Now to your question

Here’s a few things you can do that my experience has shown meatie types really enjoy.

The one thing that always gets a positive response and comments like “This is all tofu?” is a chocolate ‘cream’ pie made from tofu flavored with cocoa, raw sugar and either vegan margarine (like EarthBalance) or extra virgin coconut oil. You can top it with Soyatoo (vegan version of Redi-Whip), Ener-G whipped topping or soft tofu whipped with powdered raw sugar.

To make “fish-finger/chicken nugget” type stuff is also easy! Simply cut a block of firm tofu into sticks or chunks, freeze, then drain, batter and fry. You can add fishy flavor to the tofu by marinating the sticks in a seaweed broth for a few hours before freezing. You can get poultryish flavors by marinating the chunks in veggie broth heavily dosed with poultry seasoning spice blend or you could use one of the vegan replacements like “Not-Chik’n”. You can add seaweed powder or poultry seasoning to the batter/breading to boost the flavor as well.

It’s *really* not that hard to replace the dead animal stuff, I’d give you exact recipes but I stopped doing that after finding out that some paid membership only websites were claiming my recipes as theirs and charging folks for them.

saute onion and mushroom in oil – let cool
mix cooked rice, bulgar, oats in a large bowl
stir in vegan cheese
stir in cooked mushroom and onion
add chopped chives
add emulsifier
season to taste

to cook: grill in patties, fry patties in pan, etc. or
to stuff peppers:
Brown a bit in a pan with oil, slice peppers in half (long ways) stuff pepper halves with the browned veggie mix and place in oven at 350 for 20 minutes or until peppers are to the desired softness.
to stuff chicken:
brown mix in pan, stuff whole chicken and place in oven at 350, cook until chicken is done!

Before I get all kinds of grief for talking about chicken on the V & V forum – I am a vegetarian but I do cook meat for others in my house.

2 shallots
2 soon fulls of olive oil
1 packet of seitan
3 larges potatoes
2-3 carrots
400 ml of vegetable stock in water
salt
pepper
paprika
20cl of soy cream

Peel and chop up the shallot. Fry it in the oil, then add the seitan in cubes and cook for 5 minutes. During that time, peel the potatoes and carrots and cut them into slices. Add them to the seitan and shallots, cook for 5 minutes. Add the vegetable stock, salt and pepper. Cover and cook at low heat for about half an hour. Take the lid of and let it cook a little longer until the water evaporates, then add the soy cream and paprika, until it’s hot. Eat right away.

Good luck, hope you get there in the end. Any one who has tried this recipe has loved it, so I hope you and your family will to!

You can also try simple but great dishes like rice in tomato sauce with red beans and a few spices. Your kids should enjoy that (maybe without the spices?).

Anyway, don’t listen to the rubbish about kids needing meat, I never eat any (I was brought up in a veggie familly), and I never, ever had any health problems or lack or anything.

Go vegan!

My favorite is burritos: tortillas, rice, beans, guacamole, salsa, jalapenos…mmm!

Well, you’ve definitively answered the most important question about your veganship. You aren’t vegan because you simply don’t like meat … you’re one of the “look at me, I’m an attention whore!” precious snowflake vegans who carries a clear disposition of superiority with them wherever they go because they don’t eat meat (surprise!). Congratulations, you’re a tremendous human being … or not.

Here’s a newsflash for you … animals provide quite a bit of nutrition, and are damn tasty as well. Millions of people the world over eat meat and are perfectly healthy, so your whining about not eating meat because it’s unhealthy is a solid load of horseshit. If you want to be a vegan, go right ahead. Your kids should have the ability to make that decision on their own, and your husband clearly already has. Whether you realize it or not, your smug “go vegan!” terror campaign is tantamount to forcing your own lifestyle on the rest of your family (and, incidentally, is why carnivores like myself find most vegans to be monumental assholes who don’t know the difference between their business and mine).

And the McDonald’s analogy? Sorry, that’s a huge FAIL on your part. *Never* taking my kids to McDonald’s would be an apt analogy … not taking them to McDonald’s every day of their lives is not. Thank you for clearly demonstrating your intellectual ineptitude.

I’d invite you to go fly a kite, but the wind would probably carry your protein-deficient body away, along with your warped sense of nutrition and misplaced faux morality campaign.

On second thought, go fly a kite.