Eating VEGAN Fast Food For 24 Hours Challenge #6

How's it going everyone? I'm Chris. I'm Jasmine. We're Sweet Simple Vegan. We're back with these are my favorite videos to film. We're going to be eating vegan fast food for 24 hours. So I'm still trying to like gather myself here. We just woke up kind of like we we had to rush this because the first place closes early. So here we are. Here we are. So this is round six as Jasmine mentioned and we're kind of running low on on vegan options. If you think about it. We still found some though. We did it. We got a whole day planned. But if you think about it we've done five already with three meals a day. That's 15 different places. Oh wow. I didn't think about that. And then this is three more. So this is 18. So that's pretty a lot of places. Yeah. So if you guys want to check out the other videos I'll link them down below. But our goal with these videos is to show people that vegan is accessible. It's not always gonna be the best option. So bear with us. Yeah. But we're just trying to show that you can find an option. All right. So for breakfast roll the clip. So we're at McDonald's and it's pretty sad but one of the only things you can get is this fruit and maple oatmeal. At least yeah for breakfast. For breakfast. I mean in general there's like nothing. So we're here early in the morning. We just have to be sure to ask for no cream. And it's vegan technically. So I guess we'll see how this goes. I don't really love oatmeal so I'm not really stoked about this. But gotta do it. Hi can I have two fruit and maple oatmeals with no cream in both please. Great thank you. And just no cream in those. What was that? No cream in those. No cream? Yeah. Cool thank you. Eat any utensils. What was that? No utensils either. No utensils? Yeah. All right. Thank you. So we are back home now. And never thought we'd be at McDonald's. As vegan. Ever. Honestly. It's been 10 years. For you. I think a little less for me because I went vegan like 8 years ago. And I definitely had McDonald's like before that year. So we did a little bit of research. And we discovered that their fruit and maple oatmeal cups can be made vegan if you just minus the cream. So that's what we did. And I had to tell them like 4 times because. I know when he first ordered they didn't put it on the screen. I was like they're gonna mess this up. So I reiterated it a bunch of times. Also the lid's recyclable so that's good. I asked for no utensils because we were gonna come home and we have a spoon here. So that's good. It smells good. It does smell really good. I'm actually quite impressed with that. So there's apples, there's raisins. And cranberries. I'm looking at the ingredients right now. There's cranberries, apples, and raisins. So it's basically oatmeal with fruit. And no cream. There is a lot of sugar in it it seems like. And that's one thing we did want to mention. So there is brown sugar that's mixed into the oatmeal. We weren't able to verify if the sugar in this is technically vegan friendly. So we had a little bit of a discussion about this. And we were thinking. So if you're not familiar some sugar isn't vegan because they process it through bone char in the filtration process. So usually white sugar will have. When they get that pure white color it's because they're filtering it through animal bones essentially. But. There's. Well there's no actual animal product left in it. It's just like the process. But like once you get the refined sugar there's no animal bone pieces in your sugar. But with brown sugar they use white sugar and then add molasses most of the time. But a lot of brands are starting to transition away from bone char. Yeah and move to synthetic processing. I was gonna say earlier. I was gonna say but there are vegan options. Like a vegan. Yeah there's plenty of vegan options. Way to process sugar. There you go. Just like McDonald's. There's no way to really know. But from from the way we look at it no additional animals are being harmed because of this filtration process. Like they're not killing animals for their bones to process it. It's a byproduct. I mean it doesn't make it right. It's weird. It's disgusting. But if if you think Oreos are vegan it's it's the same sugar that's going to be in this. That's true. Or any accidentally vegan thing. Yeah totally. What I was gonna say is. Yeah like you were saying they don't kill animals to get their bones to process sugar. Like in the industry they want to use every single part of the animal so that they don't lose their money. And like that's why hot dogs exist. That's why that's why bone char processing exists. So it's true. So whether or not you want to eat this because of the sugar is totally up to