My Top 5 Protein Sources as a Vegetarian

I tracked everything I ate for 2 weeks to create this list.

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Is it hard to get protein as a vegetarian?

When I first stopped eating meat, this was my biggest concern. However, I’ve been a vegetarian for the past few years now, and I’ve been relieved to realize that getting protein isn’t too tricky.

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been tracking everything I’ve eaten, and I thought this would be a great opportunity to share how I get my protein. I’m hoping that this can help anyone who is looking for a few ideas of what to eat, or anyone who is thinking about going vegetarian but worried about how they’ll get enough protein.

A couple of final points before I get to the list:

• In total, I eat about 140–150 grams of protein a day. Feel free to debate whether that’s too little or too much, but it certainly seems to work well for me.
• The list is in ascending order based on how much protein I got from each of these sources during these two weeks. Unlike a lot of similar lists that just seem to copy and paste each other, this is truly based on my real eating habits.
• I’ve narrowed the list down to the top five sources. There were dozens and dozens of foods that I ate these past couple of…