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I notice there is quite a bit of gossip about the aforementioned products recently and I am trying them.
Please see the link below as I am not the only one and this maybe of help to lactose intolerant sufferers.
http://www.dairyfreeuk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1536
Kind Regards,
Lan. :D
Have you tried the lactase tablets yet Lan?
Unfortunately I don't think they would be any good for us as my daughter seems to be intolerant to milk protein and not lactose.
Hi all,
After doing the research I have now tried the tablets and they seem to be working. I had Findus macaroni cheese on Friday, which contained butter, milk, cheese and cream and was fine. It was the only dairy food I actually fancied. I took two tablets for this.
Went to the cinema today to see The Chronicles of Riddick and afterwards we decided to go to Frankie and Bennies, which is an American Italian Restaurant. To cut a long story I ended up having an Italian lasagne and it was very tasty. I am now awaiting the results, but so far and fingers crossed, everything is ok. I took three tablets for this.
I am also going to try some cheese, small kitekat and crisps later.
Hope everyone else trying the tablets are doing well. Let us know.
Kind Regards,
Lan. :D
Sounds like a miracle cure. You could be a cheese monster again, Lan.
Hi Pam,
Still ok this morning. Have had a slightly windy tummy and a little bit of cramping, but think that is because I overdone the dairy. I am feeling about 90% so far and that is a real good thing for me.
If I have any problems I will definitely post on here and let everyone know.
Kind Regards,
Lan. :D
great news. you're a damn site more disciplined than me. the first thing i tried would not be macorronni or lasagne. bring on the kitkats, snickers, mars and so on. and twix bars one of my favourites.
cheese nice, creamy sauces nice but chocolate bars in league of their own. without being sexist aren't our roles reversed? i thought it was women who craved chocolate and men who would be craving pizza?
not going to happen though as they've got wheat etc in them. i'll live.
good luck with the rest of the experiment.
Hi Matt,
Thanks for your encouragement. I have never been one for chocolate believe it or not. My vice is cheese.:drool:
If you like chocolate, have you tasted the Sainsbury's Free From range, the plain milk chocolate and they now have a nutty milk chocolate bar? I'm sure the plain chocolate is wheat, gluten and dairy free and tastes better than the Tesco one. I have checked the nutty one and it only states dairy free, but I can see no ingredients which would contain wheat or gluten. Hence, please check the ingredients and hope this is helpful. I just buy one occasionally for a treat, hence the enormous weight gain.
Thanks again.
Lan. :D
i haven't tried the sainsbury's bar. i think it's because it won't be the same. it was the whole experience of eating a twix or kitkat that i enjoyed. this'll make you think i'm even weirder than you already do. i used to bite the chocolate of the outside of the bars then dismantle them layer by layer with small bites!!! it's amazing how much fun and how long you can make some bars last! :drool:
told you i'm weird. it's like cheese in a way. don't try the substitute it'll only make you miss the real thing more.
well if that little revelation doesn't make everyone run screaming from the hills then you're all as mad as me. bearing in mind i used to do that BEFORE i had any problems.
have fun
Hi Matt,
You think you are wierd? I used to do the same thing. I loved maltesers and would suck off all the chocolate, put the honeycombe to one side and then eat all the honeycombe together. Tasty. Sad or what?
And cheese, well what can I say. I used to gently nibble off the top layer and then put the cheese into my mouth and suck it. This way I found all the flavour used to come out. I still do this with Cheesley. Now that is sad.
Kind Regards,
Lan.
P.S. Does anybody else have any funny eating habits they would like to share?
you're having a laugh lan after reading our habits they've all run screaming to the hills!
i don't know what it is but if i can take the item of food apart i will. only the treats that is ie biscuits cakes and so on. don't do anything like it with main course food. custard creams and bourbons etc get taken apart as do any cakes i have. i think it must be to savour the moment and make it last longer. that's my sane explanation for my otherwise nutty habit.
do you honestly think anyone else is mad enough to admit to having any odd habits like we have? we'll see but be thankfull they can't send the funny farm police to our homes.
enjoy the treats.
Twix and Mars bars were always eaten layer by layer - chocolate first, then caramel leaving biscuit/nougat to the end. But those are a thing of the past! When I was a little girl though, a mars bar was a family treat on a sunday afternoon, my dad used to slice one up into quarter inch slices so the whole family could share it, hard to imagine that now when I see my kids stuffing their faces with piles of sweets.
Jaffa cakes, however, now how many people can eat them bit by bit leaving the jelly disc? You have to nibble the thin edges off, then take the cake from underneath and carefully get all the chocolate off the top of the jelly, leaving an orange jelly disc. (These days I am more likely to just stuff them in and do the total eclipse thing).
So Matt, you were saying......
ellsie
02-09-2004, 10:23 PM
Pam said that co-op jaffa cakes are dairy free ,I believe, but I never got the hang of removing the orangy bit as intact as my daughter can!Mars bars had to have the chocolate taken off the edges first and then layer by layer, I agree. Is there another way to do it?;)
Heres another mad person for you.
When I was little I used to love Revels, I used to bite a little bit of chocolate off each one to see what it was then put it back in the bag so that I could eat my favourite ones last. This also ensured that no one else would want any as they had all been started of.
