I Can't Believe It's Not Meat! (Paperback)

by Roger Kilburn (Author), Diana Kilburn (Author), Monty Kilburn (Author)

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Product Description
From Harvest Direct, Inc., one of America's leading manufacturers of soy products, comes a tasty assortment of recipes using textured soy protein, the quick-to-cook meat substitute. Learn how to use a variety of types of textured soy in dishes that are a cinch to prepare and real family-pleasers. Adding more nutrition to your diet was never more delicious.

Product Details

• Paperback: 124 pages
• Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN); 1 edition (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570670889
• ISBN-13: 978-1570670886
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #856,408 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, August 5, 2000

By	K. Moody "Book Lover" (Ellenton, Florida) - See all my reviews

So you've looked in your local health food store and seen the "Veggie Ribs" and "Chiken Patties" mixes and thought, "Ya, right! " Well think again! The mixes in and of themselves are surprisingly wonderful. Great for families where all members are not vegetarian. They can fool the most ferocious meat-eater. Once you try one, you'll want to try more. Enter this book. It is a great tool for learning a variety of ways in which to incorporate textured soy into your diet through the use of these wonderful mixes. The recipes in this book are terrific, for example, try the Smokey Mountain Barbecue Chiken Tenders or the Chiken Breasts Dijon. Besides tasting great, the recipes are all very low in fat, but high in nutritional value (nutritional information is given for all recipes) and very easy. If you thought eating soy meant eating only tofu, try this book and open up a world of better health and taste! Your family will thank you for it.

39 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth it., January 27, 2004

By A Customer

Judging from the titles, the book should instruct how to make your own faux chicken, beef, and pork. This is not the case. All of the recipes call for prepackaged meat substitutes. Personally, I don't want to have to rely on a grocer's, Whole Foods included, poor selection of soy products. Almost everyone out there can figure out how to make traditional recipes vegetarian using meat substitutes. If you are new to the veg lifestyle, and have never cooked a meal in your life, this book might be somewhat useful; otherwise it's not worth it.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected., March 16, 2007

By	Dennis Triplett (Portland, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After purchasing this book, I found that most of the TVP products needed to be purchased from an online store rather than making it yourself. Unless you want to keep running to your local Health Food store or buying online, I would look elsewhere for TVP meat substitute cooking ideas.

Personally, I would rather make my own Chiken (that's how they spell it) strips, nuggets, etc. or beef substitutes, as a right of passage rather than buying them. That's what I thought I was getting when I bought this book, but no...