Recently discovered this with the non-vegan cheese "soy loaf" I was using. I thought I finally found a vegan cheese that melted almost exactly like cheese and tasted pretty good and wasn't that expensive. But it's got casein and it's just listed as "casein" so it's not some plant-based alternative as far as I can tell, but from milk. I re-doubled my efforts to read ingredients of everything after that. Should probably get in the habit of re-reading ingredients on stuff in case they add stuff back in too.
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I bought an almond cheese once that I didn't realize had casein in it until I had already eaten most of it.
I recall hearing about this product. It sounds like they were just trying to ride the "plant-based" trend. I think I heard of another that was soy with added whey or some shit.
The Morningstar patties are vegan, looking at the ingredients list now. Impossible and Beyond both make some, too
I can look at the patties. Makes me wonder why the patties are but the links aren't(yet). And tbf I only got links as a change up from patties lol.
I saw a place that takes the patties, puts a long corndog-style stick in them, dips the whole thing in waffle batter, and fries it on a waffle iron. Sounds good, haven't tried yet
Sounds legit. One of the things that has helped me going vegan this year was the amount of "vegan junk food" that exists now. We have a local food truck that just opened up shop and they take soy curls and douse them in bbq sauce and put it all into a burrito with smashed up hush puppies, slaw, and (if you ask nicely) mac and cheese. It put me into a food coma lol.
Field Roast is great
I got a Natural Grocers in my city so I'm gonna go seek this brand out.
I don't think any Morningstar products are vegan, they all have eggs if I recall correctly. If you're not worried about affordability Beyond does make pretty good sausages, but there's seemingly a ton of companies making plant based meats now so I'd suggest maybe shopping around a little.
I just checked and their corn dogs are vegan but are labeled as plant-based, and their nuggets are labeled certified vegan.
This is another rec for Beyond. The price thing isn't that big of an issue since I am the only vegan in the household but last few times I got it I made the whole bag of them. Making a few at a time might be worth it to spread the pennies a bit.
They have a few vegan products. Like a couple of their veggie burgers and chik'n
I feel like they used to make a vegan version, but discontinued them like 5 years ago (a long with some other good stuff, like a Indian style potato burger patty). That, or it was a different brand.
Not the same thing at all, but I occasionally get the Field Roast sausages and use them for breakfast type stuff. I typically don't buy the meat-substitute stuff too often, though.
I'm a baby vegan so treating myself to a few "meat-likes" has been really good for the transition imo, I've heard about the various burger patties they have and feel like I missed out. Freddy's(a US burger chain) has a black bean and corn patty that is actually really good. I'm gonna keep an eye out for more Field Roast stuff. I wanted to try one of their loaf things for last Thanksgiving but opted for their braut style sausage instead and it was good.
I used to like Gimme Lean (jimmy dean-alike), but can't find it anymore.
I can keep an eye out for it but if you can't find it, I probably won't be able to. I don't think I've seen that brand at all actually.
Edit: wait I think I've seen LightLife brand... 🤔
Yeah, lightlife does a lot of crumbles which are... ok. But idk, I grew up on jimmy dean, so their sausage was my fave.
It’s pretty easy to DIY breakfast sausage (and chorizo!) with impossible if you just look up the spice mix online
If it's just seasoning I could probably look into it. I'm not ready for making like homemade seitan or tofurkey yet lol.
Yeah it’s just seasoning. Just google a breakfast sausage seasoning recipe and use the same ratios
Beyond has some. I haven't tried them because I think pork is stink meat and I don't think I'd care for any alternative trying to be like pork but Beyond has good burgers so maybe their sausage is good too.
I've actually had Beyond and outside of them tasting a bit too herby, they do alright. This was gonna be my choice but I wanna shop around a bit.