Following a completely dairy free diet

[[M]umma[M]ia]

Just thought I would start a thread about following a dairy free diet while breastfeeding.

My DD has a suspected cows milk protien allergy so I am unable to have any dairy at all and am suprised everyday with how much hidden dairy is in foods. So ill start the list off with foods that contain dairy and will add them to the list as they come through and we all learn more.

Also feel free to add "alternative recipes" (eg, rice milk muffins)

Contain Dairy (and/or Soy)

Milk (cows milk & soy)
Yogurt
Icecream
Salt and vinigar chips
Chocolate
Biscuits
Most cakes
Some dips
Butter/margerine
CC's
Body wise Bars
Gravy
Recipe bases
BBQ Sakata's



Alternatives -

Milk - Rice Milk, Almond Milk, Oat Milk
Yougurt - Co-yo (google it)
Icecream - Co-yo (google it)
Chocolate - There are dairy free chocolate available from the health food section in your supermarket. Both coles brand and lindt dark chocolate are dairy free.
Dips - Yumi's dips.
Butter - Nuttelex
Biscuits - Oreos and Choc Ripple biscuits.

Recipes -

Custard

Melt nuttlex (1 tablespoon), adding cornflour (1 tablespoon) and cooking for a few minutes, adding rice milk (or soy or coconut) about 2 cups, and a little bit of cocoa maybe 1 teaspoon, stir until boiled and smooth.

[Eenee]

I did find one type of salt and vinegar chips they are skins brand or something like that and are as close as you can get! I think it still says may contain traces.

The best chocolate biscuit alternative are the ones that look like Tim tams from woolworths.

There is soy yoghurt but would prefer an alternative to soy!

[Santosha]

Both coles brand and lindt dark chocolate are dairy free.

Almond milk is pretty yum but odd on some things so I stuck with rice milk until recently - DS seems fine with soy now

Yumi's dips are all dairy-free and super awesome - I have been living on these and rice crackers (and fruit and almonds) as my between-meals snack

But cheese, oh wonderful cheese. There just is no substitute and dammit, I miss it so much!

[Amity]

Nuttelex instead of butter. I use it all the time instead of butter/margarine - it creams up nicely for biscuits and cakes too.

[surprised]

A nice dessert is home made rice milk custard. You can add some cocoa for choc flavour.

The hardest i found was food courts - usually ended up with hot chips or scallops.

Need to be careful of bread too. And stock if you're avoiding soy. In terms of icecream i found some yummy sorbets. In terms of baking we just used normal recipes and substituted rice milk and nuttlex. Coconut milk was a useful substitute in some things. Hth!

[BlackCat]

Are you avoiding soy or just dairy? We do both as apparently they commonly go hand in hand? Which rings true for our little ones when we have messed up lol. We also avoid soy lectin (sp?) as there are mixed reports about it so we figure its safer just to avoid it. We are sadly yet to find a chocolate that doesnt have soy lecthin or dairy in it. Wahh... Also if you are avoiding both soy and dairy, watch what they cook things in when out. Lots of places use vegetable oil - vegetable oil contains Soy.

If you become friends with your health food isle they have a brand called orgran that is practically everything free. For chocolate cake we make it from scratch using the crazy cake (minus spices) recipe. Tastes pretty yum! Its also heavily allergy free.

Once you get in the swing of things, its pretty easy.

Have you tried making banana ice cream? Thats our next adventure. Nom nom (I hope lol).