Mock Meats are great for families like mine where one person is vegetarian/vegan and the other is not. My husband wants to cut down on meat, but he doesn't strictly eat veg... and he doesn't mind when I use Mock meat.... so it makes it easier to cook for him and the rest of my family.

It's SUCH a vegan thing to actually be happy about the fact that your favorite vegan product is no longer in stock because you feel happy that demand is up and fabrication will continue. I find this hilarious.

As long as its vegan - who cares? In the end, no animals are harmed and there is less environmental impact. If the person enjoys it and likes it and eats it over actual animal products - thats a win! Yes, it may not be the healthiest, but eating mostly whole foods with mock meats here and there won't kill you :)

Round of applause 👏🏻 I’m sick of the stigma that people are “bad vegans” for eating mock meats/cheeses etc. Some people are busy, can’t cook, or maybe just plain like mock foods? Preach it girl

I have yet to hear a rational argument against mock meats. Some people claim mock meats are mere "replicas" of slaughtered animals, and should therefore be avoided, but cows and pigs don't come in the form of patties or hot dogs. And purchasing them does not increase demand in animal products. Mock meats are high in protein, convenient, harmless to animals, and tasty! Eat them :)

Girl, your hair is looking FABULOUS

826 days without the recipe. Stop trying to evade our attention from the one and true mock meat, kale seitan.

I hate when ppl say they are only for “transitioning”. I guess I’m still transitioning. 3.5 years later. Lol

I don't super love mock meats, but my husband (a non vegan) will eat them. He loves the Field Roast apple sage sausages. I think it's a good step and I'm proud of him for choosing to consume less meat.

While I'm not even a vegetarian, I do replace large amounts of meat in my diet with substitutes. I've probably replaced 80% of the meat with substitutes or with beans & rice. I love the soy crumbles most. Where I live hot chiles are everywhere and I like to make tacos and frito pie with the chiles and soy crumbles.

Oh-oh, she mentioned The-Recipe-That-Must-Not-Be-Named

I just wanted to say, as a new vegetarian (and mostly vegan at home) I love your channel. I loved finding someone who is more interested in valid science than pseudoscience that fits your “agenda”. I also appreciate that you’re not super judgmental of people who haven’t gone completely vegetarian or vegan. You’re exactly the type of vegan I didn’t think existed! I started watching you before I was even considering going veggie (not really sure how you ended up in my feed but I’m glad!) and you were definitely a reason I cut out meat! Thanks again!

mock meats are amazing. i looove using the beefless tips in stir fry's. much tastier and more filling than just using vegetables!

I'm on the carnivore diet except with only mock meats.

I love your makeup! Especially the lip colour. :) I’m not exclusively vegetarian anymore but, I always watch your stuff still. I have many days throughout the week where I don’t eat meat. I’m looking to do this more. Thanks for the mock meat ideas and inspiration!

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I have so many feelings about this. I find there is a lot of mock meat shaming/diet purity that goes on and I will never understand it. I worry that a lot of it comes from a place of disordered eating or orthorexia, where people truly seem to fear certain foods if they are more processed. It also reinforces the message that veganism = healthy eating which I think can put many people off trying it because they assume they will never reach that level of control/purity and like to eat out too much/have a drink every now and again. I do get irritated when people insinuate that "real" vegans only need plant foods and that mock meats are solely for those transitioning, who maybe haven't got over the need for meat yet. I've had several vegans be quite condescending to me for liking mock meats and assure me that soon I won't need those anymore, not to mention the meat eaters who come out with the age old "if you don't want to eat meat why make something look like meat?" line. It irritates me mostly because my own personal experiences fly in the face of all of these things. Before going vegan I made the decision to go vegetarian as a child and haven't eaten meat for 23 years. As a result of this, I haven't eaten many meat dishes - I've never had a steak, never had pepperoni, chorizo, beef tacos, even the things I have tried I don't really remember the taste of. I can't miss the taste of food that I've never had! I have however had vegan versions of all these things because...why not? Why not try new dishes and taste new flavours and give these things a whirl? It seems pointless to essentially self-flagellate and restrict myself to chase some impossible notion of purity. I care about my health and eat plenty of plant foods but give me the vegan nachos and burgers any day!

I love your pragmatic and rational approach to everything, I've watched more of your videos than anyone else's in the last 5 weeks of eating only plant based foods. I eat the crap out of mock meats and cheese and vegan snacks. Without them I'd have probably caved already and eaten animal products in a moment of weakness. These things are especially useful when I'm particularly hormonal and my cravings are a bit out of control. I don't see any of it as a transition food at all and I have no intention of removing processed foods from my diet completely, though I do plan on eating less of it down the line after I have a bigger arsenal of unprocessed vegan recipes I can rely on. For now? I will keep eating the crap out of substitute products to keep me on the right path. Thank you for being awesome and helpful!

