Need Dairy-free Recipes or Product Recommendations, Please

Since it may be just a temporary diet, start out easy. Here are some meal and snack ideas that should be relatively easy to incorporate into your life (and your husband's life too).

meals:
chili (chicken chili is a favorite of mine), hamburgers, meatloaf, spaghetti with marinara sauce, most Chinese restaurant take-out is dairy free, chicken nuggets (check the label - a lot of them do have dairy), grilled fish, fish sticks....obviously, you can control the ingredients of anything that is homemade.

convenience foods:
Wendy's and Burger King chicken nuggets and fries do not contain dairy. McDonald's does.
If you have a Whole Foods that sells hot food, they list all ingredients and allergens. You can try lots of options there.
Ritz crackers
oatmeal
Cheerios (I'm pretty sure that all varieties, including chocolate, are dairy free)
soy ice cream
most Chunky Soups, including clam chowder, do not contain milk
graham crackers
Golden Oreos
dark chocolate
devil's food cake
fudge brownie mix

So there's a short list to get you started. Living dairy free can be easy once you get started. It's a little daunting when you are just starting out though. Hopefully, this is just a temporary thing for you. Good luck!

My daughter is allergic to dairy so we either buy the "Enjoy Life" mini chocolate chips or I buy dairy free regular chocolate chips in bulk at Giant Eagle Market District (South Hills Village). We use the minis in pancakes and I make a chocolate chocolate chip pumpkin cake with the regular size. Here's that recipe. It is actually a Weight Watcher's recipe that I adapted. (actually all 3 are)

Chocolate Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Chips
1 box of Duncan Hines Devils Food Cake Mix
15 oz can of pumpkin
2 egg whites
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup dairy free chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients together and bake in a 13x9" according to the time on the box (I think 35 minutes but I could have it confused with another recipe). This recipe serves 16.

Chocolate Bran Muffins
3 cups All Bran Original Cereal
2 1/2 cups water
1 box Duncan Hines Chewy Brownie Mix
2 tsp baking powder

Combine water and All Bran in a bowl and let soak for 10 minutes. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. After the 10 minutes add the brownie mix and baking powder. Stir together (sometimes I add a tad more water depending on the consistency) and then divide between 24 muffin tins with paper liner. Bake for 20 minutes.

I also have a recipe for low fat brownie cookies but the Betty Crocker mix has non fat dry milk as the VERY LAST ingredient. I am not sure how strick you have to be. I have tried this recipe with the Duncan Hines mix and they are just not the same :-( I'm going to include it anyway incase you want to try it when you are not watching. I love, love, love these cookies and although they are low points on WW, I like to eat them in volume even though they are huge.

Low Fat Brownie Cookie
1 Betty Crocker Low Fat Brownie Mix (contains milk!)
1 cup orange juice
2 1/2 cups wheat germ

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix all ingredients with mixer (my standmixer works best with this one). Drop by 2 tablespoons onto cookie sheet sprayed with Pam. Bake for 12 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet onto wire rack to cool.

Enjoy Life also makes candy bars. Giant Eagle at Century III carries them but not the SHV Market District. I believe they have dark chocolate, then chocolate with crisp rice, and just a plain chocolate.

Pilsbury chocolate frosting does not contain milk.

My daughter likes the soy ice cream and soy ice cream bars. (I think the brand is So Delightful)

Hershey's chocolate syrup does not contain milk.

We buy her the Toffuti Mozzarella cheese flavored slices. She seems to like them but the smell of them is enough to turn me off from ever trying them. I joke that they have probably ruined her from real cheese if she ever outgrows this allergy.

Earth Balance Buttery Spread and Fleischmann's UNSALTED margarine both do not contain milk. I truly like the Earth Balance Spread and Walmart in West Mifflin is actually carrying it now for a lot less than Giant Eagle Woohoo. I have baked with both and might lean towards baking with the Fleiischmann's.

Well I hope this is a start for you. If you need more you can always PM me.

hi -
here are some suggestions:
* dairy free (potato based "milk" - has the calcium as reg milk but not the protein)
* check out allrecipes.com and enter "dairy free" and you will get a lot of great recipes – here is a recipe for dairy free chocolate cake
* If soy is okay - an EXCELLENT chocolate flavored soy drink is by either continent - can be found in regular grocery stores - http://www.8thcontinent.com/
* foods by enjoy life are good - http://www.enjoylifefoods.com/
* http://www.godairyfree.org/The-Dairy-Free-Challenge/Page-... - info on a dairy free challenge with journal you can download

Make sure to read all packaging! Milk hides everywhere

Good luck!

Rice and almond milk taste good and comes in original, vanilla and chocolate.

Whole Foods has a number of wonderful dairy-free products like chocolate chips, chocolate syrup, ice cream and the like.

Tofutti cheese, sour cream and cream cheese are pretty good.

www.godairyfree.org has a lot of great recipes and useful information about dairy substitutions, health info and product reviews.

www.livingwithout.com has some great recipes as well and articles as well. This is actually the website for Living Without magazine, a magazine specifically for people dealing with food allergies or intollerances.

Also, I've been told that some people who have intollerances issues with cow's milk are actually okay with goat's milk because the protein molecule in goat's milk is smaller and easier to digest.

Hope this helps.

i have a 7 year old who is allergic to milk also. i have tried raw milk and for a few days he is okay then he has problems. he likes soymilk but i think he's allergic to soy because after having alot of soy his allergies bother him. he likes almond milk and i cook with rice milk. there is no difference when i cook with rice milk than with regular milk. he doesn't like drinking rice milk but when i put chocolate in it for him the taste is a little tolerable and he doesn't have problems. i buy dry rice milk and also carton rice milk. there isn't much difference in the taste, it is sweet. hope this helps W. d. any other questions ____@____.com