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

[fannishnonsense]

Oh, nice. Very helpful, thanks for these!

As far as the soy thing goes, I try not to eat to much of it because my family has a history of thyroid disease. And yeah, I know the evidence isn't conclusive on that, but it helped my mom A LOT when she cut the soy out of her diet. Not that she was cured or anything, but she's much better than she was a few years ago. So I figure better safe than sorry. It does make my meal planning a bit more complicated though.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your mom is feeling better! I agree that you should eat what makes you feel better, but I don't envy you-- soy lecithin is in everything. eek.

[fannishnonsense]

Thanks. :) It's a huge pain. Sometimes I just go "eh, there's not much soy in this," but I try not to do that very often. Ah well, I suppose it could be worse- at least there are more options out there than there used to be anyway. Thank goodness for the internets!