What would be a good vegetarian substitute for these items?

Question

Sloppy Joe

Breakfast pizza (I'm assuming this has sausage, etc. on it and is being served as a morning snack at my son's daycare)

I'm looking for ideas on what I can send to replace these two items. Any and all suggestions welcome.

Answer 1

I use morning star farms recipe crumbles for sloppy Joes.  Lentils are good too.

I don't know what breakfast pizza is..sorry.

Answer 2

s****. JOES (from theppk.com and Veganomicon):

1 cup uncooked lentils

4 cups water

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 medium yellow onion, diced small

1 green pepper, diced small

2 cloves garlic, minced

3 Tablespoons chili powder

2 teaspoons oregano

1 teaspoon salt

8 oz can tomato sauce

1/4 cup tomato paste

3 tablespoons maple syrup

1 tablespoon yellow mustard (wet mustard)

4 to 6 kaiser rolls or sesame buns

Directions

Put the lentils in a small sauce pot and pour in 4 cups water. Cover and bring to a boil. Once boiling, lower heat and simmer for about 20 minutes, until lentils are soft. Drain and set aside.

About 10 minutes before the lentils are done boiling, preheat a medium soup pot over medium heat. Saute the onion and pepper in the oil for about 7 minutes, until softened. Add the garlic and saute a minute more.

Add the cooked lentils, the chili powder, oregano and salt and mix. Add the tomato sauce and tomato paste. Cook for about 10 minutes. Add the maple syrup and mustard and heat through.

Turn the heat off and let sit for about 10 minutes, so that the flavors can meld, or go ahead and eat immediately if you can't wait. I like to serve these open faced, with a scoop of s****. joe on each slice of the bun.

Like the first answer, I'm not too sure what goes on a breakfast pizza.  It sounds like it probably has a pizza crust with eggs, cheese, and sausage.  Instead of sausage you can make it with a variety of veggie sausages or veggie bacon and even bacon bits (most bacon bits are actually vegan, but check the label).

Answer 3

Unsloppy Joes -- Vegetarian Sloppy Joes

INGREDIENTS

1 tablespoon olive oil

1/2 cup chopped onion

1/2 cup chopped celery

1/2 cup chopped carrots

1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper

1 clove garlic, minced

1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes

1 tablespoon chili powder

1 tablespoon tomato paste

1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar

1 teaspoon ground black pepper

1 (15 ounce) can kidney beans, drained and rinsed

8 kaiser rolls

DIRECTIONS

Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion, celery, carrot, green pepper, and garlic: saute until tender. Stir in tomatoes, chili powder, tomato paste, vinegar, and pepper. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes.

Stir in kidney beans, and cook an additional 5 minutes.

Cut a 1/4 inch slice off the top of each kaiser roll; set aside. Hollow out the center of each roll, leaving about 1/2 inch thick shells; reserve the inside of rolls for other uses.

Spoon bean mixture evenly into rolls and replace tops. Serve immediately.

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As for the breakfast pizza - it could be anything; sausage, bacon, ham. I would ask. If it were my day care though I wouldn't add any meat at all. Most kiddos won't eat it.

Just omit the sausage.  

Answer 4

Sloppy Joe - TVP, tofu, seitan, tempeh, and lentils are all good substitutes, as well as Boca or Morningstar beef crumbles. Recipes:

Textured Soy Protein Sloppy Joes

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

    2 small-medium green peppers

    2 medium or 4 small onions

    1 1/2 cup boiling water

    2 1/2 cup tomato sauce

    1 1/2 cup textured soy protein/TVP

    2 tablespoon mustard (or more)

    2 teaspoon chili powder

    1/2 teaspoon salt

    1 tablespoon or so of soy sauce or Braggs Liquid Aminos

    1/2 teaspoon pepper

    1 teaspoon sugar (I use Sucanat)

Directions:

