L.C.
Bimbo and Oro Wheat 100% Whole Wheat is dairy free. My son loves the Oro Wheat. I get mine at Walmart.
My 14 month old son is allergic to mik and we have to follow a strict avoidance diet. I happened to be buying hamburger buns the other day and could not find one that did not contain any milk. When I went home, I checked the breads that we happened to have (One wheat and one white), and both of those also have milk. Do all brands of breads have milk in them (I have yet to go to the market and check the lables of each brand)? Which brand do you use for your dairy allergic child? Also, I have never made bread before, but am thinking about it if it is the only option- do you need milk to make bread? And can you bake it in the oven or do I need a breadmaker? I am wanting to give my son som toast with his breakfast! Thanks!
Thank you for your responses! I will be checking the local stores and reading every label in the bread aisle if I need to! I am glad to hear that dairy free bread does exist!
Bimbo and Oro Wheat 100% Whole Wheat is dairy free. My son loves the Oro Wheat. I get mine at Walmart.
Most French breads, baguettes and boules (a hearth bread usually available at bakeries or supermarkets with good bakeries) don't have dairy. They are usually just flour, oil, yeast and salt. You can usually find French bread rolls, too, and they're delicious toasted. I had toast this morning, and it was from a Safeway Pugliese loaf of bread (an Italian bread).
There are many breads out there without dairy, but you do have to read labels carefully and search.
Do you have Ralph's or Kroger nearby? Their Western Hearth brand Honey Wheat Berry bread is tasty and dairy free. We buy hamburger buns at Costco - not sure of the brand but Costco doesn't usually have too many choices for that sort of thing.
I also recently got a whole grain bread at Trader Joe's that we all liked, but I forget the brand name (again, not too many choices there either).
Once you find a couple of brands you like, just stick with them.
Many of Arnold's breads are vegan, so they should not have any milk. I make a lot of my own bread (we have a bread machine) and there are a lot of recipes that don't have any dairy. We don't drink cow's milk anyway, so when I have a recipe that used milk I use soy or almond depending on what we have in the house.
And you don't need a bread machine, but it makes it so much easier to make bread. You just throw in all of the ingredients and a couple hours later you have fresh bread. This is the machine we have, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00067REBU/ref=pd_lpo_k2... and I got it because it was very reasonably priced and had good reviews. I've had it since June, make bread about once per week and we love it. I just recommend getting a good bread machine cookbook and not using recipes in the manual. This one is our favorite http://www.amazon.com/Bread-Machine-Magic-Revised-Especia....
I'm a huge fan of making things from scratch and trying out new things. Perhaps you can make breads and cakes and use rice milk instead of regular milk. Of course it will be a trial and error thing but my favorite bread type thing to make isn't bread at all but pie dough. It is great baked and add jelly to. My grandmother would always make some for me when she baked. It was like a taste of heaven. No milk. Yeah!!!
I hope this helps.
Be a label reader. One of my grandsons is allergic to milk and there are a lot of breads on the market without milk. Most product labels are nice now because they'll have something in bold lettering that says it contains wheat, soy, or milk. So just do a little label reading until you get use to avoiding milk and it'll be easy once you get it figured out.
Watch margarines too because they have dairy (I was kind of shocked to see that). Interesting enough most kids outgrow milk allergies by the time they are 6. My grandson can not have just a little dairy without an issue but he'll never be able to sit down and have a slice of cheese pizza.
In Pittsburgh we have brands that do not contain milk - Schwebels, Nickles, Cellone. I don't know if they are necessarily national brands, so check the labels in your store. They are out there. You just need to look.
Did the bread bother him before? I add a teaspoon of milk to an entire loaf sometimes so it would be less than a drop in a whole slice.
I imagine this is going to be a hard allergy to deal with, so sorry for your stress...
I buy Bimbo for loaf bread & Aunt Millies for hotdog & hamburger buns ONLY because the loaf breads do contain milk. Hope that helps.
I use natures own whole wheat.