Kraft NotCo Original Flavor Plant Based Mac & Cheese, 6 oz Box

We LOVE this Mac+cheese!! Our daughter has a severe allergy to milk, and this is an amazing alternative. Even our 4 year old son (with no allergies) doesn't mind to eat this instead of regular. Yes it does have a different taste than regular Mac+cheese, but the sauce has a similar texture so meets the craving. 🙂 We've tried several other vegan option, and this is by far the best one we've found. We appreciate that it's affordable and safe for our girl and are grateful Kraft meets the dietary need while maintaining high quality!

This is my favorite vegan mac and cheese. It tastes just like the original that I used to eat as kid. If you don't people it's vegan, they cannot tell the difference. Recommend using a decent vegan butter (Earth Balance/I Can't Believe It's Vegan/Miyokos) and unsweetened Almond/Oat/Soy/Cashew milk for the best flavor consistency. You can use Coconut milk, but the consistency will not be as rich as Coconut milk is much thinner. Almond, Oat, or Soy (unflavored, unsweetened) brings out the cheese flavor best. Cashew milk may make it taste a little nutty. Overall, better than any other brand of vegan mac and cheese I have tried.

I cant understand how people consume dairy type mac n cheese & leave this one. This tastes soooo good n the better part, its health. I'm vegan so dairy aint my thing. This i'll always buy, n recommend to others as a better mac n cheese option. Only dwnside, they increase the cost a little, but its not tooooo bad. That wont stop me tho....sorry

I remember eating this before becoming plant based, so seeing a plant based version I was curious to try it. I have to say that I like it! It's very "cheesy" and it smells wonderful. The only thing is that there's a slightly sweet taste, but I plan to buy these again.

Not a bad substitute for the traditional mac and cheese. Its not an exact flavor match, but it is delicious nonetheless.

I was curious. For a long time after becoming vegan, I missed the simple convenience of the traditional "mac and yack" I grew up with. Why couldn't I find a vegan powdered cheese substitute? But then vegan powdered cheese substitutes became available. Some were even pretty good, like Magic Cheese (by Jin) if you want bright orange fake fake cheese, or Country Life if you want something a bit more like a fondue consistency. So I forgot about the traditional "mac and yack". But then Kraft finally hefted its giant bulk up onto the "Plant Based" bandwagon that so many big brands were stumbling onto these days, and I was curious. A $2.50 experiment, why not? Sure, it's sad that the four-for-a-buck box of my youth had inflated to ten times the price despite cheaper ingredients, but I'm middle aged, I don't need to squeeze every penny anymore. Well, Kraft must only be making money off this product from nostalgic vegans like me, who try it once and immediately give up on it. Because this is AWFUL. Not even a little bit cheesy, and the pasta is somehow even MORE sad than I remember it being. Heck, when I was a kid, if there were leftovers, my mother would eat them for lunch the next day, reheated in a cast iron frying pan with a little butter. I can't imagine this surviving a single night in the fridge without reverting to a nasty starchy goop. It practically STARTS as a pile of nasty starchy goop. If you just want to kill your nostalgia, sure, spend $2.50 to put it to bed. But if you want a decent, convenient vegan "mac and yack", there are better options from companies who have been putting in more than a token effort for decades. If you seriously need an all-in-one-box because heating cheese while heating pasta is too much effort, Annie's makes a decent one, and it's cheaper. Or the aforementioned powders you add boiling water to, which per-meal are even cheaper.

Not bad, not great. Too sweet though. If you add a little mustard powder, hot sauce or whatever you like you won't notice it much if at all then. I am not vegan, I'm allergic to dairy. I'll try the white cheddar & see if that's better. Had a family member try it who eats the regular all the time (like 3-4x a week) & they said it was odd, cause they could catch the right flavor in the middle. The front end is way too sweet & the aftertaste is wrong. The middle notes were very close though. So take that for what you will. It's not true blue box proper if that's what you want (I think Annie's orange box is closest, but it's gonna depend on the milk & butter, you need something with some thickness). It's not the best m&c if that's what you want (although no one was buying the blue box for that), homemade is always gonna be best. Sorry for the novel, but m&c is the one of 3 thing I've been hunting for for years to be perfect & I still don't have one I think hits the bill yet.

I don't usually grab this brand, but I was pleasantly surprised. I added kimchi and hot sauce and it was creamy and delicious