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L: hey y'all welcome to Make It Dairy Free i'm Larisha A: i'm Andrew L: and today we are going
to be sharing with you all of our top favorite vegan products that we are frequently asked for so
think things like dairy and meat alternatives egg substitutes chocolate and more so what we
tried to do was hit all of the basic categories like the top categories that most people buy
A: okay so the way we came up with this list is based off of the taste and how it stacks up against its
not so vegan predecessor of course we could use other considerations such as price uh availability
allergies and so on but you know just for the sake of a shorter type of video um we wanted
to just stick to just the taste so from here we're gonna hop right into the video L: let's do it
A: all right so we're starting out with our milk category um so these two contenders come in
at the top for us this means if you're looking for any daily use such as cereal maybe just a drink
or even dip your cookies in then these guys are gonna be the ones you want to go with this one
here is the unsweetened version of target's almond milk and this one is a chocolate milk
that is also almond based but it's over at aldi i believe right? L: yes my favorite A: all right , favorite spot
although if you were looking for something a bit more creamier i would say maybe to
cook with i would say you should go with the oat milk type of base a soy milk base
or even a coconut base speaking of coconut our favorite coc- this almost looks like a commercial (laughing)
our favorite canned coconut is uh is from target and it's this brand right here um it's good and
gather L: we've we've found that this one just provides the most of that that thick creamy
center consistently A: yup L: than the other brands A: all right let's move on to the next one
L: all right so the next category is eggs and we have two options for you if you like eggs if you
need something that is convenient just egg wins every single time um this you literally just pour
and you scramble it up just like scrambled eggs this is their new product which is a folded egg
it literally just pops into a skillet and you have folded egg in like two minutes um but we really
like a tofu scramble now and you have obviously have to season that but the price of this is much
better compared to the just egg products we will say that no matter which option you go with you
need black salt which is also called kala namak and it looks something like this it's like a pink salt
and it adds like a sulfur taste that like eggs had that you remember and so we wouldn't recommend
doing these without that because if you really want an eggy taste that's where you get that
from A: yeah it stinks just like egg L: it really does smell bad A: yeah all right that's our next one L: yep
A: all right next up is our breads and we chose aldi again which is our favorite spot um so we chose
a basic aldi bread this is a split top um wheat version and then we also chose um dave's um what's
this called dave's L: dave's killer bread A: killer bread that's what it is i was looking for the name there
but um so we chose both of these for the bread section now to be completely honest with you a lot
of breads are somewhat vegan that are store-bought but really the taste and texture don't differ a
whole ton between a vegan alternative um when you when you actually try them out so i think we could
put a lot in this category here um we just went with these ones because they're really convenient
for us but also don't forget to comment let us know what you think that also helps some of the
folks kind of scrolling through the comments what other bread options there are out there
L: yep. all right so our next category is cheese it is probably the one that we get asked the most about
and this category is a doozy we actually recommend that you wait a month after you go vegan to try
anything because you need your taste buds not to remember what cheese tastes like in order to try
these so um we have a couple of different ones that we want to show based on like preferences
and different things and we could have shown a lot more we actually like quite a few now like it
keeps changing very rapidly yeah um so but these are the ones that we pretty much grab consistently
so um for shredded cheese we grab whoops we grab Daiya the most this is mozzarella and cheddar
um if you remember the original daiya it was not good but this is their new cutting board blend and
it is great for parmesan we grabbed this wedge from violife speaking of violife we also grab
for a block of cheese they have this new one it is epic smoked cheddar flavor and it is amazing A: WOOO
L: um slices we couldn't we couldn't pick um just one so i kind of got the ones that we
pick all the time um this is chao it's closest to just like an original like american type of cheese
um but they also there's also this smoked gouda by follow your heart which is amazing
and this smoked provolone by Violife is really really really good and then just a couple of
other things if you like um soft cheeses before going vegan um the tree line brand is amazing
um and then this is not cheese this is sour cream but um i couldn't find our favorite uh
cream cheese when i went to the store A: they ran out L: but it is buy this brand you can order it online
if you don't have it in a store near you but this is the Wayfare brand this is actually their sour
cream which is a pretty close alternative um but their cream cheese is our best and we have tried
so many of them so look for that so this is a very quick summary of our cheeses
A: all right so next up is our butters or what do they call dairy free spreads L: yeah A: but we call
them butter so next up as a good alternative would be either the country crock version or the earth
balance version now both these companies make a variety of different butters that
are very accommodating to whether allergies or um just different cooking choices in terms of like
olive oil and stuff like that um other than that i would say that we do have some honorable mentions
um one's gonna be miyoko's um they make a good butter and also flora makes a pretty awesome
butter as well yeah this is the flora brand and it's just not widely available yet you can only
find it online or if you have a kroger store near you so it is definitely one that is up and
coming and to look out for yeah but any of these butters i swear to you if there was a blind taste
test with non-vegans they would fail miserably because these things are amazing L: yeah for sure
all right so when we first went vegan i think that you may have cried a little bit when you
realized that you thought maybe you couldn't have chocolate chip cookies anymore A: oh yeah L: like were
chocolate A: yeah L: chips gonna be vegan A: absolutely i was tearing up L: but enjoy life was the original brand
that we found and we still love them tremendously yeah um especially if we want some like bigger
chunks they have the mega chunk ones which you can't find anywhere else and they're amazing
but right before the holidays walmart came out with their own line of organic top 8 free
chocolate chips and they are really fantastic especially because there is a white chocolate
chip version and they are they taste better than the other ones we think so like the
the regular dairy ones A: yeah L: so we highly recommend both of these
A: next up is our yogurt and all i can say is it has been a godsend to find this yogurt it is
awesome like so awesome um this is by yoplait it's called Oui i always see it and i want to say oi
and i don't was that canadian L:Ii don't know A: i'm not really sure but either way um i i
kind of just say it joking a lot but either way this yogurt is more of on the sweet side
of yogurts um i know there's kind of like a sweet and a tart version for yogurts for people um but
this one hangs around the sweet for us um outside of that the only downside to this i would say
is probably the allergies if you are allergic to coconut then you wouldn't be able to have this one
but you know otherwise this is probably the best yogurt out there L: and if you've seen us talk about
yogurt before we have a whole video about it it has been a struggle to find a yogurt that we like
A: for sure L: um we've this is probably like the 25th or so A:I was thinking in the 50s L: i don't know it's
been a lot and this is hands down the best one there's also a mango flavor that's really good too
all right so ice cream was something that we loved before going vegan and we definitely did not want
to give it up so we had to find an alternative and luckily there are a few options that we love
so the Van-lee-uwens ... we still haven't figured out how to say this um was a recent find for us
but the texture is spot on one of the best that we have ever had vegan or non-vegan um the only
downside is that it is extremely pricey usually seven to eight dollars for a pint of it depending
on where you buy it at A: so we barely ever buy it L: but true um the Nadamoo the the creaminess and the
consistency of this one is incredible um and they have most of like the basic flavors this one is as
strawberry cheesecake which is more of a not basic one but they t-- uh they tend to stick to more
um basic flavors um and the price is better than this one and it's more widely available and then
you just can't go wrong with ben and jerry's A: ben and jerry! L: um and i i think they're up to probably
like seven or eight different non-dairy flavors at this A: they have a lot honestly i think i think
it might be more than seven to be honest with you because i feel like almost every time i go there i
find a new flavor and i've and when i stay there i mean like target or one of those other spaces but
i i've been there a lot and uh although i'm not allowed to go to the store very often um there's
there's been a bunch of flavors out there L: yeah but so this one is the the widest available one
that you'll be able to find pretty much A: so you can't go wrong with ben and jerry's L: yeah
A: all right so our next one is field roast hot dogs now i want to take a moment of silence for this
one (laughs) because it is so good i mean they i feel like they must put some type of drug inside of
this bad boy here L: no they don't A: because it tastes great like i'm i'm not even playing with you but
i guess more so what i want to say is if you're looking for one good price very available like
this is it um other than that i think one other thing is that it doesn't do the whole uh I used to
hate hot dogs whenever you like cook them they would like boil up and become misshapen in
certain places it doesn't do that now i don't know if that's important to you but it's very
important to me so i wanted to say that they L: they also make really good uh sausages too
just in case like you're looking A: Field Roast yes they do so it's another good alternative
L: all right so the next category is plant-based burgers we have tried a lot of these and we've
actually liked a lot of them don't get me wrong but this is the one that we keep going back to
since it came out this is gardein's ultimate plant-based burgers um this is the package from
walmart so they have a bigger package than you might find in some other stores so just don't get
confused if it's a smaller package it's the same thing um but this one is it's thick and it's meaty
and the flavor is spot-on and i will just say that i know for some people that they get weirded out
by the the meaty texture of some burgers so if if you are one of those people then this one
probably isn't for you but for us if you if you miss a burger that you had prior to going vegan
this is going to come insanely close to what you remember A: for sure and one other
thing is we like this one because the amount of ingredients in this is very little in comparison
to some of those other ones out there so if you still want to be somewhat i guess healthy
ish um and not worry about like so much in your gut then this is the way to go
all right so next is the morningstar chicken nuggets and i'm not sure if this made it to the
top by us or our kids because you know they they make a strong fight for this chicken nugget brand
right here um but to be honest with you it is really good so other thing to mention that they do
have two different varieties which i think which is which is also cool um they have a spicy one
and then they also have this normal one we tried both and each of them pair extremely well with
any of your favorite dips anything on your part L: no i would just say that they do have a little
one that's a little bit more expensive than their normal one which is disney shaped ones
which again the kids go crazy for and it's just nice for the kids to have something that's like
fun since vegan kids don't get a lot of that stuff A: all right shout out the morning star
L: all right so if we had to recommend like one brand overall as a vegan it would probably be
the gardein brand and i think that's because we've tried dozens of their things and we've
not liked maybe two of them um overall they're like hands down one of the best things they
have a variety of different chickens and meat crumbles and they have burgers um just so many
different things especially as a new vegan when you're like i don't know what to make and how to
substitute all this different stuff like this brand is hands down one of the best out there
A: all right so next up is beyond meats um sausage it's a breakfast sausage (funnily saying sausage )
um it's a breakfast sausage or sausage but this breakfast sausage is awesome
i would say there's one downside to it it comes with about six in the pack which is great
and you could cook them straight from frozen which is also great the only one downside to me
is that they come and they're really small um so if you're into like making a sandwich with
them you gotta use a few of them on the patty in in order to make on the patty i have to use
a few of them on the bread in order to make the sandwich L: yes i absolutely agree with that they do
have this is a spicy one they have an original one as well all right so the next category that we are
doing is this plant-based ground meat um a lot of times you get like frozen ground crumbles and you
know you can just add it into different sauces and stuff but this actually acts like meat yeah and so
the texture and the flavor of it is great we actually found this when doing our target taste
test video and we've used it for different things like tacos and inside spaghetti and we're going to
be using it to see how well it does making burgers and meatballs soon and so we just really like this
one for a variety of different reasons and it's it's a good it's a good A: it's a good L: it's good A: okay
all right so next up is pizza and it's frozen pizza and honestly even before vegan i would
never go for a frozen pizza i would always recommend either us making one or honestly just
ordering one because it's just it's fresh it's good it tastes so much better to me L:Ii think it
comes from us living in new jersey and so close to new york that just a pizza store's pizza is
so much better than frozen A:yeah 100% but if you do have to go the route of a frozen pizza um
especially because you're vegan and there's no pizza around you that's uh vegan then you can
go with this daiya um version they make this with their cutting board blend of cheese the cheese we
talked about earlier so it definitely helps push it a little further than the normal frozen pizza
but honestly it's convenient and it just takes a few minutes to get done
L:Ii will say that everything when you go vegan everything is more expensive so compared to most
frozen brands it is more expensive but you'll get used to that as you're vegan and learning about
you know prices and stuff like that but the the flavor and everything is great for this
A: or you'd be like me and just make it because you're cheap and it tastes better anyway
L: all right so the next category is basically like deli slices or like vegan meat alternative
type of things like that so um this is the Yves brand it is pepperoni and ham this one category
was like a little harder for us because we love the pepperoni um especially our kids they'll eat
it out of the package us not so much but um the deli slices like the the thinness of it is spot
on to like what we remember deli slices being but the texture is just like okay yeah um and
then they have like other ones too but um for us there's just not a lot of deli slices available
where we live um and so it's just it's when we want something like that like ham and she sliders
or something like we have like on the site then that's what we go with um but we just think that
there's a lot of opportunity in this particular category still um and speaking of we plan to try
to make some of our own this year and see if we can get a better texture and taste to that so
stay tuned for that A: also this brand makes other versions is it this brand that makes
other versions um maybe like a turkey one they L:Ii don't think they have turkey but they have like
salami and bologna and canadian bacon and stuff like that A: so some other versions so if you're not
into him they have some other stuff that you could try L: yeah tofurky is a good one if you're looking
for like a turkey based product A: yeah honestly when you say that thinking of the turkey or the
ham alternative videos that we shot honestly just buy one of those and slice it if you can you know
what i mean and that might be a better option there too yeah for sure L: all right guys we hope
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