Dairy alternatives that don't taste like shit

[CluelessVegetarian]

DD seems to be struggling with dairy and has been asked by her GP to cut it out for a while. Unfortunately she loves everything dairy: milk, butter, yogurt, creme fraiche, cream, etc.

Does anyone know of any nice tasting substitutes? We have tried a few versions of dairy free cheese and they were disgusting. She doesn't mind the growing up alpro soya milk but hates the standard one. I think almond milk isn't bad but Ds has a nut allergy so we are avoiding the nut based dairy alternatives. I'm really looking for butter and cheese alternatives. Wanted to make cookies this weekend with dd but most dairy free recipes I've seen suggest using a dairy free butter alternative and I don't know which one.

Oat milk is good, but look at the ingredients as some of them have rape seed oil in them and no-one wants to drink oil.

I like soft goats cheese.

Pure margarine . also for cooking.

oatly - I’m not even avoiding dairy and I’ve given up milk as this is much nicer in everything !

pizza without cheese in restaurants. Vegan cheese is rank.

Naturli - the spread and the baking block - are lovely (the block makes an amazingly rich and 'buttery' crumble)
Some of the vegan soft/spreadable cheeses are ok - I like the Nush one with chives
Most hard cheeses aren't good but I do like the vegan Babybels, and the extra mature Cathedral City makes an ok cheese and pickle sandwich
Alpro Greek style yoghurts are nice
Vegan Cornettos and Magnums are available
Buttermilk (?) does a passable vegan mars bar

Naturli is the best for butter in block for baking.

Flora plant life is also very good. Cheaper too. Flora plant life spread is nice.

Alpro custard is good.

Oatly barista.

Nomo chocolate.

Luckily because veganism is such a big thing now you’re spoilt for choice. Apart from cheese. The best is the Applewood smoked cheese but it’s not the same.

If she's potentially got CMPA then avoid soya as they proteins are similar and for most CMPA sufferers lead to the same reactions.

Honestly I'd steer clear of vegan cheeses for a couple of months, let the taste buds forget and then try them. I love vegan cathedral city

I’ve been vegan for 2 years and it takes a good while to adjust to the cheese!

For milk I like the Alpro Oat no sugars version.
For cream Alpro is ok and Elmlea plant is also nice.
For butter I like naturli for “proper” butter and flora light for spread.
For yoghurt I like the Alpro Greek style plain and vanilla
For cheese, if it’s for melting I like the Violife original. Vegan version of Mexicana is good. Cathedral city vegan cheddar. None are as good as proper cheese but you get used to it.

For chocolate I like the Nomo and Buttermilk brands, reasonably priced and widely available .

I've had dairy free DC for 10 years and you never get used to the awful awful awful cheese

I'm not sure what she has. She's been getting severe stomach cramps a few times a day so her GP suggested doing first a dairy she then s gluten elimination trials. Since cutting out dairy she's only had a few episodes of milder stomach ache so I'm thinking maybe she is at least sensitive to dairy even if it's not full blown cmpa.

It sucks there's no nice cheese. She's always struggled with eating and putting on weight and pasta with tomato sauce and lots of cheese is one of the few things she enjoys. So if she's sensitive to gluten it's not great either. I've tried gluten free pasta and that's fairly horrible as well.

You can get lactose free cheese which I think is ok? I’ve not tried it but it seems popular. Depends what she is intolerant to

DD had stomach cramps as a baby with soya. She was allergic to dairy but intolerant to soya. Soya is in everything esp shop bread. So you could cut out bread and keep pasta for a bit first.

Its a long road I’m afraid . You could get some allergy tests but you can’t test for intolerances . I’m glad she’s improved a bit though.

Any sheeze or other fake cheese is bogging. They're all nutritionally void too, so not really a replacement.

For butter, I like violife block but use vitalite for Ds2 because more places sell it, it's spreadable from the tub and him and the other menfolk in the house don't care.

For milk, flavour and texture wise, I prefer alpro unsweetened or any almond milk (with lots of inverted commas) so long as it's gluten free. Don't bother much these days.

Yoghurt, I like the coconut collab offerings, particularly the plain gut health one.

i haven’t tried it but I am getting repeated requests to buy the plant Philadelphia. I think this might be not as bad as attempts at hard cheese.

I used Boursin Dairy Free melted in my mushrooms on toast yesterday and it tasted pretty good.