Vegetarian protein?
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mrsdjordan
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I never seem to be able to get enough protein. I eat some Quorn, eggs, whole meal bread/pasta, brown rice, beans, small amount cheese. Don't drink cows milk and our house is nut free due to my older sons allergy.
Any ideas what else I can eat to up my protein?
Any ideas what else I can eat to up my protein?
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Yogurts, beans, vegetarian meat substitutes like Morning "sausages" (which are PHENOMENAL, btw), and you could also get straight-up protein powders.0
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Beans, eggs, cheese are already great sources. To add to the good ideas above....also oats, edamame pods or dry roasted edamame, peas, and seeds like sunflower or pumpkin.0
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Quinoa and chia seeds are packed with protein. 1 cup of quinoa has 24 g and 2 tbsp of chia seeds have 4 g (and are packed full of other nutrients too). Sprinkle some chia seeds on your oatmeal or cereal or add them to smoothie. Thee internet is teaming with quinoa recipes. I recently made this: http://pinchofyum.com/creamy-chicken-quinoa-broccoli-casserole which you can easily modify to fit your dietary requirements (no bacon, quorn instead of chicken and soymilk for cow's milk). It makes 7 servings and each serving is 330ish calories with 34 g of protein.
Also if you are a cereal eater, many cereals such as Kashi and even special K have protein packed cereals.0 -
I get more than enough from beans (garbanzo beans are great), nuts, and seeds and a little here and there from leafy sources that just add up. I manage fine even on less than 1400 calories a day most days.0
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I'm vegan, but I struggle with protein too. I'm not sure if you can have PB2 in your house with a nut allergy but it's been helping... I add it to everything. I also use nutritional yeast in place of cheese and it has a lot of protein. I recently just bough Jarrow's protein powder to add to smoothies (15 grams!)
I don't hardly eat soy so that's difficult, but I do second the beans/chickpeas... Can you not have any nuts or just peanuts? I eat loads of raw almonds as well. Even leafy greens add up (broccoli, zucchini, kale, cooked spinach).0 -
Beans, hemp seeds, quinoa, freekeh, edemame, tofu, tempeh and good old protein powder. I use nutribiotic plain rice protein and the Vega One Nutritional line. I don't really eat dairy so it is a little bit more difficult for me but definiately doable. Since your vegetarian, you can also have greek yogurt.0
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You eat eggs, can you eat fish? I eat a lot of salmon. Tofu, and I add protein powder to smoothies.0
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Seitan hands down.0
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Greek yogurt and beans. Quest bars are pretty phenomenal, packing 20g of protein per bar, but they're pricey. And most if not all have nuts in them, but they're all individually sealed if that makes a difference.0
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You eat eggs, can you eat fish? I eat a lot of salmon. Tofu, and I add protein powder to smoothies.
Fish are animals. That makes fish pretty much an epic fail as vegetarian protein.0 -
humous, chickpeas, beans, protein bars0
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You eat eggs, can you eat fish? I eat a lot of salmon. Tofu, and I add protein powder to smoothies.
Fish are animals. That makes fish pretty much an epic fail as vegetarian protein.
I love this lol
As someone who has only been a veggie for a year and a half, I still find it really funny when people think eating fish means you're still a vegetarian.0 -
I never seem to be able to get enough protein. I eat some Quorn, eggs, whole meal bread/pasta, brown rice, beans, small amount cheese. Don't drink cows milk and our house is nut free due to my older sons allergy.
Any ideas what else I can eat to up my protein?
MFP might have your protein goals too high.0 -
After a lifetime of not drinking milk, I have recently started drinking soya milk. Tastes nice and quite a good source of protein. Get the unsweetened one though; a lot of them are packed with sugar.0
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I snack on cottage cheese to help boost my protein. You have a lot of other good suggestions on here.0
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chocolate soy milk! I personally don't believe any of the anti-soy stuff going around, I enjoy tofu and tempeh on occasion and we love chocolate soy milk ( i use almond milk mostly but soy sometimes with protein shakes for added protein). it's also a complete protein, as well as quinoa and hemp hearts0
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Wow some great ideas here, foods I'd totally forgotten about! Thanks!
Quinoa, saitan (mock duck?) both on my shopping day list may look into some hemp protein for a breakfast smoothie. I drink koko milk which doesn't have any protein unfortunately.0 -
I never seem to be able to get enough protein. I eat some Quorn, eggs, whole meal bread/pasta, brown rice, beans, small amount cheese. Don't drink cows milk and our house is nut free due to my older sons allergy.
Any ideas what else I can eat to up my protein?
MFP might have your protein goals too high.
It may, but unless I make a conscious effort, I'm deffo too high on carbs (fruit sugar, honey or real sugar on a bad day) and too low on protein in general. Maybe I'm just a sugar addict and need to go cold turkey!0 -
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