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.
I usually do a bagel and cream cheese for breakfast. Sometimes on the weekends I’ll do chocolate chip pancakes. Yeah, real exciting I know.
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.
Eggs and whatever bread is available. I’m also a uni student and this is usually my go-to when I’m running late.
edit: Toss in a fruit.
English muffins are good and you can put a variety of different toppings on them. I’m partial to peanut butter and jelly.
Fruit or avocado on toast or egg on toast. Rice milk is delicious with cereal too.
Also some dairy free yogurt eg soy based with some fruit and nuts or seeds
Egg on toast sounds good.
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.
Planet oat tastes the worst but is the only one that’s not loaded up with a bunch of oil. The unsweetened original Planet Oat is good enough and 45 calories a cup. But I guess it’s the skim milk of oat milk.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Microwave oatmeal with a little salt, cinnamon, nuts, and peanut butter. Feel free to add thawed frozen berries to spice it up.
A sparking water, maybe a caffeinated one, 35mg
Just by itself? I do drink coffee. I was hoping for something a bit more nutritious.
I was half joking lol. I just don’t usually eat breakfast I guess.
Have you tried milk alternatives like soy or oat?
Sweet: Instant oatmeal - can add fruit, cinnamon, honey Fruit salad Smoothie - can hide a few greens in there, thicken with peanut butter, protein powder Frozen waffles - can add fruit
Savory: Toast/bagels - can use butter, peanut/nut butter, make a sandwich with deli meats Omelette - many options, cooks quickly Frozen hashbrowns and peppers and onions - can season, add spice
Omelette sandwich sounds good.
You can get a lot of instant noodles.
Also, if there’s Indian store nearby (there’s almost a guarantee for that), then you can get a lot of instant Indian foods like Maggi, poha, upma, etc.
Bread with butter (plant based) and/ or jam is another option.
Fruit salad is another evergreen option.
I do like poha every once in a while. But the instant stuff isn’t for me.
Muesli plus oat milk.
Cheapest way is Trader Joe’s since they sell both relatively cheaply and their oat milk is pretty good. But their muesli is a bit lacking so I prefer Seitenbacher’s muesli (order direct from them). Can toss in some more dried fruits from TJ’s too.
It’s more filling and nutritious than just cornflakes.
Ooo, Aldi had Musli lately but it was one of their “limited edition” aisle things and my store ran out recently. I got really used to it for breakfast, so I’ll have to look into Seitenbacher’s!
Looks good.
Just get lactose-free milk. I’m lactose intolerant af and I have a cappuccino every morning made with lactose-free milk.
What kind? I tried soy milk and didn’t like it.
There’s a big variance in taste across soy milks. There’s only two brands I’ll tolerate and I’m pretty sure they both come from the same factory.
There’s just straight up lactose free real milk. It’s milk with the enzyme we don’t have, already in it.
That sounds great. Someone else suggested Lactaid somewhere up in the comments.
Brands differ country to country so I have no idea what you have, but no harm in trying it
I used to buy Lactaid milk, which I liked ok and it didn’t bother me, but it was hard for me to find it in a size smaller than a gallon. I found that I really enjoy the Fairlife brand milk and it comes in a half gallon size. It is also lactose free, and usually stays good for a really long time compared to regular milk.
there’s a multitude of other brands and types of non dairy milk, all slightly different, try a few of them. and try them in cereal not just straight. I don’t care for any kind of milk on its own, but cashew or oat milk in cereal is great.
A sandwich with boiled egg and Swedish caviar (can be bought from IKEA overseas). Loved by every sane Swede
Peanut butter and banana wrapped in a soft tortilla!
