My false-meat empanadas are the best.

Try using 50/50 minced meat/TVP and you won't notice the difference. I don't know how it behaves when doing meatballs or hamburguers, it probably crumbles if you don't add something else, but idk.

  • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Im not even vegetarian or vegan and I love meat substitutes. Will definitely try this.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      It does come plain or "flavored" with smoke/caramel/etc. They are good, but I usually buy the plain one cuz cheaper.

  • dontlisten2me [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    That stuff gives me violent gas and that thing where little poops shoot out like a potato gun when I try to poop.

      • dontlisten2me [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It does that to other people too, so fair warning. In terms of flavor and texture I rank it at the absolute bottom of, tofu, seitan (although this fucks my stomach up too but has better texture), tempe, beans, mushrooms, and other things people call meat subs.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          Protein is a bitch generally, but also beans (ie all of the things you mention) have weird sugars that make the intestine flora go crazy

          • dontlisten2me [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            huh, I didn't know. Beans give me gas too but it's manageable. I mostly just need to watch how much hot sauce I use with them. I just had bean tacos for lunch actually, heated refried beans with spinach and cheddar, toasted the corn tortillas and then topped with diced tomato, parsley, pepperoni, feta, and tajin, so good

            • RNAi [he/him]
              hexagon
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              3 years ago

              Ah sorry, seitan and mushrooms aren't beans. But lentils, chickpeas, soy and all that are from the bean family that makes my inners bloat sometimes.

  • Abraxiel
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    3 years ago

    Indeed very good. There's an incredible diversity of meat substitutes and TVP these days and it's a very easy way to reduce meat consumption, which is inarguably a good thing from a material standpoint of not cooking this good Earth.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Why would anyone be staunchly anti-vegan? Like, you think is morally bad some people choosing not to eat meat and etc?

      • goodyman123 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        good question. idk. i dont eat meat and wouldnt advocate it. but veganism is eugenics. and it should be obvious that there are reactions to rich privileged young adults belittering those less fortunates for not believing in the eugenics

        • RNAi [he/him]
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          veganism is eugenics

          wut

          Vegans aren't killing people who eat meat, they are telling them "yo, there's this logical list of reason we should stop eating meat and etc you know". If suddenly most vegans agreed in starting killing/sterilizing people who eat meat, and somehow they got the political power to do it, then yeah.

          If you mean "they are killing cultures cuz meat is an important part of societies cuisine so they are basically hitler", then we genocided the culture of witch burning, or human sacrifice, or the culture of using a telegraph, or the culture of eating Dodos, or the culture of dying of measles, or the culture of women being married at 13 yo, or the culture of jacking off to blackandwhite photographs of a woman showing off her ankles and I couldn't care less pal.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          bruv I'm an omni and you're making a pretty strong case for me to turn vegan right now.

          • goodyman123 [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            always been a lib site but people getting horny off eugenics is on another level of disgracefulness

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          • goodyman123 [none/use name]
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            the role of fertilizer in agroecological systems

            the vegan is anti-killing beings in the sense that they necessitate turning nature into wastelands in order to save that big, beautiful creature as if those millions of other creatures are useless. domesticated animals in symbiosis with human food production is intrinsic to ecological healthy coexistence. the ancient cultural, emotional and existential links of the domesticated animal-human relationship is disregarded for a non-holistic dogma of animal welfare which implementation neccessitate the creation of chemical-industrial wastelands. its the shortsightedness of human arrogance that selectively chooses what to destroy and what to salvage at its surface without the grace to properly handle its causal chains. remember, this is not a livestock-industrial argument. but drinking the milk of the cow that shits your fields is good.

            e. on second thought, i think its much more poignant to just say that veganism is an amazing vehicle for the sustainability of israeli avocado exports

            and if somebody finds a way to avoid fertilizers this argument falls apart. but so far all agroecological systems need animals. animals are good, folks

            • RNAi [he/him]
              hexagon
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              3 years ago

              This is deffinitely a bit, but lessgo

              • You know cows don't eat natural pastures right? You gotta fertilize the maize fields to then harvest it and feed it to the cow. "But some cows do eat natural pastures" yeah, not the ones feeding the 99% of people, but anyways you gotta tend those pastures with fertilizer and shit too. Every element that gets exported from that field in the form of meat needs to be replenished somehow or it will run out.

              • Vegans aren't against people having a cow pet you know? They can behave like a dog.

