Pantry Items - For Seasoned, Newbie, or Wanna-Be Vegans

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This by no means an all-inclusive list, so if you have any of your favorites to add, please email me personally, and I'll update the list and post it as a permanent document to this site for future reference.

 

Finally, many of these items are just plain healthier (i.e. do not contain high-fructose corn syrup), or are interesting alternatives to the usual. Also included are items that seem to be common in many veg recipes.

 

 

DAIRY ALTERNATIVES

 

Butter/Margarine/Spreads:

Earth Balance Natural Margarine Spread http://www.earthbalance.net/product.html

Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese http://www.tofutti.com/btcc.0.asp

 

Cheese*:

Follow Your Heart Products http://www.followyourheart.com/cheese.php

Kal or Red Star Nutritional Yeast Flakes (buy the vegetarian support formula)

Tofutti Soy Cheese Slices http://www.tofutti.com/hardcheese.0.asp

Vegan Rella www.libertyrichter.com

 

*Other soy-cheeses still contain casein (a milk protein), so read the labels.

 

Condiments:

Follow Your Heart Veganaise http://www.followyourheart.com/products.php

Tofutti Sour Supreme http://www.tofutti.com/soursupreme.0.asp

 

Ice Cream:

Rice Dream Frozen Deserts http://www.tastethedream.com/products/rd_frozen.php

Tofutti Frozen Deserts http://www.tofutti.com/pints.0.asp

 

Milk:

Almond Breeze Milk http://www.bluediamond.com/shop/natural/almondBreeze32.cfm

Rice Dream Rice Milk http://www.tastethedream.com/products/rice_dream.php

Silk Soy Milk http://www.silksoymilk.com/Products/SilkSoymilkRefrigerated.aspx

Silk Coffee Creamer http://www.silksoymilk.com/Products/SilkCreamer.aspx

WestSoy Rice Milk http://www.westsoy.biz/products/rice_drink.php

WestSoy Soy Milk http://www.westsoy.biz/products/index.php

 

EGG ALTERNATIVES

Scrambled Tofu (recipes can be found on suggested websites below)

 

 

EGG ALTERNATIVES (for baking)

Ener-G Egg Replacer http://www.energ.com/store/detail.aspx?section=8 & cat=8 & id=97

Ground Flax Seed: 1 Tbsp ground flax seed + 3 Tbsp water = 1 Egg. Boil water, add flax, reduce heat and simmer for 1-2 minutes, until stretchy consistency of egg whites.

 

 

GRAINS

Bread:

Food for Life Breads (frozen section) http://www.foodforlife.com/

Toufayan Pita Bread (doesn't contain honey) http://www.toufayan.com/pita.htm

 

Cereal:

Arrowhead Mills Spelt Flakes http://www.arrowheadmills.com/products/cold-cereals.php

 

Pasta:

Spelt Noodles

Buckwheat Soba Noodles

 

Misc. Grains:

Quinoa (high protein-really easy to make) http://www.quinoa.net/Nutrition_Facts/nutrition_facts.html

 

 

MEAT ALTERNATIVES

Boca products (not all are vegan-friendly, check label) http://www.bocaburger.com/

LiteLife products http://www.lightlife.com/products.html

Turtle Island Food products http://www.tofurky.com/

Yves Veggie Cuisine products http://www.yvesveggie.com

 

MISC.

 

Baking/Sweetening:

Madhava Agave Nectar (in lieu of honey) http://www.madhavahoney.com/agave.htm

Molasses

No sugar added fruit juices and purees can be substituted in recipes

Sunspire semi-sweet chocolate chips

Sugar in the Raw Turbinado Sugar http://www.sugarintheraw.com/

Tropical Source semi-sweet chocolate chips

 

Cookies:

Uncle Eddie's Vegan Cookies http://www.uncleeddiesvegancookies.com/cookies.html

 

Frozen Dinners:

Amy's Kitchen* http://www.amys.com/products/category_view.php?prod_category=4

Seeds of Change* http://www.seedsofchangefoods.com/our_foods/category.aspx?id=frozen_entrees

 

*Not all items are vegan.

 

Protein Powder:

Rainbow Light Protein Energizerhttp://www.rainbowlight.com/CategoriesProducts.aspx?Category=8ca1a8a4-e807-4d56-924c-ad156db77e4a

 

SEASONING/SPICES

Bragg's Liquid Aminos (in lieu of soy sauce or tamari) http://www.bragg.com/products/liquidaminos.html

Rapunzel Vegan Vegetable Bouillons http://www.rapunzel.com/products/rapunzel/rapunzel_soups_bouillon.html

Real Salt http://www.realsalt.com/?gclid=CKjfl9K164sCFRw9Igod0ULpQw

Spice Hunter brand spices

Spike

Vegit

 

FOOD/RECIPE WEBSITES

http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes.html

http://www.fatfreevegan.com/pasta/farmers_market.shtml

http://gliving.tv/greenchefs/

http://www.pcrm.org/health/recipes/

http://www.peta.org/accidentallyVegan/ (lists brand name grocery store items)

http://www.randomgirl.com/recipes.html

http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/recipes/

http://www.theppk.com/recipes/

http://www.veganchef.com/

http://www.vitalita.com/cookbooks.html (free online gourmet cookbooks)

 

IS IT VEGAN? FOOD INGREDIENT/PRESERVATIVE LOOK-UP LISTS

http://www.godairyfree.org/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=217 & Itemid=31

http://www.peta.org/MC/factsheet_display.asp?ID=72

http://vegan-info.com/additives.html#C

http://veganpeace.com/ingredients/ingredients.htm