Shop With Your Heart – Summer BBQ Shopping List

You can improve the lives of animals even when kicking back and cooking out with family and friends. Just take this shopping list to your favorite grocery store in preparation for your next summer barbeque! These brands, deemed the most grillable offerings from our full Shop With Your Heart Brand List, have either earned a meaningful animal welfare certification recognized by the ASPCA or are a plant-based alternative. Whether you’re into traditional hot dogs and hamburgers or you’re a proud vegan, there’s a little something on this list for everyone.

Look for the labels! These are the 3 certifications recognized by the ASPCA Shop With Your Heart program:

Or look for a plant-based alternative, denoted by this icon ! When a product shows the basic GAP label without a number, look for separate language on the package identifying the product’s step level.

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To purchase these products online or find them in-store, visit our main Brand List.

Hot Dogs & Sausages

  • Alpha Foods – Alpha dog 
  • Amy’s Kitchen – sausages 
  • Applegate – organic chicken hotdogs 
  • Archway Farm – all products certified
  • Ayrshire Farm – beef, chicken, pork, grill-ready meat boxes 
  • Beyond Meat – sausages 
  • Bilinski’s – chicken sausages
  • Crane Dance Farm – all products certified 
  • DuBreton – Rustic Farm – pork 
  • Field Roast – sausages 
  • Firefly Farms – all products certified 
  • Fra’ Mani – pork 
  • The Herbivorous Butcher – sausages 
  • Home Place Pastures – pork 
  • Joyce Farms – Heritage pork 
  • Lightlife – hot dogs 
  • Llano Seco – pork 
  • Match Meats – beef, pork 
  • Morningstar Farms – sausages, hotdogs 
  • Neat – franks 
  • Niman Ranch – beef, pork 
  • North Country Smokehouse – sausages 
  • Panorama – beef 
  • Smart Chicken – free range organic line 
  • Starwalker Organic Farms – all products certified 
  • Teton Waters Ranch – beef 
  • Texas Iberico Pork – all products certified 
  • Thompson Farms – pork 
  • Tofurky – sausages 
  • Upton’s Naturals – chick seitan, traditional seitan 
  • Western Grass Fed – organic beef hotdogs 
  • White Oak Pastures – beef, chicken, pork   
  • Yves – sausages, hotdogs 

Burgers

  • Aldi: Earth Grown – veggie burgers, soy burgers, chickenless patties 
  • Alpha Foods – Alpha burger 
  • Amy’s Kitchen – burger 
  • Ayrshire Farm – beef, grill-ready meat box: beef 
  • Baldwin Beef – beef 
  • Before the Butcher – grounds 
  • Beyond Meat – burger 
  • Boca – burger 
  • Brasstown Beef – beef 
  • Central Grazing Company – lamb 
  • Country Natural – beef 
  • Crane Dance Farm – all products certified 
  • Creekstone Farms – beef 
  • D’Artagnan – Green Circle Free Range beef 
  • Field Roast – roast 
  • Firefly Farms – all products certified 
  • First Light – beef 
  • Gardein – burger 
  • Happy Little Plants – ground product 
  • The Herbivorous Butcher – burgers 
  • Hilltop Angus Farm – all products certified 
  • Impossible Foods – ground beef 
  • Joyce Farms – grass-fed beef 
  • Lightlife – burgers, ground beef 
  • Match Meats – beef 
  • Mariposa Ranch – beef *online only 
  • Morningstar Farms 
  • Neat – patties, crumbles 
  • Niman Ranch – beef & lamb 
  • No Bull Veggie Burger – multiple flavors 
  • Panorama – beef 
  • Range Patagonian Grass-Fed Beef – all products certified 
  • Redger Farms – beef 
  • Skagit River Ranch – beef *online only 
  • Sol Cuisine – burger 
  • Starwalker Organic Farms – all products certified 
  • Straight Arrow Bison – all products certified 
  • Sun Raised Food – lamb 
  • Sweet Earth – burger 
  • Teton Waters Ranch – beef 
  • Tofurky – burger 
  • Upton’s Naturals –classic burger 
  • Very Good Butcher – Smokin’ burger, Very Good burger 
  • White Oak Pastures – beef, lamb, turkey  
  • Yves – burger 

Ribs, Wings & Other Items

  • Aldi – Simply Nature – chicken wings, chicken thighs *only available in select stores 
  • Aldi: Earth Grown – chickenless patties, tenders 
  • Alpha Foods – Chik’n nuggets
  • Amazon/ Whole Foods: 365 Everyday Value – chicken wings, chicken nuggets, chicken breasts, chicken tenders 
  • Atlas Monroe – organic vegan Cajun Southern fried chicken, organic vegan cured bacon, organic vegan apple wood fired ribs 
  • Ayrshire Farm – ribs, wings, grill-ready meat boxes: beef, pork, chicken 
  • ButcherBox – all chicken products certified**
  • DuBreton – Rustic Farm – ribs & more! 
  • Farmer Focus – chicken 
  • Field Roast – Fruffalo wings, corn dogs & more! 
  • Firefly Farms – all products certified 
  • Gardein – wings & more! 
  • Joyce Farms – Poulet Rouge Fermier chicken 
  • Koch’s Turkey – wings & more! 
  • The Herbivorous Butcher – ribs, bacon, pulled pork, pulled chicken 
  • Lightlife – bacon, Chik’n tenders 
  • Llano Seco – ribs & more! 
  • Mary’s Free Range Chicken – chicken   
  • Match Meats – chicken 
  • Morningstar Farms – wings, corn dogs & more! 
  • Murray’s Chicken – wings & more!** 
  • Naked Truth – chicken breasts, wings 
  • Newman Farms – ribs & more! *online only 
  • Niman Ranch – ribs & more! 
  • Smart Chicken – Organic Line – free range organic line, wings, breasts & more! 
  • Sol Cuisine – Chik’n tenders 
  • Very Good Butchers – Rybs and more! 
  • Wellshire – sliced beef bacon, sliced chicken bacon  
  • White Oak Pastures – ribs, wings & more!   

Condiments

  • Aldi: Earth Grown – vegan sour cream *only available in select stores 
  • Atlas Monroe – organic vegan signature sweet ‘n’ spicy chipotle dipping sauce 
  • Daiya – dressings 
  • Earth Balance – dressings, spreads 
  • Follow Your Heart – sauces, dressings, sour cream, Vegenaise 
  • Green Valley Organics – sour cream 
  • JUST – dressing, mayo 
  • Organicville – dressings, condiments, sauces 
  • Sir Kensington’s – mayonnaises, special sauce & ranch dressings 
  • Sir Kensington’s – vegan mayo 

For a full list of certified meat, egg and dairy brands as well as plant-based alternatives that you can find in stores and online, please visit aspca.org/foodbrands.

If you are having trouble finding welfare-certified or plant-based alternatives, let your local grocery store know you wish they stocked more humane products!

** These items feature an animal welfare certification logo on product packaging when delivered, but not on its online order page. If you receive this product without the certification logo, please contact us at [email protected].

Please contact us at [email protected] if we have missed a company or product that should be on this list.

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