{"id":9145,"date":"2019-11-14T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T10:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=9145"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:58:31","slug":"no-milk-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2019\/11\/14\/no-milk-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"No milk thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier in the year, I wrote about my 12 Things for 2019<\/a>. This was a list of goals to achieve in the course of the year. In some cases I cannot tick them off until the end of the year, because the \u201cthing\u201d lasted all year long. Those ones are going well – no failures yet. Others are checked as soon as they are done and quite a few have been completed. This month I am working on #5 \u2026<\/p>\n

I am having a month without consuming any dairy products. In practical terms, this means that I am eliminating: milk, cheese, yogurt and chocolate.<\/p>\n

Milk is not too much of a problem. I very rarely drink milk. I take tea black anyway. So it is only really milk in coffee and on my breakfast cereal that I needed to think about. There are numerous non-dairy \u201cmilk\u201d products available: soya, rice, oat, coconut, almond and hazelnut; I imagine that there are others too. I have found oat milk quite acceptable. When having coffee in a chain coffee shop recently, I thought that I would try coconut milk and that was very good. By an odd coincidence, this particular chain are not charging any extra for special milks for a limited time.<\/p>\n

Yogurt is a little frustrating. I can get products made from soya or almond milk and the latter has quite a good taste. The are expensive – maybe 4X the price of regular yogurt. My main beef is that they are runny and I like greek style thick yogurt and I cannot find a suitable product.<\/p>\n

Cheese is the hardest. I am told that vegan cheese can be OK, but I am rather unconvinced. As I am a cheese freak, this is the hardest thing from which to abstain. I guess that I will make up for it in December – there is a cheese advent calendar in the fridge!<\/p>\n

After cheese, my other big passion is chocolate. The good news here is that, although there is very little choice, I can get bars of ordinary \u201cmilk\u201d chocolate that contain no dairy and taste OK. I have been buying these 6 at a time. It was tough last week, when I was visiting Sweden and getting a large quantity of a favorite chocolate that I just put in the cupboard when I got home.<\/p>\n

Looking at the calendar: I am almost half way there …<\/p>\n

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