Milk allergy people

[Handsomesmomma]

What do you drink instead of cow's milk???

[memiles]

We've never been milk drinkers, our dairy came in the form of yogurt and cheese.

So...........we drink water and some occasional juice. I use rice milk for cereal. DD gets a bit of chocolate almond milk to mask her supplements.

But mostly water.

[Mama Mko]

Water. Juice. Rice Milk. Almond Milk.

[Ruthla]

Water mostly. I use coconut milk in my coffee., and almond milk on cereal occasionally- I don't eat much cereal anyway. I don't use any yogurt or cheese substitutes. I use water or almond milk in place of cow's milk in baking.

[nalo]

water. water mixed w/ juice or lemonade. but i never was a milk drinker even when i could have dairy.

[WC_hapamama]

DD likes soymilk the best, although I'm trying to ease her onto rice milk. We can't do almond milk or liquid coconut milk.

For stuff like cheese, yogurt and ice cream, we use soy, rice and coconut based subs.

[Alyantavid]

We do rice milk, juice and water.

Cheese, yogurt, stuff like that we don't have. I do get the Tofutti cream cheese though.

[changingseasons]

Water now... I started off replacing my milk with soy milk, then DD reacted to that. Then went to enriched rice milk, and I think she might have had issues with that too... and tried hemp milk once, she reacted. So I'm done with the milks. Oh- I was using some coconut milk in my rotation diet, so I'm not sure if that's ok with DD or not since we're taking a break from it right now.

[kjbrown92]

I drink water, red tea (hot and iced), sometimes grape juice.
In recipes, I use coconut milk.
DD drinks enriched rice milk, sometimes someof the iced red tea, and every 4 days she can have grape juice.
DS drinks water, and every 4 days he can have grape juice

[lil_miss_understood]

Water now. DS1 will occasionally ask for chocolate rice milk to drink.
When we first went dairy-free, I drank a whole can of coconut milk because I was craving milk so badly. Don't do that.

[txtarheel]

We're big fans of hemp milk. I drink some soy milk and DS also drinks coconut milk mixed with hemp or rice milk. I use coconut milk for baking and oat milk for cooking where I don't want the coconut flavor.

[Chinese Pistache]

We drink water. Rice milk for baking or in oatmeal/cereal.

[Astromom]

water and coconut water to drink
water, grape juice, coconut milk to bake

[menomena]

Water, water, water. Sometimes with lemon. Tea or coffee (with rice milk) in the morning. Kombucha whenever I go into town (and past the co-op or HFS). Rice milk on cereal. Water or rice milk in baking.

[matey]

rice milk and sometimes hemp milk, which is sooo good.

[menomena]

Originally Posted by matey

rice milk and sometimes hemp milk, which is sooo good.

Really? We are so not fans of Hemp Milk over here. Too... seedy. *shrug*

[kundemama]

For milk replacement we use almond milk, hemp milk, coconut milk, or a combination of these.
Besides water, other drinks include are a variety of fruit/veggie juices and coconut water.

[mbbinsc]

My 2.5 yo DD uses water, rice milk and juices. I still nurse and wil use same plus soy milk. I don't use almond as she does have tree nut allergy , too. MD said to avoid soy for her as she could develop allergy.

[Narn]

soy milk

soy ice cream is good, too. mmmmm

[spedteacher30]

When I was dairy free, I drank water, soda , calcium fortified juices, iced tea, coffee and rice milk. Now that I am not dairy-free, I still don't drink cows milk, except for the occasional bowl of cereal and in my coffee. I found hempmilk to be the best coffee cream substitute)

When M was dairy-free, he did breastmilk, rice milk, calcium fortified juice and water. Now that he is drinking cows milk, he still does breastmilk, water and calcium fortified juice. No nut milks for us due to M's peanut allergy.

We never found a cheese sub I liked (we were soyfree for months too). Same for yogurt, sour cream, cream cheese, etc.

We used Mother's margarine (kosher for passover--soy and dairy free) for baking and spreading.

For ice cream, we bought locally made sorbet from the gelato shop downtown. They make a chocolate sorbet that is like eating heaven. Unfortunately, this means that M has really expensive taste in ice cream now, since he refuses to eat most other types, but will inhale their strawberry and raspberry sorbet.