vegan cheese: Hello. I'm currently vegetarian and have slowly been drifting towards a vegan diet. For health and ethical reasons, I want to be a vegan. The only problem is that fat free Greek yogurt makes up a majority of my breakfast/diet because I tend to have at least a cup of it per day; it's a great source of protein. I do have rice, beans, legumes, etc. for protein. If I could find an organic, low-fat, non-dairy, & NON-SOY replacement for yogurt, that would be great. Cheese as a sole replacement would be fine too. I tried to research, but the only alternatives I got were soy yogurt & coconut yogurt. Researching for vegan cheese didn't go all too well either because I'm striving for something with no unnecessary additives, extracts, and enzymes. Any help is appreciated! Hopefully I won't have to say good-bye to yogurt/cheese. -Thanks|||I just discovered vegan yogurts at Whole Foods. Ive tried soy, almond, and coconut milk yogurts and find that the coconut milk yogurt has the best flavor and texture. Its not the lowest in fat, but it will be the closest in texture to regular yogurt. I suggest try it. Vanilla and Chocolate are my favorite flavors.|||I think the only reasonable way to go vegan is to just eat fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Anything else is likely to be very processed. I mean, Oreos are vegan, but that's not the key to a healthy diet! :) Perhaps just be semi-vegan, reducing your yogurt and cheese intake. You'll still be making an impact on your health and your ethical goals by reducing the amount that you eat of those things.|||They sell soy yogurt. They are 8 vegan milks on the market. Soy, almond, tempeh, rice, coconut, cashew, oat, and hazelnut milk. There is rice cheese, and Dayia cheese. Smart balance has a vegan butter.|||The answer on the bottom is stupid he's going to die young and grow fat because he has trashed his body with unessecary hormonal animal products. You should check like a local whole foods store they have plenty of vegan products such as yogurt.|||I have been reading alot about people wanting to go from eating an all-protein from meat source diet to a vegan one and honestly I think what should be emphasized is what our body actually demands of us rather than adopting a label of mass appeal. Vegan is cool but not all bodies tolerate the lack of animal source prtein and lipids. Chlorophyll and cellulose from plants is easier to digest and equally nutritious. You want a dairy replacement because you are going vegan so you are veering away from animal source derived lactose and lactic acid to a better and healthier plant source derivative where plant cellulose is not acidic but rather alkaline. This is more important than being vegan or straight meat-eater, since the pH of the body is so crucial to optimum health and in one or the other, conditions arise. Coconut milk is far better than either rice milk or soy milk because of the esterol and carbohydrate factoring in amino acids where body might have to work harder but not necessarily be better for it. Soy for women under 50 is not recommended, I had an ovarian cyst I am talking from experience there. So coconut it is and here are reasons why as i left links for you to check out the benefits of.|||Go onto Google and do a search on "nut yoghurts". You can make your own at home from scratch with a favourite nut of your choice. I "sometimes" eat soy yoghurt, but don't eat a lot of it considering that the soy is usually overly processed. Instead I like the coconut kind more, plus coconut fat is actually very good for you. As for non-dairy cheeses that are also not soy, it doesn't matter where you buy it - Most of them will contain some kind of setting/thickening agent even if it is plant based so there isn't any real way around it.... EXCEPT if you make the cheese yourself. I already make my own nut cheeses and yoghurts (both coconut and the nut kind). This is one recipe that I found and have already used: Cashew Cheese 录 c fresh lemon juice 录 c Nama Shoyu 录 red bell pepper 2-3 (I used one) cloves garlic, peeled 1 to 1 陆 c raw cashews, macadamia nuts, pine nuts, or a combination In case you don't know what nama shoyu is, it is raw soy sauce. You don't have to put it in if you don't want to. I just use it for a little bit of flavouring. I also never strive to "replace" something that I used to eat as an omnivore. When I was Omni I used to eat a lot of dairy and cheeses, and found I don't crave these things anymore. Nut cheeses, coconut and nut yoghurts (for me) have no resemblance nor do they taste anything like it at all. BUT I do consume it liking the new textures and tastes it provides. Plus it is much healthier for you as well (more so if they are made at home, and you know exactly what it is going into the recipe).|||Hah, you're not going to find any vegan replacements for those without weird things in them. If you have a hippy store in your town that sells local foods, try there. It's pretty much the only chance. You're probably going to have to make your own though. Google vegan nut cheese (sounds gross, but it's just sort of cheese, made of nuts). They usually involve either almond or macadamia nut meal and nutritional yeast, along with some other ingredients depending on the flavor the cheese is trying to imitate. I haven't tried any, but a few of them do look good. If you're looking for a yogurt replacement that will be like Greek yogurt and have a similar protein content, forget it. It won't happen. It doesn't exist. You can make your own almond yogurt (google that too, there's a couple ways to do it), and I'm pretty sure you could strain that an make a greek-type yogurt out of it, but it won't have as much protein in it as Greek yogurt. You can eat that with some more nuts or some scrambled tofu or something for your protein, but you won't be able to rely on the yogurt. Either one of those alternatives is going to be more expensive than buying dairy. Well, if you make your own vegan alternatives, that'll probably be a similar cost to buying the already made dairy products. Macadamia nuts especially are EXPENSIVE. The point I'm trying to make here is that instead of trying to make those foods vegan, just get rid of them entirely. At least for a while. Then when you get the vegan version it won't be such a huge disappointment later. Another option to consider is to find a local dairy where you can actually go and meet the cows and see where they live. This way you can see for yourself that those cows live quite well and you know exactly what goes into making your milk. If that satisfies your ethical dilemma, then awesome. You can get milk there an make your own yogurt (heck, your own cheese too if you want). If there aren't any dairies near you or if that doesn't satisfy you ethically then never mind. Just throwing out another option.|||You can enjoy your yogurts, cheese, and milks from nuts and seeds. By culturing raw organic nuts and seeds, you can make a variety of yogurts, creams, milks, and cheese. Using raw almonds, you can soak them in water until they germinate, peel them (the skin will come off rather easily) and blend to a cream in some filtered water. You can separate the milk from the solids by squeezing in a cheesecloth. Then after letting it sit in a jar covered with a breathable cloth, the yogurt will separate from the whey (usually overnight). When yogurt is complete, you can enjoy with some blueberries, strawberries, figs, soaked gogi berries, and raspberries. A good cheese you can make is cashew cheese. It works well in wraps and even raw vegan pizza.|||Health reasons? Haha The best way to be healthy is to get a lot of protein through MEAT and calcium through MILK and all the other goodies in dairy. Its very hard to stay healthy while being a vegan It's just uneccessary, stupid, and nonsensical. Like you said, you hope you don't have to go without milk and cheese, THEN DONT! We're SUPPOSED to eat animals and use their products. Big animals eat smaller animals, that's just the way it works. Should we get mad at whales eating small fish instead of some seaweed? Should we stop wolves from eating rabbits and make them eat some nice grass and berries instead? We're just like any other animal and God made the food chain for a reason. Even if you're doing it because of the mistreatment of animals during the process, it's still stupid. No matter how many people turn vegan it's not going to make one bit of a difference. (I know it is wrong though) Get healthy by quitting all this stupid vegetarian/ vegan sh*t, go by common sense instead of your "ethics"