Product Review: Harmony Valley Vegetarian Breakfast Sausage Mix

First, I am working on getting a camera as ours broke.  Hopefully pictures to follow.

Having heard a horror story about how horrible TVP was, and how much money this person had wasted by stocking up on it before realizing they would never eat it, we knew we wanted to start small.

When shopping together at our nearby Henrys/Sprouts store, we came upon a packet of this breakfast sausage mix and thought it would be the perfect opportunity to try TVP without spending a fortune (or opening a #10 can of something we would never eat again.  Goes along with the whole "eat what you store and store what you eat" motto.

First thought, upon opening the packet was that it smelled okay.  Not exactly like sausage, but no real off-putting odor.

The directions were super simple.  Blend the packet ingredients with 1-1/4 cups water, let sit for 15 minutes, then cook (they had microwave, oven and pan-frying directions.  I chose to pan fry (too hot to turn on the oven, and thought it would probably taste better than microwaving).  The mixture formed very easily into perfect round patties.  No nasty fatty yuck left on my hands as there would have been with pork sausage.  The patties smelled good while cooking, browned beautifully, and were easy to flip over and also to take out of the pan.

Taste test:
Floyd says:  It doesn't taste like sausage, but it isn't bad.  Probably would be better on an egg sandwich or in a scramble (we had ours as a side with pumpkin waffles).

I say:  Taste pretty good (I absolutely will not eat something I really dislike).  Texture was good.  No real off-putting taste.  Not sausage, but not bad.  I agree with Floyd that they would be better mixed into something.

I will probably try this again.  There is a recipe on the package for a green chili and sausage quiche.  I may try that.

We liked it well enough that we will try some of the flavored TVP products made for food storage.