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Permalink Reply by Sheena on February 19, 2008 at 1:34am

The only things I ever get are the Meal Starters (the crumbles and the "chicken" strips) for when I just need to throw dinner together. Those two are pretty good. Haven't tried much else. :)

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Permalink Reply by Jeff on February 20, 2008 at 8:58pm

They sell it here for $2.75. The vegan Boca and the Wholefoods brand are $2.75 too. That's at the mainstream grocer, and unless they have a sale, Wholefoods charges $4 for EVERY brand of 10-oz soy-patty package (so fuck Wholefoods when the mainstream grocer 2 miles away sells it for so much less :-) and you might want to shop around at your own local stores).

All these frozen burgers taste decent for the convenience (esp if you add lots of condiments), but I prefer unfrozen ones, and there's a slight taste-difference with each frozen burger so ya gots ta taste-testing them all to see if you like one more than the others. The funny thing is soy should be a lot cheaper per-pound than beef-patties if Diet for a New America is accurate, but they might cost so much because: (a) small production volumes (b) government subsidies to meat -- although unlike most plants, SOY is government-subsidized heavily too...since they FEED soy to animals. (c) and maybe some stores or the soy producer is pocketing unreasonable profits. ;-) Still better than a "heart attack burger".

For the vegans: IIRC, there is only one vegan Morningstar burger (one of the "grillers") but I heard they recently promised to make more vegan products in the near future.

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Permalink Reply by Jenni on February 29, 2008 at 11:30am

My kids and I love their stuff! I use the chicken strips to throw in a stir fry and I can make dinner for about 10.00 or less for 4 people. WOOHOO!

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Permalink Reply by melissa on February 29, 2008 at 1:57pm

i did try the chicken as stir fry, and theyre pretty good. not a big fan of the burgers though. its a texture thing i think. ive tried boca burgers before and remember them to be pretty good.
thanks for the replys, folks! very helpful :-)

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Permalink Reply by ~*Vegan Val*~ on March 1, 2008 at 7:37am

I love the chicken strips as well as the veggie burgers & the chik'n nuggets. I just bought the faux bacon, haven't tried it yet, but I'm hoping that it's good. My kids love bacon and I really hope this will pass the test! ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Lacy on March 5, 2008 at 6:52am

Yes, my mom buys their products all the time and I've found them to be really good. :]

They're especially great for quick and easy meals since they're microwavable.
(But I prefer to oven-cook them)

My favorites are the "chicken" patties. :]]

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Permalink Reply by S@R@HbEtH on March 15, 2008 at 12:18am

i only rarely get that brand but if i do i only get the vegan chicken strips and vegan meat strips and their soycrumbs are alright but i think that may have eggs in it... i usually get boca brands i think that taste better or that lightlife brand. walmart usually carries all three and most other stores do as well.

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Permalink Reply by On Kloud 9 on March 15, 2008 at 9:34am

YES! I love the Meal Starters Crumbles (use wherever you'd use ground beef) & "Steak" strips. Both are vegan. My meat-eating boyfriend not only finds them tolerable, but actually likes them too. Stir-fry the "steak" strips & add to stir-fried veggies, & you've got a quick & easy vegan dinner.

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Permalink Reply by Briton on March 17, 2008 at 9:46pm

I use them almost every day and highly recommend most of the MorningStar Farms products. My family is vegetarian, not vegan, and the products are great for our family. The buffalo wings make a mean sandwich when you add some BBQ sauce. The sausage links are awesome!! I did not like the stuffed nugget things that have artichokes or broccoli in them. Hot dogs, crumbles, chic patties, chic nuggets, buffalo wings, sausage links and black bean burgers are all great and feed my family of 4 very well on limited budget, with some creativity.


*I heard somewhere that Boca products are sold by a company that tests on animals.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff on March 31, 2008 at 12:42pm

Boca is no longer part of Philip-Morris, but is still part of Kraft... Kraft is the world's 3rd-largest food/drink producer, and apparently produces vegan foods from Athenos hummus to vegemite with the "K" label (and lots more). (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_Foods#Brands) Philip Morris tests on animals; not sure if Kraft does, but obviously I don't even like that Kraft produces dairy items...

Instead of buying Morningstar (uses factory-farmed chickens) and other dairy/egg burgers, I'd rather buy the vegan Bocas from Kraft -- which encourages them to produce and promote more Bocas, and forces Morningstar to produce/promote less dairy/egg consumption. Like it or not, Kraft (and other large food corps) are going to have products that harm animals, so long as (a) the law allows it and (b) consumers choose to purchase products which use/abuse factory-farmed animals (like most of Morningstar Farm's line). Of course even better is to buy vegan-burgers made by a corp that only produces vegan items (...but if anyone finds a vegan-only brand at a reasonable price and available in most rural cities, please let me know), because then, they can't even roll the profits from the veg items into promoting their animal-products, e.g. you go and buy a veg-burger or fries @ Burger King...then BK made a TV commercial demeaning tofu, something I really don't want to fund...but I'm not aware of Kraft doing anything as extreme as that, and Morningstar's advertising/promotional budget would be no better than Kraft's, b/c Morningstar sells practically no vegan products, it seems even less percentage of their products are vegan ones compared to what Kraft sells; but I consider this (each corporation's advertising) a secondary issue to whether the product I'm buying is vegan or not, i.e. DIRECTLY paying them to abuse cows/chickens and put the abused animals' products into my food. ("products" sounds so nondescript tho... It's lactations (milk) and menstrual discharge (ova/eggs) really, lol)
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I know Briton's post wasn't advocating a boycott, but of course many advocate boycotting Boca (or vegan products generally) when the parent-corp has some non-vegan products (including animal-testing as Briton mentioned), and just BRIEFLY hitting that issue... Even if veg'ns were a large enough part of the population that a boycott could drive animal-testers into the ground, I don't want every large corp driven into the ground -- because for example, I enjoy buying toothpaste instead of making my own at home which would probably be disastrous for my teeth ;-) and even Tom's of Maine would need to be boycotted (Colgate is to them, as Kraft is to Boca) -- I want them to keep offering (vegan and non-animal-tested) products instead of being driven into the ground and really, if everyone boycotted Boca, they'd just discontinue that and keep selling their cheese, i.e. react to consumer demand, and if vegans all grew their own instead of consuming, Kraft (and others) would stop Boca and other vegan products but keep on producing their non-vegan lines... and that means vegan products get pushed more toward the fringe, and veganism itself gets pushed toward the fringe as vegan product are, because the average person, even of those who WANT to eat more vegan meals -- including some I know personally -- might WANT to be vegan, but you take a single mom or anyone living paycheck-to-paycheck and most of them will care a lot less about animals, their health, global warming, etc. unless veganism is reasonably easy to do after they get home from work: and veganism CAN be easy, but there's the factor of "harder to be vegan IN A NON-VEGAN WORLD" and boycotts of even their vegan product-lines only gets those vegan products removed from more store shelves, which makes this even more of a "non-vegan world".

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Permalink Reply by laresia blair on April 23, 2008 at 6:35pm

I don't really buy morningstar now that I'm vegan. Most of their items aren't vegan, so i just avoid the brand all together. Most pre-cooked vegan food are a lil pricey, so it's sometimes easier to make your own meals. I guess you pay for convinience.

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Permalink Reply by Tyrone on April 30, 2008 at 10:38am

It's good. If your lazy like me it's a fast way to make a meal. Just do something with it. It isn't that good right out the box.

Please tell me of a please in Columbus Ohio that sells this stuff less than 3 dollars a box. I've tried many different stores without any success.

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