Furity-Nutty Spread?

I love cooking and eating as an "Almost Vegan" and my mom has now started to do some of the foods with me! After being home this weekend she sent me back to school with a few new foods to try.  One of them is called "Fruity-Nutty Spread" and I have some mixed review about it.
It goes as follows:

• 8oz of cream cheese softened
• unsalted roasted sunflower seeds
• dried fruit
• nuts of choice (we used walnuts)

Mix all of it together and spread on toast or bread of choice! For the cream cheese we are using a brand called "Tofutti" which I honestly enjoy more than some brands of regular cream cheese.  They make a garlic herb flavored cream cheese spread and I really enjoy that as well.  They make more foods such as sour cream.   A family member says that she enjoys most of the Tofutti vegan products more than regular dairy products.  Tofutti typically has less fat and it more healthy.  You might not find it in regular grocery stores (it would be in the cold case in the produce section with other vegan products)  I usually have to go to Earth Fare to find it.

When I tried it yesterday on a whole wheat english muffin I initially thought it was weird. It doesnt have the flavor I expected.  I think I would like this if I could mix in some different fruits that would make it sweeter.  We used raisins and my mom mentioned that maybe apricots would make it a little sweeter.

Dinner last night was simple but I am going to talk a little about the "chicken" I had.  Lat night I cooked a simple meal of just some steamed broccoli and roasted potatoes like I did a few weeks back.  I made chicken in some simple breading for the meat eaters (my roommate, my boyfriend, and another friend of ours).   While they enjoyed that I had "chicken" Scallopini.  It is a chicken replacement that my mom got for me to eat while everyone at easter dinner was having ham.  As far as meat replacements go I don't always have to have them and I would just as content getting my protein from a spoonful of peanut butter.  In those meals when you need to have a fake meat and it wouldn't be acceptable to go get a jar of peanut butter I will take a fake meat replacement.  My favorite out of all I have tried is by the company Morning Star and its a pretty common brand name.  You can find it in most grocery stores.  They make great chicken nuggets and chicken patties and those are my favorite.  The scallopini was good and I enjoyed the flavor it had, the only complaint I had was that it just didnt look natural.  Which clearly is not something you can always have when you are making plan proteins look like chicken or beef.

Have a great day bloggers and followers!