Price: $3.49
Serving: 1 piece, 4.5 oz.
Calories: 170
Fat: 9%, 6g
Sodium: 18%, 440mg
Protein: 6g
Carbs: 10%, 29g
Fiber: 22%, 5g

Gabila’s says: The Original Coney Island Square knish.

Heather says: Right. I know. “What is this?,” you might ask. Lean Cuisine, it is not. Take this random product review as testament to the dearth of vegan products in the local mainstream grocery store. Normally, I get my tasty earth-friendly meals from one of the local whole-foodsy chains, but I was in a rush last week and needed to grab something from the local Fry’s supermarket. Ha. Rush. Right. What a joke.

If there’s anything you do a lot of as a vegan, it’s reading the back of labels, throwing up your hands in disgust, moving on to the next product, and repeating aforementioned behavior. So it was that after about five minutes of trying to find something anything, please God, anything that didn’t have animal product in it, I finally found this item, the knish.

I have tasted a fresh-baked knish before and found it to be mighty tasty. I did not, however, have high expectations for this product. Something about frozenness and mushy potatoes just not coexisting peacefully. Imagine my surprise then, to find that these knishes kicked vegan ass. They tasted, not surprisingly like: “lightly seasoned mashed potatoes wrapped in a crispy crust” (as Gabila’s says). They were, in short, delicious. I would recommend slicing one open and topping it with whatever you fancy. These things would make your Jewish vegan grandma proud. Seriously. Eat up.