Goats milk/cheese - question for French speakers

[jodee]

I've been having goats milk and cheese for the past 3 months as I've found out I have an intolerance to cow's milk. We're going on holiday to France in the Summer and I just wondered how widely available it would be in French supermarkets, and more importantly, as my French is not that great, what I should look out for on the labels! (A picture of a goat would be a giveaway I guess!) I also want to ensure it's pasteurised as well.

(Hoping Pupuce and Marina see this ...!)

fromage de chevre ( goat - ) try the salade de chevre chaud - yum yum toasted goat's cheese with green salad. I've never seen goat's milk in supermarkets, but you could try in the local markets. Pasteurisé is the same word. Soya milk is available, I don't know if you're into that but it's in all the supermarkets and yoghurts made from soja ( soya)

They do sell goat's milk in larger supermarkets. They also have yogourts or "froamge balnc or faiselle" which are thicker yogourts - usually easier to find in organic shops actually (alimentation biologiue)
Try Brebis as well, it's ewe.

Pasteurise is pasteurised
Lait cru is NOT pasteurised.

HTH

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Many thanks Pupuce and mmm.

So goats milk would be lait de chevre then.

Salade de chevre chaud sounds delicious! Not really into soya milk, but yoghurts would probably be OK as I find the Provamel yoghurts quite tasty. Will give Brebis a whirl too. Hope I can find some organic stores!

Jodee for organic shops you often need to ask as they are not necessarily obvious but there are far more than you might see. Where are you going?

where we lived in Lyon there were only a few organic shops, but there were two organic markets and the supermarkets had a smallish section of bio fruit and veg and things like pasta, so you should be able to find stuff you like. How about asking at the tourist office, but it's sure that the food in supermakets, especially for children has salt and sugar added and it's very difficult to find foods sans additives.

We're caravanning in Frejus on the Riviera (can't wait!).

Asks the locals... you will probably get the info - you may not find orgainic otherwise.

Thanks Pupuce - just thought of another question: do you know what dairy-free spreads are available in France? I use something here called Pure, with sunflower oil; the equivalent of things like Flora and Olivio sound like they should be OK, but they actually contain buttermilk.

I don't actually but I am fairly sure you can find some spreads made with sunflower oil.... you would need to check the label... you can always ask staff in a shop if you think you have found something appropriate to check if it does not contain dairy.

Will do, thanks again Pupuce.

sunflower oil is huile de tournesol BTW