May Meat Challenge Food Information: Dairy Alternatives

[Emerald]

This is an ongoing thread for the month of May for sharing your climate-friendly food suggestions, recipes, tips and experiences.

Thank you to everyone who has been writing and responding.  Feel free to share your tips and recipes.

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PLANT-BASED DAIRY ALTERNATIVES

Cheese

When people decide to give up dairy, for whatever reason, one of the hardest things to give up is cheese.  Even people who are lactose intolerant have been known to risk major reactions because they love cheese.

Plant-based cheese has come a long way in the past few years and we have some great choices available now.  There are also a lot of cheese-like products that are terrible.  All of them come in bad packaging so this is not a zero waste option, but dairy cheese is mostly wrapped in plastic too.

There are some great cookbooks on how to make nut-based cheeses that are delicious.  Some of the tastiest ones are made from macadamia nuts with probiotics added but there are good recipes for cheeses made from soy, almonds and cashews as well.  Please share your favorite recipes and cookbooks for making homemade non-dairy cheese.

One of the best choices for non-dairy cheese is Miyoko's Cashew Mozzarella.  It is organic and versatile with a good texture.  It works for anything from pizza to tacos to grilled cheese sandwiches - anything you would use cheese for.  It is mild tasting so best with other flavors.  Add it to a summer salad of chopped tomatoes and fresh basil. 

Nearly all of Miyoko's products have been reformulated to contain natural flavors which is a chemicalized form of food flavoring that is a neurotoxin.  Listen to what Joseph Mercola says about natural flavors.  Vani Hari aka 'The Food Babe' also blew the whistle on natural flavors.  Read her excellent article about this here.  Miyoko is now adding natural flavors to all but two of her products since she began to collaborate with Nestle for marketing advice two years ago.  The cashew mozzarella is the only Miyoko cheese that does not have natural flavors. 

One of the old standbys for an alternative to dairy cheese is Daiya with other similar brands such as Follow Your Heart, which is a little better.  These products are easy to find in just about any store and are less expensive than other choices.  They come shredded in a ziplock bag and can be used frozen to last longer.  The flavor is not the same as dairy cheese but they do melt and blend in well on pizza and other foods that have distinctive flavor.  They are made from a base of pea protein and can be regarded like a seasoning to use sparingly because they taste best in smaller amounts.  Other brands offer similar products and some taste a little better but cost more.

There are some new non-dairy cheeses that are delicious.  Two of the best ones are Follow Your Heart Parmesan and Violife Feta.  Both of these products have suspicious ingredients that are probably natural flavors or MSG so use sparingly like a seasoning.  But these two products really do taste like parmesan and feta. 

Kite Hill makes two products that are especially delicious, and although not organic, are mostly free of bad ingredients.  Check out Kite Hill Chive Cream Cheese as a dip with celery or on crackers.  Also their Almond Milk Ricotta is great as a base for sauces and dips.  Treeline makes delicious cheese spreads such as Herb Garlic French-Style that is probiotic and has no bad ingredients.  But these are all pricey and come in terrible packaging - make your own dips and spreads in the blender if you can.

Yogurt

The best choice for non-dairy yogurt - hands down - is Cocojune.  Cocojune is organic, delicious, creamy yogurt but the thing that puts it at the top is the packaging.  Cocojune packaging is over 90% paper.  There is plastic added to the paper but Cocojune participates in a compensation program that removes plastic waste from the ocean.  The inner seal is foil that can be rolled up into a soda can to be recycled as aluminum.  The paper packaging is not recyclable and goes into landfill, but is vastly better than the white plastic tubs used for other yogurt.  The plain Cocojune has no sweeteners and is wonderful with fresh fruit or used as a base for a sauce or dressing.  The quart size is only available at Community Market for $7.  There are also single serving sizes containing organic cane sugar and fruit (such as strawberry rhubarb) available at Oliver's and Sprouts.

