I'd like to be a vegan again. Could you reccomend some good dairy substitutes? Like fake cheese?

Question

I stopped because there just weren't enough options. I felt really limited in my food options. I'm still a vegetarian because I'm compassionate towards animals; but I'm becoming a vegan because I would like to lose weight.

Answer 1

Some good vegan dairy substitutes are Silk soy milk, Pacific Foods Almond Milk, Follow Your Heart vegan cheese, Turtle Mountain's soy milk and coconut milk ice creams, Tofutti cream cheese, and Soy Dream ice cream sandwiches.

http://silksoymilk.com

http://followyourheart.com

http://pacificfoods.com

http://turtlemountain.com

http://tastethedream.com

http://tofutti.com

Answer 2

It's great that you're thinking about going vegan again!

These are my favorite dairy substitutes:

Milk --- Silk (I like Silk Plus Omega-3 DHA soy milk)

Butter ---- Earth Balance Natural Buttery Spread

Ice cream ---- So Delicious Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert

Yogurt ---- WholeSoy Creamy Cultured Soy Yogurt

Cheese --- Follow Your Heart - Vegan Gourmet Cheese Alternative

Cream cheese --- Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese

Mayo --- Vegenaise mayo

Sour cream --- Tofutti Sour Supreme

This site has a list of popular vegan fake meats and non-dairy products: http://www.vegcooking.com/guide-favs.asp

Good luck!

Answer 3

Dairy substitutes:

* Plant milks - soy milk, rice milk, hemp milk, almond milk, and oat milk are the most common forms of plant milks.

Popular brands include for soy Silk, Westsoy, Pacific, Vitasoy, and Soy Dream. Popular brands for rice include Rice Dream and Pacific. Popular bands for hemp include Living Harvest and Hemp Bliss. Popular brands for oat include Pacific. Also can be homemade, search for recipes.

* Cheese - nutritional yeast cheese sauce, soy cheese, rice cheese, hemp cheese, and nut cheese are the most common. Most of these can be made at home, search for recipes. Popular cheese brands include FYH Vegan Gourmet, Teese, VeganRella, Sheese, Vegan Galaxy, Chreese, Cheezly, and Tofutti. For Parmesan you can use nutironal yeast and crushed up cashews or almonds, or Parma and Soyco Soymage.

* Ice Cream and yogurt - can be made with any plant milk, most are made from soy, rice, and coconut. Some popular ice cream brands include Purely Decadent/So Delicious, Tofutti, Rice Dream/Soy Dream, Temptation, and Good Karma. Popular yogurt brands include Wholesoy, Silk yogurt, Purely Decadent yogurt, and Whole Foods 360 yogurt, and O'Soy. They can also be made at home, search for recipes.

* Other Dairy Alternatives:

Sour cream - Tofftui Sour Supreme

Cream cheese - Toffuti Better Than Cream Cheese

Butter - Earth Balance, Nucoa Real Margarine, Marks & Spencer’s Margarine, Pure Margarine, Vitalite Margarine, Sainsbury's Margarine, Suma, Willow Run Soybean Margarine, and Spectrum Organics Spread.

Chocolate - most regular dark chocolate is vegan, plus regular chocolate chips as well, check ingredients. Chocolate Decadence and Allison's Gourmet have a variety of dairy-free chocolate.

Coffee creamer - Westsoy Crème de la Soy and Silk Original Creamer.

Heavy cream - just use soy milk or a creamer.

Buttermilk - one tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice with one cup of soy milk.

Whipped cream - Soyatoo

Plus recipes online for all of the above!

Answer 4

i personally don't like soy cheese replacements (like follow your heart), but I do like this cheese recipe from vegweb.com:

http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=8472.0

silk soy milk is delicious, use vanilla for drinking and cereal, and baking sweet foods and use plain for cooking

Earth Balance is vegan

Smart Balance LIGHT is vegan, but i think that's the only vegan one of Smart Balance

tofutti cream cheese is pretty good especially in recipes and if you have it on a bagel with jam too.

vegenaise is good, especially mixed with ketchup for boca burgers and fries. mmmm