you. I don't think we would ever eat this again but we wanted to highlight the option and just try it to see how it is. Look at Barry. Do you see him? He's ready. You guys see him? He wants a bad. And it was really cheap. So two of these was just $4.75. Okay let's try this. Very sweet. Very sweet. This is good. I'm not a big oatmeal fan but. I'll eat it. Yeah the issue with this is um oh the oatmeal comes with the brown sugar in it already. I think it's probably just like a mix they do and then they add the fruit on top and like give it to you. I'm actually impressed by this. It's pretty good. It's really sugary. It is but I feel like if we were on a road trip and there was a McDonald's and we wanted breakfast like. And there was nowhere else to go. I would totally get this man. Absolutely. So apparently there are seven things at McDonald's that you can get that can technically be made vegan. So this being one of them. There's also their apple slices which like okay. And then they can be made vegan. Apparently their southwest salad can be made vegan without the chicken or the cheese. So it's basically just a salad. It's basically just lettuce and tomatoes. And then their side salad. Same kind of deal. Ain't nobody wants a side salad. Let's be real. And then their apple pie is technically vegan but again it's the same sugar aspect. Was that seven things? I don't know. I don't know. We'll link the blog post we're looking at down below. It's actually from Women's Health Mag which I was surprised about the fact that they had a blog post or an article about vegan options. All right well we're gonna finish this and then we do have the whole rest of the day planned. Hopefully snow doesn't get in the way of any of our fast food activities. I don't think it will. I think it'll snow here but like like a dusting. Yeah. So we're gonna continue to eat. I'm actually almost done already. Kind of a small portion but what do you want for like $2.50? Not even $2.25? This dude smells. You need a bath. It's time for your bath. All right we're gonna finish this and we'll see you guys for lunch. Lunch time. I'm ready. I'm actually really hungry. I am too after that. We were in like this tunnel like I don't know. Yeah we went to a little bit of a black hole with work but we're out. We're out of the house. We're fresh. We're cleaned up. I did my makeup. We don't know if this is a cop-out option but we're at Chipotle right now and I mean I don't think it's a cop-out. They have vegan options. They're a fast food place. We've never included them in a video. You are right. Yeah we've done Qdoba before and they had like the impossible meat which was a little weird. It was okay. But um if you're not familiar, Chipotle has sofritas which is like their own tofu vegan meat substitute. It's really good. Kind of gives me diarrhea sometimes. I was just thinking that. I was like are we gonna mention that? It's happened a few times so just just a warning to you. But pro tip so if you don't want to get sofritas and you get just veggies and whatever you're getting, guac is free. But if you don't, if you end up getting sofritas, guac is extra. So veggie only might be the way to go. I don't know. We'll see. I don't know what I'm gonna get right now. Like kind of thinking a burrito but I'm kind of thinking a bowl. I'm definitely getting a burrito. Yeah. Double wrapped. I don't know. We'll see. So before we go in, basically the vegan option like Chris said is the sofritas which is tofu and then the veggies. You can get it in taco form, bowl form, or burrito form. And then other vegan things there are chips and salsa. I think you can also get a salad. Oh well isn't that the bowl? I think. Do they have the tostada shell? I'm not sure. We'll see. Let's go inside. Let's do it. It's cold. Go go. Hurry. My makeup's getting messed up. Hi. I'm gonna get a burrito. Yeah. And are you gonna want white or brown rice? I'll get brown rice. And black rice. And beans. And toe beans. They're both they're both vegan right? The beans? Yeah. Okay. Actually let me double check. I know the pinto beans you stop baking in them but I'm pretty sure they go everywhere. