- Good morning guys.
It's the morning and I'm doing a pretty
much requested set of videos today.
So I'm going to be trying vegan food for 24 hours.
Let's see how that goes.
I'll show you what we've got for breakfast.
Normally for breakfast.
I have a fried egg with avocado and
a bit of sriracha on toast.
So we're doing that, but it's going to be scrambled eggs
and it's going to be vegan.
So for that, I've got some firm tofu, nutritional yeast.
Very interesting as a concept.
I'm curious to see how it does taste.
This is actually a little bit of a secret,
but I have been eating vegetarian for the past three months.
So in videos, you guys can see I meat,
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but at home I eat mostly vegetarian stuff.
The main reason for me is environmental concerns.
Today the challenge really is to see
how can I eat vegan food realistically in my day to day.
I'm going to make my toast.
That's probably good, I reckon.
This avocado, I think I've left out for too long.
Let's get this egg on.
It's a bit dry, but that's why we've got the sauce for.
So yeah, I'm going to try this with the sriracha sauce.
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It's really good.
That yeast extract worked miracles,
because it really just taste satisfying.
And I've tried to cook tofu a few times.
Not very well and yeah, it's never been too good.
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- Hey Christelle,
thanks for helping me out with my 24 hour vegan challenge.
- No worries, Tom.
- So for this challenge,
my main concern is accidentally not eating vegan stuff.
- So one of the ways I avoid accidentally consuming
non-vegan foods is obviously by looking at
the ingredients list when you're grocery shopping.
However, there are a lot of the ingredients that are labeled
differently that you don't realize are actually not vegan.
Did you know that gelatin is not vegan?
- Yeah.
- That was the one of the ones I was thinking.
- Gelatin is actually in a lot of candy, like gummy candies.
So you do have to watch out for ingredients like that.
There's also apps that you can use where you
download the app and you literally just scan the barcode
and it tells you directly vegan or not vegan.
- Okay. So why did you get vegan Christelle? I want to know.
- Climate change primarily.
I watched a few documentaries a few years ago and I was just
really shocked by how things are done,
how meat comes to my plate and
I just could not support that.
- All right, thanks Christelle.
I will let you know how it all goes.
- Good luck Tom.
- Okay. Time for lunch.
So we are making pulled pork sandwiches and that's really
jackfruit, actually.
So I'm going to drain it to have a look what this looks like
It is such a weird thing.
It actually does look like a kind of meat and it does have
like the texture and the smell of meat.
So it's a teaspoon of all these spices.
A teaspoon of vegan Worcestershire sauce,
one teaspoon of pepper and of salt
and two cups of vegetables stock.
That looks good. That looks like poured water.
All right.
So we're just going to lay out our stuff on this pan thing
and then shove it in the oven for 45 minutes,
if you can believe that.
So I'm going to add in some sauce.
Yeah, We just put that in for a little bit longer
and then ooh my.
Wow. It looks so much like pulled pork. It's crazy.
I'm curious what it tastes like.
Okay, well let's plate up, as they say in the industry.
Throw on the bun.
Coleslaw which we're going to put on top of that.
Okay. Time to eat.
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It's a bit sweet.
I think that sauce definitely adds sweetness,
it's super hot as well.
Really good.
That's great.
Yeah, it is like pulled pork.
It's got like all the attributes of that.
The texture is so good.
You know, it's similar to the flavorings and stuff.
I suppose pulled pork is just like a little bit of meat,
jackfruit is like a meaty fruit.
In the end, they are kind of really similar.
I think this would satisfy a meat lover,
except if you don't like chewing.
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- Oh, hey! I think I'm going to have a bite now.
Lucky I have my snack with me.
Kale chips.
They're like full on leaves.
This is a bit of a redemption snack because I did try kale
since before in a previous video,
but that didn't turn out so well.
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(Tom chewing)
Are you supposed to eat the stalk?
(Tom chewing)
Hmm, yum!
Anyways it's great, and it's resealable.
I'll have some of that later.
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- Okay. So it's dinner time.
I'm going to keep it simple and order something from a
vegan restaurant and my cooking today has been okay at best.
It's time to try something actually good,
actually cooked full on vegan.
You know, extravaganza as such.
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We're going to start off with the vegan pork skewers.
They actually look like full on like meat, you know,
like they are full on.
It's meaty but it's also like
it's something else here as well.
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This laksa is so well, good looking, you know.
But will it taste good?
Who knows?
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It's like bland pork, I would say. Not in a bad way.
Just like, not like so overpowering.
This good.
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Okay. Back to dessert.
The cocoa tapioca pudding.
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This is really hard to open.
I just love these little bowl things, you know.
I had super high hopes for this.
It's not exactly chocolate.
I'll be honest with you,
but the tapioca pudding bit is pretty good.
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