@TechConnectify Great video (and rant at the end!).

Panels are very cheap, but a decent charge controller and inverter isn't, and apparently inverters don't last forever - I've only had mine for a few years, so it's too early to tell how reliable they are.
Replacing inverters may be a "running cost" of the system if you have to use AC.

For that reason, I have been trying to find as many DC-powered products as possible, but it's quite hard to find non-IT appliances.
The only real DC kitchen devices you can get a fridges.
There are NO DC-powered cooking equipment.
The most powerful DC kettle I have found is 24V and 300W, which isn't great.
Everything else is just low power, small equipment.

Someone in the US is trying to make a battery-powered electric oven, so people can use them on 120V systems.
I bet it is phenomenally expensive!

@bob_zim @danirabbit very true!

I love veggie curries. They don't need to be "hot" spicy, but they taste really nice.
We have a good selection of takeaways and restaurants locally, as we have a relatively large Indian population.

@danirabbit Exactly.

It has taken me a long time to be "mostly" vegetarian.
People change their diet quickly, and then complain and whinge and don't stick to it.

Of course that's going to be hard, unless you've got serious will-power.

First I started eating veggie stuff at work for lunch as it was really nice, but still having "normal" meals at night with my family.

Over the years I ate less and less meat, and found good alternatives (some even my meat-eating other half likes).

I found some good cheese alternatives.
I found a nice tea that doesn't require milk.
I use plant milks for pretty much everything.

I thought i'd never give up bacon, but I don't really miss it. I don't think i've had bacon for more than a year now.
I can smell it when other people are cooking it, but it doesn't really bother me.

I'm still far from being vegan, but i'm getting close....

The last thing I need to cut out is butter and cheese.

Vegan food has come a long way from the 80s and 90s when it was just crappy dry "nut roasts" and things like that.

There's no excuse not to at least eat more vegan stuff. There's so much choice now.