Originally Posted by
Tned
I'm ambivalent about it. As long as there is no milk protein, I don't really care if I have animal (mammal or fish/seafood) or plant. Last year when I was in Spain, I went to a place called Flax and Kale, and I wound up getting a pizza with fake chicken. I'm not going to say the fake chicken really tasted like chicken, but since it was a BBQ pizza, to your point, the BBQ sauce was the main star anyway and it was a reasonable facimile to the texture/look of chicken.
Another thing I've been eating, which far from calorie free, but that seem to be better alternatives to traditional snacks, is Hu cookies and From the Ground Up cauliflower or butternut squash chips. They seem to be a bit less calorie dense than the traditional alternatives. I similarly, when I can find them, have been eating things like Cauliflower gnochi, and birds eye lightly breaded green beans in lieu of fries (such as with a steak, which cooked on the pellet grill is beyond belief, while not Beyond Meat...), and a few times even breaded cauliflower "wings" cooked in the air fryer (didn't think they really were good enough to justify the calories).
I am REALLY a fan of the birds eye green beans. We don't eat them every day, not even every week, but when we feel like eating something like fries, the birds eye breaded green beans are awesome in an air fryer and the calories are very reasonable.
So, I dip my feet more in the periphery and not so much in the meat replacement, but instead lower calorie or lower glycemic response veggie based foods to traditional potato/sugar foods.
Still, I'm benefitting from the tree huggers and cow haters bringing this stuff mainstream. Heck, later this month they are rolling out the plant based reeses peanut butter cups. Woohoo, I am definitely going to try those!!