Sometimes, as I wandered around at the supermarket shelves, I got quite lost according to the huge offering of milk alternatives. For that reason, I want to use this post, to tell you about my favourite milk alternatives, what I use them for and why I don´t like some of the others.
Nearly every big supermarket has plenty of different options to buy vegan milk. Today I want to talk about the most common ones and my experiences on them.
Soymilk is probably the most known milk alternative and I have used it for a long time. I think concerning the texture of the milk it gets quite close to cow milk. But in most cases it has a very strong soy taste. Because of this I stopped using it. Another reason is, that I usually use soy cheese and soy yoghurt, not to forget tofu but I wanted to decrease my soy intake.
Instead I usually use almondmilk. Almondmilk tastes pretty much like almonds. I prefer it, because I like this taste a lot and I think you can use it for sweet recipes as well as for example the base of pasta sauces. The only disadvantage is the price, because in Germany it costs more than twice as much as regular soy milk.
A milkalternative that I only use on occassion is hazelnutmilk. I would reccomend to only use it for sweet recipes. But for those I like it even more than almond milk. It gives treats like hot chocolate a very special touch. The reason I more likely buy almond milk is, that I can use it for more recipes.
Ricemilk was the first alternative I ever tried. I really didn´t like it at all. This kind of milk tasted very watery and not good at all. In some stores they would sell a mixture of soy- and ricemilk which wasn´t good eather. If you like the taste of ricemilk, it is very good, because you can get it for a pretty low cost.
I like oatmilk a lot. I like the taste and the texture. The only problem is, that you can´t get it in every supermarket in Germany. But when I can get it, I usually buy it. As almondmilk you can use it for sweet and savory meals. Still I want to warn you because I have heard from other vegans, that some of them think, oatmeal tastes like straw. If you like the taste of oats and oatmeal, you will most likely like it and in my opinion, oatmilk is the easiest milk to make it yourself at home.
Speltmilk doesn´t belong to my favourites, as well. I don´t like the taste and therefore I don´t buy it.
The last one I want to talk about is coconutmilk. But I don´t mean the fatty canned one (don´t get me wrong, I love this one, but I prefer it in curries and not in my cereal). I am talking about the lower fat ones, like the one you can get from alpro. You can check it out here:
It is not as aromatic as the canned coconutmilk, but I really like this one. Especially for asian dishes in which I don´t want to use as much fat. But it can also give your breakfast cereal that special touch. But I don´t like it as my everyday milkalternative, because it has quite a strong taste in comparison.
I hope you got an overview on the varieties of vegan milk. Tell me which ones you use and whether you know any other types.
Lots of love!
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