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Vegan/Vegetarian Meat Substitutes
- Provides recipes for bacon, beef, cheese, chicken, egg, fish, turkey and burger substitutes made without animal products.
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Meat and Meat Substitute Recipes
- Provides detailed descriptions of common substitutions as well as recipes that use them.
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Vegetarian Cuisine: Meat Substitutes
- Article provides an introduction to ready-made meat substitutes commonly found in grocery and health food stores. From About.com.
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The Vegetarian Society UK: Meat Substitutes
- Brief introduction to some common substitutions.
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Food Product Design: The Beef Behind Meat Substitutes
- Article explores the growing popularity of vegetarian "meats."
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Veggie Living: Frozen Meat Substitutes for Vegetarians and Vegans
- Provides links to frozen meat substitutes such as burgers, vegetable patties, and meatless slices. Tells whether each product is vegetarian or vegan.
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Meat Substitutes
- Large collection of recipes from VegSource.com.
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A Guide To Meat Substitutes
- Introduces seitan, tempeh and tofu.
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Meat Alternatives
- Brief guide to soy-based substitutions, as well as recipes for meatless sloppy joes, pigs in a blanket, and tacos.
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Would You Eat Meat Substitutes?
- Vegetarians respond to this question and explain the reasons behind their answers.
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TVP and Seiten Recipes
- More than 40 low-fat and fat-free main dishes. Most recipes are also vegan. From FatFree.com.
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Meat: What's the Alternative?
- Describes several products suitable for vegetarians who still miss the texture or taste of meat.
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Quorn.com
- Provides nutritional information, recipes, cooking tips, and a list of countries in which product is available.
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"Quorn" Meat Substitute Deceptively Labeled, CSPI Tells FDA
- Article contends that meat substitute is not mushroom-based and should not be labeled as such.
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Quorn's Popularity Mushrooming, but Yanks Must Go Without
- Article describes the European product's struggle to gain approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration.
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Quorn with Black Beans
- Simple stir-fry with an Oriental flare.
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Sweet and Sour King Quorn
- Deep-fried Chinese-style nuggets to be served over rice or noodles.
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Shepherdess Pie
- A meat-free alternative to Shepherd's Pie.
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Rice with Quorn and Mushroom Sauce
- Low-fat dish using just six ingredients.
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Bangers and Mash with Onion and Mustard Gravy
- Meat-free version of a traditional British dish.
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Quorn Kebabs
- Middle Eastern dish that can be prepared in 20 minutes.
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Quorn Tikka Masala
- Meat-free version of a popular Indian dish.
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Lentil and Quorn Curry
- Recipe using brown rice, red lentils, quorn, potato, and cauliflower.
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Infernal Vegetarian Chilli
- Made with quorn, chillies, tomatoes, and beans and served with rice and cheese.
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Arielle's Recipe Archives: Quorn Curry
- Indian-style dish including coconut, cashews, raisins and rice.
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The Vegetarian Wheat Meat
- Article describes this high-protein meat substitute, identifies commercial mixes and ready-made products, and tells how to make it from scratch. Also includes recipes for seitan-based stew, barbecues, strogonaff, and stir-fry.
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Veggie Living: Seitan
- Short introduction to the food and related links.
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Hail Seitan: A Vegan Thanksgiving by Rick Letwinka
- A cruelty-free menu starring this wheat-based turkey substitute.
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Seitan
- Step-by-step directions for making a steak substitute.
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Seitan Pastrami
- Recipe for a vegan version of the popular luncheon meat.
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Sweet and Sour Seitan
- Simple recipe using canned seitan and egg substitute.
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Vegetarian Chili con Seitan
- Offers a new twist on an old favorite.
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Barbecued Seitan Sandwiches
- Sandwich filling made from pre-packaged seitan.
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Gluten, aka Seitan
- Provides a basic introduction to making seitan at home.
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Seitan Recipes
- Small collection of recipes from About.com.
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Mushroom Seitan Stroganoff
- Recipe with step-by-step instructions.
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Basic Seitan
- A step-by-step guide to making this meat substitute from scratch.
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Using TVP
- Guide compares cost and nutritional values of TVP and meat. Explains how to reconstitute the substance and provides a handful of recipes.
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Faking it! TVP Recipes
- Includes recipes for vegetable chili, vegetable curry, and lasagne. From The Vegetarian Society UK.
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TVP: What A Strange Name
- Article examines the benefits of using TVP instead of meat.
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Textured Vegetable Protein - Recipe File
- Provides a large collection of recipes along with instructions for rehdrating TVP. From NurseHealer.com
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Vegetarian Recipes Around the World: Recipes with TVP
- Includes directions for making shepherd's pie, stuffed bell peppers, stew with dumplings, sausage and burgers. Most dishes are vegan.
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TVP Recipes
- Printable recipes for chilli sin carne, tortillas, and cottage pie.
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Vegan Recipes: TVP Sloppy Joes
- Easy-to-fix comfort food that can be served over muffins or rice.
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New El Paso Black Bean Chili
- Vegan chili recipe which includes onion, garlin, cumin, chili powder and green chilies.
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Macaroni & TVP Skillet Mix Recipe
- A vegetarian "hamburger" helper using TVP to make a quick skillet dinner. Dry mix can be made ahead and stored until needed.
