Anyone with a dairy free diet??

Is this is this a rhetorical question?! Anything except dairy! Olivani instead of butter, soy milk instead of cow's milk. I found it helpful to reward myself with treats like licorice, dairy-free chocolate (the Trade Aid dark choc is good), a soy mocha when I was out.

You get used to it. I'm not BFing any more so I can eat dairy again but I've lost the taste for it a bit. I still have vanilla chai soy in my coffee. My skin is definitely better for it.

I like Whittakers Dark Chocolate...it's dairy free. And like everyone else has said...Olivani or Olivite instead of butter/marg etc. I'm more lactose free, than dairy free so I use lactose free milk rather than soy (I don't like the taste, except in my soy hot choc from a cafe!!). Also, most chicken flavoured things have dairy products in them - chicken chips, frozen chicken bits etc.

There's also rice milk as an alternative to soy, I love soy milk as long as you get around the idea that it doesn't taste anything like normal milk its ok. You could always start of with the flavoured ones - like chocolate or vanilla to get used to the taste.

The hardest part with milk is what its added to, a lot of flavourings have milk in them and so do some breads. Helps to check the packs.

yum soy chai lattes!! i could never drink soy straight, but as a latte or mixed with complan is great and it got to the point where i didn't like the taste of normal milk any more. Plus, like the others have said, it is really easy to use in baking and cooking instead of normal milk.

there's a fantastic chocolate cake recipe i used a lot that is dairy free - pm me if you want it, it was a hit with everyone i know! Sophie someone (the destitute cook i think she's called) has some good recipies where she gives you alternatives if you are dairy or gluten free.

weegee had kindly linked up all the dairy, gluten,egg free recipes posted on here so there are some yummy baking treats.

I use the crazy choc cake recipe all the time.

I am a big cheese lover so going dairy free was hard for me.

Dairy free made no difference to Jakes reflux at all! But he is lactose intolerant. Here is a list of things of hand. As there is no allergy I only eliminated things that contained dairy, but if it was made in a factory that had dairy so traces might be found etc I still eat those.

vanilla soy milk (so yum on porridge or in coffee)
olivani spread
pams choc chips
corn cruskits
weight watchers salt and vinegar or plain chips


Gosh at this late hour thats all I can think of!

I eat nuts and fruit as snacks, make my own sauces for meals... I even substitute aoili on my home made pizza instead of cheese YUMMO