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Loma Linda Tuno (Plant-Based Seafood Alternative) - $1.17 (50% off) @ Coles

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Loma Linda Tuno (Plant-Based Seafood Alternative) - $1.17 (50% off) @ Coles
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peterpeterpumpkin on 21/11/2019 - 21:07 shop.coles.com.au (305 clicks)
Last edited 21/11/2019 - 21:32 by 1 other user

Evening fellow consumers of food.

So today I took the wrong turn at Coles and stumbled into the "health-food" aisle. My cheapskate vision normally goes blurry when transiting through this route but for whatever reason my focus adjusted long enough to see some half-price specials in the faux-meat section. Pricehipster confirms it as the cheapest ever.

Enough about me. I bring you tuno! The vegan meal in a tuna can. I've only tried the the sriracha one and it's basically flavoured tofu. Probably would have been nice in a rice paper roll with shredded green things in it, or something.

It comes in 3 flavours - spring water, lemon pepper and the sriracha I already mentioned. They're not super "high protein" substitutes if that's what you're going for. But you can finally have a guilt-free canned tuna party where you invite all of your friends.

Back to me, I also bought a can of Sanitarium's Nutmeat for a laugh, which I haven't opened yet. It was slightly reduced in price in the same section. I didn't hear about this stuff until a week ago and it's been around forever, apparently.

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  • ilovefullprice on 21/11/2019 - 21:10
    +2

    Tofu in spring water?

    • peterpeterpumpkin on 21/11/2019 - 21:13
      +3

      Ned Flanders' favourite. With a glass of water on the side for dippin'!

      • ilovefullprice on 21/11/2019 - 21:23

        God bless his taste buds!

        • Sullie on 23/11/2019 - 22:43
          +1

          Bland-buds keeps The Devil at bay!

  • pw2002au on 21/11/2019 - 21:14
    +1

    Good if you are sodium loading.. Not so good on the protein. Does this leave you with fake fish breath?

    • peterpeterpumpkin on 21/11/2019 - 21:15

      I can't really tell with the one I had. Hopefully not as bad as a fishy Thai kitchen. Since that's the flavour they were going for I assume…

    • willyroo on 21/11/2019 - 23:50
      +1

      Coles Lemon Pepper Tuna 95g = 331mg = 348mg sodium per 100g
      Tuno Lemon Pepper 57g = 119mg = 204mg sodium per 100g

      Sodium loading? Get the "real" tuna…

  • Daabido on 21/11/2019 - 21:15
    +3

    I don't feel guilty about my canned tuna parties. Everyone knows what they're getting. If anyone complains, I tell them to go tofu themselves.

  • DigitalJade on 21/11/2019 - 21:18
    +2

    I've actually tried these as a carnivore meat eater I was pleasantly surprised by the flavour.

    In fact there's a huge assortment of plant based foods now.

    Not just meat alternatives, but seafood alternatives like scallops, unfortunately nothing tastes as good as real scallops.

    SunFed meats do a good chicken free chicken though.

    I think new plant based meats are using pea protein over soy these days and it's a huge improvement.

    If only the was improvement in the fanatic vego fools trying to force everyone who are just too much for me to stomach.

    • garage sale on 21/11/2019 - 21:51
      -1

      next craze will be sex alternatives, instead of with other people, with blowup dolls ? wouldn’t be the same ?

      • umexcuseme on 21/11/2019 - 22:47
        +3

        Why did your mind go all the way there?

      • xoom on 22/11/2019 - 10:19

        Someone just had to take it way too far.

    • Flop on 22/11/2019 - 08:00
      -7

      All vegans in western countries are forced with the threat of violence and imprisonment to pay for non vegans lifestyles which forces violence upon animals unnecessarily. There exists corrupt animal farming subsidies that profit animal farmers most, they are there as prepayment for non vegan food to make them artificialy cheaper and to profit farmers. If you resist paying that protection money to non vegans you will receive threats of violence and inprisonment from the government. Even if we dont include this militant behaviour in the equation there are more non vegan civilians forcing their lifestyle upon their children than their are vegans.
      The fanatic vegans who try and persuade people to stop being violent hardly equals the non vegans violently forcing their lifestyle on others.

      • Flop on 22/11/2019 - 08:22

        Bahaha down voted for factual information relevant to the comment. and some people call vegans sensitive. If you dont like to see what you are involved in pointed out it may be useful to reflect on what you are doing

        • mapax on 22/11/2019 - 08:32

          Pretty sure that’s not a widely held belief and you are making other vegans sound paranoid.

  • specwarop on 21/11/2019 - 21:24
    +4

    I am starting to buy in to the vegan lifestyle, it seems beneficial….

