I loved the flavour of chocolate rice dream- so delicious.

I contacted the people to tell them, and mentioned my blog, and they agreed to send me some of their other products to sample.

Some Original Organic Rice milk, and some Original + Calcium.

I used the Original in baking;

in porridge;

and in tea;

and it worked perfectly in all of them. The porridge looked a little thinner than when made with normal milk, but I don’t think the flavour was much different (I cover it in cinnamon anyway). In the baking and in the tea it was again fine- did not split or curdle or anything like that. I think it makes a good replacement for milk, and if you were avoiding soya then it would be a good alternative.

I liked the Original + Calcium, as I think if you were to cut out dairy you do need to think about where to get calcium from.

This was amazing by the way- small frozen banana, 1/2 bag spinach, some frozen cherries, some rice dream, 2tsp cocoa powder, xanthan gum = heaven! It was meant to be a smoothie but it was more like melty ice cream so I ate it from a bowl! Anyway, the rice dream was lovely in this and I was happy to know I was still getting some calcium too.

I would choose the one with added calcium over the original one, just to help with my calcium intake, but to me they both tasted the same- light and fresh, and I was impressed by how well they went in tea, baking, porridge etc.

Their website has a load of recipes on there which look amazing, as well as a list of their other products (I will be on the lookout for the hazelnut and almond one which sounds amazing). They also asked that I put a link to their facebook page, so click here to go to that and “like” it.

So thanks Rice Dream- I enjoyed trying those products and will be on the lookout for other ones.