To say vegan mayo should be cheaper than regular?

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It seems to me that vegan mayo is just going up and up in price to ridiculous levels, it's now way more expensive than regular mayo even though it's ingredients are cheaper! Lidl's own brand version has been discontinued which was about 90p vs. three or four pounds for a large bottle of Hellman's. It's all just really annoying and unreasonable.

But that’s not Lidl is it. And I even hellmans is ONLY 7.9%

So in 500g of mayonnaise you are looking at around the equivalent one egg. Egg that will be bought at wholesale cost. So costs barely anything.

You are working on the assumption that egg costs the company more than the other things they add into the vegan mayonnaise.

You said Lidl made it for under a pound (completely ignoring that supermarkets don’t make profit on every item). So how much egg is in lidl mayo?

You do realise the jar hellmans comes in, probably costs the company more than the mayo, don’t you?

I imagine Lidl discontinued it because they weren't selling enough, even at a much cheaper price. Nothing stays on the shelves at the discounters (or any supermarket, but the discounters are especially ruthless) if it doesn't sell.

Normal mayo is being produced at vast, vast scale, is bottled into lots of different size jars, and will ship out to retailers and food wholesalers in huge quantities.

Vegan mayo needs its own production line, for a presumably more complex production process, with potentially more expensive ingredients, and will ship out relatively small quantities. So it will cost a lot more on a number of levels.

Unless you are vegan, you are very unlikely to buy it. Unlike other foods which are vegan but also have appeal to omnivores, so they have a bigger market.

Do you have a good recipe for vegan mayonnaise?

I make my own normal mayonnaise but I have a vegan daughter. I usually buy Hellmans for her but our local Tesco has stopped selling the vegan stuff.

I think you need to think again then. Salad cream, pickle, chutney, garlic sauce, burger relish, mustard etc

Mayo doesn't smell farty to me but if it does to you there's so many other choices.

Salad cream still has eggs but maybe the other ingredients disguise it more than with mayo

I’ve used this one from the BBC

It’s exactly like normal but swap the egg for aquafaba and I use an immersion blender for both. Vegan version lasts much longer than the egg one.

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Stop forcing me to buy something I don't like the smell or taste of!

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Thanks. That's great. I'll give it a try next time she visits!

Of course beluga caviar has only 1 ingredient, so even less than vegan mayo. I think it should cost 29p. But I see Fortnum and Mason have it on sale at £3,500 for only 500g. Surely that can't be right?

What about alcohol free gin, which is a similar price to normal gin but presumably not subject to the same tax?

I have no opinion on vegan mayo that hasn't already been made above, but the alcohol free gin costing the same as the real stuff is a travesty. I'll just drink tonic water if I don't want the booze. I'm not paying them 20 quid and not even getting tipsy on it.

Alcohol free beer is at least tasty on its own - who's going to drink neat, alcohol free gin?