Essential: Organic Red Pesto

I've tried a few vegan red pesto's, and while there are some things about this pesto it is my favourite by far. I like to mix this up in a pan with tofutti sour supreme and some vegan chicken bits and pasta. Texture wise - pretty standard really its pesto - but it is quite oily so shake well. And taste, quite good. When you open it or cook the smell is quite bitter, and taste wise its quite vinegary. So I'm not sure if I eat it ok it's own, but for the chicken dish I make it's just great! I don't think it has any vegan cheese in, I could be wrong, but there's always a good cheezly alternative which is parmesan style and can recommend (basically a bit harder than their cheddar one). 4/5

Rice Dream: Hazelnut Almond Milk

Original Rice Dream isn't really for me, it's ok and I prefer it in tea/coffee to soya, but it's kind of watery and flavourless. But their hazelnut almond milk is good stuff. Probably not for everyone, by that anyone who doesn't like the taste of nuts. I think the flavour is just right, not too strong or bitter, it's creamy and refreshing. I can happily have a glass (kind of like a mild milkshake), or it makes a great addition to cereal and hot drinks. Once I found a bit of something in it, but i think it was just a nut skin or some kind of something. But don't let put you off, it's a nice fairly sweet drink with flavour.
It also lasts a long time - I had one open for over two weeks before it curdled in my coffee so bonus points for shelf life.
5/5

Tesco: Free From Coconut & Chocolate Milk

It's worth me pointing out that not all Tesco free from range makes me want to vom, and I'm not trying to bash them. Their coconut & chocolate milk for example is pretty good. But I will make this review short because there is a but, and that is this. If you see my review of kara chocolate milk, which is also made from coconut, it's basically just like that. This has the same nice flavour - it just tastes a bit more watered down or less creamy. And if you're in a big Tesco, you might find that Kara one is a bit cheaper (it's not in the cold aisle). Still nice though 4/5

Tesco: Free From Creamy Original Spread

So, reviewing another free from cheese from Tesco. Maybe this one will be my last. Tesco have a few varieties of this cream cheese creation, there's a garlic and herb one, something else and plain. I went for the plain this time. Now texture wise, quite good, compared to some kind of non-vegan cheese the colour is more matte. I'm not sure that's relevant though, flavour is. It's not for me, I had one bite on some nice baguette and I wished I hadn't. I didn't spit it out like that medium cheddar, like it wasn't making me wretch, but still not nice for me. Cream cheese is probably hard to make vegan, although Le Sojami's seemed quite alright, perhaps I need to try their plain there version. To me, I don't like it partly because it doesn't taste like cream cheese, but mainly the flavour is too strong, and it's the wrong flavour to begin with. I couldn't eat it on it's own, and with bread I'd rather just eat bread. 2/5

Redwood: Cheezly and Tomato Pizza

I've been waiting for this day, being able to buy a vegan pizza in shop. Redwood have a few different styles, I went for the plain one just to see what it what it was like, and I'll probably buy it again to use my own toppings. Now the pizza itself is only child size or snack size, but thats not too bad, I mean if you want to have a pizza dinner you could get two or get something else. And it was quite nice. The base was certainly nicer than I expected, not like in a equisitic way but I thought it might be hard or something and actually it was quite soft. And the cheezly tomato base was nice too, nothing like fine dining just nice like supermarket quality. Definitely be buying them again. 4/5