I’m vegan but I LOVE the taste of meat. I fall into the trap of eating “naturally” and not have processed foods but hen I always come back to your channel and I can justify eating the mock meats that I love! I also have a husband who isn’t vegan and having these mock meats help him eat vegan at home. He also doesn’t like many vegetables so I love that the mock meats can fill out his meal. Do you have any information on mock seafood? I saw that some Whole Foods will be serving a vegan raw tuna in their sushi section but I would love to know if the industry is headed in that direction. Thanks!

I love mock meat so much. I'm mexican and the beef crumbles hit my authentic Mexican craving and my parents love it also even as meat eaters.

I started running again recently and found I was ravenously hungry every few hours. I upped my protein with vegan protein powder and mockmeats (more them before) it has helped so much. So stores like Kroger's and sprouts have store brand mockmeats now which is cool. The sprouts chicken pattie is great cut up on top of a salad. Anyway I'm rambling that is all...

Supporting the faux meat/ plant based alternative industry is a really good point for buying them I had never thought about.

Love the style today, you're totally killing it.

Jackfruit is honestly amazing! Nutritionally pretty neutral, but honestly it's really convincing as a mock-shredded pork. I haven't tried the jackfruit commercial mock meats (too much money to justify, especially since they're not protein-rich) but I highly recommend the canned young green jackfruit at Trader Joe's and cooking it yourself with some barbecue sauce or whatever you fancy!

I'm gonna have mock meat for lunch, I love that I can have a burger without the destruction

Love your makeup here!! The red lip goes great with your complexion.

I don't love all mock meats, but I think brands like Gardein do a really good job of making tasty ones. I notice I tend to prefer mock chicken than mock ham or beef though.

Thank you for introducing TVP into my life back in the days when you were kind of obsessed with it!

I'm with you on the protein, feel my best on the higher end as well. FYI: The Gardein Sweet and Sour Porkless Bites in the airfryer..AMAZING!!

Hi I have seen your videos for a long time and I really love them I find them very informative and enjoyable. Your content is very well researched and I think it would be very interesting to hear your opinion on the documentary the magic pill. Thank you so much for your content keep it going please !!! Change the world on step at a time 😊

I’m not vegan but discovered Gimme Lean sausage when we were hosting some friends who are vegetarian. We love it and actually prefer it to pork sausage. We use Gimme Lean now 😜

Honestly, I'm southern and it's much more pleasurable for me to eat mock meats and seitan dishes sometimes.

I just had to pause the video--I literally just heard "Hey guys!" and I gotta say you look GORGEOUS omg.

Great video, I love how you keep it real! I will never go back to eating meat, but if I can get similar taste...absolutely!

Great video! As a student who works, time is limited so mock meats are my go to for lunch many days because I don't have time during the middle of most of my days to actually cook.

Good to know! Binge watching your videos.. KEEP up the great content. 🌱💚🌱

Hey there, I like how honest you are and it's refreshing to finally see a vegan, who doesn't shame people who don't eat all natural diets (whole foods and stuff) I'm currently considering having more protein in my diet, because I'm always tired and have no energy, yet doctors find nothing wrong with me. I've been like this at least since my early teens (am now 23). In my country, however, the market for mock meats is lacking variety (although definitely increasing over the last few months, which is great to see) I've never liked beans and most other legumes though and even when I ate meat, I never liked it a lot and therefore probably never got a lot of protein. After watching this video I will definitely give the mock meats another try and hopefully find some that are not too unhealthy and are enjoyable for me.

If you want to make dried beans easy, get a pressure cooker! You've got to soak them overnight, but the next day it's so easy, I just stick them in with some water and bring up to pressure, cook for ~4 minutes and then turn off the heat and let them sit until the pressure releases itself. Planning ahead is still a thing, but the total effort is just a few quick easy steps with gaps between them. I mean, I can soak them overnight, stick them on the cooker while I'm having breakfast, doesn't take long to boil then cook for four minutes, turn off the heat and forget about them until I need them later. Not having to buy canned beans is a big money saver, saves metal and the dried beans are a lot easier to carry back from the shop and store in the kitchen.

