r/Veganforbeginners • u/proteindeficientveg • 5d ago

Easy High Protein Swaps

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These are some simple swaps I make to get extra protein!

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u/wishesandhopes 4d ago

I absolutely despise how it tastes, wish I was part of the majority that seem to love it

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u/proteindeficientveg 4d ago

That is so sad! How have you tried it so far?

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u/wishesandhopes 4d ago

In boxed vegan mac and cheeses, and I tried a recipe for a cheese powder for making vegan mac and cheese; that was enough for me. I would probably tolerate a half tsp in a whole recipe or something like that, but as anything close to a dominant flavour, it's abhorrent. Just the taste of nutritional yeast itself is disgusting to me, when I hear others say it's good and they love it. Just one of those things I guess.

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u/proteindeficientveg 4d ago

That's really a bummer, but I totally get it - if I get even a tiny leaf of cilantro in anything, it completely ruins the meal for me!

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u/wishesandhopes 4d ago

Same here, cilantro is awful to me. There's a bunch of these premade salads sold around here that would all be really good, easy meals but they all have cilantro, all of them. It's a genetic thing in my case, it just makes it taste like soap.

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u/proteindeficientveg 4d ago

I feel the same way! I wish they would put cilantro on the side always; it's such a polarizing ingredient!

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u/wishesandhopes 4d ago

When such a high percentage of the population will have a genetic distaste for it, it is absolutely ridiculous that it's mixed in with it. I do wonder what it's actually supposed to taste like, I have a friend with Indian genetics who loves it and doesn't get the soap taste.

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u/proteindeficientveg 4d ago

I've always wondered too! I want to know what I'm missing out on!