What do you eat?

[mietze]

I love tofu and seitan but I do not see them as meat "substitutes" as they are their own delicious thing. I think the substitute concept does not really work too well. I prefer the taste of soy, almond, or cashew beverages but they do not replace dairy products, it's a totally different taste and mouth feel.

There are some vegan "cheese" options I like as spreads, but it isnt cheese!

I still eat meat and dairy products too, but have happily eaten vegan and vegetarian for months or years at a time, especially when I didnt live in an area with immediate access to small farm eggs, milk, and mear.

[mietze]

I will say that probably one of the reasons why I like tofu and seitan is because I have always had access to fresh, locally produced products. The vaccum packed shelf stable stuff is gross (imo).

[Wretched]

I like meat. I //REALLY// like meat. I have cut back some on meat.

I like Carbs... I have cut back 99% of all carbs.

Veggies are... okay? I am eating a lot more of those.

Keto is hard, and i stumble,41103
2. but can be delicious.

Edit: My kitty says hi, (by stepping on my number keys) she demands treats. if she could eat nothing but treats, she would.

[Testament]

@Wretched said in What do you eat?:

I like meat. I //REALLY// like meat. I have cut back some on meat.

[Macha]

I want to try the impossible burger, just because I'm not a huge red meat eater (it can be painful if I don't watch it). I eat a lot of chicken and turkey, love my carbs a little too much, and need a new steamer so I can up my veggie consumption.

[mietze]

They havent been appearing here yet, but when they are in season I love chayote squash. They look like green grumpy muppet characters, have a very mild flavor and do NOT get squishy gross when sauteed like regular summer squash. We actually use them as taco fillings sometimes or in stir fries.

[Warma Sheen]

I've heard a lot about this thing, but I don't trust yet that it is anything other than a different version of the same old meat replacement. Are they just trying to cash in on a retrending fad by trying to convince people this is a whole new thing?

I'd love to be able to switch, but I don't think it will be comparable. I think it is aptly named as impossible. I definitely don't believe it has the same protein as actual meat. And most people don't need much protein, but I do, so for me, its likely not something I'd get into.

[jibberthehut]

man @Dreampipe was talking about it the other week, he tried it. I've been wanting to but funds do not allow!

I take care of a kid who is vegan. She brings her lunch with her, and I keep stuff on hand in the freezer for her just in case. Stocked up with vegan friendly snacks and on fridays everyone eats vegan. I try to match what the other kids eat with what she eats. So if her mother sends her with a vegan hot dog, the other kids get hot dogs, so she doesn't feel strange eating something different. Their sides are all the same because they get the fruits and veggies.

A parent brought doughnuts one day though, the doughnut holes and I felt bad because I didn't have something to sub in for that. But her parents told me to go ahead and give her one, it was okay, they understood raising their family in this way that this would happen and one doughnut hole wasn't going to kill her (It's a lifestyle choice for them as opposed to dietary requirement)

But now i'm trying to find a good recipe for cake/cupcakes because I tried the applesauce subbing and those cupcakes were bricks and horrible and they have birthday's soon enough and I'm determined to have cupcakes for her that are vegan.

But like someone else here says. Meat. Sorry. I love meat. God I love meat.

[Kanye Qwest]

@jibberthehut you can make delicious vegan cake and cupcakes, but it takes some elbow grease and willingness to delve into strange places. Aquafaba (the liquid from cooked chickpeas - canned is fine) is the best way to get fluffiness, because you can beat it to stiff peaks and you can do something called 'reverse creaming' to avoid the doughy, bready texture a pure applesauce substitution gives. You mix all the dry ingredients + sugar, then add your fats and stir it all together before you ever add liquid a bit at a time. Something about the fat molecules getting properly coated. Everything has to be room temp or you'll overmix and they'll be tough.

[Dreampipe]

I have had some gosh darn delicious vegan food in the few years that I've lived with a vegan and a regular ol vegetarian.

Black bean brownies, pretty rad. Fake meatball sub with fake cheese and marinara sauce that damn near tasted like the same thing. Impossible burger with mayo, radish, cheese and onions. Spicy bean burgers and veggie buffalo wings.

I love the chances I get to eat real meat too, but I've also found you can rarely go wrong with some food without extra murder.

When I'm not indulging in any of the above, I pretty commonly get something from Chipotle that makes me cry in pain while at the same time going "BUT IT'S SO GOOD SO IT'S WORTH IT". Italian food in general is also a big yes.

