I’ve tried,  honestly I have,  to cultivate an appreciation for vegetable based meat substitutions but have mostly been disappointed with the products I’ve encountered.

However,  as I read this post by Verena von Pfetten  and saw the pictures of the food,  I began to have hope that a viable alternative really does exist.  It’s called Gardien.  The company also produces a faux chicken and faux beef product that looks like the real McCoy.

I’m going to purchase some and play with it to see what I can produce.

Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think.

“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?  I’m halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God.  I could be eating a slow learner. ”

   ~Lynda Montgomery

One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.   

   ~Henry David Thoreau