              • Who the fuck buys avocados from israel? That shit can grow anywhere, go get some trees, put them in a near park if you don't have a backyard or sidewalk and you'll have a shitton of avocados.

              • goodyman123 [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                feels more like a dunkfest than dialogue. i wouldnt extend the argument to extremist ecotopian primitivists, this is more about the casual supermarket shopper who buys a product that doesnt involve killing a cow but instead killing a whole allotment. of course buying the cow has the baggage of the latter and its own garbage on top. i explicitly stayed clear on that. the point is that a sane semi-normal human can try to not harm living creatures by eating if they aquire food from agroecology. animals are involved. maybe they are pets, but if that is acceptable why is milk not allowed for vegans? because of the involuntary involvement of sentiens into human processes. my argument is perfectly fit for vegetarianism advocacy fwiw

            • RNAi [he/him]
              hexagon
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              3 years ago

              Wait, you mean "cows are necesary to fertilize the fields"? Dude, no, the phosphorous in the ground, that takes the plant, that then eat the cow can do only two things: be shitted for the loop to start again, or become part of meat, that will get sent to a big city, where people will eat it and permanently become human meat, or be shitted and end up in the ocean where it has no way to go back to the field. In short: you need to add fertilizer to a field or eventually it will run out of it.

                • RNAi [he/him]
                  hexagon
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                  3 years ago

                  Huh? I can call an agronomic ingeneer and an ecologist if you want.

                  • goodyman123 [none/use name]
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                    3 years ago

                    please do you seem confused and the comment above didnt connect with my point at all which is why i assumed you are talking from the depths of your bottoms and should probably not speak up

                    • RNAi [he/him]
                      hexagon
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                      3 years ago

                      Alright sorry if I was rude, let's restart this.

                      I understand you are "anti-vegan" because something about agroecology and fertilizers that I don't really understood. And I really didn't understand where the "eugenics" happens. I understand "eugenics" as, you know, sterilizing/killing a group of people that "ruins the genetic pool". It's different from genocide because the group of unwanted are the same ethnicity as the people with power.

            • vegangobrr [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              How does someone get to the point where they can say this unironically? Did you feel really bad about eating animal products deep down or something so you searched for literally anything to justify it?

              • goodyman123 [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                i genuinely wish to derive my diet from ecological sound processes. this requires me to accept that animals are a part of the process. there is no way to artificially remove them from the entire picture without following the logic of petrochemical agroindustrial ecocidal techniques. you choose to eat "ethical" by sacrificing b to save a. none of you have engaged with, i dont think anyone of you actually understand, this but its a sound point

  • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    If your going to be vegan and mainly consume soy you arnt really helping like you think you are.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      ?

      I'm not fanning myself as the messiah of what to eat, I just shared a cheap ingredient that is not that well know yet is tasty and nutritious and everyone can enjoy and is really cheap.

      • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        It's cheap cuz it's a giant mono crop spayed with tons of pesticides.

        If your vegan and a huge part of your diet is soy you arnt really doing much from a climate change aspect.

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          • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            No idea what that is

            Ag in America is 20% of carbon. Vast majority of that is for corn and soy. Methane is 50% that is mostly ranching.

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              • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                Ah yeah.

                I eat local pork mostly. I don't touch beef die to my dislike of ranching practices.

                Also have my own farm. Also avoid soy due to gmo and estrogen.

                • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  you're thinking of phytoestrogens, and there isn't any conclusive scientific evidence that they act like estrogen in your body. milk (and meat too iirc) have actual estrogen, which does actually affect you

                  • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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                    3 years ago

                    Yeah I mean the main reason I don't eat soy is becuase I don't like factory farming.

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                      • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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                        3 years ago

                        To be honest. That's a myth.

                        If you actually care about any of this more than just not wanting blood on your hands you'll start supporting local small farms through csa etc. You'll get more food than you know what to do with. Go to a farmers market. Compare prices to the grocery stores. They tend to be pretty close.

                        If your city dweller that just wants to feel good about not having death on their hands than keep living in your dream world that is blood free soy. Also if it's organic soy its going to be grown with animal byproducts that come most likely from factory fa operations. If it's not than it's gmo trash petro fertilizers that's bad for the world in general.

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                          • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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                            1. Gmos are bad becuase they are only used to increase profits and get farmers hooked on one source

                            Could they be better to let's say make things grow with ess water. Yes. But they went for $$$. That's why the field is dying.

