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Fake Meat Ranking

be and i both highly recommend the CVS brand cheese crackers instead of Cheez Its. The CVS brand has a much better cracker texture and are significantly cheaper. be just ate an entire bag, minus the handful i had!

Tonight in an attempt to reduce produce: be made stir fried eggplant and fake pork with sesame oil, i made mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy, be made (and enjoyed eating) collard greens with lemon, i made more cornbread (minus jalepenos in one pan for be) and he also ate a sunny-side up egg. We still need to juice the apples and pears and carrots.

I've been craving Boca brand fake breakfast sausages. I usually fry some up and eat them with grits on the mornings i have time, but our supermarket decided to stop stocking them. I bought the Boca sausage made with organic soy at another supermarket but the texture was pretty mushy - i do not recommend the organic ones. The regular ones however, are delicious! be and i have tried many brands of fake meat and can report our favorites as such:

1) Sausage: Boca brand breakfast links, non-organic

2) Chicken patties: Morningstar Chik Patties (breaded) and Gardenburger Chik N Grill (grilled)

3) Ground beef: Morningstar Crumbles (bigger chunks) or Quorn brand (finer texture)

4) Ham: S.W. brand at May Wah Healthy Vegetarian Food store, big "link" vacuum sealed packaging

5) Fish: The one with the seaweed "skin" at May Wah

6) Flavored fake meat: Veggie Citrus Spareribs at May Wah or Morningstar Parmesan Ranch Chik Patties

7) Hot dogs: St. Yves The Good Dog

8) Chicken pieces: Quorn brand

9) Chicken nuggets: Morningstar Buffalo Wings and Guan-in-shiang brand at May Wah

10) Hamburger patties: Boca brand or Grillers Prime

11) Fried Chicken: Crispy Soul Chicken at VP2

Overall, we find the fake meats at May Wah to be of high quality and very tasty. The brands you can find at the supermarket all tend to make 1 or 2 items very well but are lacking excellence in their other offerings. The Quorn brand is harder to find but their fake meats tend to be so accurate it's a bit strange! When we were first pondering trying Quorn (it was on sale at Whole Foods), two different people came up to us as we were staring into the freezer and highly recommended it! It's pretty unusual for people in New York to talk to strangers at the supermarket, so we took their word for it considering the social barrier they had to overcome to approach us and speak. As for bacon, pepperoni, cold cuts and meatballs, there are decent brands out there but none we think are great. If we had to pick one item from the above list as "best of show" it would have to be Veggie Citrus Spareribs. It's so quick and delicious. One time be bought 10 bags from May Wah because he couldn't stop eating it!

posted by beXn @ 12:30 PM