Product Review & Giveaway: WayFare

Hey everyone! I have another product review for you today, but before we get into that, I have a site update that I'm really excited about. 

I'm starting to go through all of my recipes and include nutritional information, like calories, fat grams, protein, etc. Like I said, I'm really excited about this! I know a lot of my recipes are probably not the healthiest (except for the more recent ones), so I'm interested in knowing just how unhealthy (but yummy) they are for you. I'm starting at the top of my recipe list and working to the bottom. So far, I've done two of my banana bowl recipes - here and here, if you wanted to check them out. How cool is that?! Since I've been tracking my calories recently, I like finding blogs that tell you all this information before you make a recipe and then figure out how high the calorie levels are. I'll keep you updated as this progresses, but I can't wait until they all have nutritional information! 

Alright. Let's crack into this next product review from WayFare products. I've been waiting to do this review because of the lack of WayFare products in my area. I went to Jungle Jims, but they only had one product - the one I will be reviewing - and that's it. How depressing! The next place closest to me in an hour away, which would have to become a family weekend trip or something. This is really sad for me because I wanted to review their puddings. Oh well! 

Since I only used one of the seven coupons (wow!) they sent me, I'm going to be giving away the last six coupons! They expire August 31, so enter fast. Just make sure before you enter that you can find WayFare products in your area. Click here to do that! 

The one product I found was their Cheddar Spread. It's main ingredient is oatmeal, which is how I became interested in the company in the first place (when I was vegan). I'd never heard of oatmeal as a main ingredient before. 

WayFare offers a lot of different vegan products, including three types of pudding, a wide selection of cheese-like spreads, sour cream, and their new vegan bacon bits. 

I have to say, I was a little disappointed in this spread. I thought it would be better. It wasn't bad, it just... lacked flavor. It needed some spices or something to kick it up a notch. I wasn't a fan. 

Apparently this cheese melts, too - something I didn't realize until just now! Kinda makes me wish I had tried this on nachos or a baked potato. 

When I was in Washington DC with Daelia's Biscuits for Cheese for the Fancy Food Show, I got to try their new vegan bacon bits. 

These were really yummy! I loved them. They taste just like those bacon bits you buy in jars at the grocery store. These are definitely worth a try. It looks like you can only order them online right now, so head on over to the WayFare website and get ordering! 

GIVEAWAY TIME!

Now. Can you buy WayFare in your area? Do you want to try some of their products? Enter to win! Two lucky people will each win 3 coupons for a free WayFare product. Here's how to enter - just leave a separate comment for each entry. Giveaway ends TONIGHT AT 11:59PM. Entrants must be from the USA. Get entering!

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Good luck! 

Much love, 

Bacon popcorn. And yes, my friends, it's vegan!

I love bacon. LOVED, bacon, I should say. Since I don't eat it anymore! I think, for a lot of vegans, giving up bacon has been a pretty hard thing.

One of my favorite sandwiches as a kid used to be BLT's. So good! With extra bacon, of course. Lightly toasted wheat bread, smothered in mayo, layered with thick slices of tomato sprinkled with salt, and a tiny bit of lettuce. Even more than that, I used to LOVE tomato sandwiches! Simply toast with mayo and tomatoes. It was phenomenal. Tomato juice oozed all over the plate and, more often than not, made a mess all over the table and possibly your clothing.

What is it about bacon that makes it so good, anyways? It can't be the fact that it comes from killing a little piggie. Because that is a very sad thing. I think it's because it's salty, smoky, and crunchy all at the same time; three things that can make almost anything taste delicious. Of course, there is liquid smoke; it's how vegans can still make dishes like authentic southern collard greens and fakin' bacon and baked beans. Still, it's not quite the bacon flavoring.

Well, look no more.

JD Foods created Bacon Pop, the microwaveable popcorn that tastes like bacon AND is also vegan. The ingredients are simply popcorn, palm oil, salt, and natural and artificial bacon and butter flavors. (Butter flavoring is vegan!) It even says on the back of the box: "BaconPOP is even safe for vegans and vegetarians." How about that?

I have to say. It's delicious. I couldn't stop eating it! It's smoky, salty, and crunchy; everything that bacon was and this popcorn is.

They also just came out with a cheddar bacon popcorn, which is vegan as well! I hope to try this soon.

So, that's my exciting discovery. What do you think?

The Daisy Rating:

4/5 daisies!

Much love,