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sendero

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5. I tried lots of meat substitutes..

Reply to LWolf (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 12, 2013, 06:51 PM

Dec 2013

... but I don't think I've ever heard of the Quorn product. I will ask my wife to procure some

Actually, by the time I was done with my partial-vegan stint, I had decided that most of the "meat substitute" products were not very good (the Boca stuff was OK, I will never eat Tempeh again and that the answer might be to stop trying to "replace" meat but learn to get protein other ways.

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This is good news... sendero Dec 2013 #1

I haven't tried to go vegetarian or vegan, LWolf Dec 2013 #2

I am a vegetarian and I love Quorn's faux meats. RebelOne Dec 2013 #4

I tried lots of meat substitutes.. sendero Dec 2013 #5

they can do a pretty good job replicating chicken stuff, but beef is trickier. dionysus Dec 2013 #7

I think getting the protein from other sources LWolf Dec 2013 #8

quorn and morningstar both make pretty good stuff. i'll eat it even though i still enjoy meat dionysus Dec 2013 #6

There was this vegan Chinese place I used to go to sakabatou Dec 2013 #3

I'm going to give up everything except... Neoma Dec 2013 #9

It is just rebalancing of global consumption along with more equivalent standards of living FarCenter Dec 2013 #10