Favourite Vegan Food Products - USA

[LyricSarah]

well my favorite vegan food product WAS the health is wealth chicken free nuggets...but the recipe has been changed to "enhance flavor" by adding egg albumin. They were GREAT before. Now they even have 50 calories more per serving.

I'm obsessed with bushes vegetarian baked beans...no other brand comes close
http://www.bushbeans.com/products/bakedbeans.jsp

tofutti fudgesicles

omg I could go on forever...i like so many different vegan food products!

near east creative grains roasted pecan and garlic flavor

www.neareast.com

fantastic foods sloppy joe mix

hip whip...its really not THAT great but im addicted

tofutti used to have this really great frozen supreme flavor called plum crazy OMG SOOOO GOOD they dont make it anymore...I basically love all vegan frzen desserts

organic food bars almond flax bar

sweet dreams, smores, cranberry oatmeal luna bars

DOTS!!

I really dont eat all this junk all the time..these are just some of my favorite products aside from things that arent already prepared ...ill probably post again when I think of more lol

[DeathOfDecadence]

are the vegetarian baked beans vegan for sure?? i had always thought they werent

[LyricSarah]

well Ive read the ingredients many times, there arent many....I dont have a can here to look..and the ingredients arent on the site...its definitely contains no meat or meat bi products whatsoever...or honey....

[DeathOfDecadence]

Luna bars & pb puffins

[feline01]

PB Puffins are great!! Have to pick up a box tonight. Cinnamon are good as well.
Lifestream flax waffles
Vegannaise
Vegan Gourmet cheeses
Nutritional Yeast
Herbamare celtic salt/herb seasoning
Tofurkey slices
Soy Creme ice cream
Terra Nostra organic dark chocolate truffle bar (yummmm)
Ezekiel sprouted grain bread
Earth Balance margarine
Trader Joe's organic frozen asparagus (keeps us in asparagus year round)

[mattd]

my favorite vegan products are all whole foods (they're always so much better tha prepackaged). so here goes:

millet
avocadoes
potatoes
brown rice
fresh juices (my favorit juice is orange, apple, fennel, celery. it's really good for colds)
lentils
black beans
broccoli
spinach
collards
curry spices
fresh ginger
fresh garlic
romaine lettuce
boston lettuce
jonnamac apples
rasberries
organice grapes
many, many more....

[Kiva Dancer]

I love my whole foods, but I also like:

Earth Balance
nutritional yeast
marimite
Tofutti cuties
Soy Decadance
Almond Breeze chocolate
Vitasoy Chocolate
olive oil
sea salt (my new discovery)
mori-nu silken tofu
cranberry juice

[DeathOfDecadence]

i forgot about veganaise, soy delicious, nutritional yeast, and vegan gourmet cheese, toffutti cuties, and all turtle island products..mmm tofurkey , and SILK NOG i LOOOOOOOOVE SILK NOG!

[Kiva Dancer]

I love silk nog, too. Sad shame they only sell it around Christmas time. I would drink it all year if I could get it all year.

[DeathOfDecadence]

me too! i wonder if it would be ok to freeze it. i love using it in oatmeal and stuff for a kick. maybe next year ill stock up and freeze it and see what happens

[Kiva Dancer]

I'm not sure if it would freeze and thaw well but maybe you can try with a carton of regular silk and let us know the results.

I wouldn't want to see you waste a precious drop of that lovely silk nog in experiements.

[DeathOfDecadence]

i accidently froze a carton of regular silk the other day haha- my fridge in my dorm room only has 2 setting pretty much- not cold, and freezing (my bread and lettuce were garbage!!) but the silk tasted fine

[Wildflower]

I absolutely love -

Gardenburger Riblets
Tings - vegan cheeto w/nutritional yeast
EarthBalance and Smart Balance Light
Natural Ovens Breads
LightLife Products - especially LightLife Ham and Turkey deli slices and Smart Bacon
WhiteWave Tofu
Silk Soymilk (Vanilla, Plain and Chocolate) and Silk Soy Creamer
Temptation Chocalate Chip Cookie Dough Soy Cream from the Chicago Soy Dairy
Newman's Own Organic Dark Chocolate
Amy's Kitchen Soups and Frozen Dinners
Purely Decadent Soy Delicious soy creams
Stonewall's Jurquee
Luna Bars - especially Lemon

And my 2 newest discoveries this week -
Last Tuesday I found -Tofurkey Itallian Sausage

and last Saturday I discovered Hazelnut Flavored Soy Creamer

[Camyle26]

I LOVE PB Puffins! and Panda Puffs from EnviroKids.