                            Sorry I have multiple people responding to me hard to keep it straight. I ships Probably get back to work instead of bickering online

            • mars [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              Worldwide, 80% of soy is fed to livestock. The rest is mostly soybean oil. Soy isn't an issue because of specialty vegan products.

              • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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                Oh yeah I know that.

                Its just the idea that you are saving animals by participating in factory farms is a bit absurd. Soy and corn harvesting leads to massive wild life death. Along with all the habitat destroyed to keep it going.

                I don't eat beef or soy and really only eat local corn grown on small plots.

                • mars [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  Again, soy consumption, and the many negatives associated with it, is fueled almost entirely by the growing demand for meat. Not direct human consumption. We could sustainably provide soy for direct human consumption.

          • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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            All these are estimated lb per acre and USDA data is always on the low side

            Soy. 4000#

            Cabbage 40000#

            Beets no tops 16000-24000

            Kale 10000#

            Carrots 20000#

            Potatoes 10000

            https://nevegetable.org/cultural-practices/table-15-approximate-yields

            Soy is a garbage crop that is only prevalent due to its rotation with corn and that they both come in round up ready and dicamba ready seeds.

              • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                It's Calorie per lbs.

                Cabbage can be pickled and fermented which makes it leap past soy on any metric.

                Sorry but I don't care about getting protein from plants.

                  • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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                    3 years ago

                    The guy asked calories per lb. That's what I gave.

                    Fermented cabbage can last a long ass time. Most vegetables can be pickled extending their self life into the years. Just raw cabbage stores an okay amount of time. Beets and other roots store for months and months with no processing.

                    The web site says yield per acre. Im in the USA. No one is using hectar yield rates.

                    This is all easily googled.

                    Soy beans are a legume and they all produce around the same lb per acre since they are all in the same family. Other data I saw suggested 5200# a acre. Just keep in mind these are all the low numbers.

                    Yes I know Asians eat soy. But they predominantly ate rice and picked vegatables back in the day. I have not looked into tofu but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a high cast diet in the old days.

                    Its really nuts to me how much vegans are wrapped up in soy when there are so many other crops to enjoy. But junk food vegan ism is a thing.

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              • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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                I looked up cabbage. Lake would be hard for to mass weight loss from the stem and depending on harvest some do bunches some do a field cut which is taking all the leaves plus some stalk.

                1lb of cabbage is 189 1lb of soy bean is 350.

                Calories per acre

                Cabbage 7,596,000 Soy. 1,450,000

                There's a reason why brassicas are the predominate crop family.

        • HamidPayaamAbbasi [any,he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I'm vegan so that I'm not paying anyone to stab an animal to death and end their brief torturous life they were bred into for no reason. If it were worse for the climate I'd still do it.

            • HamidPayaamAbbasi [any,he/him]
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              3 years ago

              What the hell do you think they feed animals you eat by the tons? Come on with this you should be embarrassed with yourself for making this point. By eating animals you are feeding 10x that amount of soy, alfalfa, and corn to the animals then murdering them. fuck outta here with this. Not interested in debating with bad faith losers making easily disprovable statements as shitposts. Veganism isn't about not killing any animals ever, its about not

              • Bluemaga [none/use name]
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                Hey like I said the pork I eat is local and they really don't give them much feed. I know the farmer personally. When I eat beef it's from a ranch that is 100% grass fed that roam mountinous forest. I have small vegatable farm.

                If you are eating soy you are still participating in the death of animals to get the food to your plate. And Eben of none do die in harvest you are still feasting off the left overs from live stock feed.

                I know where and how a vast amount of my food is grown when I'm cooking it.

                Going out to eat is differnt. But many of the places I eat are very local centric.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          Ah, I get it. It's a good first step, no ethical consumption under capitalism, etc.

          It also helps my country pay it's enormous spurious debt and most importantly enlarge the Panama accounts of local agro-oligarchs.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Yes it does, and I love it. It really nails the texture.

    • lohs [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Asian markets will often carry it, but soy curls on Amazon are the same thing I believe.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    i like it actually! i cant eat it entirely due to weird ass stomach (and eating) issues that i have (which chicken, eggs, and cheese dont seem to flare up) but its great

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      But it's really cheap and works wonders as minced-meat-extender

  • SadSoulja [love/loves]
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    3 years ago

    It is delicious but I’ve only had it at one my vegan friends homes

    -Soulja