The Ultimate Guide to Vegan Substitutes

Last Updated: 11/11/2024

Look at all of the fantastic vegan substitutes that are available in grocery stores! There are over 200 of them. With so many options and new ones popping up all of the time, it’s a great time to explore a vegan diet.

Depending on where you live in the world, some may be easier to find than others, but I guarantee that if you look around, you’ll be surprised at how many options you actually have within 30 minutes of your home.

Table of Contents

1. Bread & Baked Goods

2. Cheese

3. Condiments

4. Desserts

5. Eggs

6. Meat

7. Milk, Creamers & Yogurt

8. Ready to Eat Meals

9. Seafood

Bread & Baked Goods

• Check out the Baked Goods Items on Peta’s Accidentally Vegan List

• Annie’s Organic Flaky Biscuits

Cheese

Rounds & Wedges (Artisan)

• Boursin: Garlic & Herb

• Treeline Aged Artisnal Cheeses: Classic Hard Cheese, Cracked Pepper Hard Cheese

• Treeline Soft French-Style Cheese: Sea Salt & Pepper, Herb Garlic, Creamy Scallion, Chipotle Serrano Pepper

Shreds

• 365 Everyday Value (Whole Foods) Shreds: Cheddar, Mozzarella

• Daiya Shreds: Cheddar, Mozzarella, Mexican Blend, Cheddar & Mozza, Spicy Monteray Jack, Italian Blend, Parmesan

• Field Roast Chao Shreds: Creamy Original, Mexican Style Blend

• Follow Your Heart Shredded Cheese: Cheddar, Mozzarella

• Forager Project: 3 Cheeze Blend, Queso Fresco, Jack, Mozzarella, Parmesan

• Nurishh Shreds: Parmesan, Cheddar, Mozzarella, Cheddar & Mozzarella Blend

• Simple Truth (Kroger) Shreds: Cheddar, Mozzarella

• So Delicious Dairy Free Shreds: Mozzarella, Cheddar, Mexican

• Violife Shreds: Colby Jack, Mozzarella, Cheddar, Parmesan, Mexican

Slices

• Daiya Slices: Cheddar, Swiss, Provolone, Smoked Gouda, American, Provolone

• Field Roast Chao Slices: Creamy Original, Tomato Cayenne, Smoked Original, Spicy Original

• Follow Your Heart Slices: American, Provolone, Mozzarella, Smoked Gouda, Pepper Jack, Medium Cheddar

• Simple Truth (Kroger) Slices: Hot Pepper

• Vertage: Cheddar, Pepper Jack, Mozzarella

• Violife Slices: Cheddar, Mature Cheddar, Smoked Provolone, American, Smoked Gouda

Blocks

• Daiya Blocks: Cheddar, Havarti, Smoked Gouda

• Follow Your Heart Vegan Gourmet Blocks: Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Mozzarella, Nacho

• Miyoko’s Creamery Mozzarella

• Nurishh Cubes: Hot Pepper, Cheddar

• Violife Blocks: Mature Cheddar, Mediterranean Style Gill Me

Sticks

• Daiya Sticks: Cheddar, Mozzarella

Cheese Sauce

• Daiya Cheeze Sauces: Cheddar, Alfredo, Zesty Cheddar

Parmesan

• Daiya Parmesan Shreds

• Follow Your Heart Parmesan - Shredded, Grated

• Violife Parmesan

Feta Cheese

• Follow Your Heart Feta

• Violife Feta

Cream Cheese

• Tofutti Cream Cheese: Original, Garlic & Herb, Herbs & Chive, Whipped Original

• Daiya Cream Cheeze: Plain, Strawberry, Chive & Onion, Roasted Garlic and Herbs

• Kite Hill Cream Cheese Alternative: Plain, Chive, Everything, Garden Veggie

• Miyoko’s Creamery Cream Cheese: Plain, Savory Scallion, Fish-Free Lox

• Follow Your Heart Cream Cheese

• Nurishh Cream Cheese: Plain, Chive

• Simple Truth Organic™ Plant-Based Plain Cream Cheese Alternative

• Treeline Cream Cheese: Plain, Chive & Onion, Strawberry

• Vertage: Classic, Everything but the Bagel

• Violife Dairy-Free Cream Cheese: Original Cream Cheese (tub and block), Cream Cheese with Chives, Strawberry

