Tag ‘dairy free’
My 5 Favorite Food Allergy Friendly Foods (Vegan & Gluten Free too!)
Having dealt with food allergies for the last 6 years and also having been gluten free for about a year, I learned that getting convenience foods was no longer an option, unless you know where to look. I don’t know what people with food allergies did a decade or more before the food allergy labeling more
Meatloaf without Egg or Dairy? It can be done!
The number of ingredients that you need for a regular meatloaf is staggering, but it’s almost always stuff you have in your pantry already…unless you need to do ingredient substitutions. Meatloaf without egg? Can it be done? What will I use for binding? Many people try to make their meatloaf without adding eggs, and they more
Mighty Milk is NOT Milk Free – When Dairy Free isn’t Dairy Free…
Looky here – it says right on the Mighty Milk display box that it is Milk Free – or rather “Contains No Milk.” “Wow!” I thought. That’s really neat. Why haven’t I heard of this product before? So I pick up the box to check out the ingredients. Before I go any further, if you’ve more
Project: Food Budget – Dairy Free / Vegan Pizza
We are not vegans, though sometimes we are by necessity because of our food allergies: eggs, for my oldest son and I, and milk, for our youngest. Selecting Ingredients: If you want to go full on vegan with your pizza, make sure you buy a crust that does not contain milk or may contain trace more
Project: Food Budget – Vegan / Dairy Free / Gluten Free Mexican Dinner
In addition to having multiple food allergies (peanuts, tree nuts, eggs, and dairy), I was also on a gluten free diet for awhile when I became chronically ill. While I am no longer on the gluten free diet, this recipe I discovered one day while I was desperate for a protein packed meal while fasting more
“May Contain” Food Allergy Labeling
And then, there’s the obvious “DUH” moments… Image by Arenamontanus via Flickr I was hunting for some delicious sourdough bread at my regular supermarket this past weekend. Unfortunately, every single loaf had a warning label on it. “Contains Milk Ingredients”. Damn. “Produced in a facility that also manufactures Tree Nuts.” Oh, Shut-up! I actually made more
When “Dairy Free” isn’t Dairy Free…
I was at Whole Foods the other day looking for some allergen free chocolate chips that I have purchased in the past so that I could bake some chocolate chip cookies for Christmas. As I looked for the kind I knew was safe and usually would purchase, I came across carob chips that caught my more
Dairy Free Green Bean Casserole Recipe
If you’ve never been to my blog before, let me begin by saying that we have a lot of food allergies in our house. This includes dairy products with our youngest son. Mealtime is definitely a challenge. Holidays are worse. So, for Thanksgiving, in addition to making a dairy free, egg free pumpkin pie (aka more
Food allergies make for mealtime creativity
Usually if someone hears the words “dairy free” or “gluten free”, they cringe and expect it to taste like “Donkey Cake”. While there are a ton of horrible ready-made, allergy free items on the shelves, and some equally bad recipes that taste more like cardboard than food, there are ways to get your allergen free more
