Tofu textures ranked by a nauseated person

Started 20 April 2026 · 12 replies · 77 hearts · read 1.4k times

IvesPenzance, UK · 20 April 2026

3 months ago

Tofu textures ranked by a nauseated person Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

The arrangements are the hard bit for me. Nothing medical has been difficult; the organising has been relentless.

I nearly did not ask because it sounds trivial written down, and it has been the most persistent difficulty of the last six months.

Every piece of advice I read appears to have been written for somebody with a completely different week from mine, so I am asking people whose weeks look like this.

I will come back and say what I settled on, in case it is useful to the next person asking this.

NemoneLewes, UK

My family eat the same things I do and nothing about the household changed, which was more achievable than I had expected.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

Stepping in to say what happens here when somebody describes a very tight situation: they get answered without a trace of judgement. That is not luck, it is the habit of the room, and it is worth protecting.

PietPretoria, ZA

The thing I would flag is not to let this become a project. Mine did for about two months and it was exhausting and unnecessary.

CloverTotnes, UK

I keep a note of what actually worked during the difficult fortnights, because from inside a good month I forget entirely.

TanviMumbai, IN

I would say ask specifically for somebody who knows plant-based eating. The first person I saw clearly did not and it wasted an appointment.

NoleneDurban, ZA

The bit in the middle is the bit I needed to read.

MableBolton, UK

Tanvi has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

Something practical: I batch things on a Sunday, which sounds tedious and takes forty minutes and covers most of my week.

5me too 5

BrynAberystwyth, UK

The texture changes early on were a bigger obstacle for me than the protein arithmetic, and nobody had warned me about them.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

Picking up Bryn’s point rather than starting a new one.

Protein without it becoming a chore is the whole problem, and most of the advice assumes a plate I do not eat from.

4me too 4

TorrinAberdeen, UK

#10

Coming back at two years to say it is completely routine now, that my bloods are fine, and that the planning stopped being work months ago.

RenFacilitatorBristol, UK

#11

I want to slow this down slightly. Every household described in a thread like this is real, and not one of those arrangements transfers whole to anybody else, which is why the detail matters more than the conclusion.

NemoneLewes, UK

#12

What Torrin described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Something practical: I keep something ready in the fridge at all times, because when my appetite is low I will not cook.