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Mock Meats are great for families like mine where one person is vegetarian/vegan and the other is not. My husband wants to cut down on meat, but he doesn't strictly eat veg... and he doesn't mind when I use Mock meat.... so it makes it easier to cook for him and the rest of my family.
I hear everyone saying how great mock meats are for their non-vegetarian and non-vegan family members and friends but I would avoid giving them to my sister and dad because all they do is compare it to real meat and "it's not as nice as real meat" :( I wish they could try to view it as its own product because I do exactly that; I would rather not be thinking of eating a dead pig while eating my vegan burger tbh
yes same I got my mom to start making tacos with mock meats!! and its a great start in less consumption. we've started making other mock meat recipes and its delicious
As long as its vegan - who cares? In the end, no animals are harmed and there is less environmental impact. If the person enjoys it and likes it and eats it over actual animal products - thats a win! Yes, it may not be the healthiest, but eating mostly whole foods with mock meats here and there won't kill you :)
Yeah but mock meats arent even necessarily less healthy. They usually are high in complete protein or methionine (if gluten based) but low in calories. Usually the only drawback is high sodium...and that's only sometimes. Just because s food is highly processed doesn't make it inherently unhealthy. Only when said processing includes adding a lot of refined sugar and carbs
Actually, mock meat save us as Muslim when we go to a country that hard to find Halal Food. We just buy Mock meat in Supermarket and cook it with vegetables, Yumm..
Round of applause 👏🏻 I’m sick of the stigma that people are “bad vegans” for eating mock meats/cheeses etc. Some people are busy, can’t cook, or maybe just plain like mock foods? Preach it girl
Chrissy Claire 🙌🏻👏🏻 I get so tired of people attacking vegans for eating mock meats. Being a vegan is about trying your hardest to cause no harm to animals. I loved the taste of meat before I went vegan, but I hated the thought of harming animals. It is okay to eat faux meats and cheeses. You are still a vegan if you eat mock meats and cheeses.
Mock meat and mock cheese have actually some negative (unintended?) consequences: It contributes to perpetuate the myth that going vegan (in a healthy way) must be very expensive (a "diet" that can only afford the affluent and privileged of the world) since all that crap is quite expensive, even though the opposite is generally true: plant foods are generally much less costly to produce or harvest than meat, fish, seafood, eggs and dairy.
I feel the opposite way. Since I cut out mock meats, cheeses, mayo, butter, etc. I feel like a "bad" vegan for no longer supporting the companies that are making these intentionally vegan products. I think those products are great for getting people to switch over, but ultimately it's much better for your health to avoid them.
It's SUCH a vegan thing to actually be happy about the fact that your favorite vegan product is no longer in stock because you feel happy that demand is up and fabrication will continue. I find this hilarious.
on the opposite end of the spectrum it was pretty pleasant grocery shopping right before we had a hurricane hit our area because every shelf in the store was empty and there was no food available except the vegan section so i had plenty to eat!
I have yet to hear a rational argument against mock meats. Some people claim mock meats are mere "replicas" of slaughtered animals, and should therefore be avoided, but cows and pigs don't come in the form of patties or hot dogs. And purchasing them does not increase demand in animal products. Mock meats are high in protein, convenient, harmless to animals, and tasty! Eat them :)
It's like anything else. Read the label and then make your decision based on your needs. I wouldn't want to block out an entire category of foods for some funny reason. I will say some of them are adding back some of the things many are avoiding by becoming Vegan. So again, it's all about the individual IMO.
super processed, tons of fractured oil vegans who are eating it with every meal would be healthier eating pasture raised meat, maybe even conventional meat honestly not a good sign, a lot of long term vegans start going heavy with the meat analogues with a lot of fried carbs to try and get rid of the cravings for actual meat, which their bodies want so badly
I don't super love mock meats, but my husband (a non vegan) will eat them. He loves the Field Roast apple sage sausages. I think it's a good step and I'm proud of him for choosing to consume less meat.
