So. You went vegan. Congratulations!

 

Now that you realize there's milk in some tortilla chips, bone char in refined sugar, and crushed beetles in red-colored candy (fact check me, I'll wait),  you have to figure out what the hell you can actually eat, and the super-pricey premade vegan food aisle looks both tempting and weird. I got you.

 

One of the best things to come from the rise of vegan food is the amount of packaged vegan food. To omnivorous outsiders, the word “vegan” probably evokes visions of sprouts and seeds, but we vegans know better: one could practically subsist in veganism on Oreos, So Delicious ice cream, and a multivitamin.

 

I'm on an admittedly self-indulgent and budget-limited quest to try everything with a vegan label--especially the healthier stuff, because nutritional deficiencies haven't been chic since the '90s--and report my findings with you so that you too don't waste $6.99 on links of spicy rubber masquerading as Field Roast Chipotle "Sausages."

Plus, sometimes you don’t have time to cook and sometimes you burn the seitan. #veganproblems, am I right? Let's do the damn thing.