Gardein meatless meatballs are near indistinguishable from the meat version 💕

homemade tempeh is super simple and for some reason tastes way better than the storebought stuff cant stand commercial tempeh, but i cant get enough of the stuff I culture myself. and I'm no DIY kinda gal, I like premade stuff, but this is soooo worth it

Thank for you for making this!!! 😃 I’ve been eating a lot of mock meats lately, (especially beyond meat because it’s gluten and soy free - which I’m sensitive to) and I was starting to feel guilty about it ... feeling much better now 😊 Love your videos!!!

It's so funny you made this video today. I haven't had mock meats in a while but I just tried the tofurky italian sausages recently and was like wow this is what's been missing in my life haha Bless

I add beans and mock meats to my food, as well as a ton of greens to everything I cook.

They aren't a staple in my diet, but I like mock meats. I don't like the sodium content in some of them.

I hear you on the tempeh, but if you ever find yourself in Eugene, head over to the Red Barn Grocery store on Blair and order a BBQ tempeh sandwich with avocado and all the fixings. It's a game changer!

I love your videos! That lip color looks amazing on you 😍 I feel you on the cooking aspect lol I have 3 little ones. They always keep me on my toes and zap my energy by the end of the day usually. I have days where I want to cook and meal prep...but then I have those days where I just want to order vegan pizza and cook a gardein product. That’s not to say I don’t eat mostly healthy and plant based...because I do ☺️ but it’s all about balance for me. One day I’m eating healthy all day and the next I’m indulging in french fries and vegan ice cream hehe

I find steaming tempeh for 10-15 minutes gets rid of all bitterness. Also marinating overnight.

This was a great video. I've always loved mock meats, having been raised on vegetarian options from a young age, but our ranges in the UK where I live are so limited compared to all the fascinating and delicious sounding things found elsewhere, and when I do find something new it's inevitably expensive. Even our regular options are often beyond my means, so I hope with the ongoing momentum of the vegan movement, things continue to get cheaper and more available, especially as I know I don't meet my protein requirements most of the time, even eating beans and tofu regularly. I would love to incorporate more mock meats into my diet.

Fry's is the best mock-meat brand I've tried. Very affordable too since I live near the factory where the Fry's products are made.

I love mock meats, I wish our store had more variety. I was also surprised to see Hellmans come up with a vegan mayonnaise! It's tasty and vegan and we only buy that one now, even if my partner is not vegan :)

My favorite way to add protein is to use the Barilla protein plus noodles. They mix bean flours into the noodles and the texture is basically the same while seamlessly adding more protein to a dish.

You’re makeup looks so good, you’re killing it

Love how you said "really quickly" yet this video is .... wait for it ... TWENTY MINUTES LOOOOOOOOONG.

I never liked chicken much, but the mock chicken is so guuuud. I really love it. Because of my weight, my energy and protein (along with everything else) needs are higher. And I don't eat enough to reach the things I need to reach. I use cronometer to follow my nutrient intake. And I just don't eat enough. So having protein-packed fake meats is great. They taste great and they give me a boost I need.

I like Gardein products and hickory smoked tofurky 😋 I don’t use them everyday, because they can get pricey, but yum.

I had the Gardein Tips last night. Steamed them on top of spinach, mushrooms, beans sprouts,broccoli and little pearl onions, with teriyaki sauce. It was awesome. They are so good. I am totally happy with all the products you mentioned. I thought I had to be raw or nothing. I can do this.I drink green juice for breakfast . I eat 3 to 7 servings of veggies a day and 4 to 10 servings of protein a week. The soy based meat is hard for me to digest ( but not as hard as meat ) so I try to get more greens. The vegan cheese from heaven. It melts like a dream. Tested it for grilled cheese and melted over cooked spinach. It looks and tastes like deli style white american cheese. Good as Land O' Lakes> Field Roast Brand. I have gotten it at Fry's ( Kroger ) , Sprouts. They have a Butternut Squash Roast that is out of this world. I am doing most veggies frozen because it keeps it simple. But I am eating like a Queen. I am satisfied but not stuffed, but full. And I do not relapse on meat cheese or processed sugar. Frozen fruit blended with fresh or frozen bananas make the best desert and late night snack a few times a week. The food is delicious. This is my strategy to lose weight. And it is working. It is sustaining me. And my exercise program is increasing daily steps and yoga. It is transitional for me.Eventually I would prefer to get my protein from other plant sources and more whole plant sources of protein. But to each his own. Right now it works like or charm to support my life and my health. I am happy eating this way. I can maintain it. I am way happy eating this way and a little fat sometimes to cook with or as a condiment like salad dressing. It is like a relief. I could never maintain fully raw . Keto or Mc Dougalls high carb/starch. Totally torn. Never got anywhere. I do try to combine properly and sometimes I do not. But this works. Right now these products are the best thing that ever happened to me. A little high in sodium is probably my only complaint because my ankles swell a little from them. Plus food tastes better if it is salt and peppered fresh before serving.

