Vegan Transitional Foods

Below is a partial list of vegan alternative to animal foods.

Note: Even though companies and food industries are supposed to label ingredients on packages, sometimes they omit certain ingredients and may label it as something else. Often natural sources such as the terms, “natural flavors” or “natural colors” most often comes from animal sources such as animal elastin, glands, fat, protein, and oil. To be sure a product is vegan contact the company or search the internet. Vegan products will often contain a vegan certification label on them.

Meat Alternatives

There are many vegan alternatives to animal flesh in supermarkets and health stores. Many are soy, wheat gluten or rice based. There are also many vegan fish and seafood alternatives as well, but beware that imitation fish or crab still may contain the real animal, so be careful and research and check the ingredient list or contact the company to be sure the product is vegan.

Dairy Alternatives

Milk

There are many vegan alternatives to cow or goat’s milk. They include soy, hemp, rice, coconut, cashew, almond, hazelnut, flax, sunflower, quinoa, potato, and oat.

Making your own nut milk is easy. With a high-speed blender, mix up your favorite(s) nuts with some water (keep adding to the mixer a little water at a time until you get your desired consistency) and ta-da you have some delicious, wholesome milk. If you’d like to spice it up, use some fruits, vanilla, fair-trade cocoa or carob powder.

Yogurt

There are many vegan yogurts available today. Some include soy, coconut, rice, or even hemp.

To make your own vegan yogurt,

Cheese

There are different cheese alternatives on the market today ranging from soy, rice,

Butter

Butter comes from animals, and therefore if you would like to substitute a vegan version, bear in mind that margarine is not always vegan, as most contain whey protein from milk. Alternatives: use margarine that doesn’t contain whey or any animal ingredient, use vegetable oils such as olive or coconut, or just try adding avocado to bread.

To make vegan butter,

Whipping Cream

Butter comes from animals, and therefore if you would like to substitute a vegan version, bear in mind that margarine is not always vegan, as most contain whey protein from milk. Alternatives: use margarine that doesn’t contain whey or any animal ingredient, use vegetable oils such as olive or coconut, or just try adding avocado to bread.

To make vegan butter,

(N)Ice Cream

There are many ice cream alternatives which include, frozen yogurt (making sure all the ingredients are vegan), fruit popsicles some ice cream made from

Other Dairy Alternatives

Egg Replacers

Egg replacers, such as Ener-G Egg replacer, Vegan Egg, The Vegg, and more!

Honey Replacements

  • Molasses

    By product of sugar; lard is added to reduce foam. Use organic molasses or check with the company.

  • Maple Syrup or Sugar

    Most companies add lard as a foam reducer. Buy organic or check with the company.

  • Turbinado or Demerara Sugar

    From sugar cane

  • White or Brown Sugar

    It’s known that purified ash from animal bones is used in filters to refine sugar by some brands, though other companies use filters with granular carbon or ionexchange systems. Brown sugar is also refined, only to have molasses added after.

  • Brown Rice Syrup

  • Agave Syrup

  • Date Sugar or Syrup

  • Barley Malt Syrup

  • Sucanat Sweetener

  • Sorghum Syrup

  • Stevia