Vegan Products I Love

Over the course of this month, I’ve spent a lot of time studying products on the shelves of the grocery store, seeking out products that don’t have hidden milk solids or honey listed in their ingredients. As I currently work in a grocery store, this would seem to be a productive use of my time in some ways. After all, I now can answer fairly quickly the question of, “Can you suggest something I can eat that’s vegan?”
Well, let’s go ahead and start with a nice transitional food, for the people (like me) whose cereal obsession prior to becoming a vegan reached levels rarely seen before. When honey was banished, so too were most of the cereals stocked in what could be called the bomb shelter of my apartment. Not Leapin’ Lemurs!

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Thank you Nature’s Path and your Envirokidz cereals, whose purchase results in donations for habitat conservation and children’s environmental education programs. You also put cute animals on your peanut butter and chocolate drops of yum, which taste amazing in vanilla almond milk* and satisfy my need for a ritualistic nighttime snack.
*another product I cannot live withoutLeapin’ Lemurs are good, but as I told y’all from (nearly) day one, the best vegan cereal I’ve found is Purely Elizabeth granola.

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I don’t know who you are, Elizabeth, but you make me proud of my middle name, and although I disagree with your price tag (and made my own imitation much more cheaply), you do give me a strong desire to spell my name entirely in lowercase letters, and often overshadow the presence of nut butter in my oatmeal.

Speaking of nut butter, thank you world for the presence of Peanut Butter & Co. in my life.And yet, despite the fact that I’m pretty sure the Mighty Maple is what Hilary Duff sang about in The Lizzie McGuire Movie,* I think my Maple Coconut Peanut Butter was (gasp!) even better.
*”Hey now! Hey now! This is what dreams are made of…”^
^Pretty sure the number of times I’ve used that joke on the blog is now upwards of 20.Honestly? Although they continue to add some pluck to my morning oatmeal, and occasionally satisfy a nighttime hankering for nut butter, this stuff is starting to taste a bit too sweet to me….…and the creations I come up with on my own are often much more fun! [Got a new one tomorrow...]Snack-a-doodle-doo, have I got something for you! Move over Lara(bar), because Bobo has arrived…and his Coconut Oat Bar is lip-smackingly good. [Just watch out for the fact that each little bar is two servings, or you'll quickly gobble up these granola-bars-fit-for-royalty. Also, I would never pay the high price tag for them and only know they are delicious because I got to sample one at the store.]

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Thank you NadaMoo! for knowing that vegans need dessert too, and for satisfying my ice cream obsession, which has (shockingly?) been greatly reduced. So lessened in fact that I just finished the tub last night. One month and only one pint of ice cream consumed? Who have I become?

Of course, where would any vegan be without Bragg’s?Well, probably eating regular soy sauce, that’s where.

But still, it is quite yummy. Do I need to remind you for the four millionth time how delicious it is as a marinade for eggplant?Or in a stir fry made from Asian veggies tossed with spaghetti squash?And I should also mention one of my other new best friends for cooking: Better Than Boullion Vegetable Base.It makes impromptu crisper-cleaning* soups all that more tasty.

…and the produce department.Because one of the best things I’ve learned about being a vegan this month……is that the “products I love”?

Well, they aren’t really “products” at all.