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Dairy Alternatives, Plant Milk and Beyond

Fran Costigan - Dairy Alternatives, Plant Milk and Beyond

This event was on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern

Today’s profusion of non-dairy options is astonishing, and maybe just a tad confusing. Join Chef Fran, our director of Vegan Pastry at Rouxbe, to explore the vast array of plant milk… Read More.

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Question:

I am confused about vegan butters and cream cheeses that I've found bc they have alot of oil in them and, if eating whole food plant based, you aren't supposed to eat oil?

— Karen A Whitmore

Answer:

Well Karen, you just really answered your own question vegan Butters vegan cream cheese. They are not fat free. They have oil in them. So if you're eating a whole food plant-based diet, which is a no oil diet. These are not products for you to eat, but you could make a nice cream cheese like Substance food using cashews for example if cashews are in your dietary system. So I'm showing you options because we're not using butter we can use vegan butter, but it depends on what your dietary system is. And as I say about essential vegan desserts, you know, we all have birthdays. And I hope we're all gonna keep having them for a really long time and that we have celebrations. We just you know, the December holidays Christmas Hanukkah Kwanzaa New Year's Eve the weddings, you know engagements. These are all reasons to me desserts are treats are absolutely necessary. I want people to be able to follow a plant-based diet happily and think of desserts as treats and so in essential vegan desserts the idea is to learn how to do the foundate learn the foundational technique so that you can make something right and reliable and absolutely unapologetically delicious then I tend to serve well, I don't tend to I serve smaller portions of something that's really delicious. And I don't eat nuts if I don't eat desserts every single day. I might have cookie every day, but that's it.
Fran Costigan

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

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