Plant-Based Alternatives for Meat Recipes

It’s Q&A Day at 10almonds!

Have a question or a request? We love to hear from you!

In cases where we’ve already covered something, we might link to what we wrote before, but will always be happy to revisit any of our topics again in the future too—there’s always more to say!

As ever: if the question/request can be answered briefly, we’ll do it here in our Q&A Thursday edition. If not, we’ll make a main feature of it shortly afterwards!

So, no question/request too big or small

❝How about providing a plant-based alternative when you post meat-based recipes? I appreciate how much you advocate for veggie diets and think offering an alternative with your recipes would support that❞

Glad you’re enjoying! And yes, we do usually do that. But: pardon, we missed one (the Tuna Steak with Protein Salad) because it’d be more than a simple this-for-that substitution, we didn’t already have an alternative recipe up (as with the salmon recipes such as the Chili Hot-Bedded Salmon and Thai Green Curry Salmon Burgers).

Our recipes, by the way, will tend towards being vegan, vegetarian, or at least pescatarian. This is for several reasons:

• Good science suggests the best diet for general purpose good health is one that is mostly plants, with optional moderate amounts of fermented dairy products, fish, and/or eggs.
• Your writer here (it’s me, hi) has been vegan for many years, transitioning to such via pescatarianism and ovo-lacto vegetarianism, and so the skill of cooking meat is least fresh in my memory, meaning I’d not be confident writing about that, especially as cooking meat has the gravest health consequences for messing it up.

Note on biases: notwithstanding this writer being vegan, we at 10almonds are committed to reporting the science as it stands with no agenda besides good health. Hence, there will continue to be unbiased information about animal products’ health considerations, positive as well as negative.

See also: Do We Need Animal Products To Be Healthy?

…as well as, of course, some animal-based classics from our archives including:

We Are Such Stuff As Fish Are Made Of & Eggs: All Things In Moderation?

Finishing with one for the vegans though, you might enjoy:

Which Plant Milk? We Compare 6 Of The Most Popular

Some previous articles you might enjoy meanwhile:

• Pinpointing The Usefulness Of Acupuncture
• Science-Based Alternative Pain Relief
• Peripheral Neuropathy: How To Avoid It, Manage It, Treat It
• What Does Lion’s Mane Actually Do, Anyway?

Take care!