Membership is open! Join for a single meal, or go hardcore and fully vegan! There’s no rules, you’re still on the team if you go veggie one meal a year or every single meal for the rest of your life. It’s flexible!
We’ve got tasty daals, chilis, curries, pan-seared mushroom steaks, a million flavors of hummus, tofus, pulled BBQ seitan, juicy vital wheat gluten roasts, and so much more!
It’s also cheap! Homemade hummus is incredible and light on the wallet! You’ll discover a world of extremely tasty foods!
If I could, I would have done it years ago. I imagine there are others like me who have health issues that keep them from the switch. I’ve been to many medical professionals and I just can’t do it. I was told I actually have to eat more meat which sucks, but I do get sick if I don’t.
I love this. Im firmly in team veg but still haven’t given up meat. It may come one day, but for now im happy with about half my meals being vegetarian.
Yeah, there’s a really high Indian population in my area, and India has a huge vegetarian population. So most of the restaurants around me actually have decent veg options. I doubt I’d ever go fully vegan, but even casual “eat meat when you feel like it, but don’t intentionally make it the centerpiece of every meal” vegetarianism is extremely easy nowadays.
What’s your favorite simple and easy vegetarian recipe that’s filling?
I’m not vegetarian, I love me a good cheeseburger every once in a blue moon and always will, but I don’t eat a lot of red meat and I’ve been trying to eat less and less meat in general. I’m not going to pretend eating meat in today’s world is ethical, but neither will there be a noticeable difference if I stop buying my pound or two of chicken and a filet of fish every month. I grew up on a meat and potatoes diet and while I’ve learned a lot since then I’m still not great at cooking filling vegetarian meals, I feel like every time I cook completely without meat I end up absolutely starving in an hour, even if I have protein from other sources.
Yeah not eating enough protein does that. Try TVP. It’s an extremely versatile (Chilli, Lasagne, meatloaf, meat balls, bolognese, Asian fried noodles etc.) and cheap (for now) replacement for ground beef. It seems to have a better amino acid profile than chicken:
It blows chicken out of the water regarding minerals like iron, magnesium or calcium. Compare the TVP-spec-sheet with this. Tofu (if made with gypsum as a coagulant) is even more packed with calcium, where 100g can already mean more than 1/2 of your daily needs.
Chicken comes with more vitamins (but also antibiotically resistant bacteria, chloride, growth hormones and animal suffering), while TVP brings anti-oxidants in the form of isoflavinoids.
Yeah it’s based on soybeans but you can see tons of manly man vegan body builders eating that stuff on a daily basis. They got big breasts but those are not from phythoestrogens.
Regarding your Burger addiction. TVP is the perfect remedy.
A quadrillion of websites exist for fire vegan recipes (which take care of the vitamins missing with TVP) with one of the most prolific one being https://www.noracooks.com/.
Beans tacos. Basically cook canned black beans in taco seasoning and some water until the water cooks down. Then just throw whatever you like with your tacos on it. Cooking an onion in with the beans makes it even better, but it requires chopping an onion
In general I’ve found that a lot of meat recipes work well if you replace the meat with beans or mushrooms.
Spicy bean chili with crispy golden cornbread is a classic American dish that will stick to your ribs pardner!
I can nearly eat my weight in hummus and butter garlic naan with seitan tikka masla, very filling and so delicious!
Or if you’re ever not sure you’ll get full enough, kick back a baked potato 15 minutes before the meal, it’ll give you something to digest.
Slightly related I’m a big fan of trying to get 30g+ of fiber every day, and 1 tsp of psyllium husk in water before each meal. I’ll end up staying fuller longer and feel better.
So I grew up 95% vegetarian. Stir fry can be adapted to fit just about anyone’s taste, and is dead simple to make (and filling).
The first thing your going to want to learn is how to cook rice. This might be in a pot, rice cooker, or something else. Find what works for you.
Now with your rice cooking, do a hard pan fry of some tofu. Your goal is to get it crispy via the highest heat your stove can put out (think wok levels if you can). The trick is to use a firm (or extra firm) tofu that has been patted dry and cut into small cubes, oil and a lot of heat. From here add in a few veggies that you like and top with a basic teriyaki sauce.
That’s a basic stir fry on rice. Mix the rice into the pan and you start down the road of fried rice.
