I should call today’s food entry “Adventures in Weird Vegan Fake Food.”
Feel free to start laughing now.
I kept seeing aaaallllll these posts for FAKE mac ‘n’ cheese. The photos looked delish, but you’d think I would have learned by now.
Being a sucker for trying new things, I decided to ignore the voice in my head and forged ahead making the FAKE cheese sauce using nutritional yeast (which these vegan crazy people fondly refer to as “nooch”.)
YUCK. As in gross/nasty/disgusting/horrible/awful/vomit-worthy.
Save yourselves and don’t fall for the FAKE advertising!
FAKE cheese sauce is gross.
FAKE burgers are gross.
FAKE cheese is gross.
FAKE chocolate cake is gross.
Ask me how I know these things. LOL I have thrown a LOT of food either in the trash and down the garbage disposal. If I keep this up, my grocery bill will be back up to what it was when I was eating meat.
What I am learning the hard way is that this vegan plant-based adventure is easier and tastier if I just accept that I am not going to eat cheese.
If I want a casserole-ish thing, I am a whole lot better off making a gravy or binder made of ingredients that are just being themselves. I know how to cook. I can do this. No more trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. And that pan of FAKE mac ‘n’ cheese? In the trash. Onward!
What did I actually eat today?
Breakfast: skipped it. I wasn’t hungry.
Lunch: Leftover mushroom gravy stroganoff thing over baked butternut squash. That was quite tasty and is something I plan on making more of in the future.
Dinner: The weird mac ‘n’ cheese experiment was a bust. I ended up eating green beans, a raw carrot, steamed cauliflower, and a huge honeycrisp apple with a couple tablespoons of my favorite peanut butter.
And why is my favorite peanut butter so awesome? Because it’s not trying to be anything but what it is! Awesomely crunchy dark roasted peanut butter! Now THAT is something to drool about.
Total fiber for the day: 40 grams
I contemplated posting a photo of the weird/gross/disgusting FAKE mac ‘n’ cheese, but there is enough negativity in the world, so I decided to post a photo of my favorite peanut butter instead. HA!
