Review of Daiya Cheese Substitute

So in the whole wake of the no cheese drama, there was much flailing and wailing and gnashing of teeth.  I grabbed The Uncheese Cookbook and kept trying stuff.  There was a recipe in there for a faux buffalo mozzarella that the author swore would melt.  It totally didn’t and the pizza I tried to make with it was possibly the most demoralizing food experience of my life and triggered a total food depression.  Various other dairy free friends had been recommending Daiya as THE CHEESE SUBSTITUTE.  They don’t carry it at my local grocery and I was expecting to have to wait until I drove through the state capitol next month to pick some up at the Whole Foods there.  But as luck would have it, I found some in a town an hour away.  I picked up the cheddar shreds, the mozzarella shreds, the cheddar wedge (actually their version of block cheese), and the jalapeno garlic havarti wedge.

That night, I came home and tried tacos.  They tasted like tacos and the cheddar shreds melted like cheese.  I had a cheeseburger after that and the Daiya melted all over my fingers just like a real cheeseburger.  Tonight I tried the mozzarella shreds with mini pizzas.  OMG, y’all, I cannot tell you how happy I am.  IT MELTS.  IT TASTES LIKE CHEESE.  I give it, two thumbs up!  I no longer feel like my food life is over.