Ricotta

• Kite Hill Almond Milk Ricotta Alternative

• Tofutti Better Than Ricotta Cheese

Condiments

Honey

• Blend it Up Organic Be Free Vegan Honey

• Humble Honee

• Mellody Plant-Based Honey Made without Bees

• Plant Based Artisan Vegan Honea

• Simple Truth Vegan Honee

Margarine

• Blue Bonnet Plant Butter

• Country Crock Plant Butter

• Earth Balance Buttery Spread

• I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Vegan Spread

• Kite Hill European Style Butter Alternative

• Miyoko’s Creamery Vegan Butter: Salted, Unsalted, Spreadable Oat Milk Butter, Spreadable Garlic Parm Oat Milk Butter

Mayonnaise

• Earth Balance Mindful Dressing & Sandwich Spread: Original & Olive Oil

• Follow Your Heart Vegenaise

• Hellman’s Plant Based Mayo

• Primal Kitchen Vegan Mayo

• Sir Kensington Vegan Mayo: Classic, Chipotle, Avocado Oil, Special Sauce

Salad Dressings

• Daiya Dressings: Ranch, Creamy Italian, Hon’y Mustard, Blue Cheeze, Creamy Caesar

• Follow Your Heart Salad Dressings: Ranch, Bleu Cheese, Caesar, Thousand Island, Honey Mustard, Creamy Garlic

• Gotham Greens: Vegan Caesar, Vegan Ranch, Vegan Green Goddess, Lemon Basil Vinaigrette

• Simple Truth: Caesar, Ranch, Spicy Ranch

Sour Cream

• Follow Your Heart Sour Cream

• Kite Hill Sour Cream Alternative

• Tofutti Sour Cream

Desserts

Whipped Cream

• So Delicious CocoWhip: Original, Light

Brownies

• Michy’s Vegan and Gluten Free Brownies

Cookies

• Alternative Baking Company

• Michy’s Vegan Cookies

• Simple Truth™ Plant-Based Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

• Sweet Loren's Gluten Free Vegan Chocolate Chunk Cookie Dough

Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts

• Ben & Jerry’s Non-Dairy Frozen Desserts

• Breyer’s Non-Dairy Ice Cream: Cookies and Cream, Vanilla Peanut Butter, Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Mint Chocolate Chip, Vanilla Peanut Butter

• Cado Avocado Dairy-Free Frozen Desserts

• Cool Haus Dairy-Free Ice Cream: Pints, Sammies, and Cones

• Cosmic Bliss Plant-Based Ice Cream (formerly Coconut Bliss): Legendary Cookie Dough, Chocolate Peanut Butter, Sea Salt Chocolate, Chocolate Hazelnut Decadence

• Favorite Day Non-Dairy Frozen Desserts

• Halo Top Dairy Free Frozen Desserts

• Magnum Non-Dairy Dessert Bars

• Mauna Loa Macadamia Milk Ice Cream

• Noosa Frozen Yoghurt Gelato

• So Delicious Dairy Free Frozen Desserts: Almond Milk, Coconut Milk, Soy Milk, Cashew Milk – Pints, Bars, Sandwiches

• Sunscoop Dairy-Free Desserts

• Van Leeuwen Ice Cream

• Wicked Plant-Based Ice Cream

Eggs

For Baking

• Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free Vegan Egg Replacer

• Ener-G Egg Replacer

For Scrambling

• Just Egg and Just Egg Folded

• The Vegg

Meat

Bacon

• Lightlife Smart Bacon

• Lightlife Smoky Tempeh Strips

• Sweet Earth Hickory & Sage Smoked Seitan Bacon

• Upton’s Naturals Bacon Seitan

Beef

• Gardein Home Style Be’f Tips

• Sweet Earth Traditional Seitan, Chipotle Style, and Curry Seitan

• Upton’s Naturals Seitan: Traditional, Italian

Beef, Ground

• Abbot’s Butcher Plant-Based Ground “Beef”

• Beyond Meat Beef Crumbles: Fiesty, Beefy Beyond Beef Plant-Based Ground

• Boca Veggie Ground Crumbles

• Gardein Ultimate Beefless Ground

• Impossible Burger Meat

• Lightlife: Smart Ground Original, Smart Ground Mexican

• Sweet Earth: Chipotle Style Seitan Strips, Traditional Seitan Slices, Traditional Seitan Strips

