@NewBeginnings7790 that's too bad ... I just tried vegan cheese for the first time maybe a month ago at Costco (I normally avoid the demo carts at Costco, but I had been wanting to try vegan cheese for a long time) ... and I was really surprised how good it was, it seemed like it would be a good subsitute so we could stop slaughtering calves born to keep dairy cattle producing (until they too are slaughtered after relatively few cycles)
It's not that healthy unless made with tofu and not over processed. Plants don't taste like cheese or meat naturally,they don't come shaped or have the color nor texture of cheese or meat,they go through chemical processes for that and have many additives. Better to stick to plants,beans,grains ,and take the vitmans you'll lack from a vegan diet I like bacon too much to be a vegan,myself. And soya bacon don't cut it .
@PhilDeep Actually cheese was [u]invented[/u] to make milk safe. Our ancestors were all lactose-intolerant, 10,000 years ago. So they came up with cheese.
@Piper We're all different, with different values. When I was cooking professionally it was a matter of personal pride to me that the ingredients I used were as natural as possible and I developed my own recipes accordingly.
@OliRos Wow. Quite an assumptive and judgmental reply, in response to someone who has shown no indication of moral superiority for not eating animals. 🤔
I've bought and consumed plant-based cheese, but not recently. I didn't find it any way "yuck", but that's probably because I wasn't expecting it to taste just like dairy cheese.
I've tried several over the years, even the newer tree nut cheeses and they've always been pretty awful. If not terrible anything it was on was wayyy better without.
That said though there is this brand of chick pea based cheese puffs that are vegan. And let me tell ya it is the best damn cheese puff I have ever had. Blows every other cheese puff out of the water.
