop to in public. Somewhere around patty number 30, my kitchen reeked like a pea protein refinery and my smoke detector had developed trust issues with me. Here’s what I took away from the wreckage: the frozen veggie burger aisle at Whole Foods in … Read more
Restaurants
McDonald’s has been lying to vegetarians for decades. Not with a wink or a footnote. With a full-page newspaper apology and a $10 million check. I remember seeing those golden arches as a kid and thinking fries were fries everywhere. Same box, same oil, same deal. Turns out that’s completely wrong, and the gap between … Read more
Restaurants
McDonald’s runs 40,000 locations across 100 countries, and the vegetarian menu in the US wouldn’t fill a napkin. I went through every meat-free thing you can grab at the Golden Arches, and the tally is so pathetic it borders on comedy. Borders. Here’s what nobody warns you about. McDonald’s refuses to label a single item … Read more
Uncategorized
I chucked a $9 block of cashew cheese last week because it got buried behind a jar of pickles. Painful. What stings more is that I could’ve rescued it if I’d understood the rules sooner. Vegan cheese doesn’t rot like dairy. It doesn’t mature the same way, collapse the same way, or survive the freezer … Read more
Living
Punch “vegan” into Google Images and brace yourself for whiplash. One result is a luminous, ageless creature spooning acai into a coconut shell. The next is a hollow-eyed phantom who apparently hasn’t slept since the first Obama term. Both are genuine. Both have receipts. I’ve watched this fight play out across comment threads, Thanksgiving tables, … Read more
Living
One in four people taste bitterness in vegetables at a level the rest of us will never touch. For them, broccoli doesn’t taste like broccoli. It tastes like punishment. And yet, every vegan starter guide on the internet slaps you with a photo of a salad the size of a laundry basket. I’ve stood in … Read more
Living
Thirty pounds. That’s the average weight gap between vegans and meat eaters in a study of 60,000 people. I spent a long time assuming the explanation was boring. They just eat less, right? Not really. That’s a fraction of the story, and frankly the least interesting part. What’s actually going on under the hood is … Read more
Living
Plant-based meat costs 82% more than regular meat on average. Plant-based eggs? 110% higher. Vegan cheese runs over double. But here’s what bugs me about this whole conversation. A bag of dried lentils delivers protein at roughly 2 cents per gram. Ground beef lands between 4 and 8 cents. That plant-based patty sitting in the … Read more
Living
I polled nine people last week on whether vegan and vegetarian mean the same thing. Seven said yes. Every single one of them blew it. It’s the kind of mix-up that feels harmless until you hand a vegetarian guest a plate drizzled with honey and they shrug, then watch a vegan guest interrogate the bread … Read more
Living
No matter what diet you follow, breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day for a reason. It sets you up for a day of work, or working out, or whatever else you feel like doing and this should be no different for a vegan. So, what can a vegan eat for breakfast? … Read more
Living
Cardiovascular diseases are a risk for anyone with certain blood pressure levels and obesity, but what about for those who follow a vegan lifestyle? Numerous studies have shed some light on Lacto-ovo vegetarians, and nonvegetarians, but not a lot of information has been given about vegans historically. With many people switching to a vegan lifestyle … Read more
Living
A plant-based diet is great for so many reasons, and you may be following this lifestyle for environmental, ethical, or health reasons to name a few. If it is the latter then you may be aware that vegans are often lacking in vitamin B12. This begs the question, how much B12 does a vegan need? … Read more