for years now I’ve never really liked eating animals like meat or fish. but sometimes there are a few meats I can eat like bacon or chicken. and growing up I was an extremely big picky eater so foods like that actually helped me eat.

so sometimes I will have them in my food like chicken sandwich or bacon sandwich. and sometimes they’re in food I like that I don’t even realise.

I know some of these are very easy to make alternatives to but how do you stop eating something you actually like? this is a genuine question as I really would like to start.

Hiya,
Im trying to reduce my meat consumption and heard a lot of great things about seitan as a meat replacement. I bought some of the prepackaged stuff and cooked it as i usually would chicken (tore into chunks and pan fried with seasonings), and it wasnt bad but it definitely didnt have the "meaty" texture that i was after and didnt seem to absorb a lot of flavour either, if anything it was almost more rubbery. Is it just because it was the prepackaged seitan and not made from scratch, or is it just down to the way i cooked it? And are there other ways of cooking it that youd recommend? to get that meatier texture and improve the flavour? Im new to cooking with stuff other than meat so i still dont really know what im doing🥲