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After avoiding dairy for about a week, I had a bowl of yogurt with raspberries for breakfast about 3/4 of an hour ago. I'd debated between trying that first, or trying milk in my tea first; I went for the yogurt because I was feeling a little tired of cold cuts every morning.
My digestive system did not like the yogurt: I noticed on the way back from the Greenmarket that I really needed to get to the bathroom. *sigh*
After dealing with the immediate problem, I took a Lactaid pill, less because I really think it will help than because it seems harmless and possibly useful.
I may try milk in tea in a day or two, on the theory that it's a much smaller amount of dairy (maybe a teaspoon, rather than a cup or more [that's about a factor of 15, for those of you who think in metric]); if so, I'll take Lactaid with that, not afterwards. Or maybe try a little butter or lemon curd on bread, similar quantities, since I've been reasonably happy drinking tea without milk. Yesterday I pulled out an apricot-flavored Ceylon from Cha Noir that I'd put aside because it didn't go well with milk; that was pleasant.
The other thing I may try is sheep's-milk yogurt, but that would be awkward enough to get (and, I think, enough more expensive) that it won't make a good everyday breakfast, and much of the point of the yogurt has been that it required little thought or preparation. (I have emailed![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
adrian_turtle to see if she remembers, or can find out, whether the yogurt she got for my last visit was sheep's milk; if it was, that's probably not a solution.)
My digestive system did not like the yogurt: I noticed on the way back from the Greenmarket that I really needed to get to the bathroom. *sigh*
After dealing with the immediate problem, I took a Lactaid pill, less because I really think it will help than because it seems harmless and possibly useful.
I may try milk in tea in a day or two, on the theory that it's a much smaller amount of dairy (maybe a teaspoon, rather than a cup or more [that's about a factor of 15, for those of you who think in metric]); if so, I'll take Lactaid with that, not afterwards. Or maybe try a little butter or lemon curd on bread, similar quantities, since I've been reasonably happy drinking tea without milk. Yesterday I pulled out an apricot-flavored Ceylon from Cha Noir that I'd put aside because it didn't go well with milk; that was pleasant.
The other thing I may try is sheep's-milk yogurt, but that would be awkward enough to get (and, I think, enough more expensive) that it won't make a good everyday breakfast, and much of the point of the yogurt has been that it required little thought or preparation. (I have emailed
adrian_turtle to see if she remembers, or can find out, whether the yogurt she got for my last visit was sheep's milk; if it was, that's probably not a solution.)