For a significant chunk of her childhood, the paternal side of this reviewer’s Bengali family would eat eggs for breakfast, fish for lunch, and chicken or red meat at dinnertime. At restaurants, the vegetarian section on menus would be skipped. This fondness also made life simpler during overseas travel. With such fuss-free eating habits, there’s little that hasn’t been sampled. It is this openness to experimentation that led us to tasting plant-based alternatives but these were more one-off experiences. The idea of converting entirely hasn’t appealed despite watching the popular Netflix documentary Seaspiracy.

Recently, after coming across Blue Tribe’s plant-based products on an online grocery shopping portal, we decided to give it a shot. The packaging looked exactly like the frozen meat packs displayed beside them. The company was recently in the news after cricketer Virat Kohli and actor Anushka Sharma invested in the venture and also came on board as brand ambassadors since they have adopted a meat-free life.