Good Gluten and Dairy Free Products

Some great brands are EnJoy Life, EnerG, Tinkyada, and K-Toos. I also look in the Asian section for noodles. The rice noodles there are a lot less expensive than the ones labeled "gluten-free" in the special section of the grocery store.

Try Thai and Vietnamese cuisine. Simple rice noodle dishes with a protein, veggies and sauce. Coconut milk is a good substitute for dairy in some recipes. I'm sure you'll get a lot of good responses, but anytime we dealt with sensitivities like that, we found it easier to focus on what you can eat, rather than what you can't. Certain Asian diets are completely dairy-free, much of the starch is rice-, tapioca-, or potato-based and easy to cook.

When I'm looking for milk-free/lactose-free/dairy-free then I look for vegan products. If something is vegan that means there won't be ANY animal bi-products at all including milk, cream, eggs, gelatin, boullion, etc. It's especially helpful if my middle daughter (who is lactose intolerant) is craving chocolate. I have to eat vegetarian, so it's very helpful for my diet as well.

There's a directory of vegan and vegetarian restaurants in your area: http://www.vegvine.com/USA/Elmwood-WI

There might even be some vegan bakeries in your area. You just have to know how to look in your local directories. For instance, I went to one online directory and found a restaurant that's supposed to be local to you under Vegetarian Restaurants:

Raw Deal
544 S Broadway St, Menomonie, WI
Coffee shop, raw deli, and juice bar. Accepts credit cards.
http://therawdeal.weebly.com/

happycow.net

Talkstotrees is right.
Go to any Whole Foods or Asian grocery stores.
They have many other options.
And it tastes really good, just get recipes online.
I LOVE Thai food/Asian foods.

Also, in my locale, I notice that MANY grocery stores now, have an all natural section and they do carry many gluten and dairy free products. It is becoming more common and more easily found.
Or request that your grocer carry these things.

I try to eat gluten free as much as I can. Ii know it can be a tough transistion but it's so worth it to me because I feel so much better.

I've found that Udi's bread is fairly decent and I believe it is also dairy free. You can check out their website at www.udisglutenfree.com. Many grocery stores around here carry their products; ask at your local store if they do. If not, request that they do.

Good luck!

My daughter is gluten and dairy free. I'm not sure what you are looking for specifically - so PM if I'm off base and you want more information. I refuse to cook 2 meals so all of our dinners and meals we eat together are gluten and dairy free. I tend to feel it's better without then to substitute (for example cheese: we don't like the imitation, so we don't do cheese). We will make a pizza with GF crust, sauce and meat/veggies - it's still really good. Bread - we like UDI's. But again, we tend to not eat bread - we wrap meat in lettuce leaves. Or we eat salad vs sandwich. We don't substitute soy due to the estrogen - I get headaches from it and my daughter get's very PMSy.

Breakfast is fruit smoothies, eggs, gf oatmeal or chex cereal with vanilla almond milk.

Lunch is salad, veggies & hummus.

Dinner - meat, veggies, rice or potato (if you want starch)

I do use almond milk and mushrooms, thicken with cornstarch to make cream of mush soup for caseroles or to use with hamburger and rice.

Good luck!!

I looked up Elmwood, I'm from WI also and had never heard of it. You live in a town with less than 1000 people so you choices are limited for shopping. You are however fairly close to Some large cities. So i would go looking in the larger cities for thse products.
Dairy free is really difficult. My Daughter chose to put my granddaughter on a dairy free diet and found only one margine on the market that is dairy free. Be prepared soy milk is around $7/gallon and gluten free bread is also quite expensive. I would say do as much research as possible and shop in the gluten free/dairy free aisles in the store. Unless your kids really need these food items I would keep them just for you and feed the kids regular food. You can use corn starch for thickening instead of flour. Rice instead of noodles, potaotes are also gluten free.

I just went the same route!! If you like sour cream there are some good imitation ones out there, the one I like is called sour supreme. I eat a lot of nuts, fruit, veggies, chicken, corn tortillas, eggs and my junk food is popchips with salsa. There is a good gluten free bread made by Canyon Bakehouse and is typically in the freezer section at Trader Joes or similar stores. All of the other gluten free breads I have tried so far were gross. I have found that the easiest thing to do is focus on produce and meat and try to just eat things that are naturally dairy or wheat free because otherwise it can get real expensive. Good luck to you! :))

http://www.katzglutenfree.com/
is a great bakery to order from on-line. All of their products are gluten free. I believe that most, but not all, of their products are non-dairy.

Not sure what you are trying to substitute? Most natural food is gluten free. many pizza places have gluten free crust now although I have never tried it anywhere. I have tried Duncan Hinz gluten free cake mix and liked it- and a dear friend of mine gave me the most awesome peanut butter cookie recipe- there is TONS of stuff out there in the past few years- I get a lot at BIG LOTS discount store- bread mixes and such- which are much cheaper there than at the grocery- if they have them in stock.