While I'm not even a vegetarian, I do replace large amounts of meat in my diet with substitutes. I've probably replaced 80% of the meat with substitutes or with beans & rice. I love the soy crumbles most. Where I live hot chiles are everywhere and I like to make tacos and frito pie with the chiles and soy crumbles.
gskibum that's great though. You obviously don't need to go all the way to eat that. Or to benefit the environment. It is exactly how I transitioned to being a vegetarian. Also because my parents ignored me wanting to eat a lot less meat because I would still eat meat and starting to dislike the taste of meat. You don't have to be vegetarian to eat vegetarian or vegan foods. Obviously.
@Herb Derb That could happen. I have been looking forward to the day that cruelty-free, lab-grown meat will be available. But by then my taste for meat may have passed entirely. I do like it less and less as time goes on. I did score one for the good guys recently. My wife used to order octopus, but I showed her videos of ow intelligent they are and how they have developed brains. That made her stop eating octopus.
I just wanted to say, as a new vegetarian (and mostly vegan at home) I love your channel. I loved finding someone who is more interested in valid science than pseudoscience that fits your “agenda”. I also appreciate that you’re not super judgmental of people who haven’t gone completely vegetarian or vegan. You’re exactly the type of vegan I didn’t think existed! I started watching you before I was even considering going veggie (not really sure how you ended up in my feed but I’m glad!) and you were definitely a reason I cut out meat! Thanks again!
Ashley - yay science! There are actually FAR more reasonably-minded vegans & vegetarians in the “real world”; RU-vid & the internet in general definitely skews in the other direction though so can certainly make it seem otherwise! Anyhoo, kudos on the positive changes. I was vegetarian for 12+yrs & looking to move toward veganism when serious illness rerouted my life that, for the sake of trying to stay alive w/out being dependent on IV nutrition, meant I had to eat/ drink anything I possibly could. Now that I’m dependent on IV nutrition regardless & can only eat a bit for enjoyment I’m again vegetarian & looking toward being vegan. Keep on keepin on!
Sunfish OutOfWater TPN has been such an awesome discovery...I actually met the doctor who created it. The day when TPN doesn’t rely on animal components will be even more awesome! I’m IV fluid dependent as well as feeding tube dependent...and tube feeding has come a long way but still has far to go. I struggle to digest fruits and vegetables and am not veg(an) thanks to dysmotility.
We're defenitely out there :) We're just not that interesting I guess, as someone pointed out here (except for unvegan, she somehow manages to be both educational and just so fun to watch).
I've been tempted to try them, but I think you just sold me on it lol that sounds delicious. Is the texture good? I've tried some mock meats that have a nasty texture (like the Morning Star pulled pork BLEH)
Michelle the texture is great! you definitely can tell it’s not real meat (which is a plus for me anyway lol) but it has a meaty-ish texture and a really nice flavor as well. i definitely recommend them! and i haven’t tried morning star pulled pork yet but their steak strips are also great in stir fries!
I love your makeup! Especially the lip colour. :) I’m not exclusively vegetarian anymore but, I always watch your stuff still. I have many days throughout the week where I don’t eat meat. I’m looking to do this more. Thanks for the mock meat ideas and inspiration!
I’m vegan but I LOVE the taste of meat. I fall into the trap of eating “naturally” and not have processed foods but hen I always come back to your channel and I can justify eating the mock meats that I love! I also have a husband who isn’t vegan and having these mock meats help him eat vegan at home. He also doesn’t like many vegetables so I love that the mock meats can fill out his meal. Do you have any information on mock seafood? I saw that some Whole Foods will be serving a vegan raw tuna in their sushi section but I would love to know if the industry is headed in that direction. Thanks!
Mama Vegg there are are vegan fried fish filets and crab cakes from gardein! There's a vegan restaurant by me that has vegan shrimp but I'm not sure where they get it.
