Nobody likes to get stuck in a rut, particularly not with their cooking. Meal times should be one of life’s greatest joys but, all too often, we find ourselves cooking the same meals day-in-day-out.

Here at Vegan Gently, we’ve decided that the best way to make yourself try something new is to buy something new which is why we’ve put together this list of five fantastic vegan products that hit the shelves in 2022.

1. Pumpkin Seed Milk

Summer is drawing to a close and with autumn just around the corner, we feel it’s time to start getting excited for the spooky season. Now the leaves might not have started falling yet, but that won’t stop us from enjoying our own homemade pumpkin-spiced lattes.

And what better way to make a pumpkin-spiced latte than with pumpkin seed milk?

This delicious new milk substitute from Patch Organics is great both for hot drinks and for baking. It’s the perfect product for this time of year.

2. Vegan Tuna

It seems like 2022 is the year of vegan tuna as there have actually been a whole host of new developments in the faux-fish field.

Vegan Zeastar, Future Farms, and Impact Foods (just to name a few) have all been working hard to put vegan tuna on the shelves. Vegans are now officially one step closer to their very own Tuna Cheese melt!

3. Dairy-Free Ice Cream

Now dairy-free ice cream has been around for a while at this point, but since the start of this year, it seems like the market has boomed.

While it might not be the healthiest of vegan products, we’re nonetheless delighted to see brands like Ben and Jerry’s and Magnum making more effort to include vegans in their product ranges.

And it’s not just the big brands jumping on the vegan ice cream train. Old familiar vegan favourites such as Oatly and Alpro have also dropped their own lines of vegan products.

Which is best? We’ll let you bet the judge of that.

4. Beyond Chicken

Beyond Meat have wowed us all in the last few years with their amazing vegan products and now it looks like they’re about to corner a new market. There are dozens of vegan chicken substitutes on the market, but beyond meat’s unique style of substitutes is well worth checking out if you haven’t done so already. They’re one of the tastiest and the most authentic meat substitutes you can buy.

5. Vegan Eggs

Last, but certainly not least, we wanted to take a look at one of the most unexpected vegan products that’s been popping up recently: vegan eggs.

Now, there are already plenty of ways to substitute eggs in a recipe, but they won’t be much use in a sandwich.

Meet WunderEggs and Perfeggt, the two companies striving to bring eggs to the vegan community. WunderEggs are great if you’re looking for hard-boiled eggs for your vegan egg-mayo while Perfeggt will give you the best vegan scrambled eggs money can buy.

Of course, these products are just a taster of what’s available from the latest wave of vegan foods. New vegan products are coming out faster than we can count and the market for them is growing day by day.

It seems to us like there’s never been a better time to go vegan!