Fake cheese 'n meat OR real cheese 'n fake meat?

Diamond Member Joined: Aug 03 2007 Posts: 4449

I was just wondering, what do you prefer or what do you like more?

(E.g. on pizza, burgers, snacks, meals, lasagna, sandwiches etc etc etc)

Silver Member Joined: Jul 23 2007 Posts: 869

I'm not much of a meat person to begin with. So I have a number of recipes with fake meat. My absolute favorite is tacos. Real cheese and you can't much taste any difference in the meat because of the taco seasonings. Yum!

Platinum Member Joined: Aug 29 2007 Posts: 12058

I don't go for fake food. I don't like the taste & I'm allergic to soy anyway.

you forgot fake meat with fake cheese.

Truthfully, I never had fake cheese, but I still would rather have the real stuff. Fake meat, blech!! I don't mean anything against fake meat lovers.

Platinum Member Joined: Jul 27 2007 Posts: 15010

I love good cheese and I prefer fake meat to real meat, so I guess you have my answer.

I love cheese on anything and the fake meat I buy is really good. Fake cheese tends to be yuck-o.

Plus, then you can have ice cream for dessert!

Platinum Member Joined: Jul 27 2007 Posts: 15010

I agree. I like fake meat better than real meat. No gristle. Even the word gristle grosses me out.

Gold Member Joined: Jan 22 2008 Posts: 1743

I like fake meat but for some reason fake cheese makes me nauseous. On second thought maybe it's a pregancy thing because it didn't used to.

Diamond Member Joined: Aug 03 2007 Posts: 4449

As I started this thread I also need to answer. First of all I don't like real meat. Never have. I do, however, loooooove fake meat (the good stuff, not those nasty brands).

I also love REAL cheese. Fake cheese is just sooooo nasty, even though I understand meat lovers (like my husband) have no choice if they want a cheeseburger or "salami and cheese" pizza.

So for me it's easy; fake meat with real cheese. Plus you can drink real chocolate milk with it!

Executive Member Joined: Apr 29 2008 Posts: 324

I'm totally with you on the fake meat, real cheese. What do you consider the "good brands" of fake meat?

Senior Member Joined: Sep 16 2008 Posts: 148

I am a big fan of morning star farms fake meat. they have good stuff and it is mostly low-carb, which helped me a lot during my pregnancy with Gestational Diabetes. I love it with melted cheese. yum.

I just cannot make myself cook something like fake meat smothered with parve cream. I know it's theoretically kosher but cannot stomoch the thought of it.

Having said that, my family likes fake meat. DS addicted to Tivali veggie sausages, we use Tivali
burgers and Quorn mince a lot. I'm not a big fan of fake cheese, though we use soya milk,
soya cream, kids like having soya custard and soya yogurt after basari dinner. I'd rather
have parve sorbet over parve icecream (though Swedish Glace is not that bad and kids love
Toffuti cuties).

Gold Member Joined: Oct 29 2005 Posts: 1016 Location: ny

Some fake meat doesn't taste like meat, but doesn't taste bad. Fake cheese tastes like bad margarine.

Silver Member Joined: May 14 2007 Posts: 580

fake cheese is pretty much flower and oil Puke

at a barmitzvah I went to, they served "cheese"burgers Shocked

Diamond Member Joined: Nov 30 2006 Posts: 2613

Neither, but in a pinch, fake meat. Fake cheese I won't use at all, it's like plastic. Euch.

I try to keep my use of pareve substitutes to a minimum--I don't use Rich Whip either if I can help it.

Platinum Member Joined: Apr 06 2008 Posts: 5151

I've made meat lasagna with parve bechamel sauce - using soy milk, and it comes out really well