Vegan milk recommendations

upoiupou

Another vote for coconut milk (KoKo). This comes in a carton and is thinner than the tinned types.

Or soya milk.

f0xh0les

We use Tesco own brand 59p a litre soy milk, but currently in Heron Foods they have 3x Rice Dream chocolate milk (lunchbox size) for 39p, and an oat one and an almond one on 2 for £1.

landmark

Hemp milk is the healthiest because it is ketogenic and contains plant based omega 3 Essential Fatty Acid A Linolenic Acid together with min 25% protein and vitamin E, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, sulfur, calcium, iron, and zinc:j
It is not expensive - so offers excellent value for money.

senzavolto

I enjoy almond milk in tea, soya in coffee. On cereal almost any of the non dairy products work for me. Bizarrely, seeing how the seed is amazing for almost everything else, hemp just doesn't work for me at all!

sophieo16

I use oat milk for tea, i swear by it. The trick is to let your tea cool alittle before adding the milk and shaking the milk beforehand.

I also use it for cooking as its great for making things creamy.

It makes the most amazing hot chocolate with cacao powder!

vitamin_joe

Coconut Dream (mix of rice and coconut) is on offer at Asda for a quid at the moment, so I'm drinking that. Usually, I'll just use Asda own brand soya milk (85p).

pjw123_2

I completely changed my tea drinking habit when coming off dairy. Now I drink mostly earl grey or cardamom tea.

I mix soya milk with fruit and leave in the fridge where it thickens up into pudding.
I make my own nut milk from nuts and water, but be warned, this is not a money saving option!

Maat

I've been advising people on going vegan for years now, but not having plant milk in my drinks I never had information on this. One day I approached one of my Manchester vegan groups and this is what they came up with:

• Rice milk (available in supermarkets with the long life milks)
• Alpro single cream (also in supermarkets on the long life milk shelf, but it's sweetened so)
• Tesco coconut milk
• Ordinary soya milk (the blue or red cartons have both been recommended, again note that the blue is sweetened) but really slosh the milk in rather than pouring it slowly and/or warm the soya before pouring it in.
• Kara coconut milk (I'm advised it doesn't actually taste of coconut)
• Oatley cream (on the long life milk shelf again and I can recommend it for a lot of things, it's gorgeous, it'll even mix with lemon or wine vinegar to make sour cream for cooking)
• Sunrise Cafe Expert (again in the long life milks section, it's supposed to be specially for coffee)
• Soyatoo Spray Cream (again this is one I can heartily recommend, I use it on Irish coffees, but in smaller quantities it should melt into the coffee, or you could just give it a stir. A couple of things I should mention, don't overshake it and don't refrigerate it. The label says the cream needs to be refrigerated but this isn't so. In fact if you refrigerate it the cream just won't come out of the can at all. It doesn't go off at room temperature, I've had it in my kitchen for months on end and it's been fine to use again. When you come to use it you turn it upside down and give it one hard shake to get the cream to fall onto the nozzle (you'll feel it happen), then you spray. It's heavenly.)
• Sprinkle some baking powder (or possibly bicarbonate of soda, the guy didn't seem too sure) on the coffee before you poor the soya on it
• Get the water hot to make the coffee but don't let it boil.

Good luck, I hope you can find a solution which works well for you.

haras_nednats

I have tried so many different vegan milks and the only one that I would recommend as all-purpose is rice milk, as it has a very mild flavour and is similar in consistence to skimmed milk, which is what I used to use before going vegan. In that respect, it all depends very much on what you are used to!

In general with hot drinks, I wait for them to cool before adding a plant-based milk to avoid any separation/curdling!

If you are looking for a creamy consistency, nut or seed milks (e.g. almond, cashew, hazelnut, hemp, sesame, sunflower...) will be your best bet. Oat milk is good for baking as it loses the earthy taste/other ingredients mask the taste. I avoid soya milk mostly as I have read so much about it messing with hormones, but sometimes buy it as it is so cheap compared to other vegan milks. I once tried a macadamia milk in Austria and it was divine! But stupidly expensive.

Rice milk is very easy and cheap to make yourself, or you can buy it for somewhere between £1 and £1.50 in the supermarkets. I normally get 1 litre of Rice Dream organic from Asda for £1, but just bought a bulk load of organic Provamel from Approved Foods for 50p a litre!!!

Hope that's helpful

dragonette

Another vote for rice milk from me, unsweetened as it has a naturally slightly sweet taste