Ok, so you know when you go to, say, a hockey game and get nachos from the concession and they come in those weird little plastic trays with some sort of plastic-looking cheese sauce? Right. Well, there was some weird little part of my brain that always actually liked getting these as a kid. Go to an Oilers game, watch Jari Kurri and Wayne Gretzky put on a show, scarf down some nachos, cheer my little brains out. I guess it was the sort of bizarre not-at-all good for you treat that I only ever had at something like a hockey game so I associated it with special outings even if it was of suspect taste and nutritional value. (Hey, I was a kid – what did I care?!)

As an adult (with supposedly refined taste) and a vegan, these kinds of treats aren’t really on my radar anymore – until now! I’ve just discovered a vegan nacho “cheese” sauce called Nacheez that has all the good parts of my hockey game treat without any of the crap. In fact, this sauce is actually pretty darn good for you – dairy-free, low fat, low cal, a source of vitamin B6 and B12. Of course I just scooped some up with some tortilla chips, but it would be equally yummy on, say, a baked potato or broccoli. And, sure, many vegan cookbooks have “cheese” sauces (I’ve made many of them!), but there is something weirdly nostalgic about buying a jar of this stuff.

Now, if only the Oilers would get back to the way they were in the Kurri-Gretzky days…