I always love tofu and other meat substitutes. The website Meat Substitute - Soy Foods - Tofu Scrambler - Meat Alternatives provides inspiration and creative ideas.

I was vegetarian for two years and I used to get substitutes called Not Bacon - which tasted exactly like bacon without the fat.

I also got Not Dogs which were the veggie version of hot dogs. They tasted great too!

I think people are just wary of trying the meat substitutes if they are big meat lovers. But you are so right. There really isn't that much of a difference. My friend has been a vegetarian almost all her life, and anytime I would go to dinner at her house it was always meat free meals with meat substitutes and the food was great. Her mom was a terrific cook though.

I would love to be a real vegetarian eating only veggies but I love meat too much to give up meat completely. So I will try to eat more tofu and non-meat stuff

Yeah I am one of those people who don't like to substitute my meat. I am such a meat lover...but when I do eat meat I eat lean meat that doesn't have much fat.

Meat is still meat no matter lean or fat The trick is to eat less and eat more veggie since both of us cannnot be total vegetarians

I don't ever want to substitute my meaty meals with pure veggies,though I love including them in my meals. I don't eat in bulks so it doesn't matter if I have meat quite often.