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Mon Cuisine Vegan Meals

Mon Cuisine is the main line Vegan Grandnews distributes from Brooklyn, and it is the only line in this catalog marked Kosher Parve on the case. The range is built around finished dishes rather than raw components, which changes how a buyer should think about it: you are ordering menu items, not ingredients. This guide covers what is in the line, how the cases are packed, and who each item suits.

What is Mon Cuisine?

Mon Cuisine is a vegan frozen prepared-food brand, and it is the line Vegan Grandnews carries as its core offering. It is also the only line in this catalog that carries the Kosher Parve marking, which is printed on the case itself. The items are finished dishes and finished components -- stuffed cabbage, moussaka, schnitzel, Salisbury steak, spaghetti and meatballs -- packed frozen and vacuum sealed.

The practical difference from the bulk side of the catalog is packaging rather than category. Mon Cuisine cases hold retail-format units inside a foodservice carton, so a grocery can put them on a shelf and a household can pull a single unit from the freezer. Bulk items arrive loose or IQF and expect somebody to portion them in-house.

Which Mon Cuisine items are in the catalog?

There are twelve Mon Cuisine items currently listed, and they cover three groups: breaded formats, formed cuts, and composed meals. That spread is deliberate, because a market or a kitchen stocking the line usually wants a full menu from one brand rather than one hero product. Every item below links to its own product page with the current pack description.

• Breaded: vegan breaded chicken nuggets, chicken patties, chicken style cutlet, veal style shnitzel
• Formed cuts: vegetarian grilled steak, vegetarian Salisbury steak
• Composed meals: Greek style eggplant moussaka, Italian stuffed shell pasta, vegetarian stuffed cabbage, vegetarian spaghetti and meatballs, vegan Moroccan chicken
• Loose format: vegan meat crumble

Why does the kosher labeling matter when ordering?

For a kosher household or a kosher market, a product being vegan is not enough on its own -- the marking on the package is what counts. Mon Cuisine carries the Kosher Parve marking on the case, which is why it is the line we point kosher accounts toward. The bulk foodservice items in this catalog are not marked that way, and we do not represent them as kosher.

The consequence for a purchase order is simple: if the buyer is a kosher kitchen or a kosher market, the order should be built entirely from Mon Cuisine items. Mixing in bulk items to reach the $300 minimum would defeat the point of the order. There are twelve Mon Cuisine items, which is enough to reach a minimum without leaving the line.

How is a Mon Cuisine case packed and portioned?

Each case holds retail-format units, so portioning is done by unit rather than by weight. That makes yield easy to plan: units per case times cases ordered gives you servings, with no trimming or measuring on the kitchen side. Confirm the current unit count and case weight on each product page before ordering, because pack descriptions move with the catalog.

Storage follows the same rules as everything else frozen here. Keep the case frozen until use, thaw under refrigeration rather than on the counter, do not refreeze anything fully thawed, and follow the heating instructions printed on the case. Formulations are revised between production runs, so the panel on the box you receive is the source of truth, not a guide.

• Portioned by unit, not by weight -- yield is a multiplication, not an estimate
• Retail-format units inside a foodservice carton, so partial use is easy
• Kosher Parve marking printed on the case
• Heating instructions on the case panel govern, not any general rule

How do kitchens and households use the line differently?

A kitchen buys Mon Cuisine for consistency: the same unit every time means the same plate cost and the same portion, which is what a menu price depends on. Caterers use the composed meals because a tray can be built without a prep cook. Kosher markets stock the line because it fills a freezer case with items that already carry the marking their customers look for.

A household buys it for a different reason: it is dinner without a project. One unit out of the freezer is one meal, so a case is a month of nights covered rather than a bulk ingredient waiting for a recipe. Families feeding a mix of vegan and non-vegan eaters tend to keep the composed meals and the breaded items, because both read as normal dinner to everyone at the table.

How do you order Mon Cuisine by the case?

Orders go through Vegan Grandnews at 1810 76th Street, Brooklyn NY 11214, with a $300 minimum that applies to wholesale accounts and to households alike. Call 347-516-9806 or write tarcus@vegangrandnews.com for current availability and case pricing, since both move with supply.

The minimum is framed as a volume purchase rather than a hurdle. Three to five cases of Mon Cuisine is a stocked freezer for a family or an opening order for a small market, and because the units are retail-format, nothing is wasted while you work through it.

Before you order

Heating instructions, allergen information and certifications are printed on the case label. Always follow the label for the lot you receive: formulations and pack specifications can change between production runs.

How does Mon Cuisine compare to the bulk foodservice packs?

Twelve of the frozen cases carry the Mon Cuisine name and the Kosher Parve marking printed on the case; the other fifteen are bulk foodservice packs that do not declare it. That is the practical dividing line in this catalog. A kosher kitchen builds its order inside Mon Cuisine and confirms the marking on the case it receives, while a buyer shopping on format alone can work across the whole list. Both ship from the same Brooklyn freezer, under the same $300 minimum, and both can be combined in one order.

• Mon Cuisine, twelve cases: vegan meat crumble, stuffed cabbage, Greek style eggplant moussaka, veal style shnitzel, spaghetti and meatballs, Moroccan chicken, grilled steak, Salisbury steak, Italian stuffed shell pasta, breaded chicken nuggets, breaded chicken patties and the breaded chicken style cutlet
• Bulk foodservice, fifteen cases: burgers, franks, breakfast sausage patties, falafel balls, ground beef crumble, meatballs, pizza crumbles, pot pies, diced chicken, chicken strips, breaded nuggets, sesame nuggets, patties and cutlets

Which Mon Cuisine items suit a kosher restaurant line?

The ones that portion themselves, because they keep plating consistent across a shift. Grilled steak, Salisbury steak, veal style shnitzel and the breaded chicken style cutlet each cover a center of plate with a fixed piece, which is the fastest way to add a reliable plant-based entree to an existing menu. Spaghetti and meatballs, stuffed cabbage, moussaka and stuffed shell pasta sit in the other group: they arrive as a finished dish and occupy the whole plate instead of one part of it.

For a kitchen adding its first Mon Cuisine case, the crumble is still the least risky entry, because it becomes whatever sauce or filling the line already produces and does not require a new menu description.

What does the Kosher Parve marking on the case mean for your kitchen?

It means the case itself carries that marking, and nothing beyond that should be read into a webpage. What the marking permits in a given kitchen, alongside which other foods and under which supervision, is decided by that kitchen's own supervising authority. Our part is narrower and firmer: Mon Cuisine is the line labeled Kosher Parve, the fifteen bulk packs do not declare it, and the case in front of you is the document that counts.

How do you plan a Mon Cuisine order for a busy season?

Order the composed dishes early and the components close to the date. Composed items such as stuffed cabbage, moussaka and stuffed shell pasta are the ones that save the most labor when a kitchen is under pressure, and they are also the ones that take the most freezer space, so they should be placed while the freezer still has room. Call 347-516-9806 or write tarcus@vegangrandnews.com to confirm availability and pack sizes before a holiday stretch, and remember the $300 minimum applies per order, not per item.