Midweek Munchies: Made With Plants Bacon

Hello friends! Tomorrow I am going in for some surgery, so this might be the last post I post for a while, or I might post a bunch during my recovery, who can tell. It is just a day procedure, and then I have a few weeks off from work to recover.

But anyway, bacon. Made With Plants Bacon to be specific. I picked up a packet of this on sale from Woolworths a while ago. Made With Plants is a vegan brand that supplies Woolworths with ready meals, sesame cheese (though they have devestatingly discontinued the smoked one and replaced it with sweet chilli... what even is the point of life anymore?), vegan bacon, and more recently some vegan mince (stay tuned to see about that, I have some of it in my fridge right now). According to sources (I almost wrote sauces, heh) this bacon is either the same or very similar to the Next! vegan bacon that is available in Coles, and which I posted about here. I think I liked the Made With Plants one a bit better, but maybe that is just my mind playing tricks on me!



There are five thick slices in a packet. I did a few different things with it, including two sandwiches (which you will see here) and using it in a soup (which you will see when that cookbook recipe round-up comes about about a million years from now as the cookbook starts with V). First up, frying it up in the pan. Comparing my photos from the previous post, it actually does look really similar to the Next... right down to the two streaky bits of white!



This one didn't get as crispy as the Next did, comparing photos. But it still cooked up fine.



Of course the first thing I made with it was a BLAT, the ultimate sandwich! This was on a cibatta roll, with avocado, spinach, bacon, tomato, and Vegenaise. Delicious!



I had some Daiya cheddar slices I had frozen and they completely crumbled when I defrosted them and tried to pull them to bits, so I ended up dumping some of the crumbles into a saucepan to melt into a cheesy sauce, and then used it to make this cheesy bacon tomato roll. It was very satisfying.



Normally I am not a fan of store-bought vegan bacons, but I do like this one enough that I bought it again (currently in fridge awaiting a delicious fate). Both it and the Next are similar to the vegan bacons that you can buy in the Asian grocery stores, that are really good. Though tempeh and tofu bacon will forever have my heart, these are a fun grocery store buy!

A bonus photo, not involving the bacon, but involving the rest of the Daiya cheese slice crumbles. I melted it down again to make a cheesy sauce, and used it to top a baked potato with baked beans and bacon bits. Cheesy comforting goodness.



See you on the other side of surgery!

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