vegan cheese: please.. i need the info 'cause i'm a New Vegan ('cause I'm allergic to almost anything..except the vegan diet)and need to know everything about this type of diet!! thxs|||so far, only one of the answers up here have touched on the actual vegan cheeses. most soy cheeses are NOT vegan. almost all of the soy cheeses i have seen available in the mainstream grocery stores (safeway, ralphs, etc.) are NOT vegan. there is an ingredient in them called Casein or Caseinate that is animal derived. i think it's in there to help with the cheese melting, and a lot of vegan cheeses tend to not melt all that well. im pretty sure that most vegan cheese will specifiy "vegan" on the packaging. Follow Your Heart cheeses are my favorite vegan cheese. and Tofutti makes vegan cheese slices, cream cheeses and sour creams. just check for those two ingredients listed above. those are the ones that get you. (soy cheeses tend to be marketed toward people who are lactose intolerant, not vegans, unfortunately.)|||Feta cheese is sheep and/or goat cheese, therefore not vegan BUT many people are NOT allergic to feta or goat milk porducts. so you may want to try that one out. Feta has to be sheep milk at least 70% to be called feta, the rest os goat milk. Some american stores will cheat and call it Feta when it is made with cow milk, or ALL cow milk. This is food labelling for you, and if you're going to be vegan ( I am) you have to assume that most labelling can be a lie, and as long as 2% of the label is correct, they are technically not lying.... I hate food Labelling in USA, its always a lie. Anyway, soy cheeses are vegan and almond milk and rice milk cheeses. I love almond cheese, its very good and lovely creeamy taste|||No, feta is not vegan. I've pretty much omitted the idea of cheese out of my diet, I find it unnecessary, but in your transition, you might find it comforting to have a substitute. Health food stores have vegan cheese, but they're expensive, and in my opinion, not very good. Check the ingredients, sometimes it seems like a cheese is vegan, but it's not. look for ingredients like casien and whey - these are not vegan. I make "cashew cheese" and it is delicious! Raw cashews, a little water, nutritional yeast (vegans should always have this in their pantry, it is delicious and it adds a cheesy flavor), salt, pepper, fresh lemon juice. mix it up in a food processor. It should be the consistency of between feta and ricotta. Put it in a cake pan, put it in the window and let it ferment for a while, then put it in the fridge. You can eat it right away, but its better the next day. It's good with crackers, you can mix different herbs in there, that would be good. Mainly I use it to top pizza, yummy! Get yourself some vegan cookbooks - vegan with a vengence is good, or veganomicon. You'll learn a lot from those. Also, join vegweb.com. it's a website where vegans post their own personal recipes, there's lots of good stuff on there. Congratulations on making the switch! :) The transition can be difficult, but once you get the hang of it and discover this whole new world of delicious food, you'll wonder why everyone doesn't just become vegan, because meat, dairy and eggs are so unnecessary.|||Sorry, feta cheese is dairy and therefore, not vegan. Look in the cheese ailse of your local health food store or check out the selections that are sometimes found in your grocery (next to the fruits and veggies -- I'm not sure why!).|||Of all the cheeses I've ever had NONE have been vegan because they all come from animals. Only soy cheese if vegan because it's made form a non-animal. Good luck with your new diet.|||since feta is made from cows milk then I would say nope. only certain soy cheese is vegan friend. I don't think all of them are, so be careful with that|||No, but there's such a thing as rice cheese.|||Feta Cheese = Goat Cheese so no it's not vegan.