Beyond Meat

[O Really]

I have tried some veggie burgers in the past, but not Beyond Meat. But uf-dah! For $10/lb I'd rather have something other than "...pea protein isolates, rice protein, mung bean protein, canola oil, coconut oil, and other ingredients like potato starch, apple extract, sunflower lecithin, and pomegranate powder with a range of vitamins and minerals." I'm thinking they were designed to be eaten like a burger with trimmings and would probably be closer to a beef taste. And yes, there are meatballs.

[Vrede too]

I got 1-and-1 from Burger King weeks back and ate them hours or a day apart. I lost track of which I was eating given the sauce and veggies they use.

[.Oomba.]

I haven't eaten mammals in maybe 25 years,
but hard as I try, I still need animal protein.
We use ground turkey in almost anything.
I've tried so-called meat substitutes, but I
just don't enjoy them, and then I get shaky.

[billy.pilgrim]

Beyond Meat and the Limits of a Tesla Strategy at the Grocery Store

Today, Beyond Meat (ticker: BYND) gets a big premium for its products, relative to animal protein. Barron’s found—at our local Amazon -owned Whole Foods—the Beyond Burger selling for about $12 a pound (two 4-ounce patties retail for $5.99). Whole Foods 365 brand vegetable burger patties sell for $6.40 a pound and ground beef goes for $5 a pound at the same store.

Beyond Meat’s Beyond Sausage product sells for $10.30 a pound, about 70% more than comparable pork sausage.

Chicken breasts sell for $7 a pound, chicken thighs sell for $4 a pound and whole chickens retail for $3 a pound. Beyond Meat isn’t selling a chicken replacement yet.

Bah. I shop the sales and usually can buy chicken thighs (my favorite) for under $1/lb.

Your mileage may vary.

I buy the whole chickens at $0.89/lb to $0.99/lb. I generally keep the breast and wings and sometimes the thighs if I'm making chicken and dumplings or chicken salad.
The rest usually goes into the pressure cooker for 55 minutes and is the basis for my dog or cat kibble (recipe by request).
If you compare buying whole to buying boneless breast and wings, it works out to free kibble.

I don't eat commercial turkey but do buy local turkey that are raised in open space and I eat wild turkey.