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I still have issues with lactose free milk too. I suspect it's the A1 beta-casein. Australia has a really common breed of cows which make A2 beta-casein which has proline instead of histadine.

I agree: I've settled on soy and I'm okay with it.

Soy milk from an asian grocery store tastes a lot better. Buy the ones that have chinese text on them and make sure it's the refrigerated and perishable kind. Get the organic ones if you can afford it.

Trust me, Chinese people have been perfecting soy milk for thousands of years. It's thoroughly cooked and processed to remove that raw bean taste and weird texture that I've had in a lot of American brands like Silk.

For me I found it wasn't the lactose, but the amount of fat in the milk that gave me the rumblies. Eating certain dishes with a lots of fat gave me the same sort of feeling.

Coconut is my go to, and it usually bakes well. For drinking I go with Unsweetened Vanilla Coconut because it's usually blended better than plain for some reason across multiple brands I've noticed.

I dropped dairy milk simply because of calories/sugar.

They're all fine with me. Almond and Soy. Also pisses my dad off. He has oil corps, meat, and dairy where a personality should've been. Snowflake. So that's fun.

Do any of these milk alternatives behave like milk when you cook with them? Like, could I make a gravy or sauce with oat milk?

If you end up liking oat milk you should try making it yourself. It's ridiculously cheap and easy. It doesn't last nearly as long without the preservatives of store bought, but you can stagger making small batches to match your usage if needed.

oat milk is my go-to milk alternative, I didn't like soy milk, nor almond milk. But it's such a shame that 1 liter of oat milk costs nearly 3 times as much as 1 liter of 'regular' milk.

almond milk? theres cashew milk, and macadamia milk. theres also Lactose-free milk. certain health food grocery stories will sell the alternative milks, theres also rice milk.

I said goodbye to cow's milk decades ago. My tip: mix oat milk & soy milk 50/50. Don't drink "Barista" oat/soy milk on its own, it tastes weird.

“Full fat” Oatly. This is the way.

I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, so that's my disclaimer.

I've tried numerous "milk alternatives" over the years, and many different brands of each. That's particularly true for soy milk since there are so many brands in the USA and it's been commonly, and easily available in my region for 3+ decades.

Based on that, I have to say that soy milk is, for me, consistently my least favorite option in terms of taste.

Of the easily available stuff, almond milk is my favorite, but I see so much hate for it online in terms of environmental harm that I finally just said fuck it, I'm going back to real milk, at least it's cheaper.

My favorite that I've tried so far was hemp milk. I don't recall the brand but years ago I found a brand that did chocolate hemp seed milk that was so good I swear they must've put a dab of fentanyl or nicotine in it to keep people coming back.

Fwiw, my kid grew up with a dairy allergy. Most of it was soy milk, but he likes oat milk much more. Probably doesn’t help that we always got unsweetened soy milk

What I do is take lactose tablets when I have dairy.

Next Milk or Not Milk are both alternatives, using various plant based stuff. They are the closest to the real milk texture and flavour.

Almon milk. Delicious.

I always thought soy milk was pretty good, once I got past the fact that it tastes different. It's different, not bad, but I feel like there has been about four decades worth of jokes about how soy milk is gross that has cemented the idea that it tastes "off" for many people.

It's actually pretty easy to make yourself, too. I do that now and then. Makes it even more satisfying to drink.

I'm not certified lactose intolerant, but I take lactaid/lactase enzyme when I eat a bunch of pizza or other lactose-heavy meals. It really helps in general, even if you are not totally intolerant. I use oatmilk for coffee bc I think it tastes sweet enough not to use sugar too.

I’ve tried soy, almond, rice, and oat milk. Of those oat milk is the only one that doesn’t taste or feel off to me, but it gives me the gut gurgles. Oh well, I was never big on milk as anything but a vehicle for cereal.

Cashew milk is the best IMO. Store bought is ok, but homemade is amazing and really easy. You toast and salt them, then add a handful to a (high-powered) blender full of water. You don't even have to strain cashew milk because it barely has any fiber. It's got a lot of fat, so you need to store it in a container that's shakeable because it will separate in the fridge. You can use less water if you need heavy cream for something.

So even lactose free milk makes me queasy, not the first time but if I drink it every day for a few days (e.g with cereal or in a shake)

Both oat milk and pea protein milk gave me weird intestinal cramps after a few weeks of drinking them.

I really dislike the taste of soy milk. (I don’t mind tofu, but to me it’s weird in coffee or cereal)

So I’ve settled on unsweetened vanilla almond milk. It’s the local store brand.

When I can't get my hands on lactose-free regular milk I get coconut milk. I have tried lots of alternatives and Coconut is my favorite. I find the flavors strong in the oat, soy, and almond milks, so unless I am baking or making something with super strong flavors, I find them to overpower too much

I’ve always heard soy milk isn’t really that good for you; something about estrogen hormones. But I’ve always just used Almond milk back when I was still married. It’s pretty good too.