I use seitan as a meat substitute. It seems to have the most meat-like texture of the vegetarian options. We cut it up for stir fries or you can grind it up in a food processor for a ground beef substitute that's great in chili. I've made it with breakfast sausage spicing to have slices toasted or fried when I start my day, and even spiced it like Italian sausage and used it on pizza. The basic recipe is pretty bland (gluten, nutritional yeast, water, tahini, salt) that how it tastes is more a function of what you put in it. I like it so well, I can just cut slabs off it as a snack, but I can do the same thing with tofu, so I'm probably not typical. I know a lot of people have trouble with gluten, but it's never bothered me.