Had to click through to clarify. Plant-based meat is now cheaper than animal meat.
A plant-based diet without imitation meat has been significantly cheaper for a long time, of course.
I feel like I could use someone local to me to show me how it’s done. I can do things like vegetarian curries or swapping in some tofu or legumes for a protein, but anything involving actual fresh fruit and veg seems expensive. I love apples, but outside of the fall when I can get them from a local orchard, it seems they’re around $2 a piece at the supermarket, and the cheaper stores usually just have mealy apples that aren’t worth it.
It could totally just be me not knowing where to look as someone not experienced for hunting for non-meat deals, but it doesn’t help switching over to more fruit and veggie oriented foods.
Maybe try smaller supermarkets like a Mexican market if you have them near you, often times they get local veggies and fruit and sell cheaper
That is a good call. I will have to try to check out some of the smaller stores near me. I do like grabbing stuff from the Asian mega mart, but that’s far away so I wait until I have a big list of things I need. Their fruit hasn’t been that great, but they do have lots of great greens and other veg. They are my favorite place to get spices as well since they are so much more reasonably priced too.
The Arabic market near me seems like its about half the price of the regular grocery chain stores. A lot of times these places are nearby but people aren’t aware of them for some reason.
Honestly, good. Meat was only affordable because of subsidization anyway
At tesco in certain regions.
What a crazy headline.
right? here in sweden it’s still mind-bogglingly expensive for being some fucking processed beans/wheat, i can buy ground pork and chicken for WAY less money than almost any vegan meat substitute.
Reading these comment sections is always a fucking baffling experience: On one side there’s people who projectile vomit at the thought of meat and act like this is the utterly universal experience, and on the other side there’s people who don’t eat potatoes because they’re vegetables and who insist that all vegan meat substitutes decompose on exposure to the atmosphere.
I sincerely hope these are all just bots, because if you people actually live like this it’s very sad.
In reality, vegan meat substitutes are very very very obviously perfectly fine aside from the fact that the title of this post is borderline a lie, i certainly don’t see anything remotely like this on my store shelves where vegan meat generally costs 10-20% more than the equivalent pork or chicken product.If vegan meats were actually clearly cheaper than animal protein all poor people would be flocking to it, but that certainly doesn’t seem to have happened yet…
Tbh vegetarian/ vegan meals are best when they aren’t pretending to be something they are not.
I love a good vegan / vegetarian meal
Jein. I like the taste of meat, so the occasional substitute is great - and I also like to cook just purely vegan, preferably with vegetables only (no bulgur, rice etc). I wouldn’t want to completely miss out on the meat supplements though.
it’s cool if you think that, but it’s demonstrably not true for most people who are used to meat. I have tried vegan dishes without meat substitutes and at best it’s okay.
That was always my thought when I saw the meatless burgers, just try to make a delicious vegetarian burger instead if trying to copy the flavor if the meat one.
This sandwich place near my work makes a vegetarian pesto sandwich that is super good I often get that instead of the meat ones
Are they going to raise and kill less cows now?
Right now Trump wants to remove wild bison from Montana to make room for more cattle farms. So, sadly, no. This administration just wants to double-down on every bad idea they can think of. :(
I don’t really care for the beyond meats but I really like impossible meat. I was really excited when these alternatives finally hit stores as a good alternative to get people to eat less animal meats. While it’s unfortunate that grocery bills have gone up, I’m hoping as animal meat continues to get expensive, it drives more people to try alternatives and pushes the general populace to eat less animal based foods.
just eat good food. These meat-like pastes are just highly processed shit.
Try a portabello burger made properly.
I just wish my tax dollars weren’t wasted subsidizing more wasteful meat production.
I thought red states believed in a free market?
I feel like I’d be more inclined to try it, but I’ve never been a fan of ground beef.
I know it’s a staple and every one eats it, but honestly it’s just never been my favorite.
The beef flavor or the ground meat texture?
I like Beyond because it has a meatish flavor, but I think the flavor is very unique.
Well, I’m not too sure I’ve thought of it like that to be honest.
Maybe both? Idk. I think they do have them at some fast food places, so I’ll probably try a burger sooner or later.
I know that when I had a bocca burger, they were consistently so much better that I sort of quit eating regular burgers.
I guess they went under and I just never replaced them and it just hasn’t come up much since.
