With concerns over battery eggs (there is not enough land in England for everyone to eat free-range, and most free-range eggs result in male chicks being killed at birth), many people are turning to plant-based recipes.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets. Don’t give leftover omelettes to dogs, due to salt and other unsafe ingredients.
If your council does not collect, supermarket bag bins now accept all soft plastic packaging for recycling.
Commercial farming tends to rush when sexing chicks, so sometimes they get mixed up. This is what happened when one woman bought three duck eggs (presumed unfertilised) from Waitrose. But they hatched (thankfully she knew what she was doing). She named them Beep, Peep & Meep!
Whether you eat vegan omelettes some or all of the time, it pays to know how to make one. These make quick delicious lunches with salad, or nice cooked breakfasts served with ketchup or brown sauce.
Learning to cook your own simple plant-based recipes is peaceful politics in action. You don’t have to be vegan to whip up a plant-based meal. Which gives less profits to the supermarket ready-meal industry, costs less, uses less packaging and tastes better!
If you’re not a natural cook, just keep trying a few good recipes. Once you’ve mastered them, you’ll have a small repertoire of meals that you enjoy, to make again and again. Most of us only eat the same nine or so meals most of the time. So it won’t be long before you’re eating mostly home-cooked meals, which taste good and do good!
Learn how to make:
Crack’ed is a popular ‘liquid vegan egg’ sold in most stores. After experimenting with 46 different plant proteins, this company plumped for pea protein to create an ‘egg’ you can use to make scrambles, Yorkshire puddings, cakes, cookies, omelette and egg pasta. To make a scrambled egg, just add to a little heated oil and stir for a few minutes).
One bottle keeps around a month (once open, keep in the fridge and use within a few days). Not for children under 6 due to the thicker methyl cellulose that’s high in fibre (same with most vegan sausages).
Peggs are made by chickpeas, not chicks! This ideas was born during the pandemic, when the founders wished to make omelettes and French toast.
Cheesy-tasting nutritional yeast and sulphur-smelling black salt is combined with chickpeas for a realistic ‘vegan egg’. Free from soy and shelf-stable.
EVERYegg is a ‘liquid egg’ made without the hen, created by a bio-tech company using DNA sequencing. It may sound a bit Frankenstein food, but it’s likely safer than real eggs (with factory farms and Avian flu risks) and is already used by Michelin-star chefs.
It uses precise fermenting to insert the DNA sequence of chicken egg protein and insert it into yeast. So it’s not actually an egg – but must carry an egg allergy warning.
Issues with Buying Real Eggs
Millions of eggs are eaten daily across England. And although most people who eat eggs prefer free-range, there is still a huge market for battery-farmed eggs (especially in processed foods) along with cage-free eggs (this means around a mug coaster worth extra space for a poor hen, who is debeaked to stop her pecking other hens out of frustration).
Recently, one RSPCA-assured egg farm that supplies to Tesco & M & S found ‘free-range hens’ with no access to outdoor space and one hen even found hanging upside down, trying to escape a faulty piece of equipment.
No doubt the supermarkets were also appalled. But this is good reason (if you eat eggs) to always find certified free-range eggs from farm shops and local farmers.
Certified organic eggs are even better because as well as having access to outdoor space, hens have a bigger area of space (at a younger age) and are only given antibiotics on welfare grounds, as medicine for illness.
Commercial farming tends to rush when sexing the chicks, so sometimes they get mixed up. This is what happened during the pandemic when one woman bought three duck eggs (presumed unfertilised) from Waitrose. But they hatched (thankfully she knew what she was doing). She named them Beep, Peep & Meep!