I think you are great with fantastic videos that have superb information. =) The lipstick you're wearing looks beautiful on you!

you don't like black beans?? ok, now I know you're trying to start controversy ;)

I made tempeh sausages last week that don't even taste like tempeh: first shred the tempeh into rough flakes and put them into boiling stock for 5 minutes. Then strain the tempeh shreds and add them in a bowl together with mustard, sage, thyme, pepper and some (wholewheat) flour (salt is optional). Knead sausages in your hands, roll them through some more flour and breadcrumbs and bake them in the oven (but baking them in the pan with some oil tastes better).

i feel like mock meats are a great way to get people interested in eating more meat free meals even if theyre not going vegetarian or vegan. ive turned so many of my friends onto some of the aldi products like the zesty vegan meatballs or other easyish to find mock meats like the tofurkey italian sausage or morning star buffalo wings just because theyre delicious!

I’m a vegan body builder and I get 170 + grams of protein a day and honestly your channels the only one I could find that gives me ideas of what I can eat trying to be high protein lower carb tvp is such a life saver thank you for all the info ♥️💯

For protein, I like quinoa. I cook it without salt so I can add it to salads and smoothies. I also like chickpeas, black beans, and kidney beans in salads. I like making my own vegan bacon using tempeh. I also add pea protein powder to smoothies. I find that protein energizes me. I also like to eat mock meats, but maybe only once a week since it's so processed.

Loving the makeup in this video ^_^.

The Better than Meat products, and the Field Roast Wild Mushroom Deli Slices are loved by all our meat eating friends, and its nice to be able to serve a meat like meal to make them feel welcomed and now they ask for vegan meals. Small steps on their path to being more plant based.

I have a lot of problems with digestion and can't really eat big amounts of beans, but mock meats are usually a lot easier for my stomach to handle! I'm so excited that there are constantly new mock meats coming out that I get to try, and see how well I can handle them. At the moment I'm not vegan (I've tried, ended up spending most of the day in the bathroom), but with the help of processed and easier to digest mock meats, I'm hoping to one day being able to go 100% vegan. And also, even though it can be extremely annoying, it's pretty awesome that stores are often out of the oat milk that I buy, and a lot of stores where I live have even made bigger sections for non dairy milks. I'm not happy whenever I have to buy a more expensive brand that I don't like as much, but the fact that more people are choosing plant based milk alternatives is awesome!

For beef stew I use beefy flavored TVP chunks that I can get on Amazon.. they last me a lot longer as well but I have purchased the mock meat products but I ended up needing to freeze them all because they came too close to their date and I hadn't used them yet. I've got to start to use these because some days my caregivers don't help me cook and it would be something that I could cook for myself. I purchase tofurky slow-roasted chicken Deli slices and it was a plastic bag of chunks it was not slices of anything. However I used them in several ways and they were tasty. I am going to have to go to Whole Foods to find any of these.

Totally agree about the protein. I need it to feel satisfied. Otherwise I keep eating

Your hair is on point in this vid.

For dark coloured seitan, in place of Caramel Colouring, we add Soy Sauce and brown veggie broth to the mix -- we also boil it in water with some veggie broth cubes added. The broth is homemade so the only salt is from the sauce sauce (otherwise, it'd be way too salty to use bouillon cubes and soy sauce. xD

I was watching another of her video, and I have to say she looks really good here with this hairstyle !

Mom foods matter. Many of my warm and happy memories of childhood and of my family are inextricably connected to food. There are some "unhealthy" reasons for this, but it's not all "dysfunction" or mindless/meaningless repetition of family patterning. Eating is communal, social, cultural...i dont see anything wrong or unhealthy with revisiting the happy past through food. When I make dishes for my family, there are stories I tell my kids about Easter or Christmas dinner, how my mother and grandmother made "depression stew" (ground beef, potatoes , green beans and DELICIOUS) because grandma lived through the depression and learned to MAKE DO. How the butter was fashioned into a lamb as symbolism for easter dinner. You know what I mean. Yay for mock meats, especially when I feel like crying into a bowl of depression stew.

I still haven't been able to try the Beyond Sausage.... Always sold out at my local Whole Foods. Bittersweet!!

