Gluten and Dairy Free-Easy - Easy but Tasty Recipes that are Gluten and Dairy Free
Over 200 Gluten and Dairy Free Recipes (including 85 specially selected for kids)
Recognizing dairy products in ingredients lists
Apart from the obvious milk, yogurt, butter, cheese, cottage cheese, cream and sour cream, look out for butter fat, buttermilk, butter oil, lactose, lactoserum, curds, whey, milk solids, modified milk ingredients, milk sugars, casein, caseinate, natural butter flavor, artificial butter flavor, lactic acid, sodium caseinate, ghee, goats milk, half and half, hydrolysates, kefir, koumiss, lactalbumin, lactalbumin phosphate, lactoglobulin, lactulose, nougat, paneer, pudding, rennet casein, sour cream solids, sour milk solids, and similar descriptions.
Lactose is present in almost all dairy products except butter, and is used as a food additive in processed meat products such as sausages, hot dogs, sliced meat, paté, gravy powder, stock cubes, as well as margarine, breakfast cereal, dried fruit, ready meals/tv dinners, slimming products such as meal replacement bars and shakes and protein supplements. It's also a base ingredient in 20% of all medications.
Casein is found in all milk products, and is commonly found in bread, crackers, cookies, cakes, prepared meats, soy cheese!, soups, gravies, potato chips (UK: crisps), margarine, and even in many products labeled "non-dairy", such as whipped topping and creamer. Even if casein has not been added deliberately, there may be cross-contamination in the factory if dairy products are processed in the same facility. For the same reason, although whey is a different protein, it's likely to be contaminated with casein and should not be used by those intolerant of casein.
Other products to watch out for include artificial sweeteners, which are often derived from dairy products, breath mints, caramel, chocolate (including some dark chocolate), nougat, as well as some coffee whiteners/creamers (though many of these are made from corn syrup).
And here's a list of some of the foods likely to contain gluten:
Baked goods: pizza, bread (white, brown, wholemeal, granary and rye bread), pastry (pies, pasties, sausage rolls), cakes and patisserie, biscuits, ice cream wafers, crackers, crispbreads • Pasta: macaroni, spaghetti, vermicelli, lasagne, ravioli, noodles etc. • Prepared meat products: Sausages, burgers, grills (these mostly contain breadcrumbs) • Many diet and low fat products (flour is used as a thickener in place of oil or fat) • Almost all ready meals (tv dinners), restaurant and take-out food, chilled, dried or canned soup and stew • Prepared fish: Crab sticks, prawnies, fish in sauce, fish pie etc. • Batter: pancakes, yorkshire pudding, fish and chips • Breadcrumbs: coatings and toppings on fish, potato products, etc. • Many types of ice cream • Most breakfast cereals and cereal bars (except good quality cornflakes), muesli, bran flakes, wheat germ, bran • Ready-made smoothies, yoghurt, some fruit juices • Some cheaper brands of chocolate drink • Many chocolate bars and ice lollies, as well as all chocolate coated biscuits and wafers (Club, Penguin, KitKat, Take a Break etc.) • Some cheap brands of instant coffee! • Bought grated cheese (which is coated in flour) • Soya sauce (usually fermented with wheat) • Cook-in sauces, gravy mix, stock cubes • Monosodium glutamate • Malt, malt extract, malt vinegar, maltase, maltodextrin, malt toffee, Maltesers, Ovaltine, Horlicks • Bulgar, semolina, couscous, durum wheat • Bread flour, brown flour, wholemeal flour, granary flour, plain flour, rye flour, self raising flour, strong flour, cake flour, gluten flour • Baking powder (most contains flour) • Packet suet (which is coated in flour) • Possibly also oatmeal: porridge, hot breakfast cereal (eg. Readybrek, Oatsosimple), oatcakes, flapjacks (most oatmeal in the US is processed in factories used to process other grains, such as wheat, and is contaminated with gluten because of this)The golden rule is: Always Check the Label!
If you're excluding gluten along with casein, lactose or just dairy products in general, Gluten and Dairy Free-Easy is the recipe book for you.
It's not easy finding safe foods if you can't eat gluten or dairy products
Go into any restaurant or takeaway and try and find something on the menu that is gluten and dairy free. You may point to the french fries, but unless firstly they are pure potato without any additives, and secondly they are cooked in a dedicated fryer, separately from any breaded or battered food items, they will be contaminated. Hmm... Well, you might get a side salad — but check there's no cheese in it!
You can try the same exercise in your local supermarket. Check the shelves for products that are safe to eat if you need to avoid gluten and dairy. It's going to be a long job... Sure, the fresh fruit and vegetables will be fine, and most of the uncooked meat in the butchery section (but not the sausages or the burgers). Fresh fish should be ok, but most frozen fish will be no use to you (even the seafood sticks). As for desserts, there's tins of fruit, probably jelly, but most of the toppings... even the ones labeled "non-dairy" will almost certainly contain casein.
Excluding gluten and dairy products from your diet is definitely not something you do for fun. You're going to have to learn a whole new way of eating, and go back