Who blogs about a grocery store? Actually, I do...not to mention blogging about specific food products like vegan cheese, but I posted about Persia Foods in North Vancouver at some point in the past. What can I say, I love groceries! Anyway, I had heard of Wegman's thanks to listening to The Geologic Podcast (which you should definitely check out! It is not about geology but more about critical thinking) before we went to DC but didn't think of it as a place that a vegan would find to be such a paradise! We were only there 2 or 3 times during our week in the DMV but I miss it already!
So Wegman's reminds me of Whole Foods but my impression is that it is nowhere near as expensive. It also reminds me a bit of Trader Joe's but it is much bigger and frankly has much more to offer the hungry vegan.
The initial revelation came as soon as we walked in the door and through the prepared food section. All the items on the "Vegetarian Bar" were marked vegan. I knew I was in love! We never did buy anything from this food bar as on our first visit we were looking for snack food for our hotel room...you know, healthy stuff! 
As we moseyed, we realized that there were entire aisles dedicated to plant-based foods and not just strategically hidden products here and there.
Before I knew it, I was standing in front of a better selection of plant-based cheese than I had ever seen which included Miyoko's brand and Follow Your Heart. We noticed that Wegman's has their own brand of plant-based cheese.
The Follow Your Heart became a key part of a pretty decent plate of hotel room nachos. It is wonderfully melty and a brand that is not available in Canada! 
Those cooler cases were full of much more than cheese. There was a whole range of tofu, tempeh, faux meat products and everything else a vegan could want.
The "dairy case" had a huge selection of milks which is not something that we don't have here in Vancouver but there was a lot of it!
I almost went crazy when we found the ice cream! They have Ben and Jerry's which we have here but there are many more vegan flavours. Also, Wegmans has its own brand of plant-based ice cream which we tried and gave full marks for!
Even the in-house bakery has some impressive-looking products (we tried some cookies).
So what is happening here? Is this the future and out here in Vancouver, we just have to wait patiently? I am often impressed with the number of plant-based products that the Real Canadian Superstore has but aside from a sort of health food aisle, you usually just have to look for the green label to find them.
In the meantime, it's not like we have nothing to eat. As I have written previously, I could live on my homemade curried lentils and brown rice. All of these bonus products are just for treat time.
Please come to the west coast, Wegmans!
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