My false-meat empanadas are the best.
Try using 50/50 minced meat/TVP and you won't notice the difference. I don't know how it behaves when doing meatballs or hamburguers, it probably crumbles if you don't add something else, but idk.
My false-meat empanadas are the best.
Try using 50/50 minced meat/TVP and you won't notice the difference. I don't know how it behaves when doing meatballs or hamburguers, it probably crumbles if you don't add something else, but idk.
TVP has a shit load of oxalate in it. If you have any digestive issues like leaky gut or have a family history of kidney stones I'd avoid as much soy as you can. It sucks cause i really like tofu but based on my diet i found out i was intaking waaay too much oxalate. Once i cut out all those high oxalate food from my diet i went straight into oxalate dumping symptoms as my body started purging itself. This is just a warning. I wish someone had taught me about that stuff sooner. Oxalates will fuck you up.
Ah I still remember the first and only time I googled oxalate crystals, nightmarish
Yea its the big lame. I jist want to eat plants cause they are delicious but now so many of them are off limits and it sucks. I was intaking so much per day. Tons of mixed nuts, spinach, fucking turmeric capsules and shit. Started cutting out some meats for tofu. Soak thay shit in liquid aminos and pan fry it omg. Got on the full health train. At first i was doing great cause there was a ton of weight loss and exercise and muscle gain. Then out of nowhere i started feeling worse. Energy took a dive. Waking up im the middle of the night with suuper cloudy pee. Doctors couldnt find anything wrong with blood work or urin samples. I was having inflammation throughout my body. Antibiotics did nothing so it wasnt any kind of infection.
Then there was a week when i cut it all out of my diet and started drinking citric acid (helps protect kidneys from the oxalates) and a lot of it cleared up. Sleeping way better, no more cloudy pee at night. Was nice. Then it all came back and its like a weekly cycle now. Theres a podcast i listened to about them here recently and this guy describes oxalate dumping and it was almost exactly what happened to me. Im still going through it now and its terrible and the dudes like "it can take years depending on how much has been sequestered in the body." Cool.
And i mean sure, it could be something else. Im seeing a urologist in a few weeks and probably going to have my kidneys checked too but so far its lookin real sus with these oxalates. I actually almost hope im wrong and it turns out to be an legitimately medically diagnosable thing and not this oxalate hocus-pocus shit thay has had very little official research done outside of kidney stones. Sigh