Shopping Suggestions

The vegetarian marketplace has exploded over the past 10 years, with major grocery stores carrying a fantastic variety of animal-friendly products. As you reduce the amount of animal products in your weekly menu, you don't have to give up the tastes you've enjoyed—just substitute vegetarian versions!

Meat-Free "Meat"

Bacon: Yves' Canadian Veggie Bacon and Lightlife's Smart Bacon and Fakin' Bacon

Chicken: White Wave's Chicken-Style Seitan and Chicken-Style Wheat Meat

Chicken Nuggets and Strips: Trader Joe's Soy Poppers, Nate's Chicken-Style Meatless Nuggets, Lightlife's Chick'n Strips, and Health Is Wealth's Chicken-Free Fingers and Buffalo Wings

Chicken Patties: Soy Boy's Okara Courage Burger and Gardenburger's Flame-Grilled Chick'n and BBQ Chik'n

Cold Cuts: Lightlife's Smart Deli (Country Ham, Old World Bologna, and Three Peppercorn Pastrami), Yves' The Good Deli (Veggie Bologna, Veggie Ham, Veggie Salami, and Veggie Turkey), and Turtle Island Foods' Tofurky

Ground Beef: Boca's Ground Burger, Morningstar Farms' Ground Meatless Crumbles, Yves' Ground Round, and Lightlife's Smart Ground and Smart Menu Crumbles

Hamburgers: Boca's Vegan Original, Gardenburger's GardenVegan, Whole Foods Market's 365 Organic Vegan Veggie Burger, and Amy's California Veggie Burger and Texas Burger

Hot Dogs: Lightlife's Smart Dogs and Tofu Pups and Yves' Veggie Dogs, Tofu Dogs, and Hot 'n' Spicy Chili Dogs

Sausage: Turtle Island Foods' Tofurky gourmet sausages, beer brats, and kielbasa; Lightlife's Gimme Lean; Gardenburger's Meatless Breakfast Sausage; and Yves' Veggie Breakfast Patties and Links

Dairy-Free "Dairy"

Butter: Shedd's Willow Run Soybean Margarine and Earth Balance's Soy Garden

Cheese: Follow Your Heart's Vegan Gourmet and Tofutti's Soy-Cheese Slices

Cream Cheese: Tofutti's Better Than Cream Cheese

Eggs: Ener-G's Egg Replacer and Fantastic Foods' Tofu Scrambler

Ice Cream: Turtle Mountain's Soy Delicious product line, Tofutti's ice cream product line, and Whole Soy's Frozen Cultured Soy product line

Mayonnaise: Follow Your Heart's Vegenaise and Nasoya's Nayonaise

Sour Cream: Tofutti's Sour Supreme

Yogurt: Whole Soy's Creamy Cultured Soy, Silk's Cultured Soy, and Stonyfield Farm's O'Soy

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Republished with permission from the Humane Society of the United States.
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