My Favourite Vegan Food Products

Today’s post will be a little different. Instead of a new recipe I want to talk about my favourite vegan food products. I use them regularly in my recipes and I think they stand out from other vegan products. They help my recipes taste as good as they do or they’re an amazing snack on their own. I hope I’ll get to know new great products in the future and that this list will grow. In the meantime if there’s a product that you swear by, please let me know. I would love to try it.

• Lotus Biscoff spread. If you are familiar with my recipes you’ve probably encountered this product at least once. It’s a really amazing spread derived from Biscoff cookies and has grown on me even more than vegan Nutella or peanut butter.

Some of the delicious recipes that use this product:

1. Biscoff Caramelised Banana Overnight Oats
2. Biscoff Caramelised Banana Porridge
3. Vegan Biscoff Caramelised Banana Crepes
4. Biscoff and Banana Toast
5. Breakfast Banana Split or Berry Yoghurt Bowl with Biscoff spread
6. Vegan Biscoff Milkshake

• Meridian Richer Roast peanut butter. My husband and I were on a road trip in England when we found ourselves in a Holland & Barrett store. The name “rich roast” (as it was called at first, now rebranded “richer roast”) convinced me to buy the product. When I tried it I was in heaven. It’s incredible! There really is no other brand of peanut butter like that. The difference is as the name implies that peanuts are deeply roasted before transformed into peanut butter.

Some of the delicious recipes that use this product:

1. Ethiopian Peanut Tea
2. Stuffed Medjool Dates
3. Breakfast Banana Split or Berry Yoghurt Bowl with Peanut Butter
4. Peanut Butter Caramelised Banana Porridge

• Lindt 70 % chocolate. While experimenting with recipes I noticed quite quickly that this chocolate stands out from others and from then on it’s the only chocolate I use. The quality of this chocolate is the best. In recent months I’ve discovered that 60 % chocolate from Lindt is also amazing for particular recipes where you don’t want the chocolate to overpower other flavours.

Some of the delicious recipes that use these products:

1. Vegan Chocolate Banana Bread
2. Ferrero Rocher Muffins
3. Vegan Hot Chocolate
4. Vegan Baci Bliss Balls
5. Vegan Snickers
6. Vegan Peanut Butter Cups

• Nairns Gluten Free Scottish Porridge Oats. Before I found them I never liked eating porridge. Now porridge and overnight oats are one of my favourite breakfasts. I like them because of their softness which is why lengthy cooking or soaking is not needed.

Some of the delicious recipes that use this product:

1. Biscoff Caramelised Banana Overnight Oats
2. Peanut Butter Caramelised Banana Porridge
3. Vegan Bircher Muesli with Silken Tofu

• Strawberry jam from To Filema Tis Lelas. I found this jam in Cyprus where I live. There is just something special about it that makes it better than other strawberry jams.

Some of the delicious recipes that use this product:

1. Vegan Crepes
2. Sweet Toast Ideas

• Tahini from Shahin. In Cyprus there is among many options available one tahini that is just dreamy.

Some of the delicious recipes that use this product:

1. Tahini Sauce
2. Hummus
3. Roasted Red Pepper Hummus and Raw Beetroot Hummus
4. Baba Ganoush
5. Tahini and Carob Molasses
6. Lebanese Meze or Bowl
7. Vegan Greek Yoghurt with Vegan Honey (and Tahini)

• Natural Greek Style Soya Yoghurt from Sojade. I really enjoy the taste of this yoghurt as well as their unsweetened soy yoghurt.

Some of the delicious recipes that use these products:

1. Mango Chia Pudding with Vegan Greek Yoghurt
2. Vegan Lassi
3. Breakfast Banana Split or Berry Yoghurt Bowl
4. Baked Crepes with Vegan Cottage Cheese (veganske gratinirane skutine palačinke)
5. Burek with Vegan Cottage Cheese (veganski sirov burek)
6. Caramelised Apples with Vegan Dulce de Leche
7. Vegan Greek Yoghurt with Vegan Honey (and Tahini)

• Naturli Vegan Spreadable. My favourite vegan butter / spreadable to use. It starts to melt very fast which is very convenient if you don’t want to wait for the vegan butter to soften before you can spread it on bread. Because of the amazing taste I always use it in cookie crust for cheesecakes and other desserts.

Some of the delicious recipes that use this product:

1. Vegan Grilled Cheese Sandwich
2. Vegan Butter and Vegan Honey Toast
3. Vegan Mashed Potatoes
4. Vegan Peanut Butter and Jam Pie
5. Vegan Snickers
6. Vegan Garlic Pizza Bread

• Valsoia products: vegan chocolate hazelnut spread, cones ice cream, tiramisu ice cream, vegan cream cheese, soy cooking cream, soy mayonnaise. Valsoia has many amazing products that really deliver in flavour. It has become a brand that I often look for when grocery shopping. Theirs cones ice cream is an exact replica of the ice cream I often ate as a young girl (which was not vegan). Their chocolate hazelnut spread is the best imitation of real Nutella I’ve tried so far.

Some of the delicious recipes that use these products:

1. Vegan Nutella Snowflake
2. Vegan Pasta Bolognese
3. Vegan Nutella Milkshake

• Violife vegan cheeses: Creamy Cheddar Flavour, Epic Mature Cheddar Flavour Block, Original Flavour Slices, Creamy Original Flavour. Violife has some amazing cheeses that I enjoy very much, as a spread on a piece of bread (Creamy Cheddar Flavour is great for that), in a grilled cheese sandwich (the combination of Epic Mature Cheddar Flavour Block and Original Flavour Slices is perfect for that), in pumpkin mac and cheese (I use Epic Mature Cheddar Flavour Block) or for making creamy vegan cheesecakes (I use Creamy original Flavour).

