What is your favourite non-dairy milk?

Question

Mine is Coconut milk. I think it tastes much better than soy milk. Rice Milk is good but I think Coconut milk is best!

How about.. you what's your favourite NON-dairy Milk?

Answer 1

I love hemp milk (LivingHarvest)! Soy (Silk, Vitasoy) comes in second, rice (RiceDream) third, oat (Pacific) fourth.

Answer 2

Goats milk and better still goats cheese, though sheep cheese is a close second.

Answer 3

I love rice milk! I just can't make myself drink soy milk, but I can eat it in cereals. Rice milk is just good all around. ^_^

Answer 4

I use rice milk instead of dairy milk (because it tastes close enough and is quite versatile). I don't drink most soy milk because I just don't like it, with the exception of Chinese sweet soy milk. You can get that at most Asian grocery stores (at least where I live). Tried oat milk once, and I thought that was too weak and thin. And while I love the taste of coconut milk, it's quite fatty so I only use it occasionally. Great for curries tho.

Answer 5

I was really lucky because my store did a mass tasting of every single alternative milk they sell (which is a lot) so I was able to taste all of them without making a commitment. I hadn't liked any up till then.

I found they are different brand to brand. I actually liked everything Pacific makes which includes soy (plain, vanilla, & ultra), rice, oat, hazelnut and almond.

I've since tried hemp but homemade hemp milk is fabulous (makes all the difference in the world and is very easy if you have a blender):

http://nutiva.com/nutrition/recipes/milk...

I didn't like Silk (a brand name owned by Dean Foods) and good thing too because it's a huge worldwide corporation that controls more than a third of all dairy milk in the United States and as much as 80% in several states (causing much of the factory farming situations and putting small farmers out of business). While their beans are organic they are often sourced from China and South America so iffy.

http://www.grist.org/comments/food/2007/...

http://www.familyfarmdefenders.org/pmwik...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/busine...

Organic Valley though was giving out samples of their chocolate soy at the last farmers market for the year last year heated up for the holidays like hot chocolate. It was incredible. I've since bought their vanilla soy several times and I love it more than any of the others. It seemed more expensive than the others but it's in a package twice as big. They are a co-op of small farmers and they've developed a way to use the entire whole bean. If you go to their site you can enter the product code in from your carton and meet the farmer who grew the beans used for your soy milk.

http://www.organicvalley.coop/products/s...

Vitasoy does a really good chocolate peppermint soy milk during the holidays which is good hot or cold.

I do also love coconut milk. A LOT! It's special (I also love the coconut water from the fresh nut). Don't drink it much straight up but it's wonderful for recipes such as rice pudding, cakes, and other desserts and many savory recipes such as Thai inspired and curries. One I've had several times in the last few weeks because it's very easy (read lazy) and filling is to put a can of organic pumpkin puree in with a can of diced/crushed tomatoes, and a can of black beans along with a can of coconut milk (or half a package of coconut cream). Nice to add onions to as well if you feel like dicing them up and browning first (can be done in the same pot). Add curry, cumin, tumeric, a bit of ginger (best to add these at the end of cooking the onions to toast them), some salt, and then cook for a half hour or so to take the raw edge off. Divide into serving size containers and freeze for when you feel even lazier and just want something quick yet healthy to heat up. You can also add a bit of peanut butter/tamari to it to give another dimension to it.

Also coconut milk is SPLENDID for yogurt and ice cream. I loved it long before I went veggie.

Answer 6

Silk is the brand name!  It is a good soy milk.

Answer 7

Well since I am allergic to Coconut, I would have to say Soy milk Vanilla kind. My daughter loves the soy chocolate too. I going to try more though, cause we just switched. I read this article about milk and I will not be consuming it.. No offense to Betsy but its not ment for our bodies digestive system. Anyways SOY milk is mine. I will have to try the Rice Milk.. what does it taste like?

Answer 8

8th Continent is the only one I've ever found remotely drinkable.

Answer 9

I like almond milk or oat milk.  Silk Milk is just a brand.  It is basically soy milk.

Answer 10

Silk choclate soy milk is my fave.

and think about it. Silk is a shortened form of saying soy milk because you replace the m for milk with the s for soy so you get Silk!

WHAAAT. You've never heard of that brand LOL? Where have you been all these years?

http://www.silksoymilk.com/

Answer 11

Sunrise Organic Soy Milk - Plain(Vancouver BC)

Vita Soy

Rice Dream

Silk Soy Milk [called that because its Silky Smooth flavour]

President's Choice Soy Milk

Answer 12

Silk brand soy milk.

(I guess they werent thinking of vegans' sensitivity towards the fabric when they named it that), but yeah...its a very tasty alternative milk and I drink it every day.  (I guess its supposed to be as smoothe as silk when you drink it).