I always drank 1% lactaid milk and still do. The skim lactaid milk is just too watery for me.

I just found a recipe for vegan gefilte fish. I'm almost tempted to make it, just to be able to say I did. (The base is potatoes, eggplant, and matzo meal, plus some onions and garlic and spices.)

Interesting. I find that I like gefilte fish if it's not in the goo. My BFF's MIL brings it down from her deli in Philly, and they pack the fish and the goo separately. We just toss the goo and eat the dry fish with horseradish. sooooo good.

I found it when I was looking for a recipe for vegan Passover cake. I can find Passover cake recipes, and vegan cake recipes, but no vegan Passover cake recipes.

I've never heard of the deli kind of gefilte fish having goo. I've usually only seen that in the jarred kind.

Goo-less is definitely the way to go.

Yeah, the goo is pretty much just put there to make it so that it'll keep in a jar. I think that in some of the more expensive brands, the broth is much less gooey.

I'm almost tempted to make it, just to be able to say I did. (The base is potatoes, eggplant, and matzo meal, plus some onions and garlic and spices.)

It's sounds pretty tasty!

my mom had us drink whole milk until we were two, as the recommendations at the time said to,

I'm sure I drank whole milk as a child, as did my sibs that were able to drink milk. I didn't allow the boys to have any dairy until after they were 2 because of studies that showed a link to diabetes development. Both my maternal grandparents and all 3 of my sibs are diabetic. I'm a bit more than fanatical about trying to prevent this in the boys. Other than both my pregnancies I haven't had any sugar problem, but I am pretty careful with my diet that way. (I overindulge in plenty of non-sugary items)

ION, I am having a super crappy day so I am watching downloaded tv on my computer. It seems the only reasonable option.

I've seen a few vegan "fish" recipes that add a pinch of seaweed to get the fishy flavor. Usually in recipes that start with something like, "This isn't going to fool anyone, but if you're craving tuna salad, this might satisfy it." I've found that, in general, the vegan fake foods are much more likely to be comfort food type things than anything fancy -- hot dogs, chicken nuggets, tuna salad, the sort of stuff you eat when you're seven. There are plenty of great vegan real foods, and I think most of the fake ones are mostly for when you're craving something that you ate as a kid.

The only exception I can think of is Hezbollah Tofu, which is a blog that veganizes Anthony Bourdain's recipes.