Some of the delicious recipes that use these products:

1. Vegan Grilled Cheese Sandwich
2. Vegan Cheese Board
3. Vegan Pumpkin Mac and Cheese
4. Vegan Garlic Cheesy Bread
5. Vegan Peanut Butter and Jam Pie
6. Vegan Hot Fudge Sauce

• Sayve Goudi All Pure vegan cheese. This is my favourite vegan cheese to snack on with a baguette and cherry tomatoes. The taste is just amazing.

A delicious recipe that uses this product:

1. Vegan Cheese Board

• Plain firm tofu from Mediterranea BioVeg. I love this tofu so much I can eat it plain from the fridge without doing anything additional to it. Which is not how I can eat other plain tofus. That’s why if I can I always use this brand.

Some of the delicious recipes that use this product:

1. Vegan Cottage Cheese
2. Baked Crepes with Vegan Cottage Cheese (veganske gratinirane skutine palačinke)
3. Scrambled Tofu
4. Not So Traditional English Breakfast
5. Vegan Pasta Bolognese
6. Vegan Greek Salad

• Engevita nutritional yeast with B12. I didn’t know how good this product is until I was stuck in another country with other brands and no Engevita around. I love also that it has B12 in it.

Some of the delicious recipes that use this product:

1. Vegan Cheesy Alfredo Pasta
2. Vegan Pesto
3. Teff or Amaranth Polenta
4. Marinara Sauce
5. Vegan Pasta Bolognese
6. Vegan Omelette with Silken Tofu
7. Scrambled Tofu

• Blue Dragon extra-firm silken tofu. Another product that I didn’t realised how good it is until I was somewhere where it wasn’t available.

Some of the delicious recipes that use this product:

1. Vegan Omelette with Silken Tofu
2. Baked Crepes with Vegan Cottage Cheese (veganske gratinirane skutine palačinke)

• Nature’s Charm sweetened condensed coconut milk and evaporated coconut milk. These two products are of really good quality and lately I’m starting to use them more and more. I’m still exploring options on how and where to use them and I’m really excited about that. I love making vegan Dulce de Leche with sweetened condensed coconut milk.

Some of the delicious recipes that use these products:

1. Vegan Snickers
2. Vegan Rice Pudding
3. Vegan Hot Chocolate
4. Vegan Nutella
5. Vegan Gianduja
6. Vegan Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
7. Homemade Vegan Dulce de Leche

• Brown rice milk from Isola Bio. I love the taste of this drink.

A delicious recipe that uses this product:

1. Warm Barley Coffee with Soaked Bread

• Oatly Barista. This plant based milk is one of the best ones for cappuccino. Whenever I’m drinking cappuccino in cafes, this milk has proven to be the most delicious one. At home I’m using a mixture of three plant based milks: Oatly Barista oat milk, Alpro soy milk and Koko coconut milk.

• Schlagfix ready to spray whipping cream. This whipping cream has a great taste and it makes life easier since I don’t have to whip my own plant based cream.

Some of the delicious recipes that use this product:

1. Vegan Hot Chocolate
2. Vegan Milkshake 3 Ways – Biscoff, Vegan Nutella, Peanut Butter
3. Vegan Strawberry and Strawberry Peanut Butter Milkshake
4. Vegan Vanilla and Vegan Chocolate Milkshake
5. Vegan Walnut Crepes (veganske orehove palačinke)

• Beans in a can and nut butters from Biona. These are just some of the products that I buy regularly from Biona but they have a wide range of products. The ones that I use are of really good quality.

Some of the delicious recipes that use these products:

1. Sautéed Leafy Greens and Beans
2. Chana Masala and other Masala Beans
3. Indian Rice and Beans
4. Hummus
5. Açaí Bowl
6. Ferrero Rocher Muffins
7. Vegan Turmeric Latte

• Smoked buckwheat roll Buck from Grashka. This is a product from a Slovenian company and I love the taste of it. It goes really well with stews as a meat substitute.

A delicious recipe that uses this product:

1. Vegan Cheese Board

• Linda McCartney’s vegetarian sausages. These are great to add in a stew or to eat as a side dish.

A delicious recipe that uses this product:

1. Not So Traditional English Breakfast

• Meatless Bacon from Plenty Reasons. Another meat substitute product with a really good taste.

• Tesco Plant Chef peanut burger. One day I saw it in the store and decided to try it. It was perfect, not only the burger but also how I put it together in a bun the first time. The recipe was immediately a keeper.

• Tokapi salty crackers. Classic crackers that are delicious on cheese board.

A delicious recipe that uses this product:

1. Vegan Cheese Board

• Crunchy Peanut Butter Clif Bar. This bar is a frequent companion on trips or hikes that my husband and I go on. We never get tired of it.

• McVitie’s Digestives. My favourite vegan cookies to snack on their own or to use them for a cookie crust in pies and cheesecakes.

Some of the delicious recipes that use this product:

1. Vegan Peanut Butter and Jam Pie
2. Warm Barley Coffee with Soaked Bread

• Billy’s Farm macadamia chocolate cookies, spelt fruit cookies and spelt speculoos cookies. I love snacking on these cookies.

• Blackcurrant and banana bar from Make it Raw. When my husband and I were traveling across New Zealand, we explored excitedly not only the beautiful nature but also the products that we haven’t encountered anywhere else. We were on a road trip for a long time far away from the cities so we stocked up different snacks for the days ahead before we left the last big city on our route. Among these snacks was also blackcurrant and banana bar from Make It Raw which both of us liked very much.

I wish you all a wonderful new year!