Kingdom of Knuffel

Me too! :)

Hm, why did you go dairy-free exactly? If it's about the lactose, a lot of hard cheeses are naturally free of it (something about their ripening does that). If you do it for no-animal-product reasons though, then sadly you will have to live with the replacements I suppose. Are they any good? I don't think I've ever had vegan cheese replacements.

That doesn't sound too bad :) Cheddar with caramelised onion sounds tasty...

Yeah, I would think for chocolate it should be easier? Since milk is not THE defining ingredient of it, that's the cocoa. So one should be able to produce vegan chocolate, not only dark ones but also ones more like milk chocolate by using something like almond milk or the like?

Oh really? That's too bad, I would have thought that would work.

With all the vegan food popping up lately, it's probably just a matter of time until they manage some proper vegan chocolate.

I've read already propably a year ago that scientist suceeded in making a "real" vegan milk, so milk from milk proteins that is actual milk, but does not come from animals. The article said that it was supposed to hit the market in 1018 and that it would not be more expensive than common milk, but somehow even healthier. I have not heard anything of it ever since, so I am not sure what happened with it, but "vegan" chocolate (and cheese) is coming in the future for sure!
At least, if you define "vegan" as a person who does not eat or use any animal products, as the milk doesn't come from animals.
If you want to live dairy free because of health reasons like lactose intolerance, that won't really help (Though lactose-free milk has been around for ages and it even tastes better than milk with lactose in my opinion).

EDIT: There are plenty of articles about it, like this:
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-new-d ... s-required
This one is even from 1016 and says they hoped to release it next year, which would have been 2017. But I am not aware such diary products exist, at least not in germany. But I am sure hoping they will come one day.

For me lactose-free milk tastes like burned milk. But regular milk isn't tasty either. I really do like soy milk though.

Really? Lactose free milk actually just tastes sweeter than milk with lactose. The lactose is broken down into its component sugars, glucose and galactose and thus it tastes sweeter as it contains a different kind of sugar. I can't taste any other difference. Always prefered the lactose free version and on top if it I can give it to my cats instead of buying expensive "cat milk".
(Though I must say, I have no cue how burned milk tastes like, so I lack comparison)