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Vegetarian, Vegan and Animal Rights

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Sat Feb 2, 2013, 11:11 AM Feb 2013

Non-watery milk substitutes [View all]

I'm experimenting with modifying my diet for various reasons and am planning to eliminate certain foods that tend to cause problems in some people. One of them is non-fermented dairy products. (The others are sugar and gluten, in case you want to know.)

I don't drink a lot of milk. Mainly I put it on cereal, which I have for breakfast once or twice a week, but I can't tolerate too much soy (soy coffee creamer upsets my stomach), and putting rice milk on my cereal? Well, I tried that, and I might as well just add water.

I used to like VitaSoy products, because they had a creamy texture,but they are no longer available in my area, and besides, as noted above, I can't take too much soy. The amount in a typical bowl of miso soup is fine, but in the era when I drank a daily soy milk-based fruit smoothie in an attempt to balance my hormones, I developed a sensitivity that went away after I gave soy up completely for a year. Now I can tolerate small amounts. Still, the types of soy milk available now seem to be on the watery side.

My local co-op has almond milk (but I don't like almond flavored things like marzipan), coconut milk (OK in iced coffee, but I'm not sure about other uses), and hemp milk (but I have no idea how that tastes or what the texture is like). Unfortunately, these three options come only in quart or half-gallon sizes, so if I don't like a flavor, I'm stuck with a large unused portion.

Any suggestions for a milk-for-cereal substitute that has a bit of body to it and doesn't have a strong flavor?

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