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Grocery Store shopping
On 9 Nov 2003 09:18:17 -0800, (Rubystars)
wrote:
>Most of the recipes I've found for vegan/vegetarian dishes sound
>really delicious but there's a slight problem. Most of them call for
>ingredients that aren't even in the store, or if they are, are very
>expensive.
>
>Tempeh, for example. That's not in the grocery store, and I'm not even
>sure where I would go to get that. I've never had it before so I'm not
>sure I'd want to pay a lot of money just to find out I hated it. 
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>Seitan (yeah, that can be made at home, but you have to track down the
>right flour, and do everything right, etc.) Also I've never had it so
>I'm not sure I'd want to pay a lot of money for it.
>
>Ener-G egg replacer. That wasn't in the grocery store last time I
>looked.
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>Soy flour (never seen that either).
>
>The only tofu my store carries is firm.
>
>Does anyone know of a web site I can go to that has recipes with
>ingredients more like "All purpose white flour" that anyone can get a
>hold of in a regular grocery store?
>
>-Rubystars
I'm so thankful I live near downtown Austin. I have a co-op and a
local grocery within walking distance that carry all of this kind of
thing and more. In 5 minutes drive, I have 2 more large supermarkets
(one 24-hour) that have lots of space dedicated to ethical, organic,
and otherwise "weird" foods. I get tempeh in the produce section of
2 of them, and the vegetarian-specific cooler case of the other 2.
Or, I can head over to the 24-hour Kerby Lane restaurant (that uses
only locally grown produce, mostly from their own farm) and get a big
hummus and tabuleh plate for a few bucks. It'll likely be served to
me by a person with unnaturally colored hair and holes in his/her ears
that you could run a dowel rod through. Great conversationalists,
when they're not obviously baked into oblivion.
Austin is good. I like it here. *sigh* :-)
-Vioxel
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