if you were trying to hide milk from vegans for a couple of days, how would you do it?

[Cappuccino]

and before anyone gets offended I have every respect for vegans and their way of life [disclaimer emoticon]

but I am going on a yoga weekend this weekend and it will be all vegan and healthy

now I have got myself down to one cup of coffee in the morning but if I don't have that I will get headaches and that will not be relaxing

so I am packing a little one-cup filter thingy and some coffee but will need milk

I don't know if I will be allowed access to a fridge

any ideas? I mean I may get so desperate that someone will convince me that Coffee Mate is a good idea

EricL, it's true. I don't talk about it constantly or harangue people but I do notice the smell and find it markedly unpleasant.

and thanks for your envy ticky

I am looking forward

I am hoping it will kickstart a New Me

I hope it's good

cappy take some long life milk, please.

or, get used to black coffee.

it is not soooo bad, as I have found to my cost. I am allergic to milk, and was horrified at the beginning as I felt that meant the end of coffee for me.

I now am quite used to it, sometimes use vanilla flavouring to give me 'something different', and I now find that normal milk actually smells 'gone off' ....as DH found one day as I was happily pouring good fresh milk away thinking it was rancid.

I do not think however that anyone will lynch you for taking milk and asking to use some fridge space....tis not as tho you wish to take over the entire space is it....unless you really are taking a cow size something...

OK Fruitiky.

I was worried then that you were one of these people that screwed their face up and made self-righteous and rude comments.

I, unfortunately, have met with a few of these in my time......

My best mate was probably the most extreme vegan i have ever known but he was incredibly sensible about how he portrayed himself and the image of people who abstain from certain foodstuffs, and was very successful in educating people properly and in a friendly manner about why he did what he did.

He also hated these people who shoved it down your throat and scared everyone off it.

Yes, the offensively militant ones don't do anybody any favours.

Get that Coffee Mate (yes, I KNOW!!!) stuff that makes frothy coffee. They have Mocha, Vanilla, and Chocolate flavour.

YUUU-UUM!

However (only skimmed thread)

Maybe you can have The Full Experience, and go without coffee Maybe your chakras will be so awake and tingly that you won't need coffee??

OR!
Have you tried that Chai latte stuff - tis very creamy and satisfying.

What about whiskey in coffee instead?

Bleuch, personally I think those creamer/uht/coffee mate things are enough to make anyone vegan. In fact some of those products may never have been near a cow for all I know, they certainly don't taste like milk!!

I'm hooked on my morning coffee too (well not at the moment, as am pregnant and gone off the stuff), but I'd rather drink some good quality coffee black than go for a milk substitute.

Depending on the venue though, I wouldn't be at all surprised if you found the kitchen can offer you a bit of the real stuff ...

Ok on a serious not
(just read more of the thread)
Coffee is evil. I love it, drink it, get shingles/extremely bitchy/pms-y....
Then I
stop drinking it, get healthier, have just one leeetle cup, and the whole thing starts over.

Just a thought!

Have fun BTW

at the risk of sounding like a 1940s housewife, powdered milk like Marvel actually makes up quite nicely with cold tap water and doesn't go weird when added to hot drinks.
We keep it for returned-from-holiday-at-4am moments as I prefer it to UHT.

Now I'm remembering my 2 week holiday in a vegan community. about 4 years ago. The little shop sold no dairy, but that's OK, I don't mind coffee black. But IT SOLD NO COFFEE. I had the most awful headaches for a couple of days til we could escape and bring back caffeine supplies.

it was a great holiday, once we'd got over the caffeine lack. They did yoga too.

Yeah, right, so some vegans find milk 'offensively smelly' - what about their pulse-diet-induced farting, then? FFS I once worked with an annoying vegan whose wind power could have run the whole computer network. The number of cans of Impulse I used to get through...

i am so at your yoga weekend

hope it is fab

I don't get it - why would you want to hide milk from a vegan - they don't have to have it ? you are being too sensitive I think !

I thought I saw some little cartons of fresh milk in tescos - the size of small juices.

called Mooo or something?

You can use soya milk in coffee. Just let the coffee cool down a bit first then add it to the milk not the other way round.

voila

Get down to Aldi

Have your coffee black. It'll give you more of a buzzzzz.