When I found out that my son had a sensitivity to dairy, I was happy to learn that it would be easy to fix. The only problem with the easy fix was that it involved giving up dairy products. Nooooooo!
I love my dairy. I love cheese, ice cream, chocolate milk (I've got the tastebuds of a child I guess), cream cheese, and yogurt.
Over the past eight months, I have tried to find dairy substitutes that don't taste like dairy substitutes. Below is my list of delicious dairy-free alternatives:
Best Non-Dairy Cheese
Follow Your Heart Smoked Gouda Slices
Best Non-Dairy Creamer
Silk Almond Milk Creamer (I'm partial to the hazelnut flavor.)
Best Non-Dairy Yogurt
Silk Non-Dairy Yogurt (The chocolate flavored yogurt is delicious with some slivered almonds sprinkled on top. If you want to get real crazy, add some non-dairy chocolate chips to that. It may blow your mind.)
Best Non-Dairy Eggnog (In case you are nursing over the holidays)
Califia Farms Holiday Nog
Best Non-Dairy Cream Cheese
Kite Hill Brand (I have tried the plain and chive flavors. This blows everything else I've tried out of the water.)
Best Non-Dairy Milk
Silk Cashew Milk
Best Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert
SO Delicious Minis (Coconut Almond Bars)
Finding a good non-dairy milk is not a real challenge, there are a ton of options out there. I was surprised that I liked the Silk brand so much. Silk is everywhere. I buy mine at Stop and Shop, and it's usually on sale. Finding a non-dairy cheese, on the other hand, was the hardest.
There are plenty of brands of non-dairy cheese. The problem is that they all taste like non-dairy cheese. The non-cheese that really had me fooled was Follow Your Heart's Smoked Gouda Slices. It has a nice buttery taste, like a real Gouda.
I hope this helps anyone who can't have dairy at the moment. If you are dairy-free and have found a non-dairy product that you want to share, please post in the comments.
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