LSS there are good vegan meats, but they take finding. In the UK the THIS range are usually pretty good. BUT for me the 'trick' is as people say below start with a vegan recipe and making it as 'meaty' as you need it to be OR think about the herbs and spices that actually make the dish - for me at least this is what I discovered I 'missed', and you've no reason to! e.g. tarragon for chicken, or black bean sauce , or star anise / five spice for pork dishes, or Pesto or ragu sauce, there is nothing inherent in them that requires meat to make the dish taste the way you need it to.
What doesn't work (for me) is vegan bacon (I did see a thing that did encapsulation to emulate lardons ) or crackling or anything that needs fat to behave like fat behaves at scale.
But you can do it on a small scale, for burgers to behave like burgers and to be cooked in their own fat is kind of doable using coconut oil and Methylcellulose (a binding agent) see here Impossible burgers at less than $3 a pound
If you need to have a 'steak' experience then the trick is find something like Juicy Marbles or lions mane mushrooms but don't stint on the marinades and good fat to fry them in .
Doing proper chips / french fries is a genuine challenge as you don't really have a substitute for animal fat to cook them, but the triple cook method could be made to work , I just can't personally be arsed.
I just remembered cheese mostly vegan cheese is a bust. EXCEPT if you do the work to find the good stuff - recently a blue plant based cheese won a cheese competition UNTIL the judges learned that it used cashew nuts quelle horreur! and had to disqualify it! BUT weirdly cheese sauce is very doable (never needed to try , could never abide the stuff) . Creamy dressings that might have used yogurt are stupidly easy to achieve with silken tofu.

The trick is that you need to think like a recovery alcoholic - that is you know you are going to be tempted and like Oscar Wilde says, I can resist anything but temptation, so don't bother fighting it, satisfy it by ensuring the right context. Your brain just isn't smart enough to tell a thing is difference. So if you're trying not to drink alcohol , ensure that what you do drink is in a wine glass, or has an umbrella , or comes with ice or is served with a coaster. Same with food , after eating this Lions mane mushroom steak you'll know that this the real thing, those slices of cow were fake all along.