Day 1: Mac and “Cheese”

Posted by Dane | Filed under I miss cheese

Vegan \"Mac & Cheese\"
Vegan “Mac & Cheese”

You’ve really got to give it to my wife, she tried to make my first dinner as a vegan easy and serve me something that, historically, I’ve always liked. I love her for that… and I also kind of hate her for it.

I’m just going to come right out and say it…. nutritional yeast tastes nothing like cheese… NOTHING! STOP KIDDING YOURSELVES VEGANS. Let me put this plainly.

Nutritional yeast is to cheese as :
1. dump truck is to leopard
2. sunshine is to when she’s gone
3. Battlestar Galactica is to Battlestar Galactica

I hate all the animals. This is their fault for being so tasty.

Permalink | June 23rd, 2008

20 Responses to “Day 1: Mac and “Cheese””

  1. Megan Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    I don’t know what nutritional yeast is, but this weekend we’ll take you out for some vegan chicken fried steak. You’ll be happy.

  2. Nels Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm

    Dude, I give you nothing but props for giving this a try.

    But in all seriousness, I don’t think you’re really a vegan. I mean, WTF are you going to put on your pizza?

    Wait, don’t answer that. I really don’t want to know.

    Have you ever told Mrs. Hesselbee about our trial and tribulations trying to feed you breakfast when you were a kid?

  3. Kiala Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Roasted vegetables and pesto is delicious on pizza.

    He likes that.

  4. Nels Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    Heidi just had an idea… you can eat Velveeta, right? Everyone KNOWS there’s no freaking milk in Velveeta. That should be totally vegan friendly. It’s all MAN-MADE! Unless you count man as an animal…

  5. Kiala Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    Right. Except the whole point is to have Dane eating FOOD. Not NOT food.

    He was already doing that.

  6. Nels Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 10:09 pm

    Touche.

  7. Robert Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 12:35 am

    Bacon! Salty, crunchy-ish Bacon!

    Strips of bacon! Bacon on a sandwich! Bacon in the noontime! Bacon! Bacon! Bacon!

    Beggin’ Strips!

  8. kgib Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 6:34 am

    Vegan mac and cheese is usually terrible. I’ve tried them all. They get better and better the more you forget about what cheese actually tastes like : ) I liked this one with lots of ritz crackers on top - http://yeahthatveganshit.blogspot.com/2007/10/creamiest-vegan-mac-n-cheez-ever.html
    Not exactly healthy vegan eating, but ease into it, eh? Also, Teese vegan cheese is excellent on pizza. It actually melts, unlike other vegan cheese monstrosities. I wish you and your wife lots of luck! You’ll be scarfing down baked kale chips in no time!

  9. melissa lion Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 6:45 am

    Holy god this whole situation is frightening. You know like how we’ll know it’s endtimes because the holy land becomes a state, and the four horsemen and I think Jesus or Noah or Job or whatever wrote something in there about The Hesselbees becoming vegan.

    I ate carnitas last night for dinner. And a margarita.

  10. rhodeygirl Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 8:51 am

    Have your beautiful wife make you lots of pasta with roasted veggies!!! so delicious!! if you add hot pepper you won’t miss the cheese!

    also.. mexican food! beans, avocado, lettuce, tomato, etc on wraps. also delish

  11. chris Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 9:40 am

    It’s dark in here.

  12. Dane Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 9:41 am

    Nels - Velveeta… yes… I must look into this.

    Robert - Take your bacon elsewhere… We ride white shining horses here, and your strips of tasty death are not welcome (but you are).

    kgib - Thanks for the tips! Teese cheese eh? I’ll give it a shot.

    Melissa - The end is nigh.

    Rhodey - I want Mexican food right now!

  13. Sy Parrish Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 11:36 am

    If you’re gonna start doing more pasta I recommend Barilla Plus. All other multi-grain pastas make me want to kill myself but this one is a really good mix and has 10 g of protein, 4 g of fiber. Rock.

  14. Crissy Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    I recently discovered that f you put hot pepper relish on everything you won’t miss cheese.

    I’m trying to cut back on the stuff too so we’re sort of in this together-ish.

    I’ll let you know if I discover anything else.

  15. obviously the best Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    come dane. let’s admit why you are really going vegan. to impress me. kiala already told me and just a little fyi…i am a part of that vegan mafia that will totally hunt you down if you punch kiala in the larynx.

    that being said…

  16. obviously the best Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

    come on dane. let’s admit why you are really going vegan. to impress me. kiala already told me and just a little fyi…i am a part of that vegan mafia that will totally hunt you down if you punch kiala in the larynx.

    that being said…

  17. GreenCanary Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 9:24 am

    Holy cow. Just came across your website at the suggestion of a friend. I went vegetarian last week but have been trying to stick close to vegan foods as much as possible. And I agree: vegan cheese is NOT fun. I learned this last night when I tried to make grilled cheese. Yuck.

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    August 17th, 2010 at 5:05 am

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