Hello other moms! I have just spent an hour on -line looking for dinner recipes that are OK for my daughter to eat. She is allergic to dairy and peanuts, and is unable to tolerate anything rich in taste (i.e. sweet potaotes). Anyone know of decent websites that cater to food allergies. Some websites say their recipe is dairy free, but yet it has cheese in it! Hello, cheese is dairy! Help! Stressin' trying to make meal plans!
Have you tried any vegan websites? We're typically vegan and just substitute almond or soy milk for milk and then vegan cheese for regular. A really good site is http://vegandad.blogspot.com/. Most of these require a lot of cooking, though.
Try www.allergyfreemom.com and www.cybelepascal.com/ (The Allergy Friendly Cook) They both have recipes for families with multiple allergies. I am a food blogger and know there are others but these are the ones I thought of right off. If I think of others I will let you know! Also, I know our library has a lot of great allergy cookbooks. You may see if yours does too. Good luck!
I found a cookbook at Half Priced Books called The Kids Allgery Free Cookbook. All recipes are free of the top 7 ingedients that kids are allergic to. I am sure other bookstores would have it.
No allergies here, but I have plenty of vegan friends, so I do cook dairy free every now and then. Honestly I always used "regular" recipes and simply substituted any dairy products. Replacing milk is so easy nowadays and you can take your pick of Soy, Rice, Oat, Hemp, Coconut or Almond - milk (if she isn't allergic to tree-nuts). Eggs are harder to replace IMO - but there is a variety of egg replacer out there but homemade recipes and commercially available.
Try this and other vegan websites: http://vegweb.com/ and then leave out any peanut products (you can substitute sun-butter) and add in any meat you may eat.
Good luck.
See the cookbook SHARING MTN RECIPES
As The Muffin Lady I make a point to include Special Diets in the book and in the Substitution list in the back.
For Instance You can use Silk or Almond milk for all recipes that require dairy free, I refuse to cook with Peanut or any nut oil.
Also if eggs are an issue you can use Whipped Tofu! See the cookbook to help.
ETA: feel free to PM me if you want more specifics or help for certain recipies. I wouldn't try to change your entire diet...it is really not necessary.
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We cook dairy free for our DS. We use mostly traditional recipies we have always used and substitute rice milk for dairy milk, and omit cheese, and use non-dairy "butter." We just add in cheese after for other family members who want it.
You can't do lasagna...but just about anything else is do-able...even pizza! We make homemade pizza with a quarter of it without cheese. We make mac-n-cheese for oldest DS and pull out a portion of noodles before adding cheese. Youngest DS gets plain noodles with nondairy butter and little salt.
Meat, veggies, fruit, many grains are no issue at all. We make oatmeal with water. Tacos are taco-bar style. Quesadillas are with vegan cheese or no cheese and refried beans make 'em stick together. Muffins, etc made with rice milk.
Once you get used to it, its almost a non-issue.
Good luck!
I too highly recommend Cybel Pascal. I use her cookbook religiously because all the recipes are so good.
This site has a few recipes and the actual cookbooks are really good: http://www.foodallergycookbook.com/
We do a lot of stir fry - white rice, chicken and mixed veggies (often frozen, sometimes fresh).
Hamburgers
Mashed potatoes made with soy milk and dairy free margarine
Baked or roasted potatoes
Stove Top Stuffing
Rice a Roni (some flavors, we like low sodium chicken)
We buy some different kinds of pre-marinated meat at Costco, tri-tip, pot roast, turkey pot roast
teriyaki chicken
pasta, sometimes plain and sometimes with chicken and veggies mixed in
It does get easier. My son is 100% dairy, egg and nut free.