For me trying mock meats is just fun! It's so so cool that we can make 'meat' with plants. I love making seitan because it's fun in the end! I'm planning a trip to the US from Canada this summer just so I can get mock meats not sold in Canada I'm interested in trying.

Hard agree. Also I love your lip color here, it looks great on you!

I love mock meats! I finally found the vegan/vegetarian section at the Safeway by my house (they also have a great selection of non-dairy ice cream) and the Tofurky sausage is the best! I tried the Italian one and picked up some breakfast sausages and I'm not gonna lie, they don't taste that different from meat. At least for me they satisfy that meat craving I still get and I get some much needed protein

Okay, I'm going to try some of these mock meats out. I do not want to cut meat out of my diet but if I can find a healthier alternative, I'm all for it.

Thanks for sharing this!

Home made tempeh is a game changer! Way less bitter, can be made with chickpeas instead of soy beans too if you want a change, and it's sooo cheap! ❤

I had mock duck curry today! I think it's fine as long as it's vegan 🌱💕

I once ate an entire large jar of chocolate almond butter in 2 days. Beat that.

I like how logical you are and the research and reasoning you present for things but flavor palette we are different I love tempeh and love black beans XD

I'm so happy someone else agrees with me about tempeh. I try, i really try and i just hate it.

Man mock meats are awesome, my mum who loves real meat, tried the mock meat sausages I bought, and decided to stock some for herself! Btw dude the lip colour is great

Vegan sausage is my god- the apple sage field roast sausage? Delightful. That trader joes jackfruit curry you mentioned is really tasty, but I never feel full after frozen dinners (too small? not enough protein?). Adding a can of chickpeas to it helped a lot, though. I'll have to try the kielbasa!

Homemade seitan is my most favorite fake meat. I usually steam it for an hour then throw in the air fryer for 10 minutes on 400 degrees and its ready to eat immediately without needing to cool it for 8 hours like some seitan recipes say to do. It usually lasts me all day and I use abit over 1 cup of vital wheat gluten and thats already 100 grams of protein.

I would definitely love to try those mock meats, but I am not even sure if they sell it anywhere in my country. Any advice?

I need to try the kielbasa now! I love light life smart dogs and veggie fritters 😋 I need to try the smart bacon I have some in my fridge. How do you usually prepare it? I think it would go well with tofu scramble!

I loved this! I sometimes feel bad about eating mock meats and this definitely helped me feel less of that.

Well I did read that isolated soya protein tends to cause inflammation. Such highly processed and industrially produced foods, one pauses to think. It's all in the details too: the fine print should be read to be wary of various additives, flavourings, colourings, stabilizers erc. and excess salt.

I want to eat mockmeats as well, but the good ones (and vast majority of them) are made out of soy and I get sick when eating that. I agree that putting beans in your dinner isn't the same as a good mockmeat. I am not a great legume fan and beans the biggest problem right now for going full vegan. I must eat them for lysine, because soy isn't an option. I don't want to eat beans and lentiles every single day twice a day. I do not enjoy my diet that way, so I supplement with lysine pills now and hope that those actually work >.< (Nut/seeds allergy as well)

Love this video because I'm a fan of mock meats too! Gardein has yet to do me wrong. I watched a video recently where the lady doesn't press her tofu before she cooks it, saying the water usually evaporates. Have you tried this and if you did do you notice a difference between the pressed and unpressed tofu?

I love mock meats. I wish I could afford to eat them more often. I recently tried the Morning Star nuggets and corn dogs. Those were damn good. I love the fact that they aren't organic and have some GMO ingredients in them. I just wish they were cheaper. $4 a pack is a wee bit spendy compared to beans.

so i feel like most mock meats are super processed, but the field roast sausages (italian and apple sage) aren't overly processed and are SO good!!

Another fantastic video my friend!!how do you get your iron?as a vegan I struggle with getting enough daily unless I take a supplement!!

Loved this video! In a vegan group I'm in on facebook, if you mention mock meats you will be demonized and that is so annoying! I love mock meats and I love supporting the industry

I love mock meats, I don't have them all day but almost daily yes, I just had deshebrada vegan tacos

I was so confused as a non-vegan! Thank you so much!!

The make up is iconic

Same here, absolutely love mock meats 😍 I’m so excited Tyson is starting to make plant based alternatives!!! Also, tried that impossible burger at a local place here in Salem, and holy moly...... it taste exactly like meat! Even my husband who isn’t vegan (yet , I’m working on him) was fooled by it! Tried some jackfruit mock meat and to be honest I didn’t care for it, but to each their own.