Anyone on a plant-based diet?

[KidKruger]

All that Western-influenced "another take on vegetables" stuff is a bit facile, really.

If you're going to eat vegetables, they're best as just that - vegetables!

They don't need reconstituting as a 'sausage', 'bacon', or 'mince meat' (which 'meat' exactly ?).

Asian recipes usually best IMO for vegetables, or just eat them raw !

[DulwichFox]

Fresh Turmeric Root

Sainsburys 100 grm ?1.50

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/indian-ingredients/sainsburys-fresh-turmeric-100g

No doubt you will be able to buy the same thing in Bellenden Road For ?8.00 ish

Foxy

[Bob Buzzard]

My wife is vegan, soya milk and replacement mayo and all that.

[Sue]

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> Fresh Turmeric Root

> Sainsburys 100 grm ?1.50

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> No doubt you will be able to buy the same thing in

> Bellenden Road For ?8.00 ish

?1.50 for 100g is actually quite expensive (google it).

You are paying for the unnecessary packaging.

BTW people add turmeric to food for health reasons, not because they are on a plant-based diet :)

[DulwichFox]

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> > Bellenden Road For ?8.00 ish

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> ?1.50 for 100g is actually quite expensive (google

> it).

>

> You are paying for the unnecessary packaging.

>

> BTW people add turmeric to food for health

> reasons, not because they are on a plant-based

> diet :)

Expensive.. ?

I did what you suggested.. I Googled it..

FRESH TURMERIC ROOTS 100g

Price: ?5.81 (?58.10 / kg) & FREE Delivery

https://www.amazon.co.uk/FRESH-TURMERIC-ROOTS-100g/dp/B00H0U3TN8/ref=asc_df_B00H0U3TN8/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=375421148118&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13215088787017772512&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045890&hvtargid=pla-830509977258&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=77211369312&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=375421148118&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13215088787017772512&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045890&hvtargid=pla-830509977258

Sort of price you pay on line

Foxy

[malumbu]

Not sure why the usual suspects have not been raised

Peckham Rye, Khans and multiple interesting 'ethnic' shops

SMBS foods

The Asian grocers (North Cross Road?)

All probably pay their taxes unlike Jeff

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/18/jeff-bezos-amazon-10bn-more-taxes

[Sue]

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> > BTW people add turmeric to food for health

> > reasons, not because they are on a plant-based

> > diet :)

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> Expensive.. ?

>

> I did what you suggested.. I Googled it..

>

> FRESH TURMERIC ROOTS 100g

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> Price: ?5.81 (?58.10 / kg) & FREE Delivery

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> Foxy

Sainsbury's price per kilo is ?15.

You can get it online for less than that.

For example:

https://www.realfoods.co.uk/product/21503/organic-fresh-turmeric

?12.75 a kilo, or ?1.28 per ?100.

The Amazon price you quoted is ?58.10 a kilo!!!!

[DulwichFox]

No its not per kilo....

FRESH TURMERIC ROOTS 100g

Price: ?5.81 (?58.10 / kg) & FREE Delivery

Foxy

I see you edited out part of your post. where you suggested ?5.81 was per kilo.

[Sue]

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> No its not per kilo....

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> FRESH TURMERIC ROOTS 100g

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> Price: ?5.81 (?58.10 / kg) & FREE Delivery

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> Foxy

I have edited my post above.

Sainsbury's is ?15 a kilo.

Amazon is ?58 a kilo.

Here is ?12.75 a kilo:

https://www.realfoods.co.uk/product/21503/organic-fresh-turmeric

ETA: If you think it is ?8 for 100g in Bellenden Road- which would be ?80 a kilo, which obviously nobody with any sense would pay - how about providing some evidence?

ETA: Organic Village sell it. I have bought it there in the past. I can't remember how much it was.

And as Malumbu said, there are probably loads of other shops in Peckham and elsewhere around here which sell it, but I'm not going out much at the moment, for obvious reasons.

[DulwichFox]

Fresh turmeric will keep in the fridge for a couple of weeks.

When frozen, it'll last for up to six months.

Why would anyone need 1 Kilo of fresh Turmeric. ??

If you freeze it then it is no longer fresh when defrosted.

Also Studies typically use doses of 500?2,000 mg of turmeric per day.

So 100grm will be more than enough.

[Kerry H]

Hi Sue, my husband and I have been vegan for a few years and can't recommend it enough! We've never felt or looked better :)

It does seem a bit daunting at first but we've found our cooking is so much more creative now we aren't eating meat and 3 vege every night. There are some bril meat alternatives on the market too if you need a meaty fix. Sainsburys Forest Hill just expanded their plant-based section recently and M&S ED has a great range of quick fix meals as well.

