I’m an Indian guy in my twenties, living in US. I used to have cornflakes and the like for breakfast, but recently I turned lactose intolerant. I hate cornflakes without the milk.
There are a lot of breakfast options coming from my culture, but I need something that doesn’t take time to make. I’m a lazy bum and can barely make it in time to my university as it is. If anyone has ideas, please let me know.
You can find lactose free alternative milk. One brand is called Lactaid and it tastes exactly the same an normal milk.
For the record it is real milk with all the lactose, but with added lactase to process it in your stomach. It still has some of the downsides of having dairy while taking lactase, but it’s pretty solid.
One other option is also the next-gen silk or NotCo’s NotMilk, both a lot more milk like than oat or other nut based milks.
Try oat milk - I love serial with that stuff. Simple toast with peanut butter it’s amazing. Granola with soya yogurt is fantastic. But the king of them all is real porridge oats done the proper way with water. Add some maple syrup or honey and you are god to go
Vanilla oat milk and corn flakes are awesome. But not all brands are good. I like Silk but Planet Oak isn’t great.
Oat milk imo is the closest tasting to milk.
However, I’d use this opportunity to buy some frozen fruits and some protein powder to make smoothies.
Takes me 2 minutes to make the smoothies.
I’ve been enjoying overnight oats over the last few months. It’s super easy to make and you can meal prep it the night before.
I usually make it with oat milk, honey, and peanut butter topped with granola for some extra texture.
I’ve been eating this as breakfast as well for probably over a year now. Can’t say that I’ve been enjoying them because the taste is pretty bland, but they sure are healthy and help a lot with digestion.
I make them super bland though, just rolled oats with double their weight in milk.
Before I added some maple syrup to give it some flavour, but then I tried to reduce calories in my meals and this kind of stuck.
Welcome to the club of lactose intolerance! If, like me, you really like dairy, there is a very easy way to cheat the system… (Seriously, how would anyone survive without cheese?)
You can get lactase tablets. Those are little pills full of lactase, which is the protein that breaks down lactose into digestible simple sugars. All you have to do is take a lactase tablet when you eat anything with lactose, and you can continue to live your life like before.
Lactose intolerance is not black and white either. You may have some tolerance left, which may be enough to eat your cereal with milk, if that is the inly lactose you have during the day. Your tolerance can also fluctuate over time. For example, the first time I had an issue with lactose it only lasted a few weeks.
I can have a bit of milk. But I have it with coffee, and any more than that gives me gas. I’ll talk to my doctor about lactase pills, thank you for letting me know.
My pleasure! And unless the rules are different where you live, you don’t need to see a doctor or get a prescription. Here (Belgium) you can easily get them from pharmacies or online.
