Sadly drinking milk is not a treat -- I've hated the smell and the taste of it since I was a kid. Basically I hold my nose and drink it as fast as I can, like cough syrup. The things we do for the body in old age.
Aside from the fat-free milk, I still avoid all dairy and egg products products, or use vegan alternatives. Here are three I've found that are actually very good, and hardly different from the real deal.
I love bagels, and Thomas's has some varieties that are vegan, like their whole wheat. Not having cream cheese to put on top of my bagels, however, was a pain until I started testing some of vegan alternatives. Daiya had one that was okay, but Kite Hill is better -- and tastes almost exactly like the real deal.
Most vegan cheese alternatives aren't all that great, and they can be expensive, so I don't invest in them very often. When I make homemade pizza, however, I use Violife mozzarella shreds to top my slices. They have a different texture, but they do taste just like the real cheese.
Not being able to use mayo to make my favorite homemade salad dressing limited me to using vinaigrette, until I discovered Vegenaise. It is exactly like real mayo in taste and consistency.
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You know I'm not vegan, but I am lactose intolerant thanks to aging. I drink Fairlife milk. When I first tasted it, I thought it was so much more refreshing than other milk I'd tried. Turns out, it has 50% less sugar than other milk and it's lactose free which they weren't capitalizing on when I first started drinking it. I like it for those reasons, but it just tastes good. They have a 2% chocolate that's amazingly tasty cold and makes great hot chocolate too. Just putting that out there.
I can't take calcium either, but it's because my calcium levels have always been high so other than a little milk on my cereal and the occasional hot chocolate, I try to avoid it when possible.
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