There is soy , rice and oat milk who all are like milk . I haven ' t bought cow milk in years and I don ' t miss it at all . Oat milk is the best thing for breakfast and coffees . You can use yeast as surrogate cheese but I haven ' t tried that much myself , yet . I still love cheese as well . I just eat as much vegan as possible . Rarely used butter before and now simply eat margarine . Thing is There is basically a vegan surrogate for everything in every dish you might imagine . Only things that are like 95 % made up of animal products are not able to be replaced e . g . meringues . For baking , you can often replace eggs with applesauce , replace milk with the above mentioned milks , replace butter with margarine and so on .