I am lactose intolerant and I’ve heard over half the human population is, which only reinforces my belief that human bodies were not meant to ingest dairy. Think about this, humans are the only species to continue drinking milk after weaning and to drink milk of other animals. I try to picture animals trying to drink another animal species’ milk and think it’s ridiculous, so why do we as humans?
It is really difficult to avoid dairy though. Start reading labels and you will find it is in so many different types of food: pizza, dessert, soup, salad, chips. Eat out and it seems almost everything is marinated, cooked or baked in butter. Plus dairy is delicious and provides such richness and a decadent creamy aspect to food.
I’ve been trying to find dairy alternatives and recently came across a cheese alternative that I REALLY like.
This Smoked Gouda Cheese Alternative by Follow Your Heart which I bought for $5 at Vons (Safeway/Pavilions/Randalls) has such a perfect smokiness to it. The texture is not like Styrofoam like some other cheese alternatives I’ve tried in the past either. It is good and I will definitely buy it again! Can you tell it’s not real cheese? Sure, the texture is not perfectly like real cheese and neither is the taste, but it IS a very well done imitation that I think is worth the cost when I want cheese on my sandwich without putting my body through the terrible digestion process of dairy.
Turn the package over and you will see this cheese alternative is made of simple ingredients of water, coconut oil, potato and corn starches, sea salt, plant based smoke flavor, olive extract and beta carotene for coloring.
Puns are not Cheesy. They’re Gouda!
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