Vegan Junk Food

I watched the health care speech earlier today (I would have watched it yesterday, but I was far too exhausted). I thought about writing about it, but I'm not in the mood to think about such things (I really don't need to feel depressed again). So I decided I'd write about a much lighter topic: vegan junk food.

Anyone who knows me will attest to the fact that I have a huge sweet tooth. Back when I wasn't vegan, I'd consume large quantities of ice cream and such. I've been known to eat far too many donuts. Cinnamon buns, etc. But ice cream was always my favorite. In fact, when I thought about being vegan (not seriously entertaining the idea yet) for the first time, the main reason I didn't consider it further was that I didn't think I could give up ice cream.

Luckily, though, there's vegan ice cream! Very luckily. Some of it is better than others, but there's definitely good vegan ice cream out there. The Rice Dream brand was pretty awful. There was another kind that I didn't like, but I can't think of what it was called. My favorite brands are Tempt (this one appears to be hard to find, but if you find it it's good), Tofutti (much easier to find), and So Delicious (a newer favorite). The good thing about So Delicious is that it has more flavors than the others seem to. At least, more flavors that are easily procured. Vegan ice cream sandwiches I would say go by the same brands.

I technically haven't yet sorted out the vegan chocolate dilemma, but I'm close. I just don't like dark chocolate. I mean, it's better than nothing, but I much prefer milk chocolate or white chocolate. I gave dark chocolate another try, but it really wasn't going to do it. So earlier today I looked up vegan milk chocolate (I figured it had to exist. Maybe soymilk chocolate or something). Luckily, it did exist. Lots of people seem to like the Terra Nostra Rice Milk Chocolate. So I'm planning on procuring some of that if possible.

Then there are a few things I haven't figured out yet, but which I can go without if necessary. For instance, whipped cream. I did like to occasionally have my ice cream with a large mass of whipped cream. Maybe more than occasionally. I seem to be the best in my family at spraying out the whipped cream. The trick is to have it COMPLETELY vertical. Completely. Anyway, I still need to see if such a thing as vegan whipped cream exists.

The other thing is cookie dough. Mostly cookie dough ice cream. I'm not sure if I'll have any luck with that. If I do, though, it would probably be at least marginally healthier than regular cookie dough due to the lack of eggs...

One thing I really do need to find is vegan cinnamon buns. So now I'm going to continue my research (...on trivial matters, but still research).

Results: Ha ha! Vegan cookie dough ice cream does exist! Brands include Wheeler's, Purely Decadent, and Temptation. Vegan whipped cream, too, exists. The main brand seems to be Soyatoo. My cinnamon bun search was slightly less successful, but I did find about a million recipes. So it's not hopeless. Hah! And going vegan's supposed to be hard!