There are plant-based yogurts available in glass packaging that are worth checking out but they are expensive.  Coconut Cult is organic, delicious, and comes in a small glass bottle for $10.  This product is really a probiotic supplement rather than a food.  The serving size is one teaspoon.  So, as a medicinal supplement it is worth the money.  You might like to make a simple smoothie by stirring a spoonful of the mango flavor in some non-dairy milk with a splash of organic Lakewood pineapple juice.  The chocolate flavor is so delicious that one spoonful is satisfying.  Probiotic supplements are expensive so this is cheaper and more fun in recyclable packaging.  

Butter

The best news about plant-based dairy is that now we have delicious organic butter in sustainable packaging thanks to Miyoko.  She makes three choices now but only one is free of natural flavors.  Miyoko's salted butter is the same good recipe and is wonderful.  It's pricey at $7 for 8 ounces but is cheaper at Costco, Sprouts and Trader Joe's. 

Non-dairy butter is easy to make and costs much less than any kind of butter when you make it yourself.  When you make your own you don't have to wonder what secret ingredient has been snuck into your food.  If you didn't see the recipe in a previous post you can find it here.

Ice Cream

Non-dairy ice cream and also sorbet have been around for a long time so there are many good choices.  So Delicious brand makes several choices from oats, cashews, almonds, coconut or soy.  The coconut ones might taste too much like coconut but the cashew and oat ones taste more like their flavors such as Salted Caramel Cluster or Dark Chocolate Truffle.  Coconut Bliss is organic and a delicious choice such as Chocolate Peanut Butter.  What non-dairy ice cream do you like?  What new ones have you tried? 

Milk

Homemade plant-based milk was covered in several previous posts.  Find the recipes here.  Most non-dairy milk comes in bad packaging and contains thickeners and all kinds of bad ingredients.  It's best if you can make your own.  There are some better choices to consider such as So Delicious unsweetened organic coconut milk for $2 in an aseptic quart box.  It is thicker than most non-dairy milks and doesn't separate in a hot beverage.  It has a mild taste and doesn't taste like coconut.  This is easy to find in most stores.  New Barn is a new organic unsweetened almond milk that comes in better packaging and is delicious but it does separate, like most commercial almond milks.  Homemade almond milk doesn't do that, probably because it isn't mostly water when you make your own.  Homemade almond milk can also be made thick like cream and is the best there is for tea or coffee.  Nothing from the store compares to that, but some people add coconut oil, MCT oil and other supplements to their coffee so canned coconut milk can be a thick addition to a hot drink.  A new product that is organic, delicious and sugar-free in sustainable packaging is Rebbl Keto almond milk at $5 for 12 ounces.  Most Rebbl milks have a lot of sugar but the Keto ones have zero sugar.  The vanilla almond milk is delicious in tea or coffee.  The chocolate drink is delicious too.  The plastic bottle is made from 100% recycled post-consumer plastic.  Plastic recycling is not the solution to the plastic problem but it does use plastic headed for the waste stream.

Pacific brand makes delicious oat milk that is unsweetened but is sweet and creamy.  It's inexpensive and easy to find in an aseptic quart.  There are lots of new oat milks on the market now that might have some better packaging.  Oat milk is the most climate-friendly choice for milk and is so cheap and easy to make, make your own if you can.        

Sour Cream

Forager's makes a pretty good non-dairy sour cream.  Most of their products contain natural flavors and are not organic but their sour cream is organic, probiotic and has no bad ingredients.  Homemade sour cream is better but this one works, especially if you add a little hot sauce, seasonings (such as chipotle), avocado, or a little salt.

Conclusion

Plant-based dairy products are not zero waste considering the packaging and more.  Many of the ingredients are shipped from far away places, and almonds require a lot of water to grow.  There are some better choices available such as the salted Miyoko's butter, Cocojune yogurt and New Barn almond milk.  But truly climate-friendly eating is homemade from scratch.  The best non-dairy base is organic oats and they are the cheapest.  Many plant-based dairy alternatives are based on cashews, including Miyoko's butter.  It's best to limit cashew consumption for several reasons.  But are we trying to be perfect?  There are good, better and best choices.  Everyone is making the best choices that they can.  No one ever fully achieves zero waste, but we can aim for continual improvements by being conscious of everything we buy and eat. 

