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My wife is vegan so we do a lot of vegan baking, especially around the holidays, but we also don't stock eggs or dairy in the house anyway.
So usually we are using applesauce as an egg supplement. I never liked flax in general, but I do keep chia and fiber supplements around (especially since starting Adderall), so that's good to know.
for the chia, worth tossing them in a coffee/spice grinder if you don't want whole chia seed texture in the baked good (though they're a decent poppyseed substitute imho)
works wonders for flax as well, but yeah flax is really the C tier of egg replacers lol
i also just had the thought that basil seeds might work similarly to chia seeds. they also gel