[Taika]

When we get moved into the new house (ha ha ha ha ha ha sob ha) we'll be about a hundred feet from an 8,000sqft lot we own and have enough space in the garage to finally dig into doing some small scale meat raising for the family, with intent to use mostly us-raised meats (so we know it isn't cruel), and have a massive 8,000sqft garden for the rest of our stuff. So we know what goes into.

The plan is to go keto/clean food, to give it the old college try to get my autoimmune shit under control (RA, fibro, chronic fatigue).

If we had Impossible Burgers, we would give them a try, for sure, but depending on how the label reads for carbs and sugars, etc, they might not get beyond being tried or had as a healthy 'treat' here and there.

[Ghost]

Someburros has gluten free hot sauce.
I ate a half pint of it today munching on chips.

I no longer eat Someburros gluten free hot sauce because I'm having a Fight Milk moment.

[Kanye Qwest]

@Taika https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018939274-What-are-the-nutrition-facts-

They plan on having them in grocery stores by the end of the year, last i heard.

[jibberthehut]

@Kanye-Qwest I will look into this. Thanks! Because they all have birthdays within a week of each other and last year it was birthday fruit tarts but it's just the same without cupcakes and those were a huuuuge failure. Her mom is like "they always turn out for me" but I just stared at the sunken brick mess and I can bake/cook like no ones business and my souffles turn out amazing so... Aquafaba I shall see! Got any recipe?

[Killer Klown]

Y'all know that trope about kids acting out to be different from their parents just for the sake of being different from their parents? My family for uncountable generations back are Hindu.
So, of course I honor the sacred cow with a side of fries whenever I can. I'll eat most anything you put in front of me, and I'll likely try it a second time just in case the first sampling was not a good representation. About the only thing I can't do are eggs - due to an allergy more than personal choice <which makes other aspects of life, like vaccinations and anesthetic, tricky>

[Ganymede]

@Taika said in What do you eat?:

The plan is to go keto/clean food, to give it the old college try to get my autoimmune shit under control (RA, fibro, chronic fatigue).

I think this is the best way to describe my diet. I like unprocessed foods and ingredients, and prefer steamed, roasted, and baked over fried food.

Except for diet drinks. Now that keto put me off of sugars, natural or refined, diet drinks actually taste sugary to me.

[Quinn]

I pretty much only ate cheeseburgers before I was married and had kids. Now that I've got kids on solid food I find myself trying to make sure they have a LOT more healthy choices than I did as a latch-key kid that grew up on Kraft mac and cheese or just regular old pasta. Though there were plenty of nights raiding the snack drawer was as close to dinner as we got.

We've switched from white bread to wheat and try to buy things that only have that whole grain logo on it. The kids do not seem to mind in the least. We also try to eat more chicken than we do beef, but because one of my kids is slightly anemic we do try to do beef tacos along with some other iron supplemented foods every other week or so. We've utterly convinced them that soda is gross and they only get juice if they go to a birthday party to keep sugars down. And we do our best to get them to eat veggies and fruits. I never ever EVER ate fish and now we try to work in some salmon every week. Which they won't touch but someday I'll land a recipe they like. I'm looking forward to them being older and having steadier diets so that we can join a local meat share that I've heard good things about. But right now it's still such a crapshoot on whether or not they'll eat something that we do have a reserve of frozen chicken nuggets and hotdogs on hand. While my youngest will at least TRY food, my oldest has been known to go on hunger strikes if we try to feed her something horrible like, oh I don't know, cheese lasagna. The horror.

The biggest challenge to buying health things is that produce is so damn expensive. So, it can sometimes make me hesitant to spend the extra money on something I'm not sure they'll eat. I'm told this will get better in a couple of years but right now yeesh. I'm looking forward to Impossible Burger going more mainstream because I do think they'll like it. Right now we do a lot of shopping at Trader Joes and they have some amazing bean burgers that I am just in love with and we try to hit up the farmers markets in the spring and summer so we're shopping local. A lot of them do fish now too, which is awesome. But I do try to be aware of the environmental impact of things these days cause holy shit does that terrify me for my kids.

[mietze]

Exposure to lots of different foods is great for kids but please dont beat yourself up if there are things they cant handle taste/texture wise, a lot of that can just be how they are! And the buggers change their preferences sometimes at the drop of a hat!

[Thenomain]

@Arkandel said in What do you eat?:

Food.

What do you guys think about Impossible Foods and manufactured meat in general?

I am deeply wary of Soylent because it’s an unvetted replacement for food.

For things that you replace other parts of food with? As long as it’s healthy, I’m fine with it. I even embrace our manufactured-foods cyberpunk future/present.

[Ghost]

@Thenomain Your Shadowrun low lifestyle purchase gives you regular soy-based proteins that you can use any number of chemicals to flavor it.