Mama Vegg gardein fishless fillets are so good. so is vegan sushi. I never had Sophie's smoked salmon/lox but heard it was good - i''m not suggesting that brand's tuna, but a good garbanzo bean, or even pinto bean mash with crumbled nori, dulse flakes or kelp powder or some combination of these made into tuna salad with your favorite ingredients is really good, too. there are some recipes for vegan crab cakes if you want them from vegetables and beans. some companies even make vegan fish steaks and vegan salmon fillets.
So agree, I really wish more vegan fish options were available that aren’t fish and chips style breaded fish. Granted, the texture of fish is definitely easier to replicate than say beef because it’s easier to simulate flakiness than toughness, but that wonderful fishy flavor is tough to get right.
I started running again recently and found I was ravenously hungry every few hours. I upped my protein with vegan protein powder and mockmeats (more them before) it has helped so much. So stores like Kroger's and sprouts have store brand mockmeats now which is cool. The sprouts chicken pattie is great cut up on top of a salad. Anyway I'm rambling that is all...
I have so many feelings about this. I find there is a lot of mock meat shaming/diet purity that goes on and I will never understand it. I worry that a lot of it comes from a place of disordered eating or orthorexia, where people truly seem to fear certain foods if they are more processed. It also reinforces the message that veganism = healthy eating which I think can put many people off trying it because they assume they will never reach that level of control/purity and like to eat out too much/have a drink every now and again. I do get irritated when people insinuate that "real" vegans only need plant foods and that mock meats are solely for those transitioning, who maybe haven't got over the need for meat yet. I've had several vegans be quite condescending to me for liking mock meats and assure me that soon I won't need those anymore, not to mention the meat eaters who come out with the age old "if you don't want to eat meat why make something look like meat?" line. It irritates me mostly because my own personal experiences fly in the face of all of these things. Before going vegan I made the decision to go vegetarian as a child and haven't eaten meat for 23 years. As a result of this, I haven't eaten many meat dishes - I've never had a steak, never had pepperoni, chorizo, beef tacos, even the things I have tried I don't really remember the taste of. I can't miss the taste of food that I've never had! I have however had vegan versions of all these things because...why not? Why not try new dishes and taste new flavours and give these things a whirl? It seems pointless to essentially self-flagellate and restrict myself to chase some impossible notion of purity. I care about my health and eat plenty of plant foods but give me the vegan nachos and burgers any day!
Thank you. I’ve been vegan 16 years and like Gardein and Field Roast. I like chocolate chip cookies, too. Sure, they’re not kale, but they’re tasty and not the core of my diet, and food shaming isn’t healthy either.
I love your pragmatic and rational approach to everything, I've watched more of your videos than anyone else's in the last 5 weeks of eating only plant based foods. I eat the crap out of mock meats and cheese and vegan snacks. Without them I'd have probably caved already and eaten animal products in a moment of weakness. These things are especially useful when I'm particularly hormonal and my cravings are a bit out of control. I don't see any of it as a transition food at all and I have no intention of removing processed foods from my diet completely, though I do plan on eating less of it down the line after I have a bigger arsenal of unprocessed vegan recipes I can rely on. For now? I will keep eating the crap out of substitute products to keep me on the right path. Thank you for being awesome and helpful!
Jackfruit is honestly amazing! Nutritionally pretty neutral, but honestly it's really convincing as a mock-shredded pork. I haven't tried the jackfruit commercial mock meats (too much money to justify, especially since they're not protein-rich) but I highly recommend the canned young green jackfruit at Trader Joe's and cooking it yourself with some barbecue sauce or whatever you fancy!
I’m not vegan but discovered Gimme Lean sausage when we were hosting some friends who are vegetarian. We love it and actually prefer it to pork sausage. We use Gimme Lean now 😜
I don't love all mock meats, but I think brands like Gardein do a really good job of making tasty ones. I notice I tend to prefer mock chicken than mock ham or beef though.
