Worried about swapping out your meat and fish substitutes? Don’t have a cow, man!
The range of vegan meat, chicken and fish products available to us now is unREAL! I’ve noticed a huge improvement in the tastes and textures of meat substitute products over the last few years, to the point where some of my meat-loving friends are now choosing the alternatives over the real deal!
This isn’t an extensive list by any means but it includes both mine and my Instagram community’s favourite products to give you an idea of what to pick up when you’re in the supermarket next.
Let me know which ones are your favourites or if there are any you think I need to try:
Chicken
My faves
Chicken-Style Nuggets
Plant Kitchen Kiev
Nuggets
Southern fried bites
Sea salt & pepper chicken pieces
Nuggets
Roast chicken slices
Chicken pieces
Chicken pieces
Vegan no chicken burgers
Chicken pieces
Chicken-style strips
Chicken-style burgers
Chick’n strips
Original chunks
No chick strips
The chunk
Crunchy fillets
Hot & spicy burgers
Nuggets
Pulled chicken
Southern-style chicken
Vegetarian chicken bucket
Roast tenderstrips
Meat-free chicken style pieces
Nochicken chunks
Nochicken nuggets
Nochicken burgers
Lightly seasoned plant-based chick’n
Chiick seitan
Chicken pieces
Chicken tenders
Crisp-crumbed seitan slices
Homemade options:
Beef
My faves
🐮Beyond Meat
Burger patty
🐮 Iceland
No bull burger patty
🐮Linda McCartney
Beef Roast with red wine & shallot glaze
🐮Meatless Farm
Meat free mince
🐮Moving Mountains
Plant-based burgers
🐮Naked Glory
Quarter pounders
🐮 Naturli
Mince
Plant Power
Tempeh spare ribs
🐮 Sainsburys
Plant pioneers vegan steaks
🐮Aldi
No beef burger
🐮Birds Eye
Green cuisine meat free burgers
🐮Co Op
GRO The Incredible burger
🐮Future Farm
Burgers, mince and meatballs
🐮Lidl
Without meat plant-based burger patty
🐮Lightlife Foods
Plant-based burger
🐮Linda McCartney
Quarter pounder burger
🐮Marks and Spencer
No beef burger
🐮Meatless Farm
Meat free burgers
🐮Morrisons
Meat free burgers
🐮Oumph
Vegan burger
🐮Quorn
Ultimate burger
🐮Sainsbury’s
Plant Pioneers ultimate plant burger
Plant Pioneers meat free mince
Plant Pioneers meat free meatballs
🐮Squeaky Bean
Pastrami slices
🐮Tesco Food
Plant Chef meat free burgers
🐮Tesco Wicked Healthy
Jalapeño griller patties
🐮Vivera
Plant burger
Steak
🐮Waitrose
Chunky soya burgers
Vegan mince
Natural options:
🐮 Lentils – These work well as a mince substitute or in a wellington
🐮Mushrooms – These also work well as a mince / wellington substitute. You could also use them to create a burger patty
Pork
My faves
🐷 Beyond Meat
Sausages
🐷 Gosh
Veggie cocktail sausages with sage
🐷 Gregg’s
Now available in frozen form in Iceland
🐷 Linda McCartney
Sausages – Original
Sausages – Red Onion & Rosemary
Sausage Rolls
🐷 Moving Mountains
Hot dog
🐷 Naked Glory
Sausages
🐷 Richmond
Meat free sausages
🐷 Sainsbury’s
Shroomdogs
🐷 Squeaky Bean
Ham slices
🐷 Taifun
Tofu weiners
🐷 THIS Isn’t
Bacon
IG Community faves
🐷 Heck
Sausages
🐷 Linda McCartney
Pulled pork burger
🐷 Tofurky
Smoked ham slices
🐷 Vegusto
Smoked ham slices
🐷 Wall’s
Jumo sausage roll
Natural options:
🐷 Coconut or tofu can both be used to crispy bacon substitutes
🐷 Jackfruit can work well as a pulled pork substitute
Lamb
My faves
🐑 Vivera
Shawarma Kebab
IG Community faves
🐑 ALT
Lambless strips
Natural options:
🐑 Mushrooms can give a similar texture when cooked in the right way. The best lamb sub I’ve had from was in the platter pictured above and was a mix of mushrooms and soy protein
Duck
My faves
🦆Everbest
Mock duck
🦆Linda McCartney
Shredded hoisin duck
🦆Marks & Spencer
No duck spring rolls (I know lots of other brands do these too but I haven’t tried many yet)
IG Community faves
🦆Granovita
Mock Duck
🦆Wu Chung
Mock Duck
Natural options:
🦆Jackfruit
Fish
My faves
Fishless fingers
Smoked carrots
Golden, crispy fish-style fillets
Battered prawn-style pieces
Golden fishless fillet
Fishless fingers
Smoked salmon`
Smoked salmon
Veggie Goujons
Fish fillets
IG Community faves:
Vegan caviar aka Sjorapport / Seaweed pearls
Fishcakes
Goujons
Breaded fishless fillets
Fish fingers
Fish fingers
Fishless steaks
Vegan Prauns
Fishless goujons
Natural options:
Also, just want to give an honourable mention to tempeh and tofu which aren’t necessarily direct substitutes for any of the above but are items I use as a protein source in my meals regularly:
Turkey
🦃I haven’t had many vegan turkey substitutes that I love yet, I never really ate much of it even when I did eat meat but I’m eyeing up Wicked Kitchen’s no turkey crown and Peng Vegan Munch’s jackfruit turkey recipe
Tempeh
Better Nature
Club Cultured
Plant Power
Tofu
The best tofu I’ve tried is from supermarkets like Longdan
The Arty Vegan’s tofu is also excellent
In terms of supermarket brands, I like Tofoo Co Smoked Tofu and Clearspring Silken tofu the best
You can also pick up organic tofu from Cauldron, Dragonfly, M&S own brand, Clearspot and other brands
Other
Lots of people I know make their own seitan and if you’re feeling really brave, you could give your own soy protein a try too!