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Soy, seitan, and what I can actually get down

Started 23 November 2025 · 13 replies · 116 hearts · read 1.8k times

MableBolton, UK · 23 November 2025
8 months ago

A question rather than an update: Soy, seitan, and what I can actually get down

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

The thing I have not been able to find anywhere is how people manage this when the week has no fixed shape at all.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one, but the logistics of this are defeating me considerably more than the medicine is.

This is the boring administrative kind of problem, which I gather is the kind that actually gets solved when you ask.

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

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CloverTotnes, UK
#1

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

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#2

I am pleased with this thread. Practical, kind, no instructions, no comparisons. That is the whole brief.

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MorayElgin, UK
#3

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

Nothing here is medical advice and on supplements in particular it is worth a proper conversation rather than a thread.

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IvesPenzance, UK
#4

My experience of appointments improved once I stopped apologising for how I eat and simply stated it as a constraint to work within.

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NemoneLewes, UK
#5

Just marking that I read this properly rather than skimming it.

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#6

My dietitian understood plant-based eating properly and that made an enormous difference compared to the general advice I had been given.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#7

Pulses, tofu and a decent unflavoured powder are the whole of my system, and it took me a year to arrive at something that simple.

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PietPretoria, ZA
#8

What worked for me was spreading it across the day rather than trying to get it all into one meal, which was never going to happen.

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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#9

Torrin, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

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

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NoleneDurban, ZA
#10

What I found is that the powders I had dismissed turned out to be the thing that made this manageable during the hard months.

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MableBolton, UK
#11

Not a solution, just company.

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TanviMumbai, IN
#13

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

Somebody here suggested keeping a very short list on the fridge, and mine has been there for eighteen months and I still use it.

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