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This expansion of Sweet Earth’s popular Mindful Chik’n line builds on our legacy of leading with variety.” “We’re eager to meet the growing consumer demand for quick and flavorful plant-based alternatives. “Sweet Earth has always made it a priority to innovate and develop new, delicious plant-based foods that people can enjoy at a variety of occasions,” Sara Wheeler, Sweet Earth general manager said.

New to the Moss Landing, Calif.-based company’s roster are three new ready-to-eat seasoned launches.įeaturing globally inspired marinades, the products are vegan, nutrient-dense and contain at least 13 g of protein and 4 g of fiber, the company said. To learn more about the nutrition content, ingredients, or cooking instructions for these faux chicken strips, check out our package scans below.Sweet Earth Foods’ Mindful Chick’n Strips line is growing. These faux chicken strips really are great! While we wouldn’t necessarily recommend these for folks who prefer real chicken to the vegetarian stuff, we would absolutely recommend these to anyone who’s looking for a vegetarian-friendly replacement. The Sweet Earth Mindful Chik’n Strips are excellent. We doubt you’ll just sit down and chomp through a whole package, but since these are designed to be part of a greater dish, you’ll have to factor in the calories and sodium for whatever you add on top of the numbers we provided. If you eat the whole package at once, you’re up to 360 calories and 880 mg of sodium. If you eat the recommended serving, you’re looking at 130 calories and 330 mg of sodium. Check it out!Īccording to the package, one serving is about 3/4 of a cup, which means there are somewhere between two and a half to three servings of faux chicken here. So what did we end up using all this chicken for? Well, we baked ourselves a BBQ chicken pizza. We do think the oil was a huge part of that, so we definitely recommend a liberal application of oil when cooking this. Now, parts of the chicken ended up overcooking and getting a little bit crispy, but the parts that didn’t ended up juicy, with an absolutely lovely texture. We don’t want to use a word like authentic, because that’s not accurate here, but these have a lovely, earthy flavor with a kind-of-sweet aftertaste that we found really appealing. We’ve had some not-great vegetarian chicken strips before, and the Sweet Earth ones might be the best we’ve trued thus far. The final result, though, was actually pretty darn good. We then added some more oil, and finally the chicken seemed moist enough to not instantly sponge up all of the oil in the pan. So we added some more and the same thing happened. When we added the chicken to our oiled-up skillet, the faux meat soaked up all of the oil almost instantly. Now, we did try some of these before we cooked them, and we found the faux chicken to be flavorful yet dry.

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(If you want to read the full cooking instructions straight off the package, scroll down to the bottom of the review.) So we heated our stovetop, dropped in some oil, and plopped in the chicken. However, the preferred method is cooking these in a skillet. There are plenty of ways to cook these up, and you can even eat these chicken strips straight out of the package without heating them at all. These faux chicken strips are generally found in the refrigerated section of a grocery store rather than the freezer aisle. Because we’d actually never tried these, we figured we’d give them a go - even though this isn’t a frozen food. We saw these at our local food co-op, and we were reminded about how much fun we had reviewing Sweet Earth products in the past. Nostalgia is indeed a powerful force, and it’s what led us to pick up a batch of the Sweet Earth Mindful Chik’n Strips.

We never imagined how much better we’d get at writing these reviews, or how big the site would eventually grow. Those early Sweet Earth reviews are a little cringey looking back, but we were giving it our best shot back then. They are, in fact, one of the very first brands we started reviewing back when we launched Freezer Meal Frenzy. We have a lot of affection for the Sweet Earth brand.