What are your favorite non-dairy alternatives?

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[lois]

Miyoko’s smoked mozzarella I delicious, although it tastes like its own thing, not like cheese

It is, moreover, a clean product with no nasty additives

And there is nothing better than dark chocolate Coconut Bliss

Many other non-dairy substitutes have long lists of ingredients, some of which are not fit for human consumption, at least not by this human

Lois Pearlman

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[Bev Alexander]

I like Miyoko’s butter. I get the European style culture vegan butter with a hint of sea salt because it does not come in a plastic package.

I make my own non-dairy yogurt. I choose to use soy milk and check the level of protein, only using soy milk with at least 9 g of protein per serving. it is super easy to do. I use Eurocuisine all natural yogurt culture which I get online or Yo’gourmet freeze dried yogurt starter. The latter has some skim milk powder in it, but it is so little that I don’t think about it. I fill a quart jar 1/4 full with the milk, then I dump in the powder and mix it with a whisk, then add the rest of the milk, put a lid on shake gently, and then put it in my instant pot with an inch or two of water and set the pot for “yogurt.“ Remove the lid before turning on the instant pot. You might need to play with the time. It automatically sets the time for eight hours but sometimes I find that less works…especially if you don’t take the yogurt out right away. 😉 If it’s in for too long it starts to separate. 

This method allows me to control the amount of sugar and fat in my yogurt. I don’t like having much of either. And the higher protein content makes it easier for the yogurt to thicken. Nonetheless, because there is no thickener, it does separate easily, but that is fine with me. Most wrote yogurt recipes have you scald the milk and then cool it, but if it is in one of those septic containers you don’t need to do that.

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[Jen Briere]

PLANT 'MILKS'

I use HODO plain soymilk for cooking+baking large amounts... probably not great for individual households.  

But Westsoy Vanilla Unsweetened Soy Milk is the best for creamy-ness and foaming in a household electric foamer.

Recommend Oatly for oat milk, it's available at most stores that carry plant-based milks.

YOGURT

No real recommendation on vegan yogurts...

CHEESE

I use VioLife Mozzarella for shreds, they seem to be the best for melting or blending into sauces.  But really don't use packaged cheeses like this.  With a bakery / cafe in Gualala, the cheeses get expensive to use and seem to be not necessary when considering nutrition of the food.

  

I use Red Star Nutritional Yeast quite a bit.  It adds a cheesy flavor to anything (popcorn to veggies to 'meat' patties), but I also use it to create cheese sauces such as:

Homemade Alfredo  Unsweetened Soy Milk + Nutritional Yeast + Italian Herbs.  It's not exactly the same taste, but has a great light pasta sauce flavor and consistency.  You can add vegan butter, but I don't even find it necessary.

Mac n' 'Cheese'   My recipe is listed here, and it uses a spice blend you can buy or make yourself: https://www.scienceoflifeayurveda.com/post/easy-vegan-mac-n-cheese-recipe-adapted-for-kids-and-adults

Nacho Cheese Sauce   Mark Reinfeld has a great recipe for Nachos in his The 30-Minute Vegan cookbook.

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[Bev Alexander]

Just a note:

I only use organic soy products.  I want to be sure I am not getting any genetically modified soy.

Bev

[Emerald]

Thank you Lois, Bev and Jen for your comments.

Lois - Miyoko's smokey mozz is my favorite too but is discontinued.  I haven't seen it for sale anywhere in over a month.  I keep checking for it but I think it's gone.  If it does come back be sure to check it for natural flavors.

Dark Chocolate Coconut Bliss is delicious!  And organic.

Yes, most plant-based dairy alternatives have far too many bad ingredients.  You might like some of the ones I suggested because I screen for that too.

Bev - I'm glad that you are only eating organic soy to avoid GMOs. 

When you get Miyoko's butter be sure that you don't get the unsalted one by mistake because that one has natural flavors.

