Julie can't eat cheese

Wednesdays are known as Bagel Wednesdays in our house. It’s the day Dan makes homemade sourdough bagels. We still have (we haven’t cancelled yet!) a local milk/dairy delivery service and always got a super creamy, delicious cream cheese for our bagels. It was magical. We held out a little on switching to a dairy free cream cheese.

But the time came to try alternatives. We first ordered Wild Creamery in our Imperfect Produce order. This one had a very strange taste/after taste – sauerkraut-y?! It did not taste like cream cheese. It was a hard no – I had to gag down the bagel. Can’t waste a good bagel.

We then tried Miyokos and Tofutti. I used to buy Tofutti at Trader Joe’s when they sold non-TJs products years ago. Tofutti is my fav so far. Miyokos was ok – I don’t remember much about it actually other than I preferred Tofutti.

We then ran out of cream cheese so Dan picked up Violife at Albertson’s – it tasted ok, but it melts like butter. Not quite what we wanted and wouldn’t buy again.

Then we got the Trader Joe’s vegan cream cheese. This is P and Dan’s favorite. It’s my second so far, still behind Tofutti, but I’d eat it and not complain.

Lastly, we tried Kite Hill as it has been recommended by quite a few people. This one also wasn’t bad, but not quite the cream cheese taste we were used to. Maybe came in at a solid 3rd place.

Julie’s top 3 cream cheeses: Tofutti, Trader Joe’s Vegan, Kite Hill.

Are there any we’ve missed and need to try? Want to come for bagels on a Wednesday morning and taste test with us? Let me know!