Can anyone recommend any good cook books for a wheat and dairy free diet?
Thanks in advance.
That's called a barbecue isn't it? 😉
unless it is for a medical reason, i wouldn't actively avoid dairy products.
🙂 @ Jota
It's on medical advice for the short term.
My sister is allergic to dairy.
She gets [url= http://www.ocado.com/product/18408011?name=Swedish_Glace_Dairy_Free_Vanilla_Frozen_Dessert_&source=PLA&gclid=CJbFopmhj7ECFccLfAodBSucMA ]this swedish glace ice cream[/url].
When I go around I eat it as I think its far nicer than a lot of pukka ice creams.
If you don't find anything else, you should just live off this. 😆
i have been dairy and wheat free since april.
so far i have not died........should i see a doctor just incase i do?
You may find this of interest:
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/going-gluten-free
I have bought some 'Genius' gluten-free products but they're not really agreeing with me. Having looked at the ingredients, that was not what I expected to see!
unless it is for a medical reason, i wouldn't actively avoid dairy products.
Why not?
Lots of people get by just fine without a drop of cow juice in their diets. The idea that it's a critical source of nutrients for humans is dairy industry marketing codswallop.
Eeeeaaaatttt the ice-cream!
Haven't touched Dairy for 5 years. I never took the time to find out if I had some intolerance to it officially but it used to make me feel unwell - low energy and it gave me terrible skin problems - acne, dry skin etc.
Not something I miss.
Lots of people get by just fine without a drop of cow juice in their diets.
Like most chinese people for instance - supposedly they have a word for westerners based on the fact that we stink of dairy products (no idea if this is actually true but I heard it somewhere).
been easing off the moo stuff for a while, still dabble, but mostly I substitute things like oatily on my muesli. Been struggling with coffee and tea though as I don't like the taste of soya milk (plus too much is never a good thing) but have been pleased with coconut milk. doesn't taste of coconuts and has a good texture to it.
AndyB, check out [url= http://paleohacks.com/questions/tagged/Recipes ]Paleo Hacks [/url]
unless it is for a medical reason, i wouldn't actively avoid dairy products
why ?
Grum they do say that but I have had it said to me as well and then I tell them I have not eaten any for 5 years.
never noticed it myself tbh , its just morally that you all stink 😛
I've been off grains since feb and recently off milk, but still have double cream in my coffee. Check out the primal blueprint for ideas. Tonights dinner is chicken chilli served on roasted butternut squash.
Bagstard, we should swap recipes, we've just had Turkey Mousakka with sliced auburgine, nom nom nom
black tea & coffee for the win.
Tea tonight was: Pork tenderloin stuffed with sage, onion, apple and apricot. Sweet potato and carrot mash. Braised cabbage and peas.
Apart from a bit of butter in the mash, which you could replace with olive oil, that's wheat- and dairy-free. Have a look at the various iDave/iDiet threads for more ideas.
thestonesoup.com and nomnompaleo.com are my two favourite food blogs at the moment. Should be plenty there for you too.
the Mrs has gone down this route.
Most (if not all) of the Carol Vordermann detox based books are wheat/dairy free. The lacofree longlife milk seems to be pick of the bunch of all the milk substitutes she has tried & I've had to use in an emergency 🙂
When she's not looking I'm also partial to her Manchego (sheep milk based) cheese.
These threads always make me hungry!Cook you damn squash! Some good ideas up there for me to try!Embrace your new diet,there are so many things to enjoy other than wheat or dairy!
Ben, give up the mousakka recipe please! 🙂
I've been [mostly raw-food] Vegan for 25+ years and wheat free for maybe 10 of those 25 years, and I seem to have [s]survived[/s] thrived on it ...
I found the trick was absolutely not to try to do the same kinda stuff as I had been doing, with a 'substitute' product hacked in/out, but rather to take a completely fresh approach to it ... rather than use products that are processed to remove gluten / wheat kernels, have a look for food that just doesn't contain any wheat to start with ...
Initially you'll read the ingredients lists and wonder what you'll ever eat, but once it clicks in and you start to experiment, it'll get easier and easier.
Book recommendations ... I make it all up as I go along now, but I have used Rose Elliots stuff a lot in the past. A look at a good Japanese cookery book might be worth a go too, (Tamari is wheat-free, lots of other 'soy' sauce isn't).
You will find that the modern food industry is against you now tho' - but 100's of small independent wholefood shops aren't.
😉
Been struggling with coffee and tea though as I don't like the taste of soya milk (plus too much is never a good thing) but have been pleased with coconut milk. doesn't taste of coconuts and has a good texture to it.
Don't muck about with substitutes, just bite the bullet and have your tea and coffee black. Its just an easier life and it only takes a day or two for your tastes to adjust. Drink better quality coffee and dabble with different brands of teabag to what you usually have, you'll find some suit you better black, also try stuff like Earl Grey and Darjeeling. With tea I drink it far less often black, and also drink it slower- its a sipping rather gulping drink
low energy and it gave me terrible skin problems - acne, dry skin etc.
same here with it effecting my skin (not sure about the energy thing) its a sensitivity to the hormones in milk apparently - different to the more typical snottery problems that people get if they have trouble with lactose.
Food wise pretty much any recipe that calls for butter / cheese / cream doesn't really need it and usually works just as well without (except Welsh Rarebit maybe). Dairy blurs / dilutes flavour so most stuff is better without it.
Not much to advise on the wheat-free front, I'd guess any of the iDave threads would throw up ideas as dairy and wheat are verboten there. If you are in a tescos look out for little bags of grains by a company called Pedon, usually near either risotto and cows-cous ready meals or near the wholefoody bit. There are various mixes, but unlike other dried grain/pulses they cook as quickly as pasta and make a good substitute for pasta in a lot of dishes, if fact pasta becomes pretty boring by comparison.
Don't muck about with substitutes, just bite the bullet and have your tea and coffee black.
This +1. I make myself have milk on iCheat days, and the tea or coffee just doesn't taste as nice. I've convinced myself that I don't need the milk on iCheat days now, so will be stopping.
pasta becomes pretty boring
This (again) +1. The idea of a big pan full of boiling pasta just doesn't appeal to me anymore, but some spiced lentils, or roasted squash does.
It's hard to be subjective, because of the weird weather we've been having, but my hayfever and asthma seem to have been much better this year than previously. I had a rather elongated iCheat day (Thursday evening to Monday morning) this week because it was the end of our working year and I've been wheezy/ill this week.
Again, hard to factor out other causes in a sample of one, but I'm going to keep up the dairy- and gluten-minimal way of eating.