Originally Posted by veganbikes

With a good dehydrator you can make some pretty fantastic meals, I made a delicious veggie filled mac and cheese for a tour and it was beyond comforting and quite filling, I actually made a bit much of it and almost had trouble finishing it. As long as a sauce isn't too thin and liquidy (or just add some agar powder) you can dehydrate it and cut it up into chunks and then add it to the pasta, rice, quinoa, couscous, barley... you are cooking and have a delicious sauce. I have done it with cheese sauces and also did it with soy yogurt and it was quite tasty. I also made a pretty decent "beef" stew by combining TVP, not beef bullion, freeze dried vegetables and some seasonings and served it over instant potatoes and certainly wasn't complaining, I didn't even have to dehydrate anything myself and you can get TVP in all sort of sizes these days. There is a 7th Day Adventist store not ridiculously far from me that sells it in big chunks.

Also another good note that I should mention if you can find a store that has a Kosher section you might find some animal free foods, because of Jewish dietary laws they cannot use dairy or meat in certain things and it can work out quite well. I found some Delinut chocolate hazelnut spread that is quite delicious randomly and now am addicted to it!