Dairy free milk or substitute for tea?

Sassia

If you are used to skimmed milk, then rice milk is probably closest. The best way to retrain your taste buds moving from diary to plant milks is to go without for a week or two then you reintroduce without a set of expectations of what it will taste like. Plant milks are lovely, they don't taste like dairy! I just use soya as I found almond milk makes tea and coffee a funny colour and that puts me off, but almond milk is very popular. Oat milk is really healthy and works better in tea than coffee. It can taste a bit porridgy though!

jenniewb

I can't drink dairy milk either (well I can, but the side effects are not so good...) I found soya milk quite strong tasting, if I got the normal or sweetened type (blue Alpro carton) and if I got the unsweetened (red Alpro carton) found it was just like water. But the green carton which is called something like "Alpro Simply Mild" is perfect. It isn't watery and isn't strong tasting either.


Other than this, I sometimes liked to mix oat milk (the Alpro or Oatly blue carton) and sweetened almond milk (Almond Breeze or Alpro) (mixed 50/50) and it's a bit like normal blue top milk if you did want to drink milk by itself or have a latte or milk type drink.


Other than this, it's a bit of trial and error I think. I miss dairy, I used to get through so much! It took me a long time to come around to the idea of having something else and at the end of the day it's never going to taste the same, it's about what you like and remembering that it will taste different but not necessarily bad, just different. It takes a bit of time to get used to anything especially if you're comparing it to what you used to have.

Wednesday2000

I like almond milk, I find with plant milks it tastes better if you give the carton a good shake before you pour it in.:)

Debran

Bought some almond milk at the beginning of December. Absolutely vile. It went down the sink. Hate to think what it would taste like in coffee or tea. :eek:

Each to their own.

ThemeOne

I find the cheaper sweetened soya milks are best in tea e.g. Sainsbury's Basics, Morrisons Savers etc. The more expensive ones with a higher soya content seem too creamy - more suited to coffee.

LoppyLoves

I think Koko coconut milk is best in hot drinks.

VfM4meplse

ThemeOne wrote: »

I find the cheaper sweetened soya milks are best in tea e.g. Sainsbury's Basics, Morrisons Savers etc. The more expensive ones with a higher soya content seem too creamy - more suited to coffee.

I found the same when I was a vegan, Sainsbo's basics soya milk was the best of a bad bunch but I never much liked it!

I could do. Without a lot of other foods - including cheese, which I love! - but nit decent tea and coffee!

girlybags

I became vegan earlier this year. I tried a few different plant milks in tea and coffee, Alpro coconut and Alpro rice milk being the ones I like most in coffee but I will drink it black too. There doesn't seem to be a good substitute for cows milk in tea and I don't like it black so I eventually just stopped drinking it and drink fruit and herbal teas instead now (without milk).

ThemeOne

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I found the same when I was a vegan, Sainsbo's basics soya milk was the best of a bad bunch but I never much liked it!

Having said that though I've noticed on my last few Sainsbury's visits that they no longer seem to stock it - hopefully this is not permanent.

Tesco Everyday Sweetened Soya seems fine too in tea.

thriftwizard

Another one here who has found it much easier to go without milk altogether! But I've known that milk was a problem for me since I was a child - not easy back in the 1960s, living in the very best dairy country (west Devon) and even my own parents mystified by their daughter's obdurate refusal to partake of the creamy stuff that gave me horrible stomach-aches, unreliable bowels and a constant runny nose. Not even in tea...

It takes a while, but gradually you come to see that actually things do taste much better - clearer, somehow - without the white stuff. And contain far fewer calories! I'm not a total milk-free zone; seems I tolerate yogurt reasonably well, and a small scrape of butter or hunk of Brie doesn't seem to cause any mischief, but mostly I just don't bother with it. I don't eat commercial cereal, cook my porridge with water & eat it with apple butter or crab apple jelly, or eat pancakes with fresh fruit or lime/lemon juice & a small sprinkle of sugar.

So, there are lots of ways round milk, many of them much tastier than milk itself! If you can, stick it out until you suddenly feel that tea tastes better without it - cheaper and better for you than any commercial substitute.