I would recommend against too many morningstar type products & soy in general. With morningstar, the occasional use was fine, but once I started eating lot of it when I started LC, it started giving me stomach problems after a while. I gave those up, but still continued with soy. However, I was recently diagnosed with graves disease (thyriod disease). Could be absolute coincidence, but I have to wonder if the preponderance of soy in my diet caused problems. I still use tofu & tempeh, just not the quantities I used to and no manufactured products at all.

Regarding depression, I suffer from it too a little, but I have noticed that since increasing the fat & lowering the carbs, I have way less of it, so I definitely recommend LC.

If you can do a mix of eggs, fish, meat, tofu/tempeh & vegetables, you should be good. I hear that frozen vegetables can be microwave cooked in a hurry - no chopping/prepping required!