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Enjoy Guilt-Free Pleasure with Our Health Conscious Mushroom Meat Alternative

Hey Shroom Fam, We’re Marvin, Aleah, and our baby girl Norah – The Montagues, creators of Shroomacon – the most spot-on vegan bacon substitute made from healthy mushroom meat. We’re on a mission to bring you fast healthy food that doesn’t disappoint. Swap Out The Swine is the next chapter in our health conscious Meat The Mushroom story. Isn’t it time YOU bring home the shroom bacon? 

“Delicious, authentic bacon flavor! Great texture, great flavor!...” - Deborah

Thank you for stopping in to check out our jaw-dropping healthy mushroom meat alternatives. #swapouttheswine

Marvin & Aleah Montague, Founders of Meat The Mushroom and Vegan BBQ
Founders of Swap Out The Swine Vegan BBQ
Marvin Montague examining the best options for our health conscious mushroom meat alternative

A Health Conscious Diet Sparked the Creation of Delicious Vegetarian Meat Alternatives — A Health Revolution

When I, Marvin, went vegan 8 years ago I wasn’t aware of the health conscious gift I accepted into my life. The sacrifice of meat, poultry, seafood, and dairy products helped my body heal itself. My childhood asthma and early heart disease diagnosis, were gone, POOF! I had a newfound energy for life. My mushroom meat vision was born from the gratitude I experienced.

A Health Conscious Dream Was Born in My Mama’s Kitchen in West Baltimore

There’s something about my mama’s kitchen. It gave me the health conscious spark of creativity needed to start my fast healthy food journey. Aleah and I started our married life together in West Baltimore in the house I grew up in, alongside my mama. While experimenting and trying to make a chicken alternative, I discovered a thick piece of mushroom I was cooking tasted just like pork. After a taste test from my Charm City family community, it was clear I had discovered mushroom meat. Shroomacon, vegan bacon, was born!

Fast forward and now here we are bringing our prided Charm City the health conscious vegan BBQ you crave. Check out our jaw-dropping, lip-smacking, mind-blowing full line of satisfying vegan BBQ mushroom meat alternatives. Get yourself a quick easy vegan meal to go at the Swap Out The Swine Kitchen or try our catering order pick-up today. 

The Montague family bringing vegan mushroom meat alternatives to you

Meat Alternatives in Baltimore: Exploring Our Mushroom Meat Journey

We are proud members of our Baltimore community. Being health conscious and finding fresh fast healthy food proved to be a challenge when we lived in West Baltimore. Our philosophy is as we rise, we lift the Charm City community with us. With our Swap Out The Swine movement, we’re on the scene with fast healthy Vegan BBQ options for this GREAT community.  

 

​You don’t need to be living a vegan lifestyle to enjoy Shroomacon, our mesquite smoky chicken shroom tenders, or our vegan BBQ pulled pork shroom sliders. No judgment here – You CAN have your healthy crispy vegan bacon and eat it too. Mushroom bacon is where our health conscious conversation starts – we’re excited about our path ahead and bringing you the best vegan BBQ and quick easy vegan meals to go. #swapouttheswine

 

Need catering for your next event? Your guests need options.  See if our plant-based BBQ menu is a good fit. 

Marvin Montague proudly presenting a package of Shroomacon, mushroom bacon

Magical Mushroom Meat: The Best Vegan Meat Alternative for Your Health

Starting with a swap out of pork for a mushroom is a great small difference you can make for YOUR HEALTH, the planet, and all the cute piggies too. Meatless bacon is a great place to begin a health conscious journey. Did you know?

🍄 Adding mushrooms to your diet may improve cardio health

🍄 Shroom bacon is a low-calorie food

🍄 Mushrooms are a superfood that can: 

  • *Help you get vital nutrients 

  • *Boost your immunity 

  • *Increase your fiber intake 

It’s true, mushrooms naturally contain antioxidants. They are also full of vitamins and minerals to help your body thrive. Not to mention, they contain a good amount of protein. 

 

There are soooooo MANY REASONS to add mushrooms to your diet. A health conscious journey is personal, but it just so happens that health conscious choices connect us to one another… and the planet. Adding Shroomacon plant-based bacon to your diet is an EASY swap out with nothing to sacrifice and everything to GAIN.

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“Really is the best bacon substitute. I have tried many bacon substitutes and this is really the best. Not too salty or greasy and has a nice smoke flavor. Freezes nicely, then thaw and I cook on stove in nonstick pan. Consistenly good product and healthier than real bacon.” -Jen

You don’t need to be in Baltimore to try our meatless bacon. We are in stores all over the U.S.

