Author - Anna Marie Cesario and Jennifer Vahalik

Urban Accents Street Tacos

Traditional ethnic flavors found on food trucks and street foods have been showing up in a variety of retail food categories ranging from snacks to desserts. We recently spotted Urban Accents Plant Based Smokin' Chipotle Street Taco at a local supermarket and were intrigued with this Mexican-inspired shelf-stable meatless mix....

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Morningstar Farms Chik’n & Eggo Leige-Style Waffle Sandwich

Better-for-you, convenient breakfast options have permeated all sections of the grocery store. One in particular stood out in the freezer section: MorningStar Farms Incogmeato Chik’n & Eggo Liege Style Waffle Sandwich. This plant-based, meatless item “is helping you find a new way to power your breakfast.” (more…)

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Tattoed Chef Plant Based Beef Burrito Bowl

Frozen foods are hot, with consumers frequently searching the freezer aisles for convenient, tasty and exciting better-for you options. While scouring the aisles ourselves, we spotted an 8.5-oz. single-serve Plant Based Beef Burrito Bowl from Tattooed Chef. Made with plant-based beef, roasted corn and black beans tossed in a jalapeno...

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Trader Joe’s Turkeyless Ground

On a recent grocery store excursion, always on the lookout for new alt-meat items, we discovered Trader Joe’s Turkeyless Ground. Labeled both ‘vegan’ and ‘plant-based’ on the package front to appeal to a wide audience, Turkeyless Ground is described on TJ’s website as “a superbly savory protein that evokes the...

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