Grocery
You’ve been eating animal parts in foods that have zero business containing them. Not meat. Not chicken broth in soup. I’m talking about fish bladders floating through your pint glass, crushed beetles tinting your yogurt pink, and duck feathers baked into your sandwich bread. The food industry operates on one twisted principle: if a slaughterhouse … Read more
Grocery
Trader Joe’s stocks north of 4,000 products, and roughly half qualify as vegetarian. That’s the upside. The downside? Nobody alive has bandwidth to taste-test all of them, and the store cycles inventory quicker than you can mutter “discontinued.” I’ve burned a shameful number of hours haunting the frozen aisle at my local TJ’s. Sampling. Cross-referencing. … Read more
Grocery
I’ve eaten more frozen veggie burgers than any sane person should cop to in public. Somewhere around patty number 30, my kitchen reeked like a pea protein refinery and my smoke detector had developed trust issues with me. Here’s what I took away from the wreckage: the frozen veggie burger aisle at Whole Foods in … Read more
Grocery
The convenience of Kodiak Cakes products makes them a tempting option, but are they vegan?