Following a completely dairy free diet

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.

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!

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!

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

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!

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).

This random blog has a few recipes on it that you might like. The author has been threatening to blog about cultured coconut yoghurt for a while, but she has a one year old and tries to do too much and gets caught on BB sometimes ;)

Sweet William chocolate is more amazing in baking than almost any other. Whittakers bittersweet dark, available at Big W, is a really good value beautiful dairy free chocolate.

Hmmm.... moving on from the chocolate obsession.

Oreos and Choc Ripple biscuits are dairy free. Wait, that's chocolate again.

Nice biscuits are also dairy free. Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese is delish. Cashew Cream is a great substitute for cream, if you're eating nuts.

almond milk
coconut milk
hazelnut milk

all good substitutes.

I'm also grain free so I avoid soy and rice milk. Soy really isn't good for you anyway.

You can buy almond milk UHT at woolies or you can make it yourself, same with any nut milk, A quick google should give you lots of recipes. 400g of almonds should get you about 1.5-2lt of milk depending on how creamy you like it.

You can also make coconut yoghurt. I haven't attempted this yet, but I'm missing eating creamy stuff so am going to try it out.

ETA instead of butter you can have clarified butter, which is butter with the milk solids taken out. I prefer it to nutlex.

If you are having trouble finding biscuits, try the health food isle in the supermarket they have some there which are gluten and dairy free. You can get some chocolate ones there. Also whilst there you can get the Sweet William chocolate which someone has already mentioned. Not as good as normal chocolate but a very close substitute.

If you aren't already make sure you take 2 caltrate tablets. You have to double the dose if you are BF. We have a milk protein allergy here too.

Great thread idea. I use oat milk on cereal - for me it's the most similar to dairy.

Beware milk and skim milk powder added to some breads too.
Things that just list "milk fat" (e.g. some types of cooking chocolate) may actually be OK, because the proteins and lactose are not in the fat phase.
There is also milk powder in some mueslis and cereals as well.

I use fruit juice on cereal - it looks very ugly but tastes nice.

Just randomly... cc's also have cheese powder on them, usually.

I make dairy free custard with by melting 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. All the kids love it.

As an alternative to yoghurt I have mini plastic pots that I set fruit and jelly into. Great for a sweet treat and in a lunchbox. Will be back to add more later.

ETA

I have added rough amounts for this recipe, but I tend to just throw ingredients together so you may need more or less milk depending on how thick the custard is, and how thick you want it. This quantity would do for a small amount of custard for my 4 kids so increase it if you want more.

We don't have CMPI here (this time around!), but I am about to go dairy-free to attempt to address chronic systemic inflammation, so this has been a very timely thread. Thank you for all the tips and ideas :)

Thanks for getting this up and going with me girls :)

Im not having Soy either as it upsets me something shocking as does the other dairy so thinking it will do the same to DD.


Updating the original post now to contain the most updated info from you all :)

Have added rough quantities for my recipe in my original post

I also use hommous as a spread on crackers as an alternative to spreading cheese, add some ham on top and some salad it's delicious.

I duno if i can post this - hopefully the mods don't mind. I have a fb page called healthy homes. My son has lots of allergies including Cows milk protein (which includes soy and oats as well) and so i have lots of food ideas/recipes on there. only a relatively new page so still building it....but it's getting there ;)

Kirley I think you can post it if it's not a business page or earning you money in anyway.


At the moment trying to find an alternative for milk for 12mth old she is still breastfed but supply is low being pregnant.

I have always used rice milk along with still demand bfing. Just bought almond milk this week to try but DS is now 20months. It was recommended by my naturopath ages ago as a better replacement than rice milk, but while i was still bfing i wasnt' concerned.

My page is non profit and not a business. Just an info page :) Some babes with Cow's Milk protein allergy can tollerate goats milk although my son can't. There are a couple formulas available though on prescription for babies with CMPA if need be?

Kirley you are fine to post a link to your FB page if you like, because it's non commercial :)

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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).

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Rawlicious Chocolate from the healthfood stores is chocolate that is soy and dairy free :) It does have agave nectar so only have small amounts cuz that's alot of sugar. But it's yum!