Thank you for sharing your yogurt recipe!  I used to have a little Salton yogurt maker and I remember it taking a week to make yogurt.  A lot of people rave about Instapot!  I hear that it is great for making beans and lots of other things.  Yes to making your own.  There are ingredients in packaged foods that are not even on the label.  We really don't know what is in our food unless we make it from scratch.

Jen - Thank you for posting more of your wonderful recipes.  I plan to make them all.  I am making your black bean burgers today. 

Westsoy was one of the first soy milks to be bought out by the GMO cartel.  Monsanto bought a lot of favorite companies over 20 years ago.  Our GMO Shopper's Guide has a searchable list.  I did all of the research for that guide myself but it hasn't been updated in about two years.  I am planning to look into Oatly because I heard that it is owned by a bad company. 

Here is a chart called Who Owns Organic.  Some companies we don't want to give our money to but also can't trust with our food. 

USDA Organic is 95% organic.  There is a lot of room in there for untrustworthy companies to put just about anything into our food.  If it is under a certain amount they don't have to put it on the label.

Nutritional yeast is a staple for many plant-based diets.  Red Star Yeast, however, is a terrible polluting company.  They violated EPA standards for years and somehow managed to continue polluting until community activists finally shut them down in 2003.  That old factory had been there for over 100 years.  It was right in the middle of an all-Black neighborhood that complained to the city government and the EPA for years.  Red Star restructured their company and moved to Milwaukee. 

I use Gaylord Hauser Brewers Yeast.  It's a lot more expensive, but when I wrote to them about their environmental practices they sent me their full environmental evaluation conducted by the Eustonia government where they are located.  Red Star Yeast shut down their company and moved to another city rather than put pollution scrubbers in the smoke stack of their West Oakland factory.  They are a deplorable company.  I spend more money for nutritional yeast with a better reputation. 

I wouldn't have known about this if I hadn't been an activist fighting against this when I lived in Oakland.  It's hard to keep up on all of this.  If you use our Shopper's Guide you can benefit from my years of food research.   

I have looked at the vegan Alfredo sauces at the store and turned them all down.  I have also been looking for a good mac & cheese recipe.  How did you know which recipes I have been looking for?  Thank you!

By the way, my new favorite pasta is Cassava Fusilli by Jovial sold at Oliver's for $4.29.  Grain-free, organic, one ingredient, 100% excellent packaging.  I found it there on sale and now it's the only one I like.

Everyone - I think that we all make choices sometimes knowing that they are not the best.  Sometimes it's not the best for our health, social justice, or the environment.  I advocate for being informed to make conscious choices.  Being perfect around these things seems impossible and stressful.  Let's make good choices that we feel good about, considering all of the impact of our food choices with a priority on excellent health, and enjoy what we eat.

Love,

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[Bev Alexander]

Instant pot is on sale today (ONLINE only) at costco.com

Sale ends today.

$27 off. Shipping and handling included - Only $59.99

https://www.costco.com/instant-pot-6qt-duo-gourmet-multi-use-pressure-cooker.product.100673635.html

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Emerald, thank you for your many informative messages! I don’t know how you do it. 

[Bev Alexander]

During my lifetime (I'm now 76 and a lot healthier than when I was 56), starting in my early 20s, I made a few attempts to go vegetarian or vegan, but they didn't "stick." About 15 years ago, I happened upon Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, by Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. (I cannot totally condemn Amazon, because it is their algorithms that have led me to many valuable books, including this one.) 

The book is enlightening and persuasive, and best of all, it has inventive and simple recipes in the second half. Previously, when I had tried vegetarian or vegan recipes, I found them to be complicated, involving special ingredients that I could not buy at the supermarket, and involved many steps and ingredients. Ann Esselstyn is a no-nonsense woman, and her recipes are quick, easy, and, best of all, tasty! Her enthusiasm shines through as well. Now there is a second book that is a cookbook: The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook, which has an abundance of lovely glossy photos. It shows how beautiful vegan meals can be.

