This cheese lover's on a vegan cheese mission...

Veganuary may have just finished, but the vegan conversation is now a year-round thing. While I'm not vegan, I've taken part in several Veganuarys, and would never turn my nose up at trying new things, including trying to find great vegan versions of non-vegan food. In the past few years I've definitely cut down on the amount of meat I eat, and I'm really trying to 'eat less, eat better' in many respects.

One of my best friends is coeliac, and she (like basically everyone in the world) loves pizza. She's always said how great White Rabbit is for a gluten-free alternative. White Rabbit has recently launched its first wheat-base pizza (so not one for the coeliacs out there), but it is vegan.

How is it?

The Vegan Arrabbiata is topped with spicy chicken-free strips, sun-dried tomatoes, roasted red onion and finished with creamy Mozzarisella, and I was keen to give it a try.

We've seen the big delivery guys launching vegan pizzas, with Domino's and Pizza Hut going nationwide with their offerings. Chicago Town has also brought vegan pizza to the supermarket frozen aisle, and now, White Rabbit has joined the vegan pizza party.

And it's really good.

The chicken-free strips have the same taste and texture as chicken-chicken on takeaway pizzas, the hint of spice is great, the base was nice, chewy and quite thick (if you like that sorta thing!), and importantly, the Mozzarisella actually tasted cheesy (unlike some other vegan cheese I've tried) and melted really nicely as well. In fact the 'cheese' was so nice, I wish there had been more of it.

Vegan cheese can be made from all sorts of things: coconut, cashew, nuts, soy, vegetables, but the White Rabbit 'cheese' is rice based.

Now we know how important cheese is to people. It recently topped the list of reasons people couldn't go vegan.

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I've tried quite a bit of vegan cheese now, and it definitely seems to be getting better as time goes on. As ever with these things though, it's work in progress, and of course new products that get ever closer to the original will keep popping up.

We recently got into a bit of a vegan cheesy debate over on Twitter, with La Fauxmagerie cropping up several times as a great option for something close to the real thing...

What are the best vegan alternatives you've had? And would you happily eat a vegan pizza with chicken-free strips on it if you're a meat eater? Tell me alllll in the comments.