TLDR: I am looking for more diverse non-meat options than your average restaurant or supermarket provides. Because they don’t quite work for me as well as I’d like.
I am not a picky eater, I enjoy vegan food and non-vegan food alike. I’ve noticed most “vegan” advertised products are just meat imitations that taste like seasoned cardboard.
Too darn often do I see cooks and stores trying to replace the visuals of meat, rather than finding something that tastes satisfying in it’s own way. I’d be eating more vegan food if the options available had a similar convenience and filled me up properly.
Which may sound stupid, but I’ve tried going vegan and I did not feel great. I guess beans and tofu are not for me. Now I realise I may sound like an uninformed dingus who doesn’t know how to find decent ingredients and recipes… That’s because I am.
But I would really like to find some options that work for me. And I’m fine with trying 20 things over the course of a month and deciding only a few work for me.
Does anyone here have any advice?
hmm did you try to google like “vegan recipes”? Also it might be helpful if you tell a bit more what did you try so far or its only those new meat alternatives? Did you ever tried tofu/soy meat/fuzhu? About new meat things that taste bad, i figured out that if you cook it with tones of spice the taste might improve. Like you can try different ways of cooking it.
tofu and soy aren’t for me, but I have never heard of fuzhu before. I’ll see if I can find any (and if not, make some).
I’ve mostly had my mom’s cooking when it comes to vegan meals, because my little brother went vegan. She cooked mostly grocery store fake-meat stuff. Back then she cooked a brand called “the vegan butcher”. And now I want to move more towards plant based stuff, but I am just terrible at it. (with the exception of pancakes)
Part of this is just going to be practice and some failure, which is fine. I’ll get there. I want to get better at cooking anyways.