The Dark Side of Pork Products: Even More Reason to Try a Health Conscious Vegetarian Meat Substitute

From personal health to swine farming, it turns out there’s a lot hidden about the hazards. Did you know?

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❌ Pork is high in SATURATED FAT increasing your risk of heart disease

❌ High red meat intake is connected to a HIGHER RISK of Type 2 Diabetes

❌ The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies bacon as having a HIGH RISK CONNECTION to cancer

The truth is, that pig farming is TOXIC to the...

Vegan mushroom meat helps keep the planet healthy

Land, the water, and the air that the swine farm surrounds

Mushroom meat options help us stay health conscious

People who work or live near a swine farm

Keeping pigs off plates with a plant-based mushroom meat  alternative

Pigs that are factory-farmed in abusive conditions

By swapping out the swine with mushroom bacon you create a health conscious ripple effect. Create better health for all by choosing meatless bacon for your next meal. BETTER HEALTH and habits for YOU, your FAMILY, and the planet start with Shroomacon mushroom bacon. Doing something GREAT is so tasty.

Heart health is as available as swapping out the pork bacon and embracing shroom plant-based bacon. Adding mushrooms to your diet may improve your cardio health alone, but when you Swap Out The Swine it’s a shift your body thanks you for. 

Very tasty. You don’t have to be vegan in order to eat healthier and still enjoy meat alternatives. I made a BLT (SHROOMACON, lettuce, tomato slices, avocado slices and mustard on wheat toast). What a treat that was. 🤗” -Cynthia

Aleah Montague, founder of health conscious Swap Out The Swine initiative, with her daughter, Norah

Swap Out The Swine with the vegan bacon approved by the sharks on Shark Tank. Looking for fast healthy food for breakfast, lunch or dinner? Get yourself a vegan BLT and Try our out-of-this-world vegan BBQ. Swap Out The Swine Kitchen is ready to serve you NOW.

Happy customers getting some fast healthy food from the Swap Out The Swine Kitchen

From Shroom Bacon to a Full Vegan BBQ Mushroom Meat Menu

Welcome to this jaw-dropping mouth-watering health conscious journey we started with Meat The Mushroom. We’re on a mission to put as much Shroomacon on plates as we can and are driven to bring YOU fast healthy food. Quick easy vegan meals for pick-up in Baltimore!

​​Where we've been?

Meat The Mushroom Launches at Baltimore’s Fell’s Point Farmer’s Market

 

MAY 2021

Shroomacon breaks onto the health conscious vegan bacon scene.

NOVEMBER 2021

We expand Shroomacon production and mushroom bacon marketing efforts pick up as Meat The Mushroom continues to grow.

NOVEMBER 2022

We started selling our shroom bacon and launched our Meat The Mushroom online store. Shroomacon vegan bacon is available for purchase for the first time online during Black Friday.

 

MAY 2023

Shroomacon expands into its 1st chain grocery store – Mom’s Organic Market. A local Baltimore grocery store.

JANUARY 2024

Meat The Mushroom brings shroom bacon to ABC’s Shark Tank Season 15. Two sharks make an offer to expand the business.

MAY 2024

Meat the Mushroom launches Swap Out The Swine  –  a health conscious initiative to launch new pork substitute products. With the mission of expanding the reach of vegetarian meat alternatives Swap Out The Swine was born in Charm City. #swapouttheswine

OCTOBER 2024

The Swap Out The Swine Kitchen opens to launch our health conscious finger-licking good Vegan BBQ menu. Introducing mushroom meat Pulled Pork Sliders and Mesquite Smoked Chicken Shroom Tenders. Get quick easy vegan BBQ meals to go in Baltimore.

Where are we heading? 

Our story continues with more health conscious pork substitute products made from nature’s superfood: MUSHROOMS. 

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We’ve Sold over 100,000 Packs of Shroomacon.

Are you ready to try the Shark Tank-approved mushroom bacon made your way? Get ready to be delighted and blown away by the crispy bacon flavor. That taste, that smell, that crunch – it’s BACON. Try a Shroomacon BLT at our Swap Out The Swine Vegan BBQ Kitchen now.

“Amazing!! I was a little hesitant at first , I mean c’mon mushrooms that taste like bacon?!? YES, it does!! Now I can have bacon without the guilt. If you haven’t tried it , you should, it will be love at first bite!!” -Wendy

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