These books promote a whole food plant-based way of eating, so there is an avoidance of "fake foods," including fake cheese and fake meats. I avoid the fake cheese because it is so high in fat and it is so easy to over-indulge. I do use the fake meats although I'm not sure that is a good idea. They are almost never organic, although many are labeled Non-GMO. I also like the chewiness, and the flavor, but don't relish making my own seitan or my own veggie burgers. I DON'T use Impossible Meats (that technology is NOT good) and I don't use Beyond products because they are packaged with a vast amount of plastic.

Other books that are useful:

Eat to Live

The China Study This link leads to info about The China Study.

The China Study expanded edition

Books by John McDougall - he is in Santa Rosa

Great website and video blogs:

nutritionfacts.org

That's all for now!

Thank you again for all the information you share, Emerald.

Bev 🌿

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[lois]

This has been enlightening, and blessedly non-preachy. What we eat, and why we eat it, depends upon so many factors — our own bodies’ needs, our environmental concerns, our political perspectives and our personal tastes. As my nutritionist said, “You have to enjoy your food.” I am always open to hearing what and why people eat the things they do, and perhaps even changing some of my eating habits as a result. What I find difficult to take are self-righteous attitudes from people who pass judgement on others based on their own personal preferences. Thanks for the tip about Red Star yeast. I generally buy it in bulk, so I will check for the brand name next time I make a purchase.

Lois Pearlman

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[B. Wulf]

Thanks to everyone for sharing all the great info. and encouragement for adopting a healthy plant food diet. It is so important for our health and the health of our planet, and of course the well being of countless animals.

As a 50 year vegetarian and 6 year vegan who has made a life work of studying nutrition, I have found lots of great advice from Dr. Greger, Dr. Barnard, Dr. McDougall, the Esselstyns, our local Dr. Goldhamer and so many others in the plant-based diet community. However, the best information I've found is shared by Anthony William, the Medical Medium.

I highly recommend reading his books, starting with the recently released revision of his first book... especially if you have any chronic health issues. He also shares lots of free information on his website https://medicalmedium.com and in his podcasts.

Even though I had been eating organic, mostly vegan whole foods for 5 decades, it was only after I started following the Medical Medium protocols 6 years ago that I finally cleared the Lyme symptoms (constant neck and shoulder pain) that were getting worse year after year. All the pain vanished soon after I adopted his simple anti-viral diet changes... along with lots of other annoying symptoms. My immune system is also 100% stronger.

It is more restrictive than a whole food vegan diet, since it is low fat and gluten free and it rules out soy, corn and canola due to GMO contamination (even in organics). He also recommends avoiding vinegar and nutritional yeast, but he and quite a few others have come up with lots of great recipes to get around those restrictions. 

I find it fun to experiment and come up with healthy alternatives to familiar foods. I feel so much better and have so much more energy that it is totally worth making those adjustments and sticking with them. Maybe some people on this list will have a similar experience.

 Bernadette

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[Emerald]

Thank you Jen, Bev, Bob, Bernadette and Lois for your comments and feedback!

Bev - I learned about the Dean Ornish Diet that 100% reverses heart disease in about six months.  Then I learned about Esselstyn, and I like his approach to heart disease even better.  Ornish or Esselstyn - these are very strict vegan diets with no oil, no refined foods of any kind, with lots of beans and lots of onions.  Dean Ornish is Bill Clinton's doctor.  Whatever we might think of Bill Clinton, he probably knows how to find a good doctor.  Dean Ornish put him on a vegan diet that dramatically changed his health.  Ornish is here at UCSF. 

I have had several friends who have had heart attacks and other coronary diseases and I always tell them that they can reverse it entirely by following either Ornish or Esselstyn.  They are both anti-stents and conventional procedures and rely entirely on lifestyle changes, stress management, and strict diet.  For someone who is adverse to a vegan diet, I suggest that they do the diet for six months, and after they return their health, gradually add back foods that they like, but carefully.  After one year of good health they can return back to most of the foods that they liked before, but also consider that their previous diet might be what caused their heart disease.  Unfortunately, a lot of people would rather have heart surgery and be on pharmaceuticals forever than limit their diet and change their lifestyle.

