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We were very curious to try this vegan mac and cheese. Our house is typically ketogenic so 77 total grams of carbs is a lot for us. Add in 8 grams of sugar and we are flying on a food high for hours.
First, I have to say that the amount of pasta in one enormous box is deceivingly small. Maybe I am a greedy mac and cheese eater, but jeesh, after I cooked the pasta and drained it, I was disappointed when it barely filled half a cereal bowl. Our usual mac and cheese is cauliflower with homemade cheese sauce with cabot cheddar, which we eat with wild disregard to portion sizes, so apparently I might need to re-evaluate how I serve meals.
Next, the smell. I made this for lunch (I even gave boxes to my extremely polite and unbelievably sweet neighbors and their comment was "the smell is not appealing") and our entire kitchen smelled like the packet of cheese powder for hours afterward. I cannot put my finger on it, but the word I would use is unpleasant. It's not great. Whomever approved this packed at Wicked Kitchen is either suffering from the ill effects of long term sinus issues or they need to test themselves for a viral infection. The smell is bad.
Last, the taste. My husband tasted the pasta and said it was fine. I cooked it and it was easy to cook. Boil water, pour in pasta, let cook, drain. Done. The pasta tasted like pasta. The problem is, once I added the packet of sauce (I used heavy cream and butter - I know, these are non-vegan, but seriously, I don't think I could have made it worse) the pasta got lost in a sea of thin sauce and chemical BBQ. My husband said the sauce tasted like BBQ sauce that was produced by flavorings, only. I thought it tasted nothing like cheese and more like the butter and cream with about 1/2 cup of liquid smoke added in. The taste is bad.
Our amazing neighbors very politely said "the taste is okayyy". This is very polite neighbor speak for "nope".
Now, again, we are ketogenic in our house and we use substitutes like lupin flour and stevia that would make some foods taste horrible to people who have never eaten them. This may be the type of food substitute that if you have been vegan for a while, your tastebuds adjust and it tastes great. I am just not that person. I eat bacon. I eat a lot of bacon. Maybe Wicked Kitchen needs to make a non-BBQ variety of this mac and cheese and they would have a hit on their hands.
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I wish I enjoyed this Wicked Kitchen BBQ King Vegan Mac and Cheese because I love to support vegan brands that use non enriched ingredients but I just don’t like this one. When I ordered I thought I was receiving creamy vegan mac and cheese like the homemade kind you find at BBQ joints. That part is my fault for not reading the description clearly. What this box actually is, is BBQ flavored, grainy mac and cheese. It tastes like you added BBQ chips to mac and cheese. The sauce flavor is very smoky. The bbq cheese sauce flavor is interesting, I don’t like it dislike it but the texture is so grainy that it takes away from my enjoyment.I do like the plain pasta (see photos). The pasta isn’t enriched which I love, and it cooks nicely in the directed 8 minutes. I will use the noodles for other meals and I plan to find a use for the BBQ cheese powder. It might be good mixed with vegan cream cheese as a chip dip.The box doesn’t seem to make as much as other vegan mac & cheese boxes I typically use despite the box weight being nearly the same. I’m curious if these noodles weigh more than the brand I usually use, resulting in visually less volume of food.
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I wish I enjoyed this Wicked Kitchen BBQ King Vegan Mac and Cheese because I love to support vegan brands that use non enriched ingredients but I just don’t like this one. When I ordered I thought I was receiving creamy vegan mac and cheese like the homemade kind you find at BBQ joints. That part is my fault for not reading the description clearly. What this box actually is, is BBQ flavored, grainy mac and cheese. It tastes like you added BBQ chips to mac and cheese. The sauce flavor is very smoky. The bbq cheese sauce flavor is interesting, I don’t like it dislike it but the texture is so grainy that it takes away from my enjoyment.
I do like the plain pasta (see photos). The pasta isn’t enriched which I love, and it cooks nicely in the directed 8 minutes. I will use the noodles for other meals and I plan to find a use for the BBQ cheese powder. It might be good mixed with vegan cream cheese as a chip dip.
The box doesn’t seem to make as much as other vegan mac & cheese boxes I typically use despite the box weight being nearly the same. I’m curious if these noodles weigh more than the brand I usually use, resulting in visually less volume of food.
I do like the plain pasta (see photos). The pasta isn’t enriched which I love, and it cooks nicely in the directed 8 minutes. I will use the noodles for other meals and I plan to find a use for the BBQ cheese powder. It might be good mixed with vegan cream cheese as a chip dip.
The box doesn’t seem to make as much as other vegan mac & cheese boxes I typically use despite the box weight being nearly the same. I’m curious if these noodles weigh more than the brand I usually use, resulting in visually less volume of food.
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