Alternatives to cow's milk?

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  • Ramen237
    Ramen237 Posts: 264 Member
    I use Alpro unsweetened in my drinks (I like the taste) but dairy in my porridge. I tried cheaper soy milks but it looked curdled like sperm in a hot bath in my tea and coffee :blushing:

    I recently tried Almond milk and it was just too watery, tolerable in tea, vile in coffee and worse in porridge - horses for courses I guess!

    That's a nice mental imagine....:laugh:

    I almost always add milk to my tea, and it has to be real milk - anything else doesn't taste nearly as good to me... Chamomile tea with milk is yummy.
  • Ramen237
    Ramen237 Posts: 264 Member
    Thank you, everyone! I appreciate your comments, and will go through them again to write down new things I can try :)

    Opinions vary from person to person, but now I have a bit more information to explore my options.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    Coconut milk is my favorite if I have to forego real milk.
  • ThinLizzie0802
    ThinLizzie0802 Posts: 863 Member
    Almond milk- fewer calories per serving than skim milk. Because of how much skim milk my roommate drinks, we were going through gallons a week when I was using for shakes too. I also have started to develop the same allergy to dairy that my mother has. I don't like soy milk- the taste, the texture, and because I'm soy sensitive.

    I prefer Simple Truth Plain or Silk Unsweetened
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    I drink mostly soy milk, Silk brand, usually 1/3 cup chocolate mixed w/ 2/3 cup unsweetened (the chocolate is just too chocolatey for my taste). But my husband prefers almond milk so we always have that in the house and I sometimes drink it.

    I rarely eat cereal but on the rare occasion where I do, I use unsweetened soy milk.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Is soy bad for you? I think I recall reading something about cancer once o.O

    You are unlikely to find any reputable science or medical resource saying soy is bad, but the internet abounds with non-science based nonsense on the ills of soy.
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  • Strokingdiction
    Strokingdiction Posts: 1,164 Member
    Alternatives to cow's milk:

    1. Human milk
    2. Goat milk
    3. Dog milk
    4. Cat milk
    5. Mouse milk
    6. Basically any mammal since they are known, even defined, by their ability to produce milk and consume it in all its delicious glory. Though developing a method to procure said lactate and getting in sufficient quantities to be useful is completely up to you.

    If you don't want to take it from another animal, you can get a breast pump and start using it. Eventually, even without getting or ever having been pregnant, your body will produce the hormones to cause lactation. You can drink your own milk. It will take months of constant breast stimulation but it will happen. Men can even do it though they have to get some hormone injections first and regularly but if you're really interested in an alternative to cow's milk then this is small price to pay.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    In my house, we switch back and forth between unsweetened original almond milk and 1% and 2% dairy milk. My husband and I are both fine with 1% but the store nearest our home has convenient little containers of 2% for cheap so we wind up with that a lot. We use almond and dairy milk pretty interchangeably. We don't just DRINK much of either but we use it in our morning coffee, in cooking and sometimes baking. We don't do a whole lot of smoothies, maybe twice a month for a snack/dessert we'll blend fruit, milk and/or PB so either one works for that too.

    I also like the sweetened vanilla almond milk. It's higher cals/sugar but nice once in awhile, even though it's not quite as versatile as the original unsweetened since I wouldn't use it in cooking savory things.

    For us coconut milk is strictly for recipes, we get the thick kind from the Asian market.

    I think soy milk is great in lattes and things like that but we just don't buy it - I'm not sure why. My husband likes a few brands and can't stand others, but I don't have any real opinion on that since most of my experiences with soy milk have been at coffeeshops. My ex used to buy Silk chocolate or vanilla and drink it but I thought it was nasty...then again that was years ago when my diet was much different than it is now.

    I have not tried goat milk or rice milk to my knowledge.

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