dairy/soya free margarine

[Art]

Can anyone suggest a margarine/butter substitute that does not contain any milk or soya products for ds.

He is just beginning to eat more or less what we eat now and I'm also wondering about milk substitutes in cooking. Has anyone tried cooking with Oatly? What does it taste like in cooking and will it make things like white sauce and custard?

TIA, Art

Art, we use Tomor Kosher margarine for cooking. Its main ingreedients are palm oil, sunflower oil and coconut oil. For spreads we use Sainsbury's Dairy free vegetable spread.

What about extra virgin olive oil. I rarely use butter for cooking and always use olive oil. Also you could use it on bread instead of butter. I use it instead of mayo or butter on sandwiches too. I dress my veggies with olive oil/balsamic vinegar/garlic instead of butter. Try some italian cookbooks for ideas on non-dairy foods/sauces.

I use Pure by Matthews foods (www.purespreads.com) They do a sunflower version which is soya and dairy free. If you contact them through their web site they may well send you a voucher to try it virtually free, they also have some good recipes on the site. It is available in Morrisons and Asda supermarkets (possibly others too) and some health food shops. Watch out for Sainsbury's own brand non-dairy spread because they can't make their mind up if it contains soya or not. Inside Story (magazine for allergy sufferers - www.inside-story.com) has been trying to get to the bottom of this for months and can't get a proper answer from Sainsbury's, even though soya allergic people have had a reaction to it.

For milks, I haven't tried Oatly yet but you can also get rice milk and pea protein milk.

Rice milk is made by Provamel (or there is one called Rice Dream which I haven't tried). I find it a bit watery and Provamel don't recommend that you boil it, though I do heat mine to almost boiling in the microwave to make delicious Ready Brek. The pea protein one is made by Plamil, the dairy free chocolate people (they have a web site) but again I haven't tried it.

I find some of the alternative milks too sweet for savoury sauces and use soya milk mostly myself anyway.

HTH

I love oatly as a drink or on cereal but have never cooked with it. however, they have a website which might help :www.oatly.com. I really like Rice Dream, it's scrummy with strawberries!

Further to SofiaAmes' idea of using olive oil, it makes THE best garlic bread.

Pure and Tomor are both available at Sainsburys.

Thanks everyone, I'm going straight off to try some of these ideas.

I make white sauce with Oatly, usually by blending some flour with cold Oatly, heating it up and adding more liquid bit-by-bit as the paste cooks until it's the right consistency. Alternatively, fry some finely chopped veg (usually onions, but leeks or almost anything leafy will do just as well) in olive oil, then add the flour followed by the Oatly in the more traditional order.