Also -- Toffutti Cuties - mint chocolate chip MmmmM!!!!!!!

[Camyle26]

and Amy's products are awesome. the meals are tiny tiny but they are good!

[Wildflower]

oh, i also love RealSalt - this stuff is sooo yummy.

[FR]

Some of my favorite vegan commerically produced foods are:

- Annie's "Goddess Dressing"
- Earth Balance's "Organic Buttery Spread"
- White Wave's "Wheat Meat"
- Road's End Organic's "Mozerrela Chreese Packets"
- Silk's "Nog"
- Dr. Oetker's "Organic Chocolate Cake Mix, and Frosting Mix"
- Trader Joe's "Garlic Hummus"
- Clif's "Cookie Builder Protein Bar"
- Food For Life's "Sesame Live Grain Bread"
- Food For Life's "Ezekiel 4.9 Almond Live Grain Cereal"
- Nature's Path "Optimum Slim Cereal"

I know there are more, but those are my favorites. A good portion of everything else I buy consists of nuts, seeds, whole grains, veggies, legumes, fruits, teas, and spices.

[LyricSarah]

Some of my favorite vegan commerically produced foods are:

- Annie's "Goddess Dressing"
- Earth Balance's "Organic Buttery Spread"
- White Wave's "Wheat Meat"
- Road's End Organic's "Mozerrela Chreese Packets"
- Silk's "Nog"
- Dr. Oetker's "Organic Chocolate Cake Mix, and Frosting Mix"
- Trader Joe's "Garlic Hummus"
- Clif's "Cookie Builder Protein Bar"
- Food For Life's "Sesame Live Grain Bread"
- Food For Life's "Ezekiel 4.9 Almond Live Grain Cereal"
- Nature's Path "Optimum Slim Cereal"

I know there are more, but those are my favorites. A good portion of everything else I buy consists of nuts, seeds, whole grains, veggies, legumes, fruits, teas, and spices.

silk nog makes me sooooo happy ..its th.e simple things

I used to buy ezekiel cinnamon raisin live grain cereal all the time at a small natural foods store near my old college....when I moved this past year I was so excited to be real close to a whole foods market but they dont sell ezekiel cereal!!!

[assilembob]

Some of my favorite vegan commerically produced foods are:

- Annie's "Goddess Dressing"
- Earth Balance's "Organic Buttery Spread"
- White Wave's "Wheat Meat"
- Road's End Organic's "Mozerrela Chreese Packets"
- Silk's "Nog"
- Dr. Oetker's "Organic Chocolate Cake Mix, and Frosting Mix"
- Trader Joe's "Garlic Hummus"
- Clif's "Cookie Builder Protein Bar"
- Food For Life's "Sesame Live Grain Bread"
- Food For Life's "Ezekiel 4.9 Almond Live Grain Cereal"
- Nature's Path "Optimum Slim Cereal"

I know there are more, but those are my favorites. A good portion of everything else I buy consists of nuts, seeds, whole grains, veggies, legumes, fruits, teas, and spices.

*looks in cabnet and fridge*
hey...you stole all my food

[FR]

*looks in cabnet and fridge*
hey...you stole all my food

With a cabinet and fridge full of that yummyness; can you honestly say that you didn't expect that?

*looks for next vicitm to raid*

[phillip888]

You can make soy milk nog by adding soy lecithin and spices. I've made a nog like drink from simple bitter soy milk, soy lecithin, succant, and cinnamon. It's good.

I like earth balance
Soy cream (I stopped eating tofuti after I tried soy cream)
Haig's Hummus
Haig's Baba Ghannouge
Maranatha raw and cooked nut butters
Tropical Source chocolate
kettle chips

Hmm, amy's is good, but so many dishes are vegetarian and not vegan, but the 'dairy free' labeled ones are often vegan.