• Upton’s Naturals Ground Seitan

Burgers

• Beyond Meat Beyond Burgers

• Boca Vegan Burger

• Engine 2 Plant-Strong Burgers: Poblano Black Bean, Tuscan Kale White Bean

• Field Roast Chef’s Signature Plant-Based Burger

• Gardein: Ultimate Plant-Based Burger, Ultimate Beefless Burger

• Impossible Burgers

• Sweet Earth Veggie Burgers: Sante Fe, Za’atar, Teriyaki

• Tofurky Plant-Based Burgers

Deli Slices

• Field Roast Deli Slices: Lentil Sage, Smoked Tomato, Wild Mushroom

• Simple Truth: Salt & Pepper Turkey Style Deli Slices, Black Forest Ham Style Deli Slices

• Sweet Earth: Applewood Smoked Ham, Italian Style Pepperoni, Oven Roasted Turkey

• Tofurky Deli Slices: Pepperoni, Oven Roasted, Peppered, Hickory Smoked, Bologna Style, Italian, Roast Beef Style

Chicken

• Abbot’s Butcher: Chopped Chick’n, Fajita Chick’n

• Boca Chick’n Patties: Boca Original, Spicy

• Boca Original Chik’n Veggie Nuggets

• Gardein:

  • Filets: Ultimate Plant-Based Chick’n Filets, Crispy Chick’n Sliders

  • Nuggets: Ultimate Plant-Based Chick’n Nuggets

  • Chick’n Strips: (regular, Ultimate), Teriyaki (regular, Ultimate)

  • Other: Mandarin Orange Crispy Chick’n, Lightly Seasoned Chick’n Scallopini

  • Tenders: Ultimate Plant-Based Chick’n Tenders, Nashville Hot Chick’n Tenders, Seven Grain Crispy Tenders, Chipotle Lime Chick’n Tenders

  • Wings: Sweet and Tangy Barbecue Wings, Ultimate Buffalo Chick’n Wings, Ultimate BBQ Chick’n Wings, Ultimate Spicy Chick’n Wings

• Loma Linda Chik’n: BBQ Chik’n, Chick’n in Broth

• Tofurky Plant-Based Chik’n: Lightly Seasoned, Thai Basil, Sesame Garlic, Barbecue

• Trader Joe’s Chicken-less Crispy Tenders

• Trader Joe’s Mandarin Orange Morsels

Chorizo

• Abbot’s Butcher Plant-Based “Chorizo”

• Lightlife Chorizo

• Simple Truth Plant Based Meatless Chorizo

• Upton’s Naturals Chorizo Seitan

Hot Dogs

• Field Roast Frankfurters

• Upton’s Naturals Updog

Jackfruit (Pulled Pork)

• The Jackfruit Company: BBQ, TexMex, Sesame-Ginger, Curry, Naked

• Upton’s Naturals Bar-B-Que and Chili Lime Carnitas Jackfruit

Meatballs

• Beyond Meat, Beyond Meatballs Italian Style

• Gardein Meatless Meatballs

• Trader Joe’s Meatless Meatballs

Pepperoni

• Field Roast Classic Pizzeria Plant-Based Pepperoni

• Tofurky Pepp’roni

Pork

• Gardein Sweet and Sour Porkless Bites

Sausage, Ground

• Impossible Sausage: Savory, Spicy

Sausage Links

• Beyond Meat Sausage: Brat Original, Hot Italian, Sweet Italian

• Field Roast Sausage Links: Smoked Apple & Sage, Italian Garlic & Fennel, Spicy Mexican Chipotle, Caramelized Onions & Beer Bratwursts

• Gardein: Bratwurst, Spicy Italian

• Impossible Foods: Bratwurst, Italian, Spicy

• Lightlife Italian Sausage

• Tofurky: Beer Brats, Italian, Kielbasa

Sausage, Breakfast - Links and Patties

• Beyond Meat, Beyond Breakfast Sausage: Classic Patties, Spicy Patties, Classic Links

