Worse, I'm pretty sure I've been told in the past and can't remember :) I think it's something to do with proteins, and whatever it is is present in cow-milk but not other-milk. So she eats goats cheese or buffalo mozarella, etc, but not any cow-dairy. To make it mildly more complicated, her husband is also dairy-intolerant but in a different way.
I know her favourite brand: for preference they both drink "fresh" Alpro soya milk in tea/coffee. Which is fine, I can get that in if I know they're coming. Of late, I've had a few "we're in the area, can we pop in" calls when the UHT stuff has had to come out the cupboard. My big local Tesco and Sainsburys (and small local health food shop) don't stock small-size cartons of any brand - I've been looking. Unless you buy strawberry or chocolate flavour, which I think would definitely make tea and coffee unpalatable. Or at least a bit weird. However, if these small cartons do definitely exist I shall continue seeking.
Sometimes (especially if arriving on low notice) they import their own milk, but I'd like to be slightly better provided Just In Case.
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Date: 2012-10-15 12:59 pm (UTC)Worse, I'm pretty sure I've been told in the past and can't remember :) I think it's something to do with proteins, and whatever it is is present in cow-milk but not other-milk. So she eats goats cheese or buffalo mozarella, etc, but not any cow-dairy. To make it mildly more complicated, her husband is also dairy-intolerant but in a different way.
I know her favourite brand: for preference they both drink "fresh" Alpro soya milk in tea/coffee. Which is fine, I can get that in if I know they're coming. Of late, I've had a few "we're in the area, can we pop in" calls when the UHT stuff has had to come out the cupboard. My big local Tesco and Sainsburys (and small local health food shop) don't stock small-size cartons of any brand - I've been looking. Unless you buy strawberry or chocolate flavour, which I think would definitely make tea and coffee unpalatable. Or at least a bit weird. However, if these small cartons do definitely exist I shall continue seeking.
Sometimes (especially if arriving on low notice) they import their own milk, but I'd like to be slightly better provided Just In Case.