My go to for recipes is just instagram, and I love these two: https://www.wearesovegan.com/

[Sue]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Fresh turmeric will keep in the fridge for a

> couple of weeks.

> When frozen, it'll last for up to six months.

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> Why would anyone need 1 Kilo of fresh Turmeric.

> ??

>

> If you freeze it then it is no longer fresh when

> defrosted.

>

> Also Studies typically use doses of 500?2,000 mg

> of turmeric per day.

> So 100grm will be more than enough.

DulwichFox, I am comparing prices :)

If you don't want to look at prices per kilo, I gave you a price (above) of ?1.28 per 100g at Real Foods.

In any case, many people would buy a kilo and split it with friends. I know lots of people who do that with various "whole foods" online.

Your original post seemed to be solely to have a pop at the local traders in Bellenden Road, and by implication the people who shop there.

Yet you haven't actually told us what the price of fresh turmeric is at any of the shops in Bellenden Road, for example the shop which has lots of very good quality vegetables outside (assuming it sells it).

I have no idea why you posted it on this thread, where turmeric has to the best of my knowledge never been mentioned, fresh or otherwise :)) probably because most people don't eat turmeric as part of a plant-based diet :))

Oh, and obviously anything frozen is "no longer fresh" when defrosted. But frozen peas, for example, are better than fresh peas (unless you have cooked them straight from picking them yourself) because peas, like many vegetables, lose their nutritional value very quickly after they have been picked.

According to this:

https://www.turmericforhealth.com/turmeric-queries/can-you-freeze-fresh-turmeric-root-and-for-how-long

the freezing process preserves most of the turmeric root's nutritive qualities, as you would expect, so I'm not sure what your point is?

And just to add, shopping in Bellenden Road is supporting local traders. If you don't like the prices (assuming you actually know what they are) then nobody is forcing you to shop there :))

Shopping in Sainsbury's is supporting a massive chain.

[Sue]

Kerry H Wrote:

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> Hi Sue, my husband and I have been vegan for a few

> years and can't recommend it enough! We've never

> felt or looked better :)

>

> It does seem a bit daunting at first but we've

> found our cooking is so much more creative now we

> aren't eating meat and 3 vege every night. There

> are some bril meat alternatives on the market too

> if you need a meaty fix. Sainsburys Forest Hill

> just expanded their plant-based section recently

> and M&S ED has a great range of quick fix meals as

> well.

>

> My go to for recipes is just instagram, and I love

> these two: https://www.wearesovegan.com/

Thanks KerryH, I've been happily plant-based since I originally started the thread!

I have a freezer full of home cooked plant-based meals, plus three ring binders of recipes :))

Though I am no longer strictly vegan, as the vegan diet I was on gave me digestive problems :(

ETA: Oh and I do occasionally eat fish.

[DulwichFox]

Sainsburys may be a big store (chain)

When My mum and myself used to go to Sainsburys Rye Lane in the 1950's it looked like this

Is there any reason I should stop shopping at Sainsburys

Foxy

[Sue]

Nnobody is telling you what to do, Foxy, but you seem very anti the shops in Bellenden Road for some reason, as you seem to have come onto this thread just to have a go at them out of the blue?

ETA: Oh, and Sainsbury's had loads of shops in the fifties. It was a chain then! It started in 1869! Amazing what you can find out by googling!

By the fifties, it had even gone self-service in some stores (not the one in Streatham Hill, though).

https://www.sainsburyarchive.org.uk/timeline/150

The first self-service store that I remember was Waitrose in Streatham, which opened in 1955 just up from St Leonard's Church. Made a change from shopping with my mum in Home and Colonial, just a little way down the hill on the other side of the church :))

[DulwichFox]

I use local shops.. Local to East Dulwich.

I'm not anti Bellenden road shops. but they are NOT local to me where I live.

I am not going out of my way to support traders out of my area.

I shop where I can afford the prices.

Foxy.

[Sue]

I have just looked back through the thread and seen that I asked about where to get fresh turmeric, so profuse apologies, Foxy 🦊

Still don't know why you are so against the Bellenden Road shops though. You specifically mentioned them as being very expensive.

And they are not much more of a walk for you than Sainsbury's is! Down CPR and Adys Road and you're nearly there!

[fuzzyboots]

I am a fan of Dr Greger, too.

I surf Instagram a lot to find whole food plant based or vegan accounts.

As well as How Not to Die/Diet (and the cookbook), I gather that @govegan has just published a recipe book.

And I found that the BBC GoodFood website has some fabulous receipts. I also highly rate the website called Love and Lemons.

I love eating wfpb - I have lost (intentionally) 30lbs since the last week of July doing this and eliminating sugar, flour, alcohol and snacks from my eating habits. Food now tastes amazing and I am sure it is because I am eating nothing processed (aside from tofu and oat milk).

Good luck with your researches :)