If you are dairy-free ...

lite-bright

What do you cook with when a recipe calls for milk? And what milk substitute do you think tastes most like milk, for eating things like a bowl of cereal? 

I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and cut dairy. I'm NOT happy about this -- I've always loved milk, and drank a gallon a week by myself when I was pregnant. 

I was doing okay for awhile with just taking lactose pills before eating dairy, but yesterday I had yogurt with a pill and I'm in agony today. I think my intolerance is getting worse.  

Any tips or advice, please?  

Kit30

Can you try almond milk? I don't know if it would change the flavor of food much, but I use it in baking and its fine.  I also use it in cereal and love it.  Can't really tell the difference between that and milk.

TarzansWife

I like vanilla almond milk on my cereal and I use soy milk in receipe's. If I know I will be cooking for DH and LO though I use 1% milk and just take a lactose pill before. They complain too much about the food if I use soy or almond milk. It's weird. I can still eat yogurt though. I really like the Fage 0% with a little honey and flax seed added.

MaryWithoutSound

I use unsweetened plain almond milk for cooking and cereal

I love coconut milk for cereal and coffee

Gretchenindisguise

For cooking - either almond or soy milk. Rice works too but is more liquidy. If a recipe calls for buttermilk, add in 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar to 1 cup of alternative milk. Walla. Also works really great for pancakes to make them fluffy.

For eating cereal and dipping oreo cookies: almond milk.

Yogurt - I find whole soy yogurt to be oddly grainy. SO Delicious is my favorite.

SO Delicous also makes great ice cream and ice cream sandwiches. 

LeahMelanieNJ

I almost exclusively use almond milk as a sub (unsweetened for recipes that call for milk). The only thing that requires soy milk is coffee or lattes, and I usually just drink coffee black anyway.

pirategal03

Lurker here, but I feel your pain.

I use this, pretty much exclusively (except in chai tea, when I like soy milk).  I'm not a fan of almond or rice or soy in cereal or cooking.

http://www.horizondairy.com/products/more-milk-products/lactose-free-milk/

Our grocery store only carries it sometimes, but the Target grocery has it pretty regularly.  

scottydont

None taste anything like milk, imo.  But the creamiest seems to be soymilk, imo.  I use it for baking/cooking/cereal.

I am allergic to dairy and I had a serious case of the sads about it, but there are lots of good alternatives.  WF is a mecca of dairy-free alternatives.

Daiya cheese (Whole Foods) is melt-able and much like cheese if you can have safflower oil.

It's honestly kind of a PITA, but really not that bad, and feeling better is worth it.  You'll get into a groove after a few months and it's nbd, once you discover some dairy-free faves.  This is all assuming that you go dairy-free.  GL!

glittergal73

I love almond milk.  Especially Silk Chocolate Almond milk.  It's the best.

EB777888

Blue Diamond almond milk. I do the sweetened and unsweetened, depending on what I'm using it for.

Kristie33

Milk in baking doesn't bother me, I think the heat breaks down the lactose or something.  Oddly, I don't really cook with milk that much...  I guess I will take a lactose pill for something like mashed potatoes.  I just can't sit down and eat a cup of yogurt or cottage cheese though, that would kill me.  I eat oatmeal instead of cereal.  I never really liked the substitutes, so I just cut it out of my diet for the most part.  I can still eat cheese without issue.  So yeah, my solution is just to eat non-milk things.  Very helpful, lol, right?  

CarrotsMakeMeFat

Lactaid milk! It wil change your life...I can barely tell the difference