[jluxenberg]

My wife and I started a vegan diet 6mo ago and while there was a transition period, it wasn't nearly as difficult as I expected.

If you're feeling the egg prices I'd encourage you to find ways to limit or remove eggs from your diet. It's easier than you think! Egg replacers work wonders in baked goods and a tofu scramble is similar to scrambled eggs.

[voisin]

If you think eggs are expensive, tofu scramble is easily 5x the cost per gram of scrambled eggs!

[jluxenberg]

Tofu scramble might be a little more expensive than egg-based version but 5x seems an exaggerated figure to me.

A 14oz package of tofu is probably the equivalent of 4 eggs and costs $2-3. So maybe 1.5x the cost of egg-based version. (Here's a great basic recipe https://www.budgetbytes.com/vegetable-tofu-scramble/)

Also, if you examine your diet you will probably find that you don't need to replace eggs with tofu 1:1. There are plenty of other ways to get protein (e.g. lentils, nutritional yeast, even whole wheat bread has protein).

[rootusrootus]

> A 14oz package of tofu is probably the equivalent of 4 eggs and costs $2-3. So maybe 1.5x the cost of egg-based version.

I'm paying $2.89 for a dozen eggs, and from what I can tell that's pretty typical across the US. So it's more like 4x.

But, I'm in no danger of going vegan, so that's about all I have to say :).

[dokem]

Thanks for the tip! I've never heard of this vegan thing before. Will have to check it out.