I like a good bowl meal. The template is grain/pseudo-grain, legume, two or three veggies, sauce. So you could have a quinoa and chickpea bowl with pickled red onions, kale, and roasted red peppers, topped with a hummus tahini sauce. Or a black bean and rice bowl with pickled jalapeños, grilled corn (which is also technically a grain but it still works as a vegetable) and chopped red tomatoes, with an avocado crema sauce. It’s extremely flexible, easy to make, and good for meal prepping. You can add an additional protein if it’s still not filling enough, like fried tofu or crumbled tempeh or seitan “chicken”.
It’s far from the only way to make an easy, filling veggie meal, but it’s one of the easiest frameworks for people used to the “meat, carb, vegetable side dish” style of meal.
I’m not vegetarian either, but bean quesadillas are always a good, cheap, and easy meal when I’m lazy. It can be as easy as open a can of black beans, drain and rinse, put on a big tortilla with cheese and some jarred salsa, cook both sides in a frying pan. If I’m feeling like doing a little more, I’ll add some diced tomato and jalapenos. You can be eating in as little as 10 minutes.
I know you didn’t ask me but I also grew up on meat and potatoes.
I’ve recently discovered lentil enchiladas are very tasty. Cook the lentils in vegetable broth, after you have cooked lentils ( pretty good on there own) follow any enchilada recipe and use the lentils instead of meat.
I like to cook the lentils a day before so they are already prepared. The instant pot makes cooking both dried lentils and dried beans quite easy with minimal work.
I dunno if this will help anyone eat more veggies, but I realized salads are way more enjoyable for me once I started mixing buldak sauce with my dressing.
It’s aways a great time to join team veg!
Membership is open! Join for a single meal, or go hardcore and fully vegan! There’s no rules, you’re still on the team if you go veggie one meal a year or every single meal for the rest of your life. It’s flexible!
We’ve got tasty daals, chilis, curries, pan-seared mushroom steaks, a million flavors of hummus, tofus, pulled BBQ seitan, juicy vital wheat gluten roasts, and so much more!
It’s also cheap! Homemade hummus is incredible and light on the wallet! You’ll discover a world of extremely tasty foods!
Please don’t do choco hummus
The bad thing is, this will effect all food prices. As one food price rises, people buy alternatives, which raises the price of everything else.
Still, they aren’t going to rise as much as beef, so it’s still a good idea to switch. It’s just good to keep in mind that no one is isolated.
As a vegan, this kind of language is inclusionary and promotes adoption of our lifestyle, even if it’s slow as molasses.
Thank you for your advocacy!
Hail Seitan! 15+ years here vegan. Won’t ever go back.
If I could, I would have done it years ago. I imagine there are others like me who have health issues that keep them from the switch. I’ve been to many medical professionals and I just can’t do it. I was told I actually have to eat more meat which sucks, but I do get sick if I don’t.
Hail Seiten!
Hail seitan!
I love this. Im firmly in team veg but still haven’t given up meat. It may come one day, but for now im happy with about half my meals being vegetarian.
Yeah, there’s a really high Indian population in my area, and India has a huge vegetarian population. So most of the restaurants around me actually have decent veg options. I doubt I’d ever go fully vegan, but even casual “eat meat when you feel like it, but don’t intentionally make it the centerpiece of every meal” vegetarianism is extremely easy nowadays.
What’s your favorite simple and easy vegetarian recipe that’s filling?
I’m not vegetarian, I love me a good cheeseburger every once in a blue moon and always will, but I don’t eat a lot of red meat and I’ve been trying to eat less and less meat in general. I’m not going to pretend eating meat in today’s world is ethical, but neither will there be a noticeable difference if I stop buying my pound or two of chicken and a filet of fish every month. I grew up on a meat and potatoes diet and while I’ve learned a lot since then I’m still not great at cooking filling vegetarian meals, I feel like every time I cook completely without meat I end up absolutely starving in an hour, even if I have protein from other sources.
Yeah not eating enough protein does that. Try TVP. It’s an extremely versatile (Chilli, Lasagne, meatloaf, meat balls, bolognese, Asian fried noodles etc.) and cheap (for now) replacement for ground beef. It seems to have a better amino acid profile than chicken:
Chicken: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Total-amino-acids-and-amino-acid-content-g-100-g-meat_tbl1_338348672
TVP: https://www.admanimalnutrition.com/webcenter/content/conn/WCC1/uuid/dDocName%3ATVPSPECSHEET
It blows chicken out of the water regarding minerals like iron, magnesium or calcium. Compare the TVP-spec-sheet with this. Tofu (if made with gypsum as a coagulant) is even more packed with calcium, where 100g can already mean more than 1/2 of your daily needs.
