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Old 11-10-2008, 10:33 AM   #47 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl View Post
And don't get me started on how much I love Quorn. You couldn't eat Quorn, Baraka, as it has egg white as a binder and therefore is not vegan, but because it's made of mycoprotein, it has a similar mouthfeel to meat, unlike many other meat substitutes.
Yes, there is now an amazing selection of vegetarian foods in pretty much every major grocery store, but it's true that vegans need to be careful to ensure there aren't any egg or dairy ingredients. (Honey is an issue as well.)

An example of this is the soy cheese slices you see everywhere here. They're normally by the Yves brand deli meats. (I'm not sure if the cheese is Yves or not.) If you look at the ingredients of the cheese, everything is fine except that they've included casein, which is a milk protein.

There are other products out there, such as block soy cheese in health food stores, but they're expensive. Well, so is regular cheese too, I guess....

Anyway, I can do without cheese, especially when you discover such things as miso gravy and whatnot to put on your burgers.

There is little more rewarding to me than eating a fully loaded grain burger on some nice bread--especially if some avocado has found its way on there somewhere.
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