Quote: Cricket VS Originally Posted by We have both Vegans and Vegetarians in this community. We are focusing on both.

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Administrators: First off, thank you for planning to add a post with vegan comfort food recipes to this page. Complaints like this post triggered will be coming up over and over until you address the root causes. What you're hearing is a plea that your writersbefore they try to "omni-splain" things to us, especially about healthy vegetarian eating, especially with recipes that seem to have come straight from the National Dairy Council. Every recipe in the article is heavy with cheese, written for a community that mostly restricts or abstains from dairy products.Please bear in mind that vegetarians are interested in vegan food, whereas vegans eat no lacto ovo food at all. This means that to focus on both sides of the community entails concentrating on vegan foods when posting recipes. We vegetarians can add cheese or egg to a recipe far more easily than vegans can subtract those things and substitute with something palatable. To spend time on these boards will show you that many if not most vegetarians onare either transitioning to veganism itself, considering it, or have settled into something pretty close to a vegan diet. So, again, focusing on both sides of the community entails deemphasizing foods heavy with egg and/or dairy.When posting recipes that include dairy and/or egg, it would be best to include alternate steps for veganizing the recipe. And not just with an offhand reference to dairy-free cheese or "an egg substitute." I'm talking about experimenting with recipes until the writer finds the best alternative. This is especially important when writing about egg. Not every egg substitute works in every recipe that traditionally uses egg. Sometimes the situation calls for tofu, sometime Ener-g, sometimes garbanzo flour, sometimes aquafaba.Please try to find content providers whose knowledge level and priorities are aligned with those of the readers they're supposed to be informing. The home page article writing level is breezy and friendly when it's not lecturing us; textbook blog language. Some of these writers will do fine once they see the disconnect: They need to understand thatmembers who cook (the only ones interested in recipes) know quite a bit about both nutrition and plant-based food preparation.Your writers could spend some time on therecipe message boards and observe the level of detail in our discussions about making seitan sausage links, falafel, veggie burgers or veganized pecan pie. Sharing credit and compensation, your writers could use that content and massage it into home page articles. Better yet, get them to look for recurring questions and problems that have yet to be resolved, find a resolution, and bring it back to us. Poke around and find out what's eluding us, and help us get it. At that point they'll be bona fide subject matter experts, telling us things we don't already know.