I once ate a jar of chocolate almond butter and drank a quart of almond milk in the span of 4 hours 🙈 I was so stuffed that I couldn't eat much else that day 😅
Mom foods matter. Many of my warm and happy memories of childhood and of my family are inextricably connected to food. There are some "unhealthy" reasons for this, but it's not all "dysfunction" or mindless/meaningless repetition of family patterning. Eating is communal, social, cultural...i dont see anything wrong or unhealthy with revisiting the happy past through food. When I make dishes for my family, there are stories I tell my kids about Easter or Christmas dinner, how my mother and grandmother made "depression stew" (ground beef, potatoes , green beans and DELICIOUS) because grandma lived through the depression and learned to MAKE DO. How the butter was fashioned into a lamb as symbolism for easter dinner. You know what I mean. Yay for mock meats, especially when I feel like crying into a bowl of depression stew.
Hi I have seen your videos for a long time and I really love them I find them very informative and enjoyable. Your content is very well researched and I think it would be very interesting to hear your opinion on the documentary the magic pill. Thank you so much for your content keep it going please !!! Change the world on step at a time 😊
I never liked chicken much, but the mock chicken is so guuuud. I really love it. Because of my weight, my energy and protein (along with everything else) needs are higher. And I don't eat enough to reach the things I need to reach. I use cronometer to follow my nutrient intake. And I just don't eat enough. So having protein-packed fake meats is great. They taste great and they give me a boost I need.
I want to eat mockmeats as well, but the good ones (and vast majority of them) are made out of soy and I get sick when eating that. I agree that putting beans in your dinner isn't the same as a good mockmeat. I am not a great legume fan and beans the biggest problem right now for going full vegan. I must eat them for lysine, because soy isn't an option. I don't want to eat beans and lentiles every single day twice a day. I do not enjoy my diet that way, so I supplement with lysine pills now and hope that those actually work >.< (Nut/seeds allergy as well)
Elise Nieuwe hi, dit zijn een paar vleesvervangers die geen soja bevatten volgens mij, altijd even voor de zekerheid de ingrediënten checken 😉 Van Vivera: visburgers, vissticks, hun falafel, of falafel in het algemeen van een ander merk heeft meestal ook geen soja, de vegetarische slager: bacon blokjes (niet de spekjes die zijn niet vegan), Beefreepjes en ze hebben ook voor op brood mini paté en filet american die allebei geen soja bevatten. Producten van het merk ‘boon’, dat verkopen ze bij de jumbo, bevat geen soja. Quorn heeft ook vegan stakes ofzo, je moet goed kijken volgens mij is maar 1 product van hun plantaardig, ik kocht hem een keertje bij de AH. Ik hoop dat dit een je een beetje geholpen heeft als je een keertje een vleesvervangers wilt eten zonder soja en dat je ze lekker vind!
Most field roast mock meats are soy free! If you can find vegan Quorn products those are soy free also. Look into chickpea tofu recipes too, it's time consuming to make but it's a good tofu alternative.
Love this video because I'm a fan of mock meats too! Gardein has yet to do me wrong. I watched a video recently where the lady doesn't press her tofu before she cooks it, saying the water usually evaporates. Have you tried this and if you did do you notice a difference between the pressed and unpressed tofu?
ChicToast I'm lazy so i don't press my tofu for very long at all, mostly just to get it dry and get a bit of water out. If i'm baking it, its just fine, and I'm usually fine with the result if I cook it in a pan, but I'm also not always the greatest chef.
I don't press tofu either. Usually you see people pressing it between paper towels, and I feel like that is a big waste of paper towels. I can't tell it makes that much difference really.
I hear you on the tempeh, but if you ever find yourself in Eugene, head over to the Red Barn Grocery store on Blair and order a BBQ tempeh sandwich with avocado and all the fixings. It's a game changer!
