soy foods.... Ive never eaten them.............

I thought soy, was some kind of sauce that you get with chinese foods, maybe I am thinking about something else, be interesting to hear if anyone else knows exactly what soy is and how they use it too.

something worth trying if only once

Textured Soy Protein is processed soy protein which starts its life very much in the same way that tofu is made - by soaking soy bean flour in water to extract the protein. The 'texture' is added by various processes which form the protein into strings, somewhat resembling the muscle fibre of meat. It is usually packaged as granules which, when hydrated, are about the same size as ground or minced meat, or as bite-sized chunks similar to meat chopped for a stew. When suitably disguised with a flavourful sauce, TVP is not unlike meat in texture (though it is somewhat smoother and less 'chewy') but the flavour is distinctive. Once one is aware of this and used to it, it is quite edible and acceptable and many people will accept the 'minced' or 'ground beef' style quite readily. Some people like to 'extend' (more expensive) ground beef by adding rehydrated TVP to it in a dish such as Chili Con Carne or Bolognaise Sauce. Used like this, you probably would not detect the difference.

The best way to use soy is just like you said. You can also put it in salads. It's okay I use it sometimes. The taste is very bland though.

I have never eaten them either. But I have tried Soy milk. I like that actually. It has a good taste to it. Try it, you never know. You might just like it. I would like to try it myself. I know my little cousin loves Soy products.

hi Maria, yes that is true. so you can eat with chili too sometime i bought firm soy and i put in my noodle soup or just fried it and after that i will eat that fried soy with soy sauce or chili sauce. taste good. you can't eat soy just like that, taste weird. hopefully it help you.

Hi! We take soya products. We find that soya food when boiled and subsequently cooked turns out to be soft and tasty. It is nutritious and healthy. I think you could try it the way recipe has been mentioned by you. Once you try then only you could come to know whether you are going to like it or not.

I only used soy sauce but soy foods never tried also.

Hello dear friend Mary, I´m very used to soy since 25 years ago that my father introduced it to our kitchen. It´s cheaper and healthier than meat, and it all depends on how you cook it. I love to double my picadillo portion with dried soy. I just add the dried soy with the smashed meat, half and half and I add garlic, knor, tomatos sausage, veggies, four cups of water, enough to rehydrate the soy. And boil it together, what will give you the flavor are your spicies while rehydrating and time of boiling, that´s why I use half portion of smashed meat, knor, and tomatoes, and let it boil at least for 12 mins. My family loves it. You can find it very cheap at Walmart, ask for it, it´s $17 pesos kilogram. very cheap. You can find it raw, or already spiced, that´s more expensive $26 pesos package of 750 grs. Ask for the raw one, it is cheaper, and you spice it as you cook it. Blessings Mary... dainy

If you like your food sweet or flavorful or spicy, then you probably will not like soy food much by eating it plain, unless you know the chef's magical recipe of adding in the right amount of various combination of other stuff, and the right cooking method, you can be sure you will not like this stuff like you said.

I use Tofu which is a protein derived from soy beans Tofu is bland but it will take the flavour of what ever sauce you cook in it for example you can make a bolognaise sauce whithout the meat and add tofu at the end of cooking and serve with pasta or rice tofu also is very good in stir frys.

Soy is a really good replacement for meat, but there's typically no taste for soy; typically to make it taste better you just need to add different ingredients to make it taste how you'd like. It's pretty much a cooking ingredient you can experiment with everything. Not everything is going to taste great with it, but cooking with soy-based items does help to what you cater for.

I have never heard of soy that can be out of the fridge. I would use it mixed with meat, such as meatballs, or hamburgers. I would add a pack of ground turkey, and soy with it.