Vegan Pantry Hacks to Make Your Food Last Longer and Taste Better
How to use up every bit of deliciousness you’ve got, eliminating the need for more frequent shopping trips and reducing waste
Vegans are no strangers to culinary constraints. With or without a pandemic limiting our access to grocery stores, we’re always looking for clever ways to transform common foods. Mushrooms replace meat, cashews replace cheese, oats replace milk.
Depression-era cooks shared this ingenuity, often creating accidentally-vegan versions of their favorite foods when items like butter, eggs, and meat were difficult to find or too expensive for most budgets. “Wacky cake” is one such recipe that foregos all animal products, moistened with oil and leavened with baking soda and vinegar. Today, vegans keep this ethos alive, not out of hardship, but out of ethical considerations.
So when faced with a quarantine, we’re asked to do what we already do best: finding solutions. Compiled here are eight additional uses for staples you…