If you want to make dried beans easy, get a pressure cooker! You've got to soak them overnight, but the next day it's so easy, I just stick them in with some water and bring up to pressure, cook for ~4 minutes and then turn off the heat and let them sit until the pressure releases itself. Planning ahead is still a thing, but the total effort is just a few quick easy steps with gaps between them. I mean, I can soak them overnight, stick them on the cooker while I'm having breakfast, doesn't take long to boil then cook for four minutes, turn off the heat and forget about them until I need them later. Not having to buy canned beans is a big money saver, saves metal and the dried beans are a lot easier to carry back from the shop and store in the kitchen.
When you’ve been watching at least 4 unnatural vegan videos per day for about two weeks and she says ‘I actually don’t really like tempeh anymore’ and in my head I go yeah yeah I know, it’s too bitter for you.😂😂😂
Great video! As a student who works, time is limited so mock meats are my go to for lunch many days because I don't have time during the middle of most of my days to actually cook.
homemade tempeh is super simple and for some reason tastes way better than the storebought stuff cant stand commercial tempeh, but i cant get enough of the stuff I culture myself. and I'm no DIY kinda gal, I like premade stuff, but this is soooo worth it
I made tempeh sausages last week that don't even taste like tempeh: first shred the tempeh into rough flakes and put them into boiling stock for 5 minutes. Then strain the tempeh shreds and add them in a bowl together with mustard, sage, thyme, pepper and some (wholewheat) flour (salt is optional). Knead sausages in your hands, roll them through some more flour and breadcrumbs and bake them in the oven (but baking them in the pan with some oil tastes better).
I am cooking mock mincemeat for the first time as i type. I have gone from meat to every meal to just a few days week. Its hard to learn to make food all over.
Yes! This is one of the nice things about mock meats. You can just substitute them into your old meat recipes. You don't have to learn to cook all over!
or you could just save yourself a lot of misery and keep eating meat but with higher quality pasture raised meat less often I was vegan for almost 3 years I did not have a good experience, and only felt better after reintroducing high quality animal products
Hi Sweetie! I love your sensible videos! I was wondering which version of the cookbook you suggested is the one you use for your seitan meat? I found 3 on Amazon with the same name and different authors so I am clueless. Keep up the good work! And Thanks!
I love mock meats, I wish our store had more variety. I was also surprised to see Hellmans come up with a vegan mayonnaise! It's tasty and vegan and we only buy that one now, even if my partner is not vegan :)
For protein, I like quinoa. I cook it without salt so I can add it to salads and smoothies. I also like chickpeas, black beans, and kidney beans in salads. I like making my own vegan bacon using tempeh. I also add pea protein powder to smoothies. I find that protein energizes me. I also like to eat mock meats, but maybe only once a week since it's so processed.
I had the Gardein Tips last night. Steamed them on top of spinach, mushrooms, beans sprouts,broccoli and little pearl onions, with teriyaki sauce. It was awesome. They are so good. I am totally happy with all the products you mentioned. I thought I had to be raw or nothing. I can do this.I drink green juice for breakfast . I eat 3 to 7 servings of veggies a day and 4 to 10 servings of protein a week. The soy based meat is hard for me to digest ( but not as hard as meat ) so I try to get more greens. The vegan cheese from heaven. It melts like a dream. Tested it for grilled cheese and melted over cooked spinach. It looks and tastes like deli style white american cheese. Good as Land O' Lakes> Field Roast Brand. I have gotten it at Fry's ( Kroger ) , Sprouts. They have a Butternut Squash Roast that is out of this world. I am doing most veggies frozen because it keeps it simple. But I am eating like a Queen. I am satisfied but not stuffed, but full. And I do not relapse on meat cheese or processed sugar. Frozen fruit blended with fresh or frozen bananas make the best desert and late night snack a few times a week. The food is delicious. This is my strategy to lose weight. And it is working. It is sustaining me. And my exercise program is increasing daily steps and yoga. It is transitional for me.Eventually I would prefer to get my protein from other plant sources and more whole plant sources of protein. But to each his own. Right now it works like or charm to support my life and my health. I am happy eating this way. I can maintain it. I am way happy eating this way and a little fat sometimes to cook with or as a condiment like salad dressing. It is like a relief. I could never maintain fully raw . Keto or Mc Dougalls high carb/starch. Totally torn. Never got anywhere. I do try to combine properly and sometimes I do not. But this works. Right now these products are the best thing that ever happened to me. A little high in sodium is probably my only complaint because my ankles swell a little from them. Plus food tastes better if it is salt and peppered fresh before serving.
