Best alternative to milk?
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anonymous-user

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75 months

Saturday 4th December 2021
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Soy milk? Oat milk? Almond milk? Coconut milk?

So many bewildering choices!

Any preferences on which one tastes best or tastes most like ‘actual milk’?

interstellar

4,691 posts

167 months

Saturday 4th December 2021
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My daughter has soya milk.

I ran out of normal milk and had it on my porridge, it tasted much nicer. I now have it too.

I prefer it, you need to try them all I think.

ReverendCounter

6,087 posts

197 months

Saturday 4th December 2021
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I prefer almond or coconut to soy milk personally.

Sheets Tabuer

20,842 posts

236 months

Saturday 4th December 2021
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I have almond on cereal or porridge. not a big fan of the others.

hyphen

26,262 posts

111 months

Saturday 4th December 2021
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Lord Marylebone said:
Soy milk? Oat milk? Almond milk? Coconut milk?

So many bewildering choices!

Any preferences on which one tastes best or tastes most like ‘actual milk’?
Try them and see which you like. But pay attention to the ingredients list on the carton. Perhaps make your own.

goonerfromlag

21 posts

150 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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Sainsburys or Asda brand soya milk, have converted at least 3 people so far

Simbu

1,869 posts

195 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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If you're actually looking to avoid lactose (as opposed to a wider dairy requirement / vegan choice) then Arla Lactofree is cow's milk with just the lactose removed. And you wouldn't notice.

Blackpuddin

18,770 posts

226 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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That Lactofree stuff is the best non-milk we've had and it was nice being able to give the odd guilt-free slurp to the dog but the prices have almost doubled in the last year or so. We've gone back to organic semi-skimmed.

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

31,635 posts

256 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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We tried lager on our cornflakes as yooofs. It was OK. Flushed with success we tried it in coffee, which wasn't so good. So! we deleted the coffee from the next cup & that worked.

spikeyhead

19,507 posts

218 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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I can't do cows milk, but only mildly so.
I'm fine with goats milk, and prefer that to the nutty varieties, but am ok almond when goat isn't available.
Lactofree tastes like something's been removed to me, a bit like alcohol free lager, you know it's not as it should be, but you know it will be fine.

motco

17,234 posts

267 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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interstellar said:
My daughter has soya milk.

I ran out of normal milk and had it on my porridge, it tasted much nicer. I now have it too.

I prefer it, you need to try them all I think.
We use Sainsbury's or Tesco's unsweetened soy drink (milk substitute) and I infinitely prefer it in all previous milk applications. I have to confess to never really liking milk much though.

Ultuous

2,277 posts

212 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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Blackpuddin said:
That Lactofree stuff is the best non-milk we've had and it was nice being able to give the odd guilt-free slurp to the dog but the prices have almost doubled in the last year or so. We've gone back to organic semi-skimmed.
Aldis version tastes identical to me and is still 85p or so a carton (I feel obliged to cheapen the thread as your dog's missing out! biggrin)

cml24

1,544 posts

168 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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My partner prefers oat milk to the others, she can't drink milk as she's lactose intolerant.

Having had oat, soy, almond, etc nearly always in the fridge I do try it from time to time (mostly when I've run out). I don't like any of them in tea or on cereal but happy to have them as an ingredient in something like a bechemel sauce.

I find in something like tea I need loads of the 'milk alternative' to get the cup how I like it and then it's a bit cold.

I've found oat cream quite good in things like chocolate ganache as well.

wombleh

2,257 posts

143 months

Tuesday 28th December 2021
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Quite like oat milk on cereal, not a fan of it in tea though.

TCX

1,976 posts

76 months

Wednesday 29th December 2021
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Full fat jersey

Roboticarm

1,633 posts

82 months

Wednesday 29th December 2021
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I've tried pretty much all of them and find soya the best for general use.
It varies alot by brand though, the aldi unsweetened is difficult to drink, the alpro sweetened is fine.
For coffee etc alpro do a vanilla version which is great
I'd also only drink them cold, room temp they aren't great
I'd say the worst was oat, literally tastes like a porridge shandy

BigMon

5,745 posts

150 months

Wednesday 29th December 2021
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Oat milk for breakfast smoothies (various fruits, mug of oats, 600ml oatmilk, scoop of protein powder) and very nice with coffee too. I've also found that Oatly is the best oat milk by far.

Semi skimmed goat milk for tea (although I could and have just used goat milk for everything before).

RizzoTheRat

27,761 posts

213 months

Wednesday 29th December 2021
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Black coffee and a fried breakfast biggrin

My sister has the lactofree stuff and I can't tell the difference.

Stuart70

4,112 posts

204 months

Wednesday 29th December 2021
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It is SOY milk, not soya. SOY!

You people are buying it, recommending it and cannot even read the fking label.

Maybe it is deleterious to the old grey cells? Hmmm, bit of a risk…



smile

Monkeylegend

28,248 posts

252 months

Wednesday 29th December 2021
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Another vote for coconut and almond milk.

My now departed elderly neighbour used to put hot water on her morning cornflakes vomit