When being told to remove dairy from your diet, many of the responses are “But, I love cheese!” We feel you. Nikki had this same response, but you do what you have to. Luckily, there are cheese alternatives out there so you don’t have to totally miss out.
Here is our Beginner’s Guide to Cheese Alternatives.
As always, all options are dairy-, soy-, and gluten-free. They are also low FODMAP.
Beginner's Guide to Cheese Alternatives Click To TweetViolife
Violife is a brand we discovered recently at Publix. They have a variety of products including sliced cheese, shredded cheese, and cream cheese. The brand is 100% vegan. Violife also has a variety of certifications including NON GMO Project Verified, BK Kosher, and member of the Plant Based Foods Association.
We recently made a pumpkin cheesecake using their cream cheese.
This is Nikki’s favorite brand.
Follow Your Heart
Follow Your Heart is another really great cheese alternative. You can find a wide range of products including cheeses, yogurt alternatives, salad dressings, and Veganaise. Along with being NON GMO Project Verified, they are certified USDA Organic and zero waste verified.
Daiya
Daiya was one of the first brands that Nikki found when she first had to cut dairy from her diet. They have a wide variety of products including yogurt, cheezecakes, dessert bars, and pizza. Daiya is free of seven top allergens and are a member of the Plant Based Foods Association.
Earth Grown
Earth Grown can be found at Aldi. As far as I know, this is the only cheese alternative from Earth Grown. From Aldi’s website: Our Promise: All our Earth Grown products are free from animal products, including meat, poultry and seafood, and our vegan items are also free from substances produced by animals – such as eggs, dairy, honey, gelatin and lanolin.
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My mom lives in Australia and they have Aldi so I need to ask her to buy me some of Earth Grown. I am not sure we have Earth Grown in our local supermarket. The cheese are limited here.
I hope that she’s able to find it. My sister really likes it.
I cannot imagine being told I couldn’t eat cheese! I have always enjoyed it but certainly eat more than I ever have done whilst following Keto – great to know there are so many alternatives out there though so people can still enjoy! Sim x
I don’t even want to think about not being able to eat cheese. lol These alternatives have been so helpful for my sister.
Great guide. Thanks for sharing this. I had no idea there is such many options. I just discovered I’m lactose intolerant so this is really helpful.
I’m glad that you found this helpful, Natalie!
That is awesome! We do have the brand Daiya in our local supermarket but I never tried it. Will check it out.
What a great post. SO many people have dairy allergies and this is a great way to discover them.
Thank you, Ashley! I want to help make it as easy as I can for people to learn and to shop.
We all still eat cheese but I would personally like to try these cheese alternative brands to see what each one tastes like
I would recommend heating up Daiya before eating it; Nikki learned the hard way. 🙂
I’ve never heard of any of these so it is really neat learning about them, Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for reading! Glad to pass on some knowledge. 🙂
These look like great alternatives! I’ve never tried some of these -will have to add to my list.
I hope you find something you like!
It’s nice to know there are so many great dairy free alternatives, thanks for sharing