i feel like mock meats are a great way to get people interested in eating more meat free meals even if theyre not going vegetarian or vegan. ive turned so many of my friends onto some of the aldi products like the zesty vegan meatballs or other easyish to find mock meats like the tofurkey italian sausage or morning star buffalo wings just because theyre delicious!
There is an channel called Mary's test kitchen, she has many mock meat recipes that look both easy and interesting to make. She even had an video about how to make tofu at home with soymilk and lemon juice :)
My favorite way to add protein is to use the Barilla protein plus noodles. They mix bean flours into the noodles and the texture is basically the same while seamlessly adding more protein to a dish.
I enjoy eating the mock meats only to boost calorie count or make a recipe vegetarian/vegan. But I definitely don't feel as healthy eating mock meats. They are good for feeding guests and showing them how delicious plant foods are, but I only eat them myself as a treat. I like tofu skins and seitan best but feed guests vegi dogs/sausage a lot to mimic the foods they would otherwise be eating
I love mock meats. I wish I could afford to eat them more often. I recently tried the Morning Star nuggets and corn dogs. Those were damn good. I love the fact that they aren't organic and have some GMO ingredients in them. I just wish they were cheaper. $4 a pack is a wee bit spendy compared to beans.
Okay, I'm going to try some of these mock meats out. I do not want to cut meat out of my diet but if I can find a healthier alternative, I'm all for it.
I was one of the vegans who tried the high carb lifestyle that was/is promoted and didn't feel well at all. I've lost weight, cleared my acne and digestion issues by eating a high protein and higher fat diet (not low carb per say, but the majority of my calories are not carbs). However I will say its WHAT you eat that matters; nuts, hemp seeds, whole avocados, not processed vegan foods. However a couple times a month or once a week I'll have a Beyond Burger or some Primal Spirit jerky haha... SO GOOD! Just do what works for you guys, that's the most important thing!
Man mock meats are awesome, my mum who loves real meat, tried the mock meat sausages I bought, and decided to stock some for herself! Btw dude the lip colour is great
I think it's not talked about often that many omnivores don't know how to cook nutritious, well-balanced and delicious vegan food, and are not familiar with ingredients like nutritional yeast, aquafaba, etc so reading vegan recipes might be intimidating or inconvenient to them. So I think mock meats (plant based mince/sausages/bacon etc.) are a great starting point to get them comfortable with plant based ingredients. Mock meats can take care of the protein component so they can learn how to work with veges/fruits/beans etc. for side dishes. Then maybe eventually they'll move on to work with tofu/tempe, and so on. Of course even if they know how to cook with vegan ingredients they can still eat mock meats especially for convenience or when they're craving a meaty taste.
The Better than Meat products, and the Field Roast Wild Mushroom Deli Slices are loved by all our meat eating friends, and its nice to be able to serve a meat like meal to make them feel welcomed and now they ask for vegan meals. Small steps on their path to being more plant based.
a3rialst4rr you should ask what day they get their stock. I’ve found that there’s people who swoop up the whole stock on restock day to resell elsewhere 😑
I have a lot of problems with digestion and can't really eat big amounts of beans, but mock meats are usually a lot easier for my stomach to handle! I'm so excited that there are constantly new mock meats coming out that I get to try, and see how well I can handle them. At the moment I'm not vegan (I've tried, ended up spending most of the day in the bathroom), but with the help of processed and easier to digest mock meats, I'm hoping to one day being able to go 100% vegan. And also, even though it can be extremely annoying, it's pretty awesome that stores are often out of the oat milk that I buy, and a lot of stores where I live have even made bigger sections for non dairy milks. I'm not happy whenever I have to buy a more expensive brand that I don't like as much, but the fact that more people are choosing plant based milk alternatives is awesome!
