Best alternative to milk?
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anonymous-user

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79 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

4,873 posts

171 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

201 months

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

Sheets Tabuer

21,131 posts

240 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

115 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

22 posts

154 months

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

Simbu

1,884 posts

199 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

19,224 posts

230 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

31,862 posts

260 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

20,007 posts

222 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

17,459 posts

271 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

2,287 posts

216 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

1,571 posts

172 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

2,339 posts

147 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

80 months

Wednesday 29th December 2021
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Full fat jersey

Roboticarm

1,657 posts

86 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

6,140 posts

154 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

28,481 posts

217 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

4,138 posts

208 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

28,639 posts

256 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