Cheese for Vegans

Many people interested in becoming vegan are hesitant to contemplate giving up cheese, believing it’ll entail massive deprivation. Yet it is surprisingly easy to drop dairy-based cheese from your diet simply by replacing it with soy or nut-based cheeses. Not only are store-bought brands widely available, it’s also easy to make delicious vegan cheese at home.

The following sections offer vegan cheese brands available in North America and worldwide. And this page concludes with a shockingly long list of cookbooks specifically devoted to making vegan cheese at home.

Vegan Cheese Brands (Based in North America, distribution varies):

• Daiya Foods (Shreds, Slices, Blocks, and Cream Cheese)
• Dr. Cow Tree Nut Cheese
• Field Roast Chao Slices
• Follow Your Heart
• Go Veggie! Foods (not all products are vegan)
• Kite-Hill Artisan Vegan Cheese
• Miyoko’s Creamery
• Nacheez Vegan Nacho Cheese
• Parma! Vegan Parmesan
• Parmela Creamery
• Punk Rawk Labs
• So Delicious Dairy-Free Shreds
• Chicago Vegan Foods: Teese
• Three Girls Vegan Creamery
• Treeline Treenut Cheese
• Vromage

Vegan Cheese Brands (Based in Europe, distribution varies):

• Bute Island Sheese (Scotland)
• Serotonina (Poland)
• Tyne Chease (UK)
• Violife (Internationally Distributed)

Vegan Cheese Cookbooks

In addition to whatever brands of vegan cheese you can purchase, you can also make outrageously good gourmet vegan cheeses at home. There are currently more than a half-dozen popular cookbooks devoted exclusively to vegan cheese:

• This Cheese is Nuts!, by Julie Piatt
• Artisan Vegan Cheese, by Miyoko Schinner
• The Cheesy Vegan, by John Schlimm
• The Non-Dairy Evolution Cookbook, by Skye Michael Conroy
• The Art of Plant-Based Cheesemaking, by Karen McAthy
• Vegan Cheese, by Jules Aron
• The Ultimate Uncheese Cookbook, by Jo Stepaniak

Finally, here’s our recipe for cashew cheese. It’s got just eight ingredients and you can make a batch in five minutes. It’s great on pizza, in grilled cheese sandwiches, or just spread cold and topped with sprouts on a toasted bagel.