For years I was called the Phantom Malteser eater by my family. This arose because my dad received a box of Maltesers for Christmas. :xmas: Instead of opening the box fully he just made a slit in the cellophane so you could just get your fingers inside and get a chocolate out. I did this in secret a number of times. :eat: Of course when my dad went to have one there were hardly any left. :o For years I denied it was me, always refusing maltesers when ever any were available as I didn't like them. (How could I possibly be the phantom malteser eater if i didn't like them) Years later I decided to confess and I bought my dad a box of maltesers :clap: . It then came to light that my mum had also been pinching them - how could a mum let her daughter take the blame for so many years!! (I also have 2 sisters, and it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't have there little fingers in aswell!)
On another occasion my sister had a box of chocolates and I decided I would fancy one. The only thing was I heard her coming up the stairs so put half of it back - she wouldn't have known if I'd have eaten it all. :stupid: :blush: I was only about 5 at the time.
Do you reckon this is where my dairy intolerance stems from? Eating so much of other peoples milk chocolate when I was small I am now being punished as I can't eat any of it now. Thank heavens for Tesco's finest Plain chocolate with nibbed cocoa beans & bitter orange oil - heaven and its only about 85p a bar.
Jill
well bad karma of chocolate theft coming to haunt you? maybe.
the plain choc bars though don't fill the gap. half if not more of the enjoyment was from the disection of the choccy bar. there's not much you can do to a square of chocolate other than just nibble at it. or am i just not using my imagination?
i have seen what look like dairy free kitkats in tescos and the health food shops. not called kitkats but chocolate covered wafer bars. so all you lucky people get to try them but not me as they have wheat. i'm going to have to reintroduce it to see what reaction i get. all for the sake of sweets!
sorry to hijack the topic lan. any more experiments with the tablets?
I'd much rather have all chocolate than a kit kat - if I needed a fix, then I needed as much chocolate as possible. My cravings meant that I just stuffed it in as fast as possible - no taking it apart when the desire came upon me.
I haven't seen any dairy free chocolate wafer biscuits yet, my daughter would love those. I know that Morrisons do some wheat free ones but they no doubt have milk chocolate on them. I've made my own chocolate biscuits for her from time to time by dipping safe biscuits in melted chocolate (very messy).
next time i see them i'll get the name and manufacturer so i can post it. i'll check if wheat and or dairy free can't remember.
i didn't say that i ate less chocolate because of disecting the bars, it just took longer that's all. the only other way to eat a mars bar was to slice it up and eat it as a sandwich filling!!!! had to be plain white bread with margarine. nothing healthy. it sounds horrible but i liked it.
i'm very tempted at the moment by maple butter. a thick version of syrup, only seen it in waitrose. 5 quid for a small jar though! might get round to it.
I tried the maple syrup that I bought this weekend and it tastes nothing like "maple flavour" syrup. It is a lot less sweet and a bit caramel (burnt) tasting. It is the first time I've had the real thing and I've got to say I was a little disappointed. I also bought organic dried apricots as I love dried apricots but I don't think the sulphite used to preserve cheaper ones does me any good. Unfortunately, the additive free drying process changes the flavour quite a bit and I'm not so keen on these ones. Maybe we just get spoilt by the false flavours of processed foods and we need to go back to basics before we can start to appreciate the true flavours. At least we know what we are eating that way.
my mistake, the biscuits are wheat free made by glutamo and have milk choclate on them so not suitable. you could get the vanilla wafer biscuits from tesco's and dip them yourself!! bit of an effort but worth it in the long run!!
i do like the real maple syrup i just don't get it as you're meant to eat it quickly or it goes off. i don't eat enough of it to make it worthwhile. i don't want to waste anymore than i need to.
I didn't know it went off quickly - I'll have to check the bottle.
it probably doesn't. i'm just very cranky, once something's opened i'm on a count down until i'm not happy to eat it as i'm worried it might be not safe!! 95% of me is logical but there is the little devil sitting on my shoulder saying it'll make you ill and so on. i did say i was a little nuts.
Hi Matt,
Even after 8 years I still get that little devil on my shoulder. You just have to be so careful with product listings etcetera. For you with wheat as well it must be even harder.
You're not the only one whose nuts.
Kind Regards,
Lan. :D
cheers for that. sort of welcome to the asylum!
haven't heard much from you in a couple of days? how's the tablet taking going? tried anything new or should i have read all the new posts prior to this letter?
Hi Matt,
The tablets are not going too bad. I ate macaroni cheese :drool: on the Friday and took Lasagne on the Sunday and used 5 tablets in all. I was fine and had very little problems after. I did have a slight bloating and windy disposition for a day or two, but no sickness, tiredness or diarrhoea.
Have since eaten a little bit of soft cheese and a kit kat, with no effects as of yet. Am really hoping that the problem is lactose, which it seems to be. Will definitely do a lot more testing in the future to make sure, but looks promising.
For anyone who thinks they are dairy intolerant it is definitely worth a try. Please be careful though, especially if your symptoms are severe.
Kind Regards,
Lan.
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