Ditto what's been said about the prepackaged fake meat stuff. I always have some Boca Burgers and Morningstar Farms products in my freezer. They've got tons of different kinds of patties to choose from, ranging from fake meat styles to very veggie-flavored. They've also got corndogs and hot dogs and nuggets
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Well, as Aoife and I are vegan it tends to work like this: I find ways of taking standard fare and make it vegan. Last night we had "Honey BBQ" chicken with spinach couscous. Taking "veat" chicken style nuggets, instead of meat and then changing the normal igrediants to be vegan products. Using a thing of faux groundround I made "Sloppy Joes." So I would say it depends on what type of vegitarian you want to be.
If you want to be a strick vegitables only type, there are methods. If you want to be the "Heathier style type" (which I sort of am, though I'm more of the "Keeping the partner happy type without totally killing my own sense of good food.") Right, so what I'm babbly saying is, We tend to do the take a normal recipe and convert it to what we need it to be.
Forgive me the spellings and babbliness, Nerissa was very fussy last night.
If you want, why don't you and Bratling join us for dinner sometime and I'll show you what I mean about taking "Normal" foods and making them vegan.
I'm not vegetarian, but we're progressively cutting animal-meat out of our diet, by type. Currently we've cut out the pork. This fall we'll move on to the next thing. But even when we aren't trying to do this, we don't eat meat every day, largely for budget reasons.
For prepared foods, I'll second (third?) MorningStar Farms. I've sent their Chik'N Nuggets to school many times with littleblur, who doesn't notice the difference -- and I actually really like them. I know I've had something else of theirs and liked it, but don't remember what.
Warning: you will not save money by being vegitarian on MorningStar Farms, and probably not most prepared foods. They are more expensive than their meat counterparts. (This is why littleblur would sometimes get chicken, sometimes veggie nuggets
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I am not veggie, but am a fan of vegetables and personally prefer the taste of the "friendlier" meats. Hummus is great as either a spread on sandwiches or as a snack. I recommend looking into Asain or Indian style foods as they are tasty and often have little to no meat. I make alot of stirfrys from frozen veggies and serve over rice. Market Basket actually has some good mixed veggies for stirfry. Mushrooms are good as a substitute for meat in many dishes (I personally am not the biggest fan). With the stirfry options either adding more mushrooms, tofu, or a small amount of organic meat - all are good options. But rice is a MUST. It is cheap and goes with many styles of cooking, from asian to indian to mexican
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If you want to be a strick vegitables only type, there are methods. If you want to be the "Heathier style type" (which I sort of am, though I'm more of the "Keeping the partner happy type without totally killing my own sense of good food.") Right, so what I'm babbly saying is, We tend to do the take a normal recipe and convert it to what we need it to be.
Forgive me the spellings and babbliness, Nerissa was very fussy last night.
If you want, why don't you and Bratling join us for dinner sometime and I'll show you what I mean about taking "Normal" foods and making them vegan.
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For prepared foods, I'll second (third?) MorningStar Farms. I've sent their Chik'N Nuggets to school many times with littleblur, who doesn't notice the difference -- and I actually really like them. I know I've had something else of theirs and liked it, but don't remember what.
Warning: you will not save money by being vegitarian on MorningStar Farms, and probably not most prepared foods. They are more expensive than their meat counterparts. (This is why littleblur would sometimes get chicken, sometimes veggie nuggets ( ... )
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