Dairy-free Yogurt Alternative

There are coconut milk yogurts available, but we have not tried them. I would not recommend any soy yogurts or sour creams. Is cow’s milk your restriction, or is goat’s milk an option? I know there are goat’s milk yogurts. Have you ever tried raw milk? Many people who cannot tolerate pasteurized, homogenized cow’s milk can tolerate raw milk and raw milk products, such as yogurt, kefir, sour cream, cheese, butter, etc.

We have used both Amande Cultured Almondmilk as well as the coconut yogurt… the name of which escapes me.  At any rate, we like both of them.  I have drained the Amande yogurt as one can do with dairy yogurt with live cultures to obtain “whey” to be used in soaking grains, etc. and using the solids as a cream cheese substitute.  It has worked VERY well.  The only reason that I haven’t done the same with the coconut yogurt is that I can only find it in small cartons in my area.

Toffuti Brand makes a product called “Sour Supreme” or “Better than Sour Cream”.  There is no milk (dairy) in it.  We use it all the time for dips and on tacos and various other recipies that call for sour cream.  When we serve it at our home for guests they are amazed at how good it tastes (they no we don’t allow any milk in our home).  

I’m so glad, blue j, that you mentioned the reasons behind avoiding soy. We avoid it at all costs. Nutritionally, there are far superior foods to soy, and almost none of them carry the risks of upsetting the delicate hormone balances of our bodies. Traditionally fermented soy products, such as tempeh or miso, are the only ones that are fermented enough so as not to be a danger to our bodies. Tofu is most definitely not fermented.

I, too, do not mean to sound snobby about this, but we have seen soy’s detrimental effects on a member of our extended family. She began drinking soy milk and within a few months was having health issues that seemed to come out of nowhere. She was fatigued, diagnosed with endometriosis, constantly sick, having headaches, and all sorts of other issues. Once she figured out that it might be the soy milk, she stopped drinking it. One by one, many of her problems began to disappear. So, if you can find other alternatives such as almond milk yogurt or coconut milk yogurt, may I humbly suggest you try those and make soy your absolute last resort? For my family, if soy products were the only solution, we would simply do without yogurt and sour cream.

Blessings,

Lindsey

I make my own coconut yogurt.  It’s really easy.  

pollysoup, I would also love to know how you make coconut yogurt. We spend so much money on raw cow’s milk that I want to save it all for drinking, so I stopped making yogurt. What we don’t drink gets clabbered into curds and whey because I use whey almost everyday for fermenting and/or soaking. Yogurt hasn’t been missed too much, but I would like to be able to offer it again without buying it at the store.