Thank you for bringing this up in this discussion and for sharing these great resources.  And thank you for making these healthy changes that saved your life for all the important work that you are now doing.

Lois - Occupy Sonoma County has unanimous agreement that we are not into food shaming anyone.  Our aim is to provide positive suggestions and information and encourage people to make their own informed decisions.  I find it annoying when people proselytize for any type of diet.  There is no one diet that is right for everyone.

Let us know where you find nutritional yeast that is not Red Star.  Thank you for your active participation and your wonderful falafel recipe.  I will be posting that on the Facebook page.

Bernadette - Thank you for sharing your success at reversing Lyme Disease by following a plant-based diet.  Thank you for sharing such excellent resources to help others to address all kinds of health problems through healthy diet changes.

Thank you to everyone who wrote such positive feedback. 

If anyone has any complaints or negative feedback we want to hear that too.  :)

Love,

Emerald

This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to be medical advice.

[lois]

One last thought

I know certain diets are very helping in combatting certain diseases and conditions, but they are not meant to be general diets for people who do not have these conditions.

I have a friend with cancer who is doing very well on a diet with very limited carbs, which means she has to get her protein from fish, poultry nuts and seeds — not beans and grains

As they used to say, “different strokes for different folks.”

Hope our summer is beautiful, plentiful and fire free

Lois

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[lois]

Online I found nutritional yeast from Bob’s Red Mill and Bragg

Lois

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[Emerald]

Lois - The Dean Ornish and the Esselstyn diets are specifically for reversing heart disease.  People with cancer often have gastrointestinal issues, particularly small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and can't handle onions or garlic, which are normally very healthy foods.

There are many diets that are designed for treating cancer.  Some sources of info for reversing cancer that I recommend are Chris Wark, Nasha Winter, and Nicholas Gonzalez.  Chris Wark is strictly into a very simple vegan diet.  Nicholas Gonzalez was unique in that he advocated an individualized diet for each patient.  He theorized that different cancers, different body types and different individuals thrive better on different diets.  I personally agree with the low carb diet because carbs turn into sugar that feeds cancer.  I also think that animal products containing growth hormones promote growth - so no to eggs or meat, but some fish is okay if it is not polluted with mercury and other toxins.  I have also learned that it depends on the type of cancer.  Glandular cancers such as ovarian and pancreatic are tougher to treat and require a much more strict approach.  So eating small amounts of chicken might be okay with some cancers but not with a glandular cancer.

People with cancer also often have H. Pylori and Candida which is exacerbated by eating nuts, and some nuts are prone to containing molds.  One thing that seems to be okay for nearly everyone is seeds: sunflower seeds, sesame, pumpkin seeds, chia, flax.

I agree that diet is individualized.  It's been through a lot of trial and error that I have learned what diet is good for me.  And it changes over time - sometimes drastically. 

If your friend is thriving then she found what works for her.  That's awesome!

Thank you very much for finding Bob's Red Mill Nutritional Yeast and also Bragg.  Bob's Red Mill is not always organic but Bragg products are all organic.

Jen - I made your black bean burgers and they are delicious.  I suggest adding the water directly into the food processor as needed.  I used Eden canned black beans which are very soft and might not have needed any added liquid.  But the taste of the burgers is wonderful.  The recipe doesn't say whether or not to oil the baking pan so I did.  But I could have baked them without oil by putting a layer of (baking) parchment paper in the pan.  My seasonings were: salt, pepper, cayenne, oregano, dried parsley, savory, and dill weed.  I never cooked with fennel before.  Wow - what a great flavor.  Thank you!

Everyone - I have to share that I learned from the 2021 MMC that beets are NOT a good source of iron.  When I researched iron for the MMC I didn't see beets listed anywhere.  I looked them up in my nutrition charts and beets have iron but not a lot.  Then I realized that I was taught that by my dad, who knew very little about nutrition.  Hahaha!  I finally learned why beets don't make me feel better when I am low in iron.  Black beans make me feel better right away.  Thanks to Jen I have a new recipe.  :)

  

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