Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Food, Cooking, and Game Preparation if i was going to be vegetarian, what would i eat for protein?

i ain't sayin' i am going to be vegan/vegetarian, whatever.

but if i was planning to become one, whar's the protein coming from?

soybeans, maybe? i don't know. just askin'

i like beef, pork, chicken and fish.

but we're here to talk stuff.

so, plant protein from??

There are all kind of ways. Beans, lintels. I animal products are not out cheese, yogurt.

More I'm sure.

Hmm, lets see,
A steer, a elk or a deer eats a vegetarian diet and produces huge amounts of meat protein. Maybe it might work with a human too.....

How do you cook your lintels? I would think they would be either rock hard or very chewy...

Well, I'm only so fond of the little brown beans, not much taste at all. Without some meat with them they would be a dull soup. They are a source of protein however.

As to cooking, a fairly long time.

I think that they are mainly connected with a Passover meal.

Passover is an interesting double entendre... seeing as how a lintel is the part of a door frame that passes over your head when you walk through...

Lentils are the neat little legumes folks eat....

Well, that depends on how you feel about Genetically Modified food items ?

99% of the "WORLDS" soybean crop is genetically modified, therefore, all of the offshoot products too !

Not for me.

(Sigh)

Lotsa different bean types besides soybean.

Someone at Slavyanka’s church made a borscht with some big Lima-type beans. One would fill your spoon. What a great soup!

Garbanzo beans (chick peas), make for great hummus.

Lentils make a pretty good soup.

I wouldn’t want to go without meat, but I think I could find plenty of interesting foods to eat.

Someone had to say it...

Legumes and nuts, chia seeds, quinoa...lots of sources of plant based proteins. Just need to do a bit of research to make sure you are getting a complete protein intake.

Beans, beans, the musical fruit.
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Soybeans? Next time you walk a picked bean field scavenge some beans from around the edges. Will kill your hunger real fast with the pungency of cheap barn paint. No wonder they ferment the damn things.

Let's not forget Mushrooms !

Tempeh has the most complete protein of any vegan food. Same protein per gram as white meat chicken. All your amino acids.

^^^This^^^

Tofu

Peanut butter.

Quinoa, if you can stomach it. It's supposed to have most of the amino acids.

Beans + rice.


As for lentils, I bring 'em to a boil, then cook for 12-14 min. Drain, then stir them into a vinaigrette of lime juice & toasted sesame oil. I'll add a goodly amount of ground cumin, along with salt, pepper & some chipotle powder. Grated carrot & chopped cilantro finish it off.

Quick, 'n easy, but I'd not want it passing over my head...

FC