Any tips on ditching the cheese?

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4. Pesto & Tofutti's vegan cream cheese. Get the healthy one in the mostly yellow container.

Tofutti's vegan cream cheese is better than cream cheese. It really is. I've used it as cream cheese replacement in cheese cake & in cream cheese dips. I have not made a cream sauce with it, & if anyone has, I hope they share their recipe. A good product, but highly processed.

Pesto - I use Isa's recipe in Vegan with a Vengeance. It's a decent replacement for a lot of cheesy things, like a base on pizza, mixed with crumbled tofu for a savory ricotta filling replacement (use lots of olive oil in your pesto for this), spread on toasted bread & then topped with chopped veggies. We go through a ton of pesto. When Safeway has their organic basil on sale, I buy a bunch & have a pesto making afternoon. It freezes & thaws beautifully.

Good luck!