No, your eyes didn’t deceive you when you read the title of this post. While on the search for clean vegan makeup on the web, I stumbled across a real gem of a subscription site.
Vegancuts is a vegan subscription service that does monthly or quarterly boxes for makeup, beauty, and snacks! Finally, a lifestyle brand that gets me—and every other snack loving beauty buff out there.
Instead of signing up for a monthly subscription and choosing one of their makeup, beauty or snack options, I chose one of their deluxe oversized boxes which specifically featured both personal care products and snacks.
In this post I’ll be focusing on all of the edible items I got and will post a follow up about the personal care items after I am able to get a good feel for the products and see what kind of results they are capable of.
The snacks included in the box I got:
3 Bar Cocoa Crunch Dark Chocolate & Peanut Butter
Good flavor. Texture wasn’t unpleasant and the bar was chocolatey enough to satisfy my craving and leave me not wanting more snacks…or chocolate.
Biena Baked Chickpea Puffs, Vegan Ranch flavor
These were my fiancé’s favorite of the snacks included! I wasn’t the biggest fan of the ranch flavor however I did like the consistency of the chickpea puff itself and would be happy to try any of the other flavors from Biena.
Lesser Evil Organic Popcorn Himalayan Gold
One of my favorite snacks in the box. Tastes nice and buttery without the animal harm!
Lupii Lupini Bean Powered Bite, Almond Butter Cinnamon Raisin
Another one of my favorite snacks because I learned a lot about the lupini bean from the wrapper. It also had a flavor that reminded me of gingerbread people cookies that have raisins for eyes, how my mom would make them, so I really enjoyed it.
Craize Plantain Toasted Corn Crisps
These were the most versatile of the snacks in the box, with the package recommending a variety of ways to enjoy them. Their slight sweetness and crispy consistency make these great to pair with anything from spreads and butters like Nutella or peanut butter, to more savory and hearty options like salsa or chilli beans. Their texture reminded me of a flat pressed fortune cookie.
Chickpea Dairy Free Vegan Mac
If you’re into super realistic cheeziness from your faux-cheese products this one’s gonna be a pass for you. Once I opened the flavor packet, I couldn’t get the almost chicken-stock with celery (?) scent out of my nose. This was my fiancé’s least favorite flavor and texture experience, and even I—being used to interesting textures and flavors in dairy and meat free products, and loving sweet potato, pumpkin, and chickpeas in a variety of forms—couldn’t palate this as a mac and cheeze. I was able to eat it after I told myself that it was a vegan ranch mashed potato, so it would be eaten and not wasted. (Side note, I did let the noodles cook a little too long to account for the mushiness in texture, I take full responsibility for that— however the super salty concentrate like flavor was my biggest qualm.)
Drinks:
Oat Milk Mocha Nitro Cold Brew Coffee from Rise Nitro Brewing
This was super delicious! As a huge coffee lover this was my favorite item in the box. If you haven’t already tried oat milk, it’s so creamy and great in lattes. I definitely recommend giving it a try!
Cucumber & Apple Tea from Tea Pigs
This was so refreshing and would be great for anyone who doesn’t like drinking water that’s unflavored to give a try. It was my second favorite item in the box!
Organic Bangkok tea from Harney & Sons Master Tea Blenders
Wow! If you love coconut flavored tea, this will be a must have for your regular at home tea stash. It smells amazing once opening the packet and has a subtle but still there coconut flavor along with a hint of vanilla. This is the product I could see myself using the most year round, hot or iced would be amazing.
Earth Chimp Vegan Protein Superblend in Chocolate
This smelled and tasted just like brownie batter or chocolate cake batter to me. I tried it with almond milk, but am interested to see how it would taste mixed with cold brew iced coffee concentrate instead. I don’t usually use protein shakes or meal replacements, but if I did in the future I could see myself using this, and would recommend it to a friend looking for this type of product.
Unfortunately, not everything can be my favorite and my least favorite item in the entire box was this Harmony beverage from Bela. No hard feelings or offense if this your all time favorite drink, it just had some flavors in its profile which didn’t sit well on my palate and left some unpleasant artificial after tastes.
and last of the edible goods in my Vegancuts box, was a Chocolate Complete Organic Plant Protein+ from New Chapter
My favorite attribute of this product is that it’s both soy and pea protein free! While I enjoyed the other protein shake of the two, this is probably the one I would purchase in the future for what ever reason.
Considering the retail value of the personal care items alone, is more than the price of the Vegancuts box that also gives you the opportunity to try a range of different snacks, and brands, I definitely consider it to be worth its price.
As I said earlier, I’ll be writing a follow up post on the personal care items I received after getting a good feel for them. If you’re interested in finding out more about Vegancuts or signing up for one of their subscription boxes click on the button below!
Let me know in the comments if you’ve tried any subscription boxes for snacks, skin and personal care, beauty, or lifestyle, and which are your favorites. Thanks for checking out this post and give me a follow if you’re interested in more skincare, lifestyle, beauty and other content!
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