Marketing. Also, people think you can only get protein from meat.

I prefer both

It's a large ongoing Facebook campaign. My mom is also obsessed with protein suddenly, so dumb.

Are there any health issues linked to a lack of fibre?

Beans are a less complete protein than soy, so you need to either eat a lot more or supplement with grain or dairy.

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Magic Tofu:

Per pound or 454g of extra-firm tofu:

• Break the tofu block apart by hands in a bowl, make pieces of 2cm/1'' large
• Add 1 table spoon of preferred oil (nut, vegetable oils)
• Add 1 table spoon of cider vinegar
• Add 1 table spoon of soy sauce
• Add 1 table spoon of sugar (best source are honey, agave or maple syrup)
• (Optional) Add 1-2 table spoons of preferred spicy sauce (I use sambal oelek or thai red curry paste)
• Mix
• Add 30 g of nutritional yeast
• Mix
• (Optional) Add more nutritional yeast for flavor (another 15 g should do), mix again
• Put on a baking tray, preferably with a parchment baking sheet to cover it, and spread the tofu apart
• Bake for 25 mins at 375°F or 190°C in the oven

Enjoy on everything! I add it on top of pizzas, in wraps, in a plate with vegetables and rice....---

Infredients: block of tofu
Prep: none
Cooking: none

Enjoy one bite at a time

I don't have a recipe as my wife is the tofu cook, but she uses silken tofu and cashews to make a shockingly good vegan mac and cheese. One of my kids became a vegetarian last year and now most of our meals are vegetarian or vegan just because it is too expensive and time consuming to make different meals.

Crispy Tofu and Veg Stacks with Pea Puree and Lemon Herb Sauce

I hate almost everything in this recipe but somehow it's insanely deliciious.

Crispy salt and pepper tofu

I love this one a lot, i marinate the tofu in soy sauce, oil and a little 5 spice after freezing and pressing it

• 1-2 packs of plain tofu, drained, cubed (about 200-400g)
• add to a pan and fry it a little until it shrinks in size and gets a little golden from all sides
• add soy sauce until it's all coated and let it simmer and absorb the soy sauce a little
• add a sweetener of your choice (agave syrup is the one I use), a good squeeze from the bottle is good
• paprika powder
• maybe MSG if you like the taste
• salt a little if you don't like MSG
• serve :)

There's a couple communities on Lemmy with a decent number of tofu recipes (plus plenty of other plant-based recipes which are not tofu)

!veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works

!veganhomecooks@lemmy.world

My personal favourite right now is:

• A pack of firm tofu (~200g drained) cut into comfortable bite sizes
• 2 tablespoons of soy
• 0,5 - 1 inch of grated ginger
• half a green onion chopped

Add together in a bowl, mix and serve.

It's a super quick side that goes well with nearly any of my regular dishes, and I eat it several times a week.

I've made my own tofu and it is not a big thing with many steps. Soak beans overnight, blend beans in blender, cook resulting slurry, strain, add coagulant, place in container and apply weight.

It's about the same amount of work as baking bread. However it is not cheaper than buying tofu from the store unless you can find very cheap soybeans.

90%+ of soya grown is used for animal feed. Funny how those of us that eat a lot of tofu manage to find it cheap very easily, and I'm still finding new types of Tofu 35 years later... I'm in the UK, but surely wherever you are can't be that far behind the rest of the world?

We get tofu blocks in various forms from all supermarkets (Aldi, Lidl, Asda, Tesco... etc.) for about £1 per block. Equivalent meat costs probably £3-£5. We sometimes get fresh (unpackaged) and deep fried tofu from our local Asian cash-and-carry, plus various tinned, vac-packed and jarred varieties. Occasionally we get "expensive" tinned braised tofu from local wholefood shops as a treat. Occasionally we get a Chinese take-away - several of our local ones do Tofu and Seitan. Our favourite one does their vegan dishes £1-£3 cheaper than the non-vegan options.

We don't buy frozen ready meals, but vegan ones do exist. We like cooking, and cook a lot from scratch, but there are lots of jarred sauces and sachets you can get that are vegan - it's completely possible to make a quick meal with a jar of pasta sauce, a tub of marinated tofu chunks and frozen veg, and it would still be cheaper than using frozen chicken chunks instead.

It's there if you go looking for it. A vegan diet is pretty cheap in reality - about 30% cheaper the way we do it, and we're not particularly frugal about it, nor do we put in much effort to achieve it. We buy the things we like where we know we can get them, probably just like you do.

My wife has made tofu as few times as well as a tofu analog using different types of beans and it was surprisingly good and it was less intensive to make than I expected. Tofu is fairly cheap, but I imagine you could make large batches without much additional work. I can't say that her was following some traditional method which might be more work, but it matched what I expected from tofu in the taste/texture dept.

Falafel goes great with hummus!