About Tofutti®

ALERT:  From now on g/wedf is all I'm going to type.  It means gluten/wheat egg and dairy free. If whatever I'm typing about isn't all of those things I'll spell out the things that it is.

Refer to my post about Finding Substitutes for my first adventure with Toffuti® sour cream substitute.  Yes, if you're wondering, tofu is the base of all products produced by Toffuti®.  Sounds yummy, doesn't it?

Toffuti® also makes a substitute cream cheese.  <sigh>  In the frozen section at my Fry's I find some g/wedf frozen french toast sticks.  Also some waffles.  Also some rice flour based g/wedf english muffins.  I notice "ice cream" sandwiches by Toffuti® and also by a different company using almond milk for the base.  No.  I can't even contemplate it at this moment.  No.

The english muffins must be pried apart with a flame thrower and crowbar.  Once they're in halves, though, they toast nicely in the toaster.  Just ignore the weird consistency that seems to be a hallmark of substitute products.  The fake substitute cream cheese appears to be plastic, but a knife cuts through it after all.  Wow, the cream cheese is actually pretty impressive.  It melts a little better than regular cream cheese, spreads easily, and tastes almost just like the real thing.  I'm impressed.

The previously mention g/wedf frozen french toast sticks and blueberry waffles are by Van's Natural Foods.  They're good.  Very good.  The only way you can tell that they're weird special is that they're a little heavy.  I'm discovering, however, that heavy is satisfying.  I fill up faster with these special foods, and I stay full longer.  hmm.  Interesting.

Finally the moment we've all been waiting for.  Tofutti® ice cream sandwiches!  <drum roll>

This is not really an experiment that I wanted to make.  But life without ice cream?  I think not.  I debated about it for a while, and then I called a friend, "I'm coming over with weird fake ice cream so that you can try it with me."  (One of the benefits of being my friend is you never know when you're going to get a call like that :-D)   She said, "um, okay... why?"  I said because I was afraid

I took a box of Toffuti® ice cream sandwiches and a box of almond milk ice cream sandwiches (only egg and dairy free, not gluten/wheat free) to her house where (after an in depth discussion of "afraid") we cut one in half and used the "one two three bite!" method of tasting.  We started with the Toffuti® because we expected it to be much yuckier than the almond milk bars.  We were pleasantly surprised to find that it tasted almost exactly like a normal ice cream sandwich.  A little off, as expected, but really very close.  Phew.

Next we tried the almond milk bar and were surprised to find that it was Not better than the Toffuti® one.  Mostly that's because of a nutty flavor that takes a little getting used to.  I find that once I can accept the unusual taste of these special foods then they're ok to eat.

Toffuti® has a web site if you want to know more.