Dairy-free Recipes

We call these Crazy Cookie b/c they are sweet and healthy without added sugar and eggs and meilk (my son too has allergies- to milk and eggs)

Hope you like them...

• Crazy Cookies
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• 3 ripe bananas
• 2 cups rolled oats
• 1+ cup raisins or crasins (or probably any other dried fruit might work too)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil (or apple sauce)
• Cinnamon
DIRECTIONS
4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
5. In a large bowl, mash the bananas. Stir in oats, dried fruit, oil, and vanilla. Mix well.Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
6. Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly brown.

These cookies freeze well- make a bunch and pop them out as you have cookie cravings!

i'm a mama to 2...and jyst figuring out that my son is sensitive to dairy! my fave cookie recipe:
in a bowl - 4 cups oats, 1 cup oil, 1 cup brown sugar

let sit 8-24 hours. (8 for quick oats, 24 for old fashioned)

next day, add- two beaten eggs, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup flour, 1 cup dried fruit and nuts (i like pineapple and raisins!). press into an ungreased 9x13 pan and bake at 350 until edges start to turn golden, about 20 minutes. Cool slightly, turn out onto a cutting board and chop into bars.

good luck!

You should just search for "vegan recipes" on google. That would help a lot. my favorite recipe for sugar cookies is:

1 1/2 c of flour
1/2 c sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
8 tbsp oil
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp maple syrup
1 egg[i use ener-g egg replacer because i'm vegan]

preheat the oven to 375 degrees for about 7 minutes :]

Check out the website www.kidswithfoodallergies.com. There is an annual fee, which kept me from joining for a while. I soon realized it was the best $25 I ever spent and kicked myself for waiting. They have a huge recipe database that is organized by what foods you need to avoid. My absolute favorite is a homemade ice cream made from "dari-free" milk (made by Vance's - you can find this on-line). I have served this to company that can eat dairy and they love it too. It is so easy to make. The milk subs in most cooking/baking recipes very well (not pudding though!). There is also a lot of support on the site - from asking for cooking advice from moms who know all the in's and outs of your special needs to dealing with schools who don't get it and how to handle birthday parties. The wealth of information on that website is just unbelievable.

Good luck with your son! I think it is great that you are looking to get into special education after what you are going through with your son. We're dealing with some similar issues here.

My 15 month-old daughter is allergic to dairy, soy, and eggs, and I recently purchased the book: Sophie-Safe Cooking, A Collection of Recipes that are Free of Milk, Eggs, Wheat, Soy, Peanuts, Tree Nuts, Fish, and Shellfish (by Emily Hendrix). Not all the recipes are suitable for a young toddler (my daughter still usually likes her food to be mushy), but I can imagine that they would be great for older kids. Plus, all the ingredients are very easy to find in a standard grocery store.

Check allrecipies.com. You can set the parameters for your search. The recepies are really tasty and you can post your own if you like.

Hope that helps!
MM

For dumplings and biscuits use chicken bone-broth in place of the milk, plain water will also work, but you may need to adjust liquid amounts and palm oil/shortening or lard (make sure its 100% lard with no additives) in place of butter. Cookies can be made with palm oil or coconut oil (from the fridge) or lard instead of butter. Muffins can be made with juice, pureed apples/pears, coconut milk (or other alternative milk) in place of milk (use less sugar than the recipes call for). Banana muffins, pumpkin bread and zucchini bread don't have milk or butter in them anyway--grease the pans with palm oil, coconut oil, non-soy cooking oil or lard.

Hi,

I use a product called DariFree http://www.vancesfoods.com) . Believe it or not, it is a potatoe based dairy alternative that tastes good. I use it for baking, cereal, and anything else you would use milk or soy for. It comes in chocolate too. The other options are rice or almond milk. They can be used as a substitute in baking, although my son won't drink it (has a grainy texture). Hope this helps.

Hi C.,
Have you ever tried rice milk or almond milk as a substitute? I've also used juice or even water when a recipe calls for milk, this way you can choose any recipe you like. I substitute oil for butter in cookies and they come out fine, but you can look for non-dairy margarine too. Go to google and type in About.com:Vegetarian Food to get some ideas. Have fun experimenting.

Hi, you could try: www.recipezaar.com
Its a great website with thousands of recipes. I have seen dairy free and sugar free recipes pop up when I do searches. Good luck.

I find my diary-free and gluten free recipes on line by googling just what I want. There are many web sites to choose from, and many of the recipes are commented on and rated. Have you seen the book, The UltraMind Solution by Dr. Mark Hyman? He looks wholistically at brain issues, like ADHD, anxiety, and depression, and has some great advice. Much of this begins with diet and nutrition. Although this is the base of what I call the pyramid of potential, there is also more that can be done to help your son. My son, at age 15, has had similar problems that got worse when puberty began. He now takes extra vitamins, specific amino acids, and stays away from his dairy and egg allergy, only found after working with my nutritionist. Perhaps you have already explored functional medicine and that is why you are looking for recipes! Anyway, best of luck with your son!
K. Johnson, MS Ed
wwww.PyramidOfPotential.com

I was a vegan for a long time in my younger years. It's actually quite easy to bake and cook without dairy. I replaced milk with rice milk in regular recipes, and it had NO effect on the outcome of most of the dishes! Also, look for recipes with vegetable oil (rather than butter), or use parve margarine.

Check out Whole Foods as well, when you don't feel like baking. They have yummy dairy-free stuff. Even vegan chocolate cupcakes that taste really good!

www.nomilk.com
it has sooo many helpful tips and links to all you'll need...there are also parent groups for children with allergies online and locally...you might find them helpful too!

Hi C.,

google "gfcf" which stands for gluten-free, casein-free - there are a lot of parents out there who cannot feed their kids gluten or casein (which is in milk). You should find a lot of recipes and can easily convert them back to include gluten but keep the part that has no milk.

This one is easy - hope he can eat peanut butter -

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg

Mix together, drop spoonfuls on cookie sheets and bake for 8-10 minutes at 350.