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# The custom is that using pareve milk is permitted for a number of reasons. Eating chicken with almond milk was not part of the gezeirah. Therefore we should not be adding concerns of maris ayin which are not mentioned in the Gemorah.<ref>Refer to Devar Shmuel 92:page 40. </ref> Furthermore, pareve milk is so common<ref>Refer to Machzik Beracha Y.D. 87:6, Yugel Yaakov 23. </ref> that no one would think one is using real milk for a coffee while eating a fleshig meal.<ref>Yechaveh Daas 3:59. See P’leasi Y.D. 87:8. </ref> There is no need to place the bottle of creamer on the table in order to let people know that the milk used is pareve.<ref>Harav Yisroel Belsky Shlita, see Yabia Omer Y.D. 6:8. The Be’er Moshe (Pischei Halacha- Kashrus page 113:7) holds that one has to place the bottle on the table. See Badi Hashulchan 87:48, Biurim “sh’keidim.” </ref>

# One is permitted to eat pareve ice cream after a meat meal without placing the package on the table.<ref>Yabia Omer Y.D. 6:8. See Tzitz Eliezer 5:12.  

* The Knesset Hagedola (Bet Yosef 87:8) writes that it is permitted to have parve milk after meat if the meat was already removed from the table. Yabia Omer YD 6:8 and Badei HaShulchan 87:42 agree. In the footnote of Badei Hashulchan (87:86) he cites the Shulchan Gavoha who is lenient even if the meat wasn't cleared. </ref>  

* Maadeni Asher (siman 36) writes that it is permitted to have meat with parve margarine since it is common and regular, so no one will assume that it is a forbidden combination of meat and milk. The Daat Torah 87 agrees. This is based on the concept of the Peleti 87:8 that if something is commonly used there's no marit ayin. However, the Badei Hashulchan (87 s.v. Mishum Marit Ayin) argues that even if it is common for people to cook with and eat parve milk, such as soy milk, or parve butter, such as margarine, there is still marit ayin.</ref> or butter on a soy burger since it is known to all that there exists pareve meat etc. In the company of people who do not know that there are such pareve products one should let them know what he is eating in order for them not to think he is doing incorrectly.<ref>Hechsheiros (ch. 10, no. 99). He adds there that it is proper not to walk in the street eating a soy sandwich with a milk drink in your hand.</ref> One who wishes to drink pareve milk (which is not known to people) with meat should place the container on the table.<ref>Hechsheiros 10:42.  

* The Badei Hashulchan 87:47 writes that it is sufficient to leave the container of the parve milk near the food which has parve milk and meat together. Though he holds (Biurim s.v. shekedim) considers a note stating that it is parve milk to be insufficient to make it recognizable that there's no forbidden meat and milk.</ref>

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