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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Yeah I’ve seen people recommend ChatGPT for meal planning and recipes, and it’s mostly fine for common, simple recipes but it does super weird things when you ask it for something nonstandard, that has a lot of variations, or with dietary restrictions. Like it repeatedly gave me recipes with my allergens with a note to check package for said allergen and other weird things like claiming frozen vegetables take 10 minutes to roast in the oven. It’s useful for certain things but it’s not really intelligent.











  • Yes, a flexitarian is a part-time veg but still sometimes eats animal products. A vegan does not consume or use any animal products for ethical reasons. If you consume a vegan diet but still buy animal products to wear, clean with, etc, then you consume a plant-based diet but are not technically vegan.

    The problem with saying plant-based is that it implies “based on plants” with no rigid definition. Some people think it means “vegetarian but not vegan” or just “mostly plants.” I have even seen products that contain animal products that I am allergic to marketed as “plant-based,” so it’s just not a good term for me.



  • This term has been around for decades and still, very few people know what it means. As someone who eats 0 animal products 90+% of the time, it’s just easier to say “mostly vegan.”

    Some people will nitpick and say that I mean plant based instead of vegan but the general public knows what vegan means and do not think of plant based as synonymous with “vegan in diet only” so I’ll continue to use what doesn’t require a ton of explanation.