I've been dairy free for over 3 years now as my DD is allergic to dairy and intolerant to soy. I use rice milk and nuttlex as well. I do use goats cheese on things occasionally because it has less caesen protein when my DD is actually allergic too, its actually not lactose, but the cows milk protein.

I have found that weaning myself off cheese, but eliminating all cows milk, yoghurt and butter which is high in the proteins was the best thing for me to do. I don't do any yoghurt now at all. I had to alternate my snacks to things like hummous and carrots and other things.... HTH!