Lactose-Free Egg Nog

Lactose-free egg nog is like lactose-free everything else. You start with lactose-free milk and then proceed as per usual. All the Dairy-Free Egg Nog recipes I linked to yesterday are also lactose-free, of course, but won't have any milk in them at all.

These recipes, therefore, are just for the lactose intolerant, not the milk allergic or vegans.

The Sneaky Kitchen has a recipe that starts with regular Lactaid brand lactose-free milk, but you can use any brand of lactose-free milk in it.



Lactaid does have a premade Eggnog of its own that it rolls out during the holiday season. The Lactaid site also has a EggNog Cinnamon French Toast recipe that starts with its Eggnog. (Why the capital N in the recipe title when there isn't one in the drink? Copyeditors are expensive.)

Dairy-Free Egg Nog

Rushing into the holiday season as we are, making up batches of egg nog lacking the vital ingredients of egg and nog may the last things on the minds of most, even the vegans amongst us. But there are many different ways of whipping up a quick batch of dairy-free nog or non nog. Non nog is also the sound your tongue makes if you spike it too heavily, so beware. There's going to be a lot of snow over half the country this weekend.

(Why nog? What's in the nog portion anyway? Spikes. The "name may have come from 'noggin,' a small drinking vessel or from joining the sounds of 'egg 'n grog.'")

HubPages.com has a vegan "eggnog" using soy or rice "milk" and no eggs.

If both dairy and soy are problems, try this recipe from the Two Foot Kitchen blog that blends almond milk with coconut milk and eggs.

The Feminine Fit Body blog has a variation using just coconut milk.

Or you could go without a base liquid at all, as in this almond-based recipe from Elana's Pantry.



For those of us for whom making two ingredients together is a challenge, or just if you're too busy to need to worry about a new recipe, the easiest way out is have the non nog already made up for you, as in Silk's seasonal soy-based Silk Nog. Vitasoy used to have two holiday nog flavors, but I can't find it on their website so they may have discontinued it.