Isn't there such a thing as an available and modestly priced meat substitute?!
Answers: I saw some at the supermarket but it cost $4.00 for 12 ounces. I may have to buy it thru the mail because I live in mid-west farm country and their idea of health food is a just-baked cake.
Yep....TVP is the best, cheapest replacement out there. Most bulk food stores carry it and it comes in granulated size, chunk size, or slice size. You can buy huge bags of it and store it, it doesn't go bad. When you're ready to use it you just pour hot water on it to reconstitute it. It marinates very well, cause it absorbs sauce nicely.
In fact, most commercial meat substitutes are made of TVP anyways (veggie burgers, veggie dogs etc)
No
I spent round 4 dollars for this little block of already baked tofu
Need to learn how to cook tofu
tofu is priced right and easy to prepare
you can mix it in the blender with fruit and you've got a protein shake - yum!
Heartline by Lumen foods I buy them in bulk on line.
Tofu is relatively cheap and versatile. For recipe ideas try one of Good Housekeeping's 20 tofu recipes. Each one has been triple tested in the Good Housekeeping Research Institute's Test Kitchen.
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/search/f...
TVP is pretty cheap!
Yes, definitely. There's tofu, as mentioned above.
Also, if you're looking for something that resembles meat texture and taste (but w/out all the saturated fat, cholesterol, hormones, etc.) Morningstar Farms (in the green boxes) makes some really good stuff. If you like sausage patties, their version is excellent. I've turned a lot of meat eaters on to them - more protein, less greasy fat - they taste soooo good! If you look near the tofu section, you'll also find soy-based "ground beef" "hot dogs" & cheese.
Meat subs can be pricey, depending on what brand and where you buy it. I don't know if they have a Trader Joe's in your area, but their meat subs are very reasonably priced. You can get Tofurkey deli slices for a little over $2, tofu is just 99 cents/container, and they also have Yves meatless ground for around $2, among countless other meat subs.
You might want to check out your closest Asian market, if you have one. I found a soy duck and soy chicken loaf for around $4 at an Asian market I used to live by.
Or, you can check out this site: http://healthy-eating.com/ They carry all sorts of meat, dairy, egg, & cheese subs, but you might be better off ordering some TVP (textured vegetable protein) as the ready-made stuff is a little pricey, too. I ordered a 1 lb. package of the soy chicken cutlets, and it comes with a lot. If you haven't experimented with this stuff before, they come pre-shaped and dry. Cook them in some no-chicken chicken brother or some other vegetable-based broth for flavor, and then cook them however you want. You can bread, dry, or cut up and put in stir fries.
Hope I helped. Best wishes! :)
Try TVP (textured vegetable protein)... I got 200g for ￡1 ($2). You soak it in water and it expands so 200g actually lasts a long time.
Hell yeah there is.
Chic peas and lentils. Im sure if you look hard enough you could get it by the crate, that stuff would be cheap as!
its tasty too! and it really is the perfect meat substitute, high in protein and essential fatty acids : )
if you buy a bag of "vital wheat gluten" (Bob's Red Mill brand has it and you can get that at most grocery stores or online and even the Amish market near where my parents live carry it, so i'd say it's pretty accessible) and make seitan out of it, it's a good meat substitute and way cheaper than if you bought seitan in the store. there are a ton of recipes for it online and i made some for the first time last week and it came out great. the bag of gluten was $4.99 which might seem expensive, but you only use a small portion of it when you make seitan . . . maybe a cup or so . . . so you'll get your money's worth.
if you're able to buy tofu, that is generally pretty cheap. i don't usually have to spend more than $1.29 for it anywhere. tempeh, because it's fermented soy is probably healtheir than tofu, though. beans and lentils are super cheap - and good protein.
furthermore, i try not to eat tons of the processed meat substitutes like tvp or fake meats because i think anything too processed - including "healthier" foods and soy substitutes kind of go against why i'm a vegetarian in the first place - to eat healthier, whole foods while not contributing to the environmental problems the industries that produce meat and yes, even modified soy and processed meat substitutes, produce.
Try substituting beef for pork, pork for chicken, chicken for beef, etc.
really you should come back to land of the meat eaters!!!! but i think even the peanut butter that's has no stuff in it that .you would approve. is expensive.