[FR]

Hmm, amy's is good, but so many dishes are vegetarian and not vegan, but the 'dairy free' labeled ones are often vegan.

I am pretty sure they now say vegan on the back right before the ingredients are listed.

Amy's brand does make some tasty TV dinner style meals. I recently tried the samosas and they werre great. I also like their breakfast burritos.

[phillip888]

There's an odd thing here. Even new amy's premade meals sometimes are vegan but don't have the '(vegan)' marking in the ingredients, yet have no animal products in them. I've even picked up the same meal a couple weeks later and found the '(vegan)' marking on the ingredients, and it's not there when I return. Out of paranoia I've compared the two and they have the exact same ingredients. I don't know what the deal is, I wish it was always there because it makes purchasing pretty easy when it says vegan right on it. Then again I have no business eating pre-made dinners...

[Kelzie]

Okay I have to complain a little here. I LOVE earth balance. But I couldn't find any at the store, so I got this other vegan stuff, figuring "it's all the same, right?" No! This stuff is weird. It doesn't melt, and it's all rubbery. It's called Spectrum Natural Spreads. NEVER get it!!!

[kohlrabi222]

Silk..any flavor
Luna bars
Bush's veg beans are awesome!
Amy's dairy-free burritos
"Skallops" by Worthington
those yummy rice noodle packages by I forgot who (oops)
Recaito by Goya brand

[Seaside]

I just tried a yummy Meyer Lemon sorbet from Double Rainbow, "San Francisco's Official Ice Cream". I love Meyer Lemons!

[Mystic]

When I am in America in September, I am looking forward to rekindling my love with Kashi & in the morning

[feline01]

I just tried a yummy Meyer Lemon sorbet from Double Rainbow, "San Francisco's Official Ice Cream". I love Meyer Lemons!

Ditto, guess we're both tarts

[Seaside]

Posted by feline01:

Ditto, guess we're both tarts

We are what we eat!

[feline01]

I already posted this in the brownie thread but I'll post it here as well, Allison's Gourmet makes the most delicious organic, vegan caramels and chocolates (which my husband gave me for Mother's Day ) as well as cookies and brownies which I haven't tried yet. When I say their caramel/chocolates were delicious, I mean better than any non-vegan ones that I ever had in my pre-vegan days and I used to work at a Swiss speciality store in London, UK that sold all sorts of high-end Swiss, French and Belgium chocolates. I, of course, had to sample a few hundred of them during my 6-month's there but as I said, Allison's is much, much better.

[desert rat]

It's summer again so my favorite food is soy ice cream. Especially Soy Delicious. I was thinking about ordering Dulce de Leche through my health food store 'cause they don't carry that flavor. But the cashier told me I would have to buy it in a package of 6 quarts. Hmmmmmm......I think I'll do it anyway.

Other than that right now I definitley love pita's w/veganaise and any veggies I set my mind on.

[Brownie]

A lot of my favorite vegan products have been named already.

Tofurkey slices and italian sausages
Vegennaise
Vanilla sandwich cremes (no particular brand. Some are vegan, some aren't. They're variations of Oreos, by the way.)
Amy's dairy-free burritos
Amy's enchiladas (the ones without cheese)
Vegan Gourmet cheeses
Tofutti cream cheese
Chocolate silk
Soy Margarine
Thai Kitchen Spring Noodle Bowl

[Brownie]

- Trader Joe's "Garlic Hummus"

Oh yes, I forgot that! It's the only hummus that I will eat. And I will only eat it with TJ's soy pita bread!

[feline01]

I like Peelu Dental Chewing Gum and it's vegan!! I checked with the company and the label says it's cruelty-free. No artificial sweeteners either. A bit hard to find though, only at health food stores.

[feline01]

Trader Joe's Chipolete Pepper Hummus is fantastic!!! I tried it for the first time last night and love it. Tastes great on Lundberg's Organic Brown Rice cakes (also sold at TJ's ) Best store bought hummus I ever had.

