[Question] I am thinking about becoming a vegetarian and I have a few questions

Cajungal · Jun 20, 2012

Mmmm, Morningstar black bean burgers. I live to cut those up and throw em in a salad with romaine and avocado.

checkeredhat · Jun 20, 2012

best store bought veggie burgers I've had were Lick's Nature burgers. Friggin' EXCELLENT. Do not buy Yves veggie burgers though, dry as sand.

Bowielee · Jun 20, 2012

Fun Size said:
Basically, my experience is that there is one good brand of anything.

Morningstar Farms: Chicken Nuggets, black bean burgers, Buffalo wings, corn dogs, bacon, breakfast sausage
Field Roast: Other sausages (frankfurters, italian, apple sage or spicy Mexican chipotle - sweet zombie Jesus those things are good)
Tofurkey: Roast and sliced turkey

Trust me - I've been through a lot of really lousy substitutes to get to these.

Morning Star breakfast sausage is EXCELLENT!

I also like their BBQ ribs.

Fun Size · Jun 20, 2012

Ooh yeah, the riblet. It's like McDonald's McRib, but more meat-like.
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checkeredhat said:
Do not buy Yves anything though...

Man, I have yet to find anything they make that I like.

checkeredhat · Jun 20, 2012

I don't mind their tofurkey deli slices, or their veggie dogs. Unfortunately, Yves is pretty much all that most of the grocery stores around here carry. You need to go to either a Whole Foods or a SuperStore to get any real variety with vegetarian food around here.

Hylian · Jun 20, 2012

I have tried 2 different brands of soy bacon and so far both have been pretty good. The first one I tried was Morningstar's bacon and I enjoyed it. But I also saw how heavily processed it was and so I decided to try Lightlife's smart bacon since it was fairly minimally processed. And while I think I may prefer Morningstar's bacon a bit I will probably buy Lightlife's smart bacon if I need a bacaon substitute since it is less calories and it is not so heavily processed.

checkeredhat · Jun 20, 2012

I'll keep an eye out for those ones.

WasabiPoptart · Jun 21, 2012

Fun Size said:
Okay, Poptart, back that up right there. Morningstar Farms veggie bacon is crisp, salty goodness that, while lacking the chewy, greasy parts of real bacon, makes a damned fine BLT or pizza topping.

I admit I didn't try Morningstar Farms (who makes really good burgers, mini corn dogs and breakfast sausage btw). I am pretty sure it was Smart Bacon but it's been quite a few years so it may have been another brand my store carried. I could not get it out of my mouth fast enough (Nick, prom night, you know the drill.). The only thing I have eaten that was worse was green tea yogurt which still gives me a shiver down my spine just thinking about it.

Fun Size · Jun 22, 2012

Yeah, like I said - one good version of everything. It took me years of suffering to find good hot dogs. I got lucky with the bacon (which also bears similarities to Nick's Prom Night 2: Down On the Farm).

GasBandit · Jun 22, 2012

Busy at work, I grab a production order... from the copy, it's from "International Vegetarian Whatever" but it's a computer printout and the field for "client" was only long enough to display "International Vegeta."

So naturally I wrote on the form, "over 9000."

checkeredhat · Jun 26, 2012

I found vegetarian bacon for the first time ever today. It's not a brand that's been mentioned though.
Let's see how this goes:

Edit: NO.