In a very large covered frying pan, saute onions and peppers in water.  When mostly cooked, add remaining ingredients and stir well.  Cook on medium for 20 minutes, covered, stirring occasionally.

http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=9816.0

More:

http://www.vegcooking.com/recipeshow.asp...

http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?q=...

http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=5072.0

http://vegweb.com/index.php?board=415.0

Breakfast Pizza - Just start baking a regualr pizza but then add your favorite breakfast veg ingredents. Recipe:

    * 1 (8 ounce) can refrigerated crescent rolls

    * 1 cup crumbled vegan sausage, vegan bacon, and vegan ham (Lightlife, Tofurky, Morningstar, Yves, or hommade)

    * 1 cup frozen shredded hash brown potatoes, thawed

    * 1 cup shredded vegan cheddar and parmesan cheese

    * 1 recipe for tofu scramble

   1. Unroll crescent dough and place on a greased 12-in. pizza pan; press seams together and press up sides of pan to form a crust. In a skillet, brown 'sausage/ham/bacon' over medium heat; drain and cool slightly.

   2. Sprinkle brown 'sausage/ham/bacon', hash browns and vegan cheddar cheese over crust.

3. Make tofu scramble (recipe below); pour over pizza. Sprinkle with vegan Parmesan cheese.

   3. Bake at 375 degrees for 28-30 minutes or until golden brown. Let stand 10 minutes before cutting.

Tofu Scramble:

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

    Cheez sauce:

    1/2 cup flour

    1/2 cup nutritional yeast

    1 teaspoon garlic powder

    2 cups water

    1 teaspoon yellow mustard

    4 tablespoons or less of vegan margarine

    Stir fry:

    1/2 onion

    1/2 green pepper

    1 tub drained and crumbled extra firm tofu (not silken style)

    cooking oil

    turmeric (optional)

    salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Make Cheez Sauce:

Mix first 3 ingredients together in sauce pan. Add H2O and mix thoroughly. Heat on Med until thick and bubbly. Remove from heat and add mustard and margarine (I like Earth Balance). Set aside.

Stir Fry:

Saute up some onion, and green pepper in oil.  When they are good and soft, move them to the sides of the pan and form an empty circle in the middle for your tofu. Add more oil to the middle of the pan, then add your drained, crumbled tofu (don't use silken, use extra firm). When it starts to get golden, mix in the peppers and onion and keep frying.  You can add some turmeric for color if you like.

When it looks like you could eat it, add the nutronal yeast sauce and mix it all in to coat until that becomes golden brown too. I saute this for another couple of minutes.  You might not need all of the sauce. I save the leftovers for pizza or nachos.

Add salt and pepper to taste.

Answer 5

You can use TVP or crumbled tempeh to make sloppy joes or find a recipe on a vegan website (check out www.vegweb.com).

For breakfast pizza (what the?), use veggie sausage--a number of companies make veggie versions--or leave the sausage off.

But good gravy, you'd think a daycare would serve a slightly more nutritious snack.  Sheesh!

Answer 6

Vegetarian sloppy joe mix: just serve on a bun

http://www.fantasticfoods.com/catalog/sl...

Breakfast pizza: leave the sausage off before it's made? Or just replace it with a different breakfast food such as fruit, cereal, oatmeal

Answer 7

I don't know if Morningstar has any crumbles-like stuff, but I know Worthington does, or Yves, if you've ever heard of either of those two companies. Worthington is common at Adventist bookstores (yes, they have food at bookstores! and ps I'm Adventist so I know ;P ) or health stores. My dad uses those a lot, and he makes it like he would regular meat.

hmm....there's also no-flavor 'chunks', like beef or chicken (except, you have  to flavor them!) my dad experiments with those a lot...also from the Adventist bookstore! :)

The reason I mentioned the Adventist bookstore is because I'm about 5 minutes away from one, where I live, so it's easy to just be in and out (if I don't stop and look around!) :) there's a lot of variety at those stores, too.