I mean, I’ll eat it to be polite, but I was raised to and don’t bother if I don’t have to.
I was raised of a lot of microwaved things and 70s style casseroles of packaged ingredients, so I’ve spent a bit of time trying to get used to better foods, especially fresh veg, as neither the taste or texture are things I was raised on. If I can figure out which it is about things that bother me, it makes adjusting to it easier, like roasted veggies I can generally accept much faster than boiled/steamed/sautéed. Also just dressing them up certain ways can go a long way.
That just made me curious if it was the concept of ground beef in and of itself that you didn’t like, or if you didn’t like any type of ground protein or any cut of beef.
Well, I’m from beef country and a meat packing family. So I don’t think it’s the flavor. It may stem from some snobbery.
That being said I did eat a lot of it growing up. Maybe I just had my fill.
Some of it is that whole if you know what’s in the sausage thing. I don’t know that I’ve really thought about it too much. It’s more like I just never need it for what I’m cooking so I don’t buy it.
I always find it intriguing how differently we all operate!
As someone who eats meat, I decided to try one of those plant-based ground beefs, just to see what they were like. When cooking, it didn’t brown, just stayed red. Bloated me for three days.
Never again.
Don’t throw everything in the same basket though ! The likes of Beyond or Impossible are made with pea protein, which can be tough to digest (especially if you’re like me with a pretty severe IBS). I think that they’re also good but only in some contexts (like burgers for instance)
You can find other plant based protein made from wheat gluten (seitan), or soy (tofu, tempeh, TVP, etc.). Of course you can also try beans, chickpeas, lentils if you can digest them properly.
That’s the great thing about plant based protein, you have plenty of choice, which you can decline pretty much infinitely. Learning to cook tofu properly is really rewarding.
Impossible is made with soy, not pea protein. I believe Beyond is the only one using pea protein (though I dont k ow if less well known brands are using it now as well).
Impossibles gimmick is that it’s supposed to taste more like meat than most alternatives.
name the product.
if you are a typical american, just eating fiber bloats you because there’s none in your diet
I’m Australian. And the product was Beyond Meat’s Beyond Mince.
Yeah, I’m gonna need the name of the brand, because I have a few vegetarian friends and when I do cookouts, they bring their beyond burgers and other plant-based substitutes, and every single one was cooked almost exactly like a burger.
I had a little trial and error with a few patties, since they’re not totally a 1:1 analog, but have had nothing but compliments for the last few picnics.
I definitely ruined the first two as I figured out ways to cook on my griddle top…
I make sure to clean the surface of the griddle of old residue and turn the heat to max for a bit to minimize exposure to any leftover animal fats from previous uses, and toss down the patties for the vegan, then once those are done I put a little butter on the griddle for the vegetarian patties.
The butter helps keep the patties from sticking to my griddle, but is obviously not vegan. The vegan patties I just have to keep paying attention to so nothing chars to the griddle top.
Note: I have not cooked these on a flame grill but it’s supposed to be similar to cooking a regular burger still.
Beyond Meat Beyond Mince
Also, if you are used to a zero fiber diet. Fiber gonna change you.
It’s good for the colon
god this stuff is so fucking funny, it’s so over the top that it’s obviously not true
Yeah, fake meat doesn’t seem to work out well.
But perhaps fish might work. I tried buying vegan baguette with fish sauce/spread, and it tastes convincing enough for me to be subconsciously scared of sharp bones. Which means that even everything else aside, it’s better as a product. Same price, same taste, no bones.I wish they’d sell that spread separately.
fake meat works absolutely fine, it’s been a solved problem for literally 60 years: Textured Vegetable Protein.
The version I tried was very similar. I doubt most people would even notice the difference.
I eat a plant based diet and I have never tried these. These are transition foods to get you to eat a little less meat, or help you on your way to a different diet. They are not healthy. Eating a well balanced nutritious diet keeps you full, happy, healthy and is affordable. A plant based diet is not always about the death of animals. Some people just want to be healthier.
They are still healthier than meat. For someone like me that stopped eating meat for environmental and ethical reasons, products like these keep me from going back to omnivory or flexitarianism.
After over a decade as a vegetarian I probably wouldn’t anyway, but my diet would be much less enjoyable and easy to maintain.
industry/factory processed meat is on average certainly less healthy than factory processed vegan altetnatives.
