Beyond Meat recipes for the ultimate Memorial Day cookout
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Memorial Day is basically the Super Bowl of cookouts. The grill is hot, the group chat is hotter, and someone always forgets the buns. But if you're planning to serve the usual burgers and dips, it's time for an upgrade — one that skips the meat sweats and dials up the clean protein. Enter: Beyond Meat.
Whether you're hosting vegans, flexitarians, health nuts, or that one cousin who only eats 'clean' but brings a pack of Slim Jims 'just in case,' Beyond Meat has something for everyone. The newly reformulated Beyond Burger and Beyond Beef are packed with 21 grams of plant protein, made with heart-healthy avocado oil, and clock in at just 2 grams of saturated fat per serving (that's 75% less than your average 80/20 ground beef). The best part? They taste like the burgers you grew up grilling: juicy, satisfying, and begging for a slather of BBQ sauce.
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The Beyond Burger is a plant-based burger that delivers the juicy, beefy flavor you crave, minus the cholesterol and saturated fat. With 21 grams of complete plant protein per patty, it's crafted from a blend of peas, brown rice, red lentils, and faba beans, and now reformulated with heart-healthy avocado oil and a simplified ingredient list (bye, coconut and canola oil).
It grills and sizzles like a traditional burger, making it the perfect centerpiece for cookouts, weeknight dinners, and everything in between. Certified by the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association, this is plant-based meat that's as smart as it is satisfying.
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Need a scene-stealing dish? Build a Beyond Sweet BBQ Crunch Burger (yes, it includes kettle chips). For the overachievers bringing apps, go with the Beyond Beef 7-Layer Dip — a crowd-pleaser with substance. And if you're craving something lighter that still hits the protein mark, the Beyond Chinese Chicken Salad, made with their new Beyond Chicken Pieces, is fresh, flavorful, and packs 21 grams of clean, juicy plant-based protein. No GMOs. No cholesterol. No drama.
Beyond Chinese Chicken Salad
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The Beyond Chicken Pieces are tender, juicy, and wildly versatile plant-based chicken bites made from simple, clean ingredients. Each serving packs 21 grams of plant protein with just 0.5 grams of saturated fat and zero cholesterol, thanks to a nourishing base of pea protein and heart-healthy avocado oil.
Whether tossed into salads, stir-fries, wraps, or skewers, they cook up fast and deliver serious flavor without any GMOs, hormones, or antibiotics. Certified by the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and the Clean Label Project, these pieces aren't just better for you, they're better, period.
Beyond Meat's products are now certified by the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and the Clean Label Project, so it's not just hype. You can find them nationwide at Walmart, Kroger, Whole Foods, and more. This Memorial Day, grill like you give a damn — about your guests, your body, and your burger.
This article was written by Kendall Cornish, New York Post Commerce Editor & Reporter. Kendall, who moonlights as a private chef in the Hamptons for New York elites, lends her expertise to testing and recommending cooking products – for beginners and aspiring sous chefs alike. Simmering and seasoning her way through both jobs, Kendall dishes on everything from the best cookware for your kitchen to cooking classes that will level-up your skills to new dinnerware to upgrade your holiday hosting. Prior to joining the Post's shopping team in 2023, Kendall previously held positions at Apartment Therapy and at Dotdash Meredith's Travel + Leisure and Departures magazines.
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