[nubilous]

My absolute favorite brand of vegan cookies - alternative baking company!!! If you haven't tried them you definitely should! (Especially the pumpkin spice cookie...)

[Seaside]

Mini Oatmeal and Raisin cookies from Fabe's All Natural bakery.

[kriz]

OMG - I just discovered Vegenaise! It's so gooood! Now I want to put Vegenaise on everything I consume...mmmmmm!!

[Seaside]

Isn't it, kriz! But how is it that you have only just found out about it? I have been using it for maybe about 10 years now, I think.

[kriz]

Well, I used Nayonaise...Soynaise...all kinds of yucky stuff, and I thought that's just how vegan mayos taste like, I better get used to it. I was about to give up before I hit on Vegenaise. Tomorrow I'll make a yummy potato salad with the stuff!

[Seaside]

I am sorry for all the deliciousness you have been missing out on. You'll have to make up for lost time!

[FR]

OMG - I just discovered Vegenaise! It's so gooood! Now I want to put Vegenaise on everything I consume...mmmmmm!!

I hear you. Vegenaise is the food of the gods and goddesses.

[feline01]

OMG - I just discovered Vegenaise! It's so gooood! Now I want to put Vegenaise on everything I consume...mmmmmm!!

You can, it does work on everything. Follow Your Heart, the makers of Vegannaise and Vegan Gourmet cheese deserve a nobel prize.

[Franny]

You can, it does work on everything. Follow Your Heart, the makers of Vegannaise and Vegan Gourmet cheese deserve a nobel prize.

I think Vegannaise tastes better than traditional mayo. I don't like Nayonaise to me it tastes like Miracle Whip which I never liked. I agree with you on the Vegan Gourmet mozzarella. Very good. I has Ezekieal 4:9 bread yesterday for the first time. I toasted it with Earth Balance. It was drop dead awesome.
What I think is cool is that I never would have tried these really good products if I hadn't become vegan. Omni's are missing out.
I actually brought some Earth Balance to a barbeque at my parent's house my mom put it on some rice, and no one noticed the difference between it and butter.

[tipsy]

I hear you. Vegenaise is the food of the gods and goddesses.

ok,
you guys are wierd...
that stuff grosses me out, big time!

then again, ive never had mayonaisse in my life.... maybe...thats...why...

ick, just the thought.

[kriz]

Earth Balance taste much better than butter.

[Mystic]

Ok, I found some amazing things in America:

Larabars - I only liked the ginger, cherry pie and cashew cookie.
Alternative Bakers Cookies - double chocolate was the best, but I loved the cranberry orange one as well as the peanut butter choc chip
Soy Delicious Cookie Avalanche (which we now have in Australia)
Forget the company, but raw walnut butter is amazing!

[Mystic]

Oh and those organic blue corn chips are great Wholefoods was my saviour, otherwise, I lived off burritos

[Wishin986]

Oh and those organic blue corn chips are great Wholefoods was my saviour, otherwise, I lived off burritos

I go to Wholefoods just about every single day here. literally. i love them!

[rantipole]

Annie's Goddess Dressing can be put on anything, giving it a tangy--almost cheesy--taste. I love to steam spinach, put it on some rice, and mix in the Goddess Dressing. It's heavenly. It's also great on steamed asparagus.

I shop at a big Asian food store. It has all these crazy vegan meat products: duck, shrimp, prawn, salmon, scallops, squid, etc. The duck is wonderful and the scallops cannot be believed. I adore them. I haven't tried the salmon or the squid yet.

Other good stuff:
Alternative Baking Company coookies (espresso chip and pumpkin spice, esp.)
Cowgirl Cookies
Near East couscous mixes (for those times when I need a quick dinner)
Tofutti Cream Cheese
Silk creamer
peanut butter-filled pretzels--I forget the brand, but I can find out
Tamarind Tree Indian meals (not all are vegan, but at least three are)
Sharon's sorbets (the coconut is out of this world; Edy's sorbets are almost as good but often too sweet)

Mostly, I cook a lot of whole foods for myself. The products I've listed are for quick meals and snacks.

Cheers,
rant