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[Supervixen]

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I've been advised to drastically reduce dairl intake (and wheat, caffeine, meat, poultry, alcohol, you name it) and I am interested in ideas - where do you buy non-dairy (I know you can get So-Good in Tesco but I haven't noticed a huge range of non dairy there)

AND the biggie....do any non dairy cheeses taste ANYTHING like the real thing?

[astra]

hihi! and welcome :) you have found the right place to ask any question you feel you need to!! they are a nice helpful bunch here :)

first off, don't panic! :)

take yourself back a step, and take a good look through your cupboards, there is probably more there that is 'safe' for you to eat than you first think of.

send me a private message with your email address, and i will send you a whole heap of recipes that i found and collated on the internet for my sister in law who recently went dairy and wheat free herself. (i am dairy, egg and animal product (in food) free through choice myself)

it looks frightening for the first few weeks or so, but it does get easier with time honest! i tend to shop at a different supermarket every week - even the same products taste different when made by different manufacturers!

Lan is the resident chief (and Steve) and cheese substitue freak around here!! despite hunting high and low yesterday, i still failed to come back with any soft cheese or cheezley *sniff* although i found that going without wasn't *too* bad! is only now, a good few months later that i'd like some to make a change, but is no big deal and i used to have cheese with everything! it made me a very bad vegetarian! stopping it overnight to become vegan made me have to think long and hard about what i was going to eat!

[Lan]

Hi all,


Would like to quote:

'Lan is the resident chief (and Steve) and cheese substitue freak around here'

and must admit it is very true. Before being dairy free I was a total cheese freak and could 1/2lb in at least a day. I have many cheeses that I like and have listed them below, with details of the texture, where to get them etcetera.

Parmazano - Found in most health food shops, Tescos and Sainsbury's. This is best described as a flour like substance (70% soya flour) and is great on pasta dishes.

Cheesly - This is the best hard cheese I have ever tasted, well dairy free ones anyway. The only trouble is you seem to have a restricted diet and it contains yeast. Can be bought in Tescos and health food shops.

Sainsbury's Free From Soft cheese - this is absolutely fantastic for toast, rice cakes etcetera. A definite winner, as not as highly flavoured as other dairy free cheeses.

If you need any further information, please let me know.

Lan.

:D

[Supervixen]

Thanks for that my dears! I will hunt down the cheezly stuff as it has several recommendations.

I can have yeast, I checked with the naturopath, a life without marmite would be no life :o)

Thanks all....

[Pam]

Holland and Barratt usually have Cheezly or try smaller health food/wholefood shops. There's another one called sCheese which is similar to cheezly (but I don't like either, and neither melt), I've also tried Veggie Kaas and Biddy Merkins Vegerella but didn't like either of those either. The vegerella is a bit like an austrian processed cheese and I can't even remember the veggie kaas as it is so long ago.

Tofutti slices are good for topping pizza or lasagne but they don't taste particularly cheesy. Galaxy also do slices but they don't melt like the tofutti ones do and taste even worse.

Be warned: Soya Kaas vegetarian cheese and Galaxy rice slices are not dairy free (I know to my expense - I only read the label properly when I got home)

[Supervixen]

The rice slices are nice though actually! Typical huh?

I have to reduce dairy but have not been advised to cut it right out. I'm supposed to make wheat, dairy and meat less than 20% of my diet while upping the rest. So I'll try & find Cheezly but I haven't had much luck yet!

I'll try ordering online I think.

[lil.smartie]

The rice slies in a blue packet melt really well in things like a cheese sauce, they taste like 'plastic' cheese so work in burgers too!
Kate