• Field Roast Apple Maple Breakfast Sausage

• Gardein Breakfast Saus'age Patties: Original, Spicy

• Litelife Gimme Lean Breakfast Sausage

Turkey

• Field Roast Celebration Roast

• Field Roast Hazelnut Cranberry Roast En Croute

• Gardein Holiday Roast

• Gardein Lightly Breaded Turk’y Cutlet

• Gardein Savory Stuffed Turk’y

Milk, Creamers & Yogurt

Heavy Whipping Cream

• Country Crock Plant Cream

• Silk Dairy-Free Heavy Whipping Cream Alternative

Milk

• Blue Diamond Almond Breeze

• Bolthouse Farms Non-Dairy Plant Milk Protein: Original, Vanilla, Unsweetened, Chocolate

• Califia Farms: Almonmilk, Oatmilk, Coconumilk

• Good Karma: Plantmilk, Flaxmilk

• Dream: Ricemilk, Coconutmilk, Soymilk, Almondmilk

• Elmhurst: Almond Milk, Cashew Milk, Coconut Cashew Milk, Hazenut Milk, Oat Milk, Walnut Milk

• Forager: Cashewmilk, Oatmilk

• Malk Organics: Unsweetened Almond, Almond Vanilla

• Mooala: Coconutmilk, Bananmilk, Oatmilk

• Ripple Dairy Free Milk: Original, Original Unsweetened, Vanilla, Unsweetened Vanilla, Chocolate

• Silk: Almond Milk, Protein Nutmilk, Soymilk, Cashewmilk, Coconutmilk, Blends

• Simple Truth Organic Soy Milk (Plain, Chocolate, Light Vanilla, Vanilla)

• So Delicious: Coconutmilk

• Tempt Hemp Milk

• This PKN Pecanmilk

• Three Trees: Barista Almond & Oatmilk, Black Sesame, Oat, Original Almond, Pistachio

Creamers

• Califia Farms Creamers

• Mooala Creamers: Vanilla, Banana Nut

• Silk Creamer: Vanilla, Caramel Almond, Hazelnut, Pumpkin Spice Almond, Vanilla Soy, Original Soy, Hazelnut Soy

• So Delicious Dairy Free Creamers: Coconut Milk (French Vanilla, Hazelnut, Original, Barista Style Original, Barista Style Vanilla), Almond Milk (French Vanilla, Caramel, Hazelnut)

• Sown Oat Creamer

• Starbucks Non-Dairy Creamers: Caramel, Hazelnut

• This PKN Original Pecanmilk Creamer

• Trader Joe’s Non-Dairy Soy Creamer

Yogurt

• 365 Almond Yogurt: Unsweetened Plain, Vanilla

• Forager’s Dairy-free Cashewgurts

• Kite Hill: Almond Milk, Greek Yogurt

• Lava: Original, Vanilla, Mango, Strawberry, Blueberry, Raspberry

• Silk Yogurt Alternative: Almondmilk, Soy, Greek Style Coconutmilk

• So Delicious Dairy Free Yogurt Alternatives: Coconut Milk

Ready to Eat Meals

• Amy’s Kitchen

• Gardein Meatless Meals

• Sweet Earth Burritos

• Sweet Earth Functional Breakfast Burritos

Pizza

• Daiya: Cheeze, Fire-Roasted Vegetable, Supreme, Meatless Pepperoni, Meatless Mat Lover’s, Meetless BBQ Chick’n

Seafood

• Gardein: Fishless Filet, Mini Crabless Cakes

• Good Catch Foods: Salmon Burgers, Fish Burgers, Fish Cakes, Fish Sticks, Fish Fillets, Crab Cakes, Plant-Based Tuna

• Loma Linda Tuno

• Plant Based Food Co: Shrimp, Scallops, Crab Cakes

• Plant-Based Frozen Entrees: Salmon Burgers, Fish Sticks, Fish Fillets, Crab Cakes, Fish Burgers

• Sophie’s Kitchen Vegan Tuna: Black Pepper, Sea Salt

• Sophie’s Kitchen: Breaded Vegan Calamari, Breaded Vegan Coconut Shrimp, Breaded Vegan Fish Fillets, Breaded Vegan Fishless Sticks, Breaded Vegan Prawns (Jumbo Shrimp), Breaded Vegan Scallops, Breaded Vegan Shrimp, Vegan Crab Cakes, Vegan Smoked Salmon