{"id":286,"date":"2009-02-09T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rozkakhana.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2009-02-09T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T16:39:14","slug":"lunchbox-series-veggie-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themindfulveggie.com\/lunchbox-series-veggie-burger\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunchbox Series &#8211; Veggie Burger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried almost all the frozen vegetable burgers available in grocery stores here..Morningstar Farms, Boca, Amy&#8217;s, but none come close to the &#8220;veggie patty&#8221; burger that I was used to growing up.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve also realized that one reason why most hamburger eaters think that veggie burgers are &#8220;gross&#8221; is probably cos they are. They are often dry, hard as a rock, with processed fake meats holding them together. Most of the brands I mentioned above were staple when I was in school here, only because I didn&#8217;t have the time to look for anything different or make one from scratch and were my only\u00a0go-by for a meatless option, hard to find in most college town fast food joints.<\/p>\n<p>Veggie burgers are a pretty common feature in the Indian fast food restaurant menus and one of my favorite food growing up, so it was no wonder that I was looking for a similar texture and taste in the frozen section. Amy&#8217;s California burger came close to the taste &#8230;at least it didnt have the heavy soy taste that the others did. But it didn&#8217;t pass the lunchbox test. The dryness came back once the burger cooled. I tried making my own, and that worked, but again, making a whole batch of them to use in lunches was a lot of work, so the quest for that perfect frozen burger was still on. And then I found one in Costco. It was recommended to me by a friend when we had a veggie barbecue party at home, and was such a hit, that it&#8217;s been staple in my refrigerator ever since. Carrots, bell peppers, potatoes and\u00a0other veggies\u00a0make up this burger, and it&#8217;s best served grilled. Manufactured by <a href=\"http:\/\/veggiepatties.blogspot.com\/\">Don Lee Farms<\/a>, they have a range of meat and meat free products. The best part is, that it doesn&#8217;t dry out, probably because it&#8217;s thinner, uses vegetables as the biding agent,\u00a0and doesn&#8217;t have the fake meat.<\/p>\n<p>Nikhil, my 7 year old food critic loved it too, so it made it&#8217;s way into his laptop lunch, of course! Grilled veggie patty, served on a wheat kaiser roll, with organic hummus,\u00a0 lettuce, swiss cheese , onion and tomato make this a very wholesome lunchbox staple. 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