Idk about most people but my parents love having beans pretty often. My mom makes a huge batch of beans and like boils/soaks them then just leaves it in the freezer in containers. And uses one or two containers as she goes...it can actually last a while. That just depends on how many beans you guys like and how many you eat lol but that’s a suggestion of what my mom does for beans.
Loved this video! In a vegan group I'm in on facebook, if you mention mock meats you will be demonized and that is so annoying! I love mock meats and I love supporting the industry
It's so funny you made this video today. I haven't had mock meats in a while but I just tried the tofurky italian sausages recently and was like wow this is what's been missing in my life haha Bless
Hey there, I like how honest you are and it's refreshing to finally see a vegan, who doesn't shame people who don't eat all natural diets (whole foods and stuff) I'm currently considering having more protein in my diet, because I'm always tired and have no energy, yet doctors find nothing wrong with me. I've been like this at least since my early teens (am now 23). In my country, however, the market for mock meats is lacking variety (although definitely increasing over the last few months, which is great to see) I've never liked beans and most other legumes though and even when I ate meat, I never liked it a lot and therefore probably never got a lot of protein. After watching this video I will definitely give the mock meats another try and hopefully find some that are not too unhealthy and are enjoyable for me.
I'm late to the party, but the Lightlife veggie dogs need to be grilled and topped with hella toppings to taste good. I love grilling my doggies & then loading them with some mustard, sweet relish, pepperoncini peppers, horseradish, and sometimes giardiniera. I also toast the hot dog bun of my choice and yummm.
Vegan sausage is my god- the apple sage field roast sausage? Delightful. That trader joes jackfruit curry you mentioned is really tasty, but I never feel full after frozen dinners (too small? not enough protein?). Adding a can of chickpeas to it helped a lot, though. I'll have to try the kielbasa!
Oh, I've actually made "beef" stew with the Gardein beefless tips! The tips are okay, but I've found that while, yeah, I enjoyed that tender fall-apart beef in beef stew, I was mostly craving those delicious stewed potatoes and pearl onions and the overall experience of a hearty stew. So my most recent attempts have less been with the beefless tips and more replacing the meat with quartered mushrooms and using a base of mushroom/veg broth. Not to disagree or try to discredit your points, as I also adore mock meats; just wanted to share a beef stew anecdote!
Homemade seitan is my most favorite fake meat. I usually steam it for an hour then throw in the air fryer for 10 minutes on 400 degrees and its ready to eat immediately without needing to cool it for 8 hours like some seitan recipes say to do. It usually lasts me all day and I use abit over 1 cup of vital wheat gluten and thats already 100 grams of protein.
Tofurky had a factory issue which is why their lunch meats were not in stores for a long time. Their slowly getting back tho. Also the tofurky beer brats are AMAZING. I like the Morningstar crumbles but they are only vegetarian not vegan... But I use them a lot for tacos... And chilli when I have a chilli craving. Lol
I don't rush out to buy mock meats all the time cause they can be expensive but if I see something I fancy or something on offer I'm gonna try it and make a delicious meal!
I’m a vegan body builder and I get 170 + grams of protein a day and honestly your channels the only one I could find that gives me ideas of what I can eat trying to be high protein lower carb tvp is such a life saver thank you for all the info ♥️💯
I am newly obsessed with Beyond meat brand since they introduced it to where I work. So often I don't get to sample new things because it contains beef or pork every time it seems, and they introduced a full on vegan burger with the beyond meat, and I literally had to stop mid bite because it tasted so much like beef I instantly had a oh no moment. I miss eating beef, I just don't miss it more than I love cows. This is a great option for me. If that makes me a bad person for liking something that tastes like meat but isn't, so be it.