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Perfect. And then sofritas are vegan. Yeah. The sofritas and I guess can I get both? Yeah you can. I just wanted to. Okay. Yeah. Cool. The veggie basically just means no protein. Okay. Um I'll get the pico. And then guac and lettuce. Crystal has to take a picture but we got chips. We got guac. Look at this freaking torpedo. We got some burritos. The bag was so heavy. We shouldn't have filmed it but I was like you could do a workout with it. I was watching the lady hold the burrito and she was struggling a little. I don't know if I think she was new. Um it seemed like it but she did a great job. I'm impressed. Um yeah that's all we got. Chris cut his burrito in half because he took a photo but I just wrapped mine up like this. Um which way do you prefer? So for chipotle they have like I was saying earlier you can get a vegan burrito, taco, burrito bowl, or salad. And um all you have to do is instead of getting meat you get veggies and or the sofritas and it's vegan. The beans actually used to be cooked um with bacon fat. The pinto beans used to have bacon in it. The pinto beans used to have bacon in it. Okay. Um but recently maybe not that recent but in the recent years they've made the beans vegan. On the menu the sofritas and the veggies both have v's on them but I didn't film the beans. Did you? No but they're both vegan. As always with all the places we go since there are large chain restaurants and fast food places they have all the information online regarding their menu, allergen concerns, that sort of thing. So it's really helpful that they have all the information. Okay we're gonna eat. One more thing. Sometimes at chipotle I have noticed that things spill over compartment style like Subway kind of style. So they're putting together everything in front of you. I'm sure you know if you've been to chipotle. But sometimes things like spill over so I don't know if you can keep an eye out. Yeah I would yeah I wouldn't like unless like it was something was blatantly in my food I wouldn't say anything. Yeah I don't know. Just something to keep in mind. Yeah. Hi baby. Really good. So my order was a burrito with brown rice, pinto beans, um the sofritas, veggies, pico de gallo, lettuce, um guacamole. I think that's it. How about you? Mine was pretty similar. Um I got brown rice. I got double beans. You can also get black and pinto beans if you wanted. So I got that and then sofritas, fajita veggies, pico, um corn, guac, and lettuce. And I think that's it. I forgot about the corn man. I would all of the bags that we're getting we have a new compost bin and we're gonna compost all of our I'm pretty sure we can compost the napkins too. Yeah I think so. Yeah really cool. So we're gonna we're gonna do that and we're hopefully it'll uh everything breaks down as it should. We are going to finish our lunches and then somehow we're gonna make room for more food tonight. So easy. I don't know I'm nervous. Um so I will see you or we will see you in a few hours. Maybe like three or four hours. So stay tuned. All right so it is dinner time and it is time to order some pizza. So we're going to Domino's. We are checking out Domino's. Um I don't know if I've had Domino's as a vegan. I don't really remember. Have you? I have once or twice I think. Um but not not my preferred option. So before going to Domino's I would call your local pizzeria and see if they can make vegan pizza because it's probably better quality. However for the sake of this video and if Domino's is the only place around or if your friends are ordering from Domino's or your family or whatever and you want to be included if you're not we could do it. So we're doing a screen recording so we'll put on the screen so you guys can see exactly what we're doing but we're going to do the order online option just so we can put exactly what we want so there's no misunderstandings over the phone all that. I feel like it's a little bit of a safer option. Totally and I think this order uh like the user friendliness of their online ordering system is really good. So as far as so we're going to build our own pizza and then as far as crust options there are five different ones. Only one of them is actually vegan which is the crunchy thin crust. So we're going to go ahead and select that. I guess we'll get a large right? Medium? 12 inch? Honestly that chipotle burrito like destroyed me. I'm not super hungry right now but for the sake of this video I'll eat. Let's get the medium. I'm not going to eat that much pizza. Feeds two to four okay. Okay so you get crunchy thin crust, cheese and sauce. So obviously cheese not vegan. If you're in Australia right Australia has vegan cheese at Domino's. Yeah let's follow your heart. Come on. Hopefully it comes to the U.S. soon. For real. But if you're in Australia I'm pretty sure they have vegan cheese which is awesome but we're just going to for no cheese and then for sauce. It's cool there's a no cheese option. There's robust inspired tomato sauce. I'm not sure about the hearty marinara. We should probably check. So with Domino's you can see all of the nutritional information pretty easily. So if you go to their website and you go down to nutrition and then allergen info everything's going to come up. Robust pizza sauce