

(For a creamy vegan mac, try the #2 ranked Daiya).

This vegan mac is not a creamy mac and cheese it uses breadcrumbs to accomplish more of a baked mac and cheese texture.

Best of the Bunch: Sweet Earth Cauliflower Mac Refrigerated or frozen mac (3 macs 255-gram serving size) These nutrition facts may not match what you'll see on the box, but they'll be a little easier to compare.īoxed mac with a powdered sauce packet (3 macs 71-gram serving size)īoxed mac with a fully-prepared sauce packet (3 macs 100-gram serving size)īoxed mac with fully-prepared sauce and pasta (Upton's 143-gram serving size) So I chose a standard serving size for each category, then did the math to adjust the nutrition facts for each one. Unfortunately, the serving sizes for each one of these are wildly different, which made it hard to compare pricing and nutrition. Our vegan mac and cheeses fell into 3 main categories, plus Upton's Naturals Mac, which is in its own category. Vegan Mac and Cheese Similarities and Differences So for each of these, I used Earth Balance vegan buttery sticks (salted) and 365 unsweetened original almond milk. The boxed mac and cheeses with a powdered sauce packet all required the addition of non-dairy milk and vegan butter. Some of them have a microwave option, but I opted for the stove or oven preparation in all cases. The best vegan chocolate chip cookie recipeĪll of these vegan macs were prepared according to the box instructions (except for the Sweet Earth Cauliflower Mac and CedarLane Mac and Cheeze both of these required adjustments to the baking time). The best vegan coffee creamer (sweetened and unsweetened) If you're interested in some of my other vegan food taste tests, I've also tried: So if you're in that area, I'd definitely recommend that you check it out. It's more of a gourmet mac and cheese with breadcrumbs than a traditional mac, but I thought it was quite good. To date, the best vegan mac and cheese that I've had was at Good Life Cafe in Columbia, South Carolina.
