Dairy (lactose) Free diet

zippychick

Hot pasta

serves 4. 350g non wheat (or normal ) pasta
2 tbsp olive oil or pesto
450g chopped veg - ie a mix of what ever - strips of pepers, brocolli, sliced mushies, pease , courgettes

Cook pasta according to packet, If u want cooked verg add in last 5 mins of cooking. While hot, combine pasta with oil /pesto and raw or cooked veg

lentil bolognese

serves 4
350g pasta
3 rbsp water or stock
1 chopped onion
2 carrots finely chopped
1 lge courgette finely chopped
400g can tinned toms
can brown or green lentils
1 tsp mixed herbs

Cook pasta / Saute veg in stock/water 5 mins until softened/ Add toms, lentils & herbs. cook 5-10 mins until thickens slightly . Drain pasta and place on plate. Top with lentil bolognese


Pasta with tomato & veg sauce


350 g pasta
3 tsb water/stock
chopped onion
2 crushed garlic
2 tbsp tom puree
1 tbsp fresh or tsp dried basil
2 or more veg from this list - 225g asparagus chopped into 4 cm lengths, 2 sliced courgettes, a pepper any colour, 225g brocolli, 150g mange tout, 1 small finely chopped aubergine, 125g mushies sliced, 125 g french beans chopped as asparagus

Cook pasta. Meanwhile heat liquid, add onion garlic and prepared veg - 5 mins cooking until softened,

add chopped toms , puree and basil, cook 5 mins until veg tender bu firm (i would cook longer but this is detox stuff where they encourage you to eat nearer raw state)

This is one of my favourites and i make it all the time. Bulks up well too and is very filling (seeds )

Spiced rice with pumpkinseeds

1-2 tsp cumin seeds,
1 tsp ground coriander,
300g brown rice (white works as well)
900 ml stock veg,
4 tbsp pumpkin seeds
225g frozen peas

dry dry cumin and coriander and rice in pan for about two minutes. Add stock, bringing to boil then simmer 20-25 mins until liquid is gone and rice cooked. I sometimes add a touch moire boiling water if its not cooked to my liking - and cook it a bit longer.

Add peas straight from freezer and cook for 3 mins. Stir in toasted pumpkin seeds and heat through before serving

This is such a nice effective rice to make - give it a go! it keeps well in the fridge, and also fries up into a nice egg friend rice the next day (egg and soy sauce in drying pan!) . Also nice as stuffed peppers so can be good to make a batch to use over a couple of days. Yum. I might have to make some now

There are a couple of baking recipes - cranberry muffins, ap[ple & blackberry crumble , honeyed vanilla pears and baked butternut squash with sunflower seeds = if anyone wants just ask.Also a roasted veg tart and grilled cashew nutr and sun dried tomato cakes with red peppers and fennel. Always wanted to try that but never did, sounds yu,mmy! Nice hoummus recipe too which is a good non dairy substitute when people are eating dips! Its really not so bad

SOya cheese is ok on stuffed peppers , melts nice.

princessamy86

Hi everyone!
I have a friend coming for tea tonight, and his girlfriend is lactose intolerant and I'm really not sure what she can and can't eat. Does anyone have any recipe ideas? I'm sure there's loads, I'm just having a total mind blank!
Thanks

Penelope_Penguin

princessamy86 wrote: »

Hi everyone!
I have a friend coming for tea tonight, and his girlfriend is lactose intolerant and I'm really not sure what she can and can't eat. Does anyone have any recipe ideas? I'm sure there's loads, I'm just having a total mind blank!
Thanks

Lactose is a sugar found in dairy products. Spaghetti bolognaise (without cheese) is lactose-free

There's a whole thread here - Dairy (lactose) free diet I'll add this later to keep ideas together.

Penny. x

Bombchelle

Here are 4 pages full of recipes:

Lactose Free Recipes

Hope that helps! You really can eat well even if you're lactose intolerant. :-)

princessamy86

Thanks very much, I don't know why I couldn't think of any, I knew there would be loads!

Teresita_2

Hi there folks

Am just looking to tap into your knowledge to help me with something that am finding extremely upsetting at the moment.

My 4 year old son has been told he has to follow a "dairy free" diet following some tests that were done on him.

Am at a loss as this is his favourite food group. Have been looking at his favourite foods and they all seem to have some dairy in it.

I have been trying to cut down my budget and fear that my spending will increase with all the specialised food having to be brought in. I do cook alot from scratch but am now finding I will have to have various alternatives in the house (butter, cream, milk!!) I havn't seen the dietitian as yet and not sure when it will be but I have to start from now according to the hospital letter.

Any help with pointing me in the right direction would be appreciate especially if you have any views/opinions of what is out there taste wise etc.

Many thanks

Teresa

Pink.

Hi Teresita,

I have no personal experience of dairy free diet, but there is some advice on these threads:

Help needed - Weaning a dairy intolerant baby with finger foods only

Dairy (lactose) Free diet

Pink

twinkle_star_2

Hi teresita,

I'm vegan so I can offer some advice on dairy free things. What sort of things do you need help with? Meals/things to avoid/replacements?

Obvious things are:

Milk --- Soya/rice/oat/nut/hemp/coconut milk (not coconut milk in a tin but dairy alternative milk made with coconuts). Most supermarkets do a value and an own brand so this can be pretty cheap (60p a litre).

Butter --- there are several dairy free spreads available. Vitalite and Pure are the brand names and I know sainsbury's do an own brand dairy free spread. About £1 a tub.

Cream - well you can get soya cream if necessary or just use something else (depends if its for cooking or going on desserts).

Ice cream - sweedish glace is the cheapest non-dairy ice cream (generally about £2 a tub) and the chocolate one is gorgeous. Other brands i've seen around tend to be scarily expensive (booja-booja about £8 a tub!)

Custard - you can get ready made non-dairy custard in supermarkets but custard powder is fine and can be made up with a non-dairy milk.

Hope that helps and let me know anything else you need help/ideas about.

Trow

You should have a look through the vegan thread: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1451243 as there will be lots of ideas there - even if you substitute some ingredients for meat/eggs.

paulwf

I don't really have much to add but just wanted to back up what Twinkle says, I'm vegan as well and cook from scratch and it isn't a big deal at all. We just seem to be a bit obsessed with dairy products in the UK

If there is any particular recipe you want just shout, and there are also a lot of good cook books now.

Most products aren't too expensive and local wholefood shops will usually do a case discount and Holland & Barret run a buy one get one half price offer twice a year (summer promotion has just ended and our freezer is full). Granted you won't get the equivalent for really cheap and poor quality processed food but as you cook from scratch that won't be an issue. If there is anything we do find expensive - perhaps vegan cheese - we are just mindful to use it a bit more sparingly.