Day 6 of Vegan Lyfe: The Deceiving Ways of Casein

Almost a week has passed since I have started my month long journey as a vegan! And tomorrow marks the first day of my last year of high school - a relatively scary thought.

I have tried two cool vegan items since Day 1 has passed:

Tofutti's "Better Than Cream Cheese"

Tofutti's cream cheese is definitely not better than Philadelphia's cream cheese, but it definitely outranks other brands. I think I might turn it into a spicier cream cheese, though. Tofutti does have other cream cheese flavours, but I wouldn't recommend buying them because they have hydrogenated soy bean oil. That is bad because hydrogenated oils of any sort have high levels of trans fat in them. This increases the bad cholesterol in your body, and decreases the good. So, basically, it makes you fat. Thankfully, Toffuti did make a non-hydrogenated version of their cream cheese.
Moral: BUY THE YELLOW TUB OF TOFUTTI CREAM CHEESE, NOT THE OTHER COLORS.

Daiya Mozzarella Shreds

I also tried Daiya Mozzarella shreds, a vegan substitute for cheese. You know how Whole Foods has food samples out for one to try? Well 70% of the food items they had out included cheese in them. The three that I could eat were: green olive in spices, traditional island blend coffee (w/o milk, obviously), and really good pomegranate juice. BUT THE CHEESES LOOKED SO DELISH.
Okay, over it. Daiya looks really weird, but tastes almost like real made from cows cheese. I could never eat it plain, but I used it in a grilled cheese sandwich, and it tasted pretty good. It definitely has that melt factor. I can't wait to try it on pizza. But it is really expensive: $4.39, as far as shredded cheese is concerned.

Where Vani Almost Lost Her Vegan Powers

I went to Kroger, right, and was in their 'Natural Foods Section' to buy soy milk and to see if they had Tofutti cream cheese (which they did), and saw the sliced cheeses that they had. One of the packages was marked vegan, and I assumed that all of the others must be vegan as well. And that was the story of how a package of mozzarella veggie cheese slices found its' way into my cart. Unfortunately for that package of cheese, I decided decided to read the label before we went to check out and noticed that Machiavellan milk protein known as CASEIN. Fuhhcking prick.

And I did allude to Scott Pilgrim in this post... except i would have to eat non-vegan food three times to actually have these powers taken away from me.