Soy free meat analogs

[viedma]

I like soy. I pretty much have to with my chosen diet, but unless you have an allergy I don't see the harm (OHAI WESTON PRICE FOUNDASHUN, fuck you thank you for ur input). If you want to get away from soy in your fake meat analogs you pretty much have to make it yourself. Which isn't so bad as they're usually cheaper than store bought and easy to make.

Chickpea Cutlets from Veganomicon

Black Bean Burgers (I use a little vital wheat gluten to stick everything together)

Seitan O'Greatness. I put slices of this on my veggie Subway subs, as their "Gardenburger" has cheese, milk, and eggs in it. >.< I don't remember pulling any of the 3 out of my backyard plot, maybe they have special soil or something. This is the recipe that made annlarimer spit it out in the trash can, so...

Pinto Bean Sausages

I love to put spicy tempeh sausage crumbles on pizza, but that's soy. Still. Is yummers.

All of the above recipes, I leave out the salt and put at least 3-4x the spices in. Vali and I love hot, spicy food. If you're not crying while you're eating it what's the point? Cut me open and I bleed chipotle powder.

Comments

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

These look fabulous. Thank you for sharing! All I've ever had in my veggie subway subs have been the vegetables (and cheese), but seitan! Yay!

I've been told to avoid soy because of the hormones and the possibility they would cause cancer to develop, but I am not sure if this is true (or any more true than all the other foods that can cause cancer if overdone, at least). Do you know anything about this?

[cyprinella]

I think with soy what you have to be careful of is if you have a family history of cancers that are contributed to by estrogen. So types of breast cancer and ovarian, I think?

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

Ohhh. Well, that ends up right in my backyard. :/ Thank you, though!

[viedma.livejournal.com]

You should definitely check with your doctor to see what they say, but in the meantime here's how Medlineplus.gov breaks down the info: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-soy.html

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link!