Pam
27-02-2005, 09:22 PM
So what books do you recommend for people embarking on a dairy free diet?
Here are my suggestions and I'd love to see anyone elses.
1. The Vegan Shopper - a pocket size guide produced by the Vegan Society. It lists vegan products (which contain no milk or eggs as well as being without meat), also lists E numbers and additives and explains what they are and where they come from. Also goes into detail about household products and medecines. So although we are not limited to the extent that vegans are it is certainly a useful little book and we know that everything contained inside it is safe. Available from Amazon, health food shops and online from various vegan/vegetarian sites.
2. The L Plate Vegan - a thin booklet type publication about turning vegan. Ignore all the meat parts and concentrate on the dairy free bits. It explains how various products are made and de-mystifies some of the alternatives available. Best still it only costs about £1 - my copy came from www.viva.org.uk (http://www.viva.org.uk)
3. The Cake Scoffer by Ronny - another thin booklet, again from Viva but this one costs about £1.25. It has vegan recipes for cakes, desserts and confectionery with a fair bit of humour thrown in. The quality of the publication doesn't quite match Delia but for the price you can't go wrong.
I know that a lot of normal recipes can be adapted to make them dairy free just by substituting soya milk/margarine for normal but vegan recipes give other options and are ideal for people who also want to avoid eggs. I am far from vegan by the way but find a lot of their stuff very useful.
Here are my suggestions and I'd love to see anyone elses.
1. The Vegan Shopper - a pocket size guide produced by the Vegan Society. It lists vegan products (which contain no milk or eggs as well as being without meat), also lists E numbers and additives and explains what they are and where they come from. Also goes into detail about household products and medecines. So although we are not limited to the extent that vegans are it is certainly a useful little book and we know that everything contained inside it is safe. Available from Amazon, health food shops and online from various vegan/vegetarian sites.
2. The L Plate Vegan - a thin booklet type publication about turning vegan. Ignore all the meat parts and concentrate on the dairy free bits. It explains how various products are made and de-mystifies some of the alternatives available. Best still it only costs about £1 - my copy came from www.viva.org.uk (http://www.viva.org.uk)
3. The Cake Scoffer by Ronny - another thin booklet, again from Viva but this one costs about £1.25. It has vegan recipes for cakes, desserts and confectionery with a fair bit of humour thrown in. The quality of the publication doesn't quite match Delia but for the price you can't go wrong.
I know that a lot of normal recipes can be adapted to make them dairy free just by substituting soya milk/margarine for normal but vegan recipes give other options and are ideal for people who also want to avoid eggs. I am far from vegan by the way but find a lot of their stuff very useful.