Vegan Replacements:
Woolworths also has a huge range of vegan products such as cold cuts, burger patties, sausages and more!
Linda McCartney's has a large variety of vegetarian and vegan friendly fake meats "chicken", "meatballs", "fish", "beef roast" and more! Found at most super markets.
MEAT:
The burger on the left is 100% VEGAN! Read more below!
Fry's Family Food, a South African family owned company, has a large variety of vegan frozen foods like sausages, "fish" pieces, burger patties, pies, "chicken" strips, mince and more! You can get can get their products at Checkers, PnP, Spar and a few other places!
There are more vegan options are popping up everywhere like at Steers, Mugg 'n Bean and restaurants everywhere!
One meat replacement that many people seem to forget about in PLANTS! Broccoli, lentils, most beans, quinoa, chickpeas, nutritional yeast, mushrooms, tofu/tempeh, spirulina, hemp seeds, oats, nuts, avocado and SO many more veggies, fruits, legumes, fungi, nuts are packed with protein and other vital nutrients such as iron, magnesium and calcium!
You can get plant milks from most super markets like Pick n Pay, Shoprite, Checkers, Spar and Woolworths. Your options are endless when it comes to non-dairy plant milks; soy, hemp, almond, hazelnut, rice, quinoa, oats, coconut, pea, cashew, the list goes on!
MILK:
There are SO many different brands of endless plant milk choices;
- Good Hope Clover soy milk
- Rude Health milks (oat, hazelnut, soy, almond, rice & coconut).
- Blue Diamond almond Milk
- Alpro milks (soy, almond & coconut)
Prices vary from R26.00 for Good Hope soy milk, to R32.00 for Blue Diamond almond milk, to R80.00 something for Rude Health chocolate hazelnut milk.
Prices vary from an affordable R50.00 for 200g for Nature & Moi, to + - R70.00 for 400g for Violife, to + - R80.00 for 200g at Woolworths.
CHEESE:
There are many new dairy free cheeses emerging on the shelves;
-Violife has an amazing selection of cheeses, found in PnP and Checkers.
- Woolworths has some cheeses and cream cheeses.
- Nature & Moi has gouda, cheddar and mozzarella, available at Checkers at the most affordable price of + - R50.00
- Fauxmage has finer cheeses such as camembert and brie!
To get something close to eggs for breakfast:
- Chickpea flour to make omelets
- Scrambled tofu
EGGS:
Replacing eggs is a little more difficult to do, but there are some fantastic replacements! The picture to the right show some ideas for baking, you can also use;
- 1 tablespoon peanut butter
- 1/4 cup apple sauce
- 1 teaspoon baking soda + 1 tsp vinegar
- 3 tablespoon aquafaba (liquid in tins of chickpeas)
Mayonnaise:
- B-Well is a pocket friendly and delicious, also a few different choices of mayo!
- Hellmann's is a more expensive option, but also a variety of mayo.
- Simple Truth also has some yummy, fairly priced mayo.
SOME MORE:
Butter:
- Coconut oil is excellent! Any way that you use butter, you can use coconut oil; it can be used in cooking, baking, use it like butter on a sandwich.
- Some margarine's such as Flora and D'lite and is vegan!
Allfound in most super markets.
Cream:
- Coconut cream is the best cream replacement!
- Orley is a great vegan cream option available at most super markets.