Which are protein filled foods?!
Answers: besides meat?
Tofu, tempeh, and seiten/wheat gluten. Seiten is the most meat-like.
There's a million veg products out there that similate meat (all types) in the frozen food and produce sections of mainstream supermarkets and even more choices in health food stores and some Asian markets and websites.
My faves are: Morningstar Farms chicken strips and beef strips, Tofurkey brand deli slices, Tofurkey Italian "sausages", Light Life Smart BBQ and Smart Ground, and White Wave 3 grain tempeh- oh and for snacking purposes there is Stonewall's Jurquee- awesome stuff.
Your basic unprocessed protein sources are beans, lentils, nuts/nut butters, seeds, and some grains (like wheat, quinoa, and even oats to some degree).
You'll even find that soymilk often comes fortified with calcium to make it comparable to milk.
Veg cooking- the possibilities are endless (anything that is meat based- you can make vegetarian or vegan)..... don't believe the USDA hype that you need meat/dairy/eggs to get all your nutrients- I've been a vegetarian for 16 years and I'm not ready to kick the bucket yet...
BLACK BEANS PEANUT BUTTER. NUTS, MILK HAS 8G PER CUP AND TUNA IN THE CAN HAS 13G PER SERVIN ABOUT 30GRAMS PER CAN AND ITS GOOD FOR YOU
Nuts and beans.
Soy is the big one. You can find this in tofu, soy beans, soy milk and textured vegetable protein among other foods. My favorite is TVP. It's commonly found in garden/veggie burgers, immitation chicken products and other "fake" meat. It can be flavored in almost any way to cater to all tastes. You really have to try different products to see what you like. My favorites are Morning Star Grillers Original, Morning Star Garden Vegetable Patties, and the Original Garden Burger. Tofu is a little harder because you have to learn how to cook with it, but it can be used in a wide variety of ways.
In addition to soy, nuts, peanut butter, whole grains, all kinds of beans, microprotien and seiten are good sources. If you are a lacto-ovo vegetarian, then you can also get a lot of protein from eggs and dairy products.
It is almost impossible NOT to get enough protein on a vegetarian or vegan diet.
Some of the richest sources of protein AND excellent substitutes for meat in recipes are tofu, seitan, and tempeh (look all these up online and look up some recipes - you can make seitan at home and they are all available in grocery stores, tofu is especially easy to find).
There is also protein in beans, nuts, seeds, bean sprouts, whole grains (a cup of whole grain pasta has more protein in it than an egg, for instance!).
Almost every vegetable has protein. Broccoli has 4.66 grams of protein per cup - and only 45 calories per overflowing, hearty cup... that means that HALF of broccoli's calories are from protein! (Protein is 4 calories per gram, I calculated this by multiplying 4.66 g x 4 calories/gram).
Taken from the American Heart Association website:
Whole grains, legumes, vegetables, seeds and nuts all contain both essential and non-essential amino acids. You don't need to consciously combine these foods ("complementary proteins") within a given meal.
Soy protein has been shown to be equal to proteins of animal origin. It can be your sole protein source if you choose.
Quinoa has alot of protein in it
lentils, nuts, fish ( if you don't count that as "meat), eggs, sweet potatoes
If you are on a vegan diet, nuts are a good source or protein. As are beans, tofu, tempeh, peanut butter, soymilk, oatmeal, bulgar, muesli, quinoa and whole wheat bagels. Also I drink a protein shake every morning for vegans (people who don't eat meat or dairy). It's rice protein and I mix it with fruit and soymilk or watered-down juice (juice has a lot of sugar in it).
If you are a lacto-vegetarian (a person who consumes milk and milk products, but no meat), protein and calcium are found in milk, cheese and milk-by products. Plus the foods I named above.
If you are a lacto-ovo vegetarian (someone who consumes milk and eggs but no meat), then of course eggs contain protein.
There is also a huge selection of meat-substitute food in the vegetarian section of most major supermarkets: veggie dogs, veggie burgers, veggie steaks. etc. These are all meatless foods, many soy-based and protein-packed but be careful not to consume too much of it because of the sodium.
MUSCLE MILK
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