    But isn't all this type of food above just really processed food, so their are actually very little health benefit in eating it?

    • garage sale on 21/11/2019 - 21:53
      +3

      when i eat vegetarian, it’s because i want to taste the ingredients and sense the texture, not try to simulate meat.

      • specwarop on 21/11/2019 - 21:56
        +2

        For most its a stepping stone….meat tasting plants , then plants

    • mickeyjuiceman on 21/11/2019 - 21:56
      +1

      Exactly right. Much better off with real food, not this food-alike slurry.

    • elli0t on 21/11/2019 - 21:57
      +2

      Yep, it's high profit margin rubbish. Should not be considered a "heath-food".

    • Tycn on 21/11/2019 - 22:57
      +1

      People may choose to eat plant based products for cultural, religious or ethical reasons too. It's not necessarily about the health benefits.

  • PvsNP on 21/11/2019 - 21:40
    +6

    STOP! Don't kill plants! A number of studies have shown that plants feel pain, and vegetables are picked and often eaten while still alive. Animal rights activists are often in the news, but has anyone ever protested for vegetable rights?

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/plants-defense-mechanism
    http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170109-plants-can-see-hear-…

    • afoveht on 21/11/2019 - 21:53
      +1

      has anyone ever protested for vegetable rights?

      All the time. Here's one such idiot from just the other day.

    • 0jay on 21/11/2019 - 21:54
      +3

      The Goodies S08E05

    • garage sale on 21/11/2019 - 21:55
      +4

      i only buy humanely raised vegetables , always free free, and free range, the plants are free to roam where they want, though there are a lot per hectare and the crowding worries me.

      • unelectric on 21/11/2019 - 22:30

        Same here. I care about vegetable cruelty but …

        • The reality is if we left all the veggies to grow unchecked the Earth would be in trouble.
        • What if i was on a desert island where there was only plants? I'm not gonna starve to myself to death.
        • My ancestors ate plants so why shouldn't I?
        • Nobody cares that elephants eat plants but suddenly when I do it, it's a problem
    • umexcuseme on 21/11/2019 - 22:57
      +2

      Recent studies have hinted that Soy is the vegetables' revenge. They plan to drop our testosterone so low that women no longer find "men" attractive. As a backup, they are also making sperm counts fall just in case 2 members of the opposite sex awkwardly run into each other and sex occurs due to a long series of body language miscommunications.

    • Flop on 22/11/2019 - 08:07
      -1

      There is no evidence that they feel pain but nice deflection. Vegans cause the loss of less plant life than non vegans. The only resolve to not causing harm to plants would be to end your life and that's not a good idea.

      • Helsinki on 22/11/2019 - 11:38

        "Vegans cause the loss of less plant life than non vegans". Is this because there aren't many vegans? Seems logical to me.

        • ProfessorBargain on 22/11/2019 - 14:07

          It's because you have to feed the animals, as well as land-clearing for cattle (and cattle roam more than crops [except for the Siamese Skittering Shrub, of course]).

  • CORWIN on 21/11/2019 - 21:51
    +9

    Why did the vegan cross the road?…
    To tell someone they’re a vegan

    • unelectric on 21/11/2019 - 22:34

      Low-hanging vegan fruit

      • Flop on 22/11/2019 - 08:11

        Its not even low hanging. It's a copy and paste statement which isnt funny because it's not accurate. See above is a typical example on non vegans talking more about veganism and vegan food than vegans are…

        Why did the non vegan cross the road?..
        To tell someone that he found a vegan

        • Helsinki on 22/11/2019 - 11:35

          I found it funny

  • Stinge Master on 21/11/2019 - 22:14
    -3

    I eat twice as much meat, just so one vegan who thinks he's making a difference, is making no difference at all.

  • D-grey on 21/11/2019 - 22:15

    I consider canned tuna as health food already

  • unelectric on 21/11/2019 - 22:33

    I had the lemon flavour recently. It was kind of gross with an unpleasant TVP taste. That being said, some people like it and for a dollar there's not much to lose. I bought a few cans so will probably make 'fish' cakes out of the rest.

    • afoveht on 21/11/2019 - 22:49
      +1

      Yeah I thought the lemon one was yucky too - tasted "chemically" to me. The sriracha one is ok - not gonna fool anyone to think it's the actual flesh of a tuna but as a sandwich filler works fine and would probably work well as a filler in heaps of other situations.

  • Sage on 21/11/2019 - 23:10
    +1

    Stuff is kinda nasty. I'd suggest only buying 1 can.
    Maybe if you have it in a sandwich with plenty of mayo and some other ingredients it would be less noticeably weird.

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