Welcome to the Vegan Theory Club Weekly Megathread!
We’re kicking things off with a space just for vegans! Inspired by our friends over at Hexbear, this thread is the spot to chat about what’s on your mind, what’s happening, and what you’re planning for the week.
Feel free to talk about anything, whether it’s vegan-related or not. This is a chill space for connecting, sharing ideas, and supporting each other.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone’s up to!
Got any ideas?
We’re also taking suggestions for essay topics, recommended readings, or any resources that could help each other out. Feel free to drop in links, ask for advice, or contribute any other materials you think would be useful for the community and we can start adding to the megathread.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone’s up to and what we can explore together!
People are already complaining we didn’t go with ISO 8601 for the date format
As they shoild.
I feel so called out haha
8601 is the only ISO standard I can truthfully put on my CV
New students in the class means new kids asking me about veganism, which is neat.
That’s actually really cool, none of my teachers had anything worth while to teach me outside the specific coursework and I wish someone would have clued me in a bit earlier.
another week, another curry meal prep
Curry is the best thing ever. You can cook a whole bunch at once, and just eat it with rice for a week. Delicious and satisfying!
As per another commenter’s suggestion recently, I tried a lemony chickpea soup inspired by Budget Bytes’ recipe. Tastes really great and cost next to nothing both in terms of money as well as time to cook. Added some zucchini and leftover noodles and went to town. 11/10 recommendation
I love lemony soup!
First time I’ve heard of it and was quite delighted :)
It might be a full coincidence, but I’ve been doing a vitamin capsule, omega-3 capsule, and B12 drops daily, and my energy has been great. We’ll see if this goes on forever.
I take B12 injections because of other “previously existing conditions” and it sucks at first doing it to yourself but its only once a week and they make a huge difference for me. It is an under skin injection so its really shallow and isn’t like a vaccine needle or anything like that.
Add vitamin D to your mix.
Australia stopped funding vitamin D blood checks because EVERYONE IS DEFICIENT and thus were a waste of time.
Two days of work meetings in a row, one more tomorrow (planning week). I’m in the office this time instead of chilling at home, as god intended
Make this stop
It is very important that you are uncomfortable all day to do the work that can be done anywhere for the culture
I was relocated to an expensive city last year for the in-office culture… have been in the office less than 5 times this year.
On a similar note the vegan scene in this expensive city is quite dismal compared to where I came from. I visited my old city this past weekend and was blessed at every meal
I like being around loving friends!
The killa beez are on da swarm at c/the_bee_hive
What a rad looking bee!
We got a weather station and I am fucking stoked about getting it set up.
Sick. I’ve been messing around with esp32s in some of my leisure time. Have been thinking of making my own to log rainfall and like radiant intensity data to better help me care for my garden. I admit to more strongly considering something off the shelf every time I work on it haha.
What did you end up getting/what are you most keen to use it for?
You are definitely smarter than I am lol.
We got the ambient weather WS-2000. I think we are most interested in tracking the weather in our local area over time and observing how it changes. We’ve lived here for 3 full years now and the first two had violent storms and tornados, but this year has been really calm. Maybe if we are tracking data objectively we will better understand our risks.
The rainfall gauge will be helpful in the garden for sure!
Nah there’s heaps of shit I can’t do and even the stuff I’m alright at I’m not very good at (after all, not like it’s built yet haha).
Risks like long term staying and mitigation of natural disasters?
Along those lines, but more short term and less intense, lol.
I don’t really see us moving - we have good groundwater supply and aren’t on a flood plain. Our area has been mapped to a 1-in-350 year event and while I know climate change is unpredictable, I’m not super worried.
Because the first two years here were so bad we spend a considerable amount of money on things like putting a bit of flooring down in the basement so it would be nicer to hide out there in storms (versus the rough and cold concrete floor) as well as generators and battery backups. I’m sure we will be happy when we need them, but we went a little nuts.
Hopefully with the weather station we can be more objective about what we are seeing and as we gather data over time, begin to understand our climate and how it is changing.
Everybody should try making their own baked beans at least once. Buy navy beans from a market ($7 AUD a kilo at mine), and follow this recipe. They’re nicer, cheaper and healthier than the canned variety, plus you can edit whatever you like. I add chillies, onions, and nutritional yeast. Mine lasted at least 5 days in the fridge, they didn’t get a chance to hang around longer.
I always hated baked beans until I made my own. Would definitely recommend and am seconding this
I so heartily agree with this. I usually make beans on Sunday for the week.
If people have the space and can acquire one, an electric pressure cooker is a game changer. You can cook beans from dry in one hour (+ pressurize and depressurize time). Dried beans are so cheap and store for a very long time. I buy 10 kg at a time for my two person family and store them in large tub. If I remember correctly chickpeas are the most expensive variety I buy and they are $25 CAD for 10 kg, so $2.50 a kg.
When I make baked beans I use a similar recipe, but it’s tomato sauce, veg bullion, mustard powder, and maple syrup. Sometimes oregano.
If people haven’t joined already, you can hang out with other bean fans at vegan home cooks <3
Could yall create and link me a vegan infographics community? I have some ones I’d like to upload.
Good idea https://vegantheoryclub.org/c/infographics
I set that up. Thanks for contributing!
Thx!
I appreciate all the work you do, making the internet a more transparent place! I hope you enjoy our community <3
No probs! Thx for making a vegan-friendly space too, lemmy really needed one.
I tried to set one up a while ago, but I’m terrible at community-building.
I bought all the equipment to set up hydroponics and I’m too lazy to get it set up lol
Literally me but with gardening
