Are there any other vegetarians that don't eat tofu?

Question

If you r a vegetarian and do not eat tofu or any fake meat what do u eat to keep a balanced diet

Answer 1

We dont need eat so much proteins than usually people think. I eat most of the time raw fruits and vegetables (and seed sprout). I get all I need there.
I wont say that I eat never tofu... sometimes I do because people cook that for me and I wont refuse it. But at home, I dont.

Answer 2

I eat tofu occasionally (perhaps 2-3 times per year), and I certainly don't consider it to be a "fake meat".

The REAL "fake meats," I would say, are the TVP (textured vegetable protein) products that are made specifically to look and taste similar to "meat" products. (It would be very rare I would eat these products - perhaps once in 3 or 4 years, if that.)

I mean, where do you draw the line? Eliminate all lentil-burgers, vege-burgers and the like, simply because some of them are vaguely shaped like beef patties and contain the suffix "burgers"? I wouldn't be at all surprised if the vege-burgers were invented first, and hamburgers are just, therefore, "fake vegetable". (I would probably only eat lentil-burgers or vege-burgers a couple of times per year, anyway.)

Most of the time I just eat all other types of vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, grains, breads, pulses (beans, peas, lentils), etc. and rarely feel the need (or the want) for tofu, or TVP or vege-burgers.

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An interesting sidelight is that the omnivores hijacked the very word "meat". In Old English, it just meant "food", even up till and including the King James Version of the Bible. The word that they could easily have stuck with is "flesh" - a perfectly usable word (compare the modern German word "Fleisch"), so why the need to commandeer and prostitute the word for "food"? Too late to do anything about it now, I guess. Grrrrrr!

Answer 3

I'm vegan and I enjoy tofu and soy products.

However, there are people with soy allergies that are still vegetarian.

You can eat seitan (wheat gluten, it is a high-protein stand-in for meat in most recipes). You can eat lots of various beans (garbanzo, kidney, fava), nuts/seeds (pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, almonds, walnuts, peanuts). Eat whole grains (whole-grain bread, whole-grain pasta, brown rice, quinoa). Eat lots of leafy green vegetables and lots of colorful veggies and fruits.

Since you said you are vegetarian you can eat dairy and eggs.

One last thing as this has come up a lot lately in the V&V forum, so just FYI for anyone reading or even for you (in case you didn't know). You can't call yourself vegetarian if you eat fish, sorry. Fish and seafood are still made out of meat, and the whole purpose of being vegetarian is to eat no meat whatsoever.

Answer 4

i don't think tofu or meat replacements are needed in a diet. All thats in them is pretty much calcium and and protein. Calcium you can get from nuts or soy milk, protein seems to be in everything these days. On average people eat 4 times more protein than reccommended. Vegetables are always good. Legumes too.

Answer 5

I've been a vegetarian for 9 months and I've yet to eat tofu. I eat dairy, beans, nuts, etc.

Answer 6

Soy is 1 of over 50+ food allergies in my life. So no Tofu, no Fake Meats,which usually also have wheat or eggs in them. I am allergic to both.
REAL FOOD. It helped once I shook off THE PROTEIN MYTH ~
http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/apr/dairy.htm

Slainté(to your health)

Answer 7

Veganism is simple, straight forward.

If no tofu, go for other varieties of protein source, like...

2 cup Oatmeal 12g
1 Bagel 9g
2 slices Whole Wheat Bread 5g
1 cup cooked Broccoli 4g
1 cup cooked Brown Rice 5g
2 Tbsp Almonds 4g
2 slices Whole Wheat Toast 5
1 cup cooked Bulgur 6
2 Tbsp Peanut Butter 8g
1 Baked Potato 4g
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Total per day 60g protein
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Is this solve your problem? Above is just an example.

Answer 8

Sorry, I adore tofu! You just have to prepare it right--freeze, press, cook, and eat.

Answer 9

I love tofu. You just gotta cook it right. Suated with broccoli.. yum!

Answer 10

Only raw fresh fruits and vegetables. My doctor also prescribes me prenatal vitamins. What's the point in pretending to be healthy?