Chicken comes with more vitamins (but also antibiotically resistant bacteria, chloride, growth hormones and animal suffering), while TVP brings anti-oxidants in the form of isoflavinoids.
Yeah it’s based on soybeans but you can see tons of manly man vegan body builders eating that stuff on a daily basis. They got big breasts but those are not from phythoestrogens.
Regarding your Burger addiction. TVP is the perfect remedy.
A quadrillion of websites exist for fire vegan recipes (which take care of the vitamins missing with TVP) with one of the most prolific one being https://www.noracooks.com/.
Beans tacos. Basically cook canned black beans in taco seasoning and some water until the water cooks down. Then just throw whatever you like with your tacos on it. Cooking an onion in with the beans makes it even better, but it requires chopping an onion
In general I’ve found that a lot of meat recipes work well if you replace the meat with beans or mushrooms.
Spicy bean chili with crispy golden cornbread is a classic American dish that will stick to your ribs pardner!
I can nearly eat my weight in hummus and butter garlic naan with seitan tikka masla, very filling and so delicious!
Or if you’re ever not sure you’ll get full enough, kick back a baked potato 15 minutes before the meal, it’ll give you something to digest.
Slightly related I’m a big fan of trying to get 30g+ of fiber every day, and 1 tsp of psyllium husk in water before each meal. I’ll end up staying fuller longer and feel better.
So I grew up 95% vegetarian. Stir fry can be adapted to fit just about anyone’s taste, and is dead simple to make (and filling).
The first thing your going to want to learn is how to cook rice. This might be in a pot, rice cooker, or something else. Find what works for you.
Now with your rice cooking, do a hard pan fry of some tofu. Your goal is to get it crispy via the highest heat your stove can put out (think wok levels if you can). The trick is to use a firm (or extra firm) tofu that has been patted dry and cut into small cubes, oil and a lot of heat. From here add in a few veggies that you like and top with a basic teriyaki sauce.
That’s a basic stir fry on rice. Mix the rice into the pan and you start down the road of fried rice.
I like a good bowl meal. The template is grain/pseudo-grain, legume, two or three veggies, sauce. So you could have a quinoa and chickpea bowl with pickled red onions, kale, and roasted red peppers, topped with a hummus tahini sauce. Or a black bean and rice bowl with pickled jalapeños, grilled corn (which is also technically a grain but it still works as a vegetable) and chopped red tomatoes, with an avocado crema sauce. It’s extremely flexible, easy to make, and good for meal prepping. You can add an additional protein if it’s still not filling enough, like fried tofu or crumbled tempeh or seitan “chicken”.
It’s far from the only way to make an easy, filling veggie meal, but it’s one of the easiest frameworks for people used to the “meat, carb, vegetable side dish” style of meal.
I’m not vegetarian either, but bean quesadillas are always a good, cheap, and easy meal when I’m lazy. It can be as easy as open a can of black beans, drain and rinse, put on a big tortilla with cheese and some jarred salsa, cook both sides in a frying pan. If I’m feeling like doing a little more, I’ll add some diced tomato and jalapenos. You can be eating in as little as 10 minutes.
I know you didn’t ask me but I also grew up on meat and potatoes.
I’ve recently discovered lentil enchiladas are very tasty. Cook the lentils in vegetable broth, after you have cooked lentils ( pretty good on there own) follow any enchilada recipe and use the lentils instead of meat.
I like to cook the lentils a day before so they are already prepared. The instant pot makes cooking both dried lentils and dried beans quite easy with minimal work.
I dunno if this will help anyone eat more veggies, but I realized salads are way more enjoyable for me once I started mixing buldak sauce with my dressing.
Being a vegetarian won’t save you from maggots eating your skin though.
think we can enlighten the maggots to switch their diets?
It’s pretty rare for it to infect people. It does happen, but humans are not a prefered host
Well I think if you eat those we can all agree that is an ok exception to eating vegetarian, it is more like self defense at that point.