So, apparently there's a LOT veg/vegan alternatives out there(i.e.milk,cheese,butter,meat). Where do u buy 'um!

I live in the United States, and I usually find imitation meat products and vegetarian cheeses at
whole food stores and health food markets. You can also find them at mainstream supermarkets like Pathmark, Stop & Shop, and Shop Rite. I don't know what the major supermarkets are in Canada, but whichever ones have tons of locations are the ones more likely to carry vegetarian products. Supermarkets with only a few locations tend to not carry many vegetarian options.

I know a lot of KFC locations in Canada also carry a vegetarian mock "chick'n" sandwich.
Burgerking has a BK Veggie burger.
Subway has a veggie patty sub.

Vegetarian

Hi. Ironically I buy vegan sour cream, "mayonnaise", "cheddar cheese", and "butter" in a Canadian owned and ran health food store one hour from where I live.
These meat and dairy alternatives are not always healthy as they are all processed and should be eaten sparingly; not everyday as a vegan or vegetarian. I try to eat less of these imitations and more foods in their natural state, but maybe once a week I will have a "burger" with "cheese" as a treat.

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I live in California, Los Angeles, and we have organic grocery stores, like Whole Foods, where you can buy meat, but also the mentioned above. In Loma Linda, a lot of people are vegs and they have vegan grocery stores as well.

YES!! i still shop at the same store as my family who are meat eaters. There is loads of thing for vegetarians to eat. The only time i need to go to a health store is if i want something with like extra vitamins witch is very rear as i feel health with the things i eat now.

I live in a small city (pop. about 12,000) in upstate NY and I mainly shop at a regular grocery store. Maybe once every few months or so, I'll go to the closest local health food store which is about a 25 minute drive away (or about an hour by bus). And in the summer, I frequent the local farmer's markets. I don't buy vegan "cheese" and very rarely buy packaged faux meats, but they are available at my regular grocery store. I do buy Earth Balance, tofu, vital wheat gluten (to make seitan), Vegenaise, etc. At the very least, even the crappiest grocery stores usually have tofu and vital wheat gluten and some kind of vegan margarine, even if it isn't Earth Balance. Maybe you just aren't looking in the right places? If you really can't find what you want, you can request for it to be ordered at the service desk. Most grocery stores are more than happy to special order things or even start stocking something regularly at a customer's request.

I buy mine at Walmart. Walmarts are like McDonalds you can find one anywhere. Even those towns that have like 3 stores and nothing else have a McDonalds a Walmart and usually a Family Dollar or Gas Station.

Walmart is a general grocery store I guess. It's not a health food store by any means. I say it's not really a general grocery store because I don't know of any grocery store that you could get an oil change while you shop or see an eye doctor at either. It's more of a mini mall than a grocery store. It is multi funtional.

Anyway you can just order online if you can't find a store in your area.

I'm in Australia (in a big city) and a lot of those products are available in supermarkets nowadays. Some are in a dedicated healthfood section, some in a dedicated Asian food section, some in the freezer section, some mixed in with non-veg products in the chilled section, some in the "long-life milks" section. Some I can get in one supermarket chain but not another. It varies. I guess it depends on consumer demand. You can talk to the manager. If they've got a guaranteed sale of a certain product, they'll order it in.

Other products, if I want them, I can find in healthfood shops (practically none of those on my side of the city, but hundreds on the other side), wholefood shops (just one I know of, right in the CBD, extremely well-stocked, but charging a lot more than other shops do), Asian (mainly Chinese/Vietnamese) grocers, Indian grocers, and one or two specialist vegetarian products shops.

If you have nothing like that anywhere near you, then you might want to consider either a monthly shopping trip to the nearest big city, or shop online.

Vegan!