The Spicy Spatula

Hey there and happy Thursday, friends and followers. I hope this week has been good to you!

I’ve been slightly under the weather this week but I’m about 98% healthy again thanks to a lot of vitamins, soup and sweating it out through exercise. I’m not good about being sick because I get sick about once a year, if that, and only for a few days. Anyway yeah, I’m feeling better in case you were wondering.

Today’s vegan food isn’t a recipe but a food product that I didn’t make. In fact, I didn’t even choose it. My hubs saw vegan eggs and his head exploded.

And a few days later our vegan mic dejun (Romanian for breakfast) arrived in the mail for us to try and review.

I’m not much of a breakfast eater anymore as I try to only eat when I’m hungry and I’m rarely hungry for anything but coffee first thing in the morning. Still, I always like to try new vegan products and see what food scientists have come up with lately.

About The Company:

iezeress is a Romanian company founded in 2002 and their focus is on not just creating vegan food but making it a daily choice for everyone and easily accessible to all. Of course sustainability is also a part of that.

This part means a lot to me because even though there are plenty of animal food products that I don’t miss and don’t require (or want) recreated, I do understand that for many non-vegans this is a perfect gateway and I’m not one to let perfect be the enemy of the good. Their products are made with different proteins: pea, cashew, soy and regular ol’ veggies.

The FOOD

Inside the package (made from recycled materials) comes 2 vegan eggs and 2 vegan sausages. I’m not sure if this is meant to be a halved hard boiled vegan egg or a well-cooked sunny side up vegan egg, but it was pretty tasty. The white part of the vegan egg was very tofu-like but seasoned well. It didn’t taste like egg white, a fact for which I was grateful.

The yellow part? Delicious. It was like an overcooked or hardboiled yolk in texture but they–thankfully–didn’t use that stinky black salt to recreate the egg/fart smell.

The vegan sausage was your basic vegan sausage, except it wasn’t very fatty and it was incredibly well-seasoned.

We cooked them in the air fryer, using a silicon bowl just in case the vegan sausage ended up being very fatty, which it thankfully was not. The setting was on 200C for 3 minutes on the whole thing and they were warm-ish so I would recommend about 4 to 4:30 for a cook time.

My Impression

This vegan breakfast was good. Mostly. Honestly I don’t miss eggs as much as I thought I might and though these were good, I can’t say I’d order them again unless I was on vacation and someone else was cooking it. The biggest downside? The calories! This is not a calorie friendly meal and yeah, I know that I’m the one who added bread to make it a vegan breakfast sandwich but even without the bread this is a calorie bomb.

This is one of the reasons I don’t eat a lot of processed vegan food products. They are beautiful creations of turning one type of food into another, but that magic requires a lot of work which is translated into calories. It was 722 calories per 100 grams and the packaging total was approximately 150 grams, which means 1,083 calories, which is 541 per serving!!!!

Good? Sure, but not that good.

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