Vegan Cheese #1

As mentioned in a previous post, I have been trying some vegan cheeses. So here's the first of many vegan cheese posts.

Back before I knew that dairy wasn't a good thing for my body, I would keep all kinds of cheese in the house like styles and flavors for different kinds of food or by themselves. And when I realized I shouldn't have dairy, I essentially stopped having cheese at home.

I would only have cheese at home if I was making something special for dinner or for a special occasion. I know myself well enough to know that if I have cheese here all the time, I'm going to eat it, and I'll basically always be sick again. 

So now that I have found some options for vegan cheese, I can actually keep cheese around the house again, which has been a surprisingly big but happy adjustment.

So this was one of the first cheeses to catch my eye:

Oh, man, do I love cheddar cheese. So I was pretty jazzed about this one.

By itself, it's terrible. It's kind of like super stale cheddar cheese. But from what I've heard, you shouldn't eat it by itself. 

I went to Chipotle for lunch the same day I bought this cheese. I always get roughly the same thing:

Burrito bowl with steak, corn salsa, guac, cheese, rice and lettuce (and then a little hot sauce added later)

So this time, I thought that I would get it without the cheese, and try the vegan cheddar.

It took some getting used to with the vegan cheese, but it was surprisingly good. I was tempted to warm the bowl up a bit to try and get the cheese to melt, but it would have ruined the texture of the rest of it, so I thought better. 

The cheese itself has a weird texture and flavor, and I haven't really found much of a use for it since the burrito bowl, but I'm glad I have it. It may not be the best cheddar in the world (because real cheddar is the best, duh), but it was a good dupe...kind of.

I think that if this was the only vegan cheese on the market I would be really upset, but being just one of many options helps. From what I've heard, it's really good melted into a quesadilla or something similar 

It was a good start, for sure! And I'm excited to try it in other foods, as well.

Stay tuned for more. I have more vegan cheeses in my fridge, so more will be coming!