has soy in it. Vegan. That's vegan. What's the other one? Hearty marinara. That has hearty marinara has milk in it. So robust inspired barbecue sauce. Let's see about barbecue. Well all right so the only dicey thing barbecue sauce has no allergens here except for soy but we don't know if it has honey. Barbecue sauce. Oh there barbecue sauce bread that doesn't have honey. It looks vegan. Corn syrup and molasses. There's sugar so see like what we talked about earlier in the video the sugar. Barbecue sauce brown also vegan. Wow okay. What was it? Robust. So it's tomato puree, sugar, salt, spices, garlic, soybean oil, citric acid. Very simple. Okay so all right that's our uh that's our pick right? Robust tomato sauce toppings. Here we go. And then obviously no meats on it. For non-meats there are a ton of options you can choose that are vegan besides the cheese. Hot sauce. Interesting. Garlic for sure. Oh yeah garlic. Pineapple. Hell no. If you put pineapple I'm not touching that thing. Mushrooms. I like mushrooms on pizza. Let's see mushrooms. Black olives. Wow it even gives you a little visual. That's cute. Just in case you want to do half and half too or whatever. Spinach. Yes. Onions. You love onions. I don't I don't really like onions on pizza because they don't cook for that long. They're so crunchy so I'm not really a fan. Do we want any peppers? I don't. That's kind of our options. We're kind of fine. All right. So it gives us three dipping sauce options. Garlic dipping sauce is vegan. The garlic dipping sauce is vegan. I assume the marinara is vegan but we're going to check because their other um robust sauce had oh no what sauce had was the robust sauce? Their other sauce had milk so we just want to double check. The marinara is also vegan. Cool. I guess I feel like we don't. Let's get both right? Do we need the marinara? No. I feel like we don't really need it because our pizza is already just all sauce. All right we're going to place the order and uh we'll see you when when it gets here. Well actually when Chris has to go pick it up. Yeah. We got our pizza. Okay. Okay. Super thin. My god. This is like paper. Maybe not paper thin but this is look okay let's. It's like a tortilla. Basically. This is literally like a tortilla. It's not bad but it's not great. I wouldn't I wouldn't get it again. It's like so thin that like they couldn't put that much sauce on it or it would have gotten soggy and overflowed. So it's barely any sauce. I feel like I'm not even getting flavor from the sauce. I feel like it's barely cooked. I'm putting my own cheese on it. Oh we have the garlic sauce so it's a buttery flavored dipping sauce but it's actually vegan. Oh shake. I didn't shake it. Chris is looking for vegan cheese in our fridge right now and I'm gonna try this sauce. So it's very fluorescent. I mean it's pretty yellow. All right here is the dipping sauce and here's a close-up of the pizza just because we didn't film an actual close-up of it right? Yeah so here's a close-up of the pizza so you guys can see it. So thin. All right I'm gonna try the dipping sauce before you put the cheese. Actually let me put this on a baking tray. The garlic sauce is probably good. It honestly just tastes like I'm dipping it into garlic butter. Take that garlic sauce drizzle it all over and it'll be a good pizza. So we're going to kind of take this to the next level and Chris has some vegan cheese here. So what we're going to do is actually put the pizza on a baking sheet. This is Miyoko's smoked mozzarella cheese. This sounds ridiculous. It's so good. It is one of the more expensive vegan cheeses but I always tell people it's like the best of the best and you pay for the quality. It's made of quality ingredients and Miyoko is a badass. If you want to read more about her I'll link her website down below. She has an animal sanctuary. Yeah she started a sanctuary. She lives there. It's amazing what she does. Rancho compassion. And yeah she kills it in the cheese game. All of her stuff is amazing. Damn double cheese. I already ran out so. This is another brand. We like this brand too. We just had it at home. It's called Violife. The only issue is we can't like bake this for a while because it might turn into a cracker so I feel like we're going to have to broil it. What do you think? I just got it on 350. We can broil. Yeah let's broil it. I feel like we should just broil it with my phone. I love this. Our new iPhones have such good quality videos. Dave I'm filming you. Let's see what happens here. All right I gotta go to the bathroom now. All right pizza time. So we got cheesed up here. It didn't really melt did it? A little bit. That's fine I don't care. I'm gonna film it so you guys can see. All right here's the pizza. Didn't really fully melt but it's because we're in a hurry. We're impatient. Give a close-up shot. Oh my god way better. Let me try this butter. It just tastes like garlic butter. It's scary. Yeah it's just way too yellow for me. It's good but like I wouldn't get it again. It just feels wrong. It does. It looks wrong to me. It's so much better with the cheese. Oh it is melty. Berry's so cute. Are you bringing his toy? Yeah he brought his latte over. We are going to go lay down on the couch. Food coma commenced. Every time we do these videos I feel disgusting but. I'm gonna definitely finish those. You are? Oh I'm gonna grab a kombucha. That concludes uh our fast food adventures for the future. All right anyways. That concludes our fast food adventures for today. So I was thinking so earlier I had mentioned this is our sixth video and we have been to 15 different restaurants but I realized there are some inconsistencies there. Mainly because we went to Burger King twice. So I would say 14 different. No but then we went to one of the videos we went to four because we went to Baskin Robbins for dessert. So 15 wow. Well 18 now. 18 different restaurants. You can eat vegan at fast food chains at popular restaurant chains. Actually we have a video on eating. We tried eating vegan at popular restaurant chains. We went to Olive Garden. We went to Red Robin and Denny's and we're gonna be doing another one of those soon too. So yeah so um our goal to show people a vegan is accessible. It's easy and you can find it at affordable places like these kinds of spots. If uh I don't know they're just making me crazy. What were we saying? We're just saying how cool it is that there are so many vegan options all over the country. Whether it be fast food chains or popular restaurant chains. So the world's changing in 2020. Canada just expanded their McDonald's Beyond Burger program. So it was at a handful of locations and now it's at 30 I think. So crazy. If that comes to the U.S. and goes nationwide, game changer for sure. So one of the most frequently left comments on these videos is regarding the health aspect of the food and we never claim that this food is healthy or the healthiest thing you can choose. If you want to eat healthy on a budget, the best thing you can do is make food for yourself at home. We got plenty of videos on how to do that if you want simple recipes. Definitely but the whole point of this video like we've said is just to show people that vegan is accessible. If you don't have time to cook at home and you want to grab something quick and you don't mind eating fast food, there are so many options for you. You don't have to turn to a meat burger or a non-vegan option when there are so many vegan options. Also, sorry I don't want to interrupt. I just wanted to say we just want to make people aware that there are so many vegan options. It's amazing. So also if you're on a road trip or if you live in the middle of nowhere and you think there aren't any vegan options available in your area, chances are there are. So this kind of just sheds light on that and also it would be cool to do some type of east coast excuse me it'll be cool video because there are a few places that we don't have access to here that do have vegan options also like Dunkin Donuts. I guess it's just Dunkin now. White Castle. I think Hardee's now has that breakfast sandwich. I can't confirm if the biscuit itself is actually vegan but honestly probably not. They have the beyond sausage. The way they make it. I'm gonna look it up right now because I'm curious. So apparently the sausage biscuit is available for a limited time in Raleigh, North Carolina and Kansas City, Missouri. Can be customized with toasted sourdough bread or tortilla to make it vegan. So the biscuit isn't vegan. That would be so cool if the biscuit was vegan. Still cool that it's there but yeah so it would be cool to do those options in a video but we can't for now. So yeah when we visit the east coast again or we're traveling. Yeah we'll be there sometime this year because Chris's family's from there so that's definitely one of our goals when we visit. Well that about wraps it up. Thank you guys for watching. If you are new here please subscribe. Hit the bell. We post videos every Wednesday and Friday. Hope you had a great day. Hope you enjoyed this video and see you soon. Peace. Bye. We just wanted to let you guys know that the brown bags and most of the waste that we got from our fast food adventure yesterday we are going to be composting including this Domino's pizza box. Our friend Marina is a guru on composting and zero waste and she told us we can in fact compost a pizza box so in the compost everything goes.