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Vegan Food Review: Trader Joe's Veggie Crumbles
When it starts to be winter, I want to cook all my food in the oven. I also absolutely love food stuffed with other foods--stuffed apples, stuffed peppers, stuffed pears, things with stuffing inside. So, when I saw Trader Joe's had a new kind of vegan fake meat crumble in their "cold but not frozen fake meats next to the vegetables" section, *and* saw that the package featured stuffed peppers, I went for it and bought 2 packages, for $2.99 each.
Oh my gosh, what a great deal! Not only was there little packaging (just a bag and a recyclable cardboard surround, but there is a *lot* of fake meat inside this deceptive little package. This would work great as a replacement for just about anything where you would use ground beef (which so often starts out as and then gets cooked into unidentifiable mush anyway). I made three dishes--one a kind of Indian-spiced chili, another garlic-ground-beef substitute for movie night with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ab3nd and my roommate E, and a third got added to my pre-existing pot of rice along with some spices for a delicious kind of casserole-thing. Both of these made immense amounts of food--the chili I shared with two friends, and it still lasted me for a week, for instance.
This would be perfect for tacos, stroganoff-type dishes, chili (obviously!), soup, meatballs, hamburgers, pizza, calzones, "stuffed" pizza, stuffed peppers...all of which I plan on making with the crumbles.
It's eat-and-eat, so it's easy to make.
How does it taste? A tiny bit crunchy after cooking, but I liked the texture and the very slight nutty flavor. Vegetarians liked it. Non-vegetarians also liked it. I hope TJ's keeps this stuff in stock forever.
Oh my gosh, what a great deal! Not only was there little packaging (just a bag and a recyclable cardboard surround, but there is a *lot* of fake meat inside this deceptive little package. This would work great as a replacement for just about anything where you would use ground beef (which so often starts out as and then gets cooked into unidentifiable mush anyway). I made three dishes--one a kind of Indian-spiced chili, another garlic-ground-beef substitute for movie night with
ab3nd and my roommate E, and a third got added to my pre-existing pot of rice along with some spices for a delicious kind of casserole-thing. Both of these made immense amounts of food--the chili I shared with two friends, and it still lasted me for a week, for instance.This would be perfect for tacos, stroganoff-type dishes, chili (obviously!), soup, meatballs, hamburgers, pizza, calzones, "stuffed" pizza, stuffed peppers...all of which I plan on making with the crumbles.
It's eat-and-eat, so it's easy to make.
How does it taste? A tiny bit crunchy after cooking, but I liked the texture and the very slight nutty flavor. Vegetarians liked it. Non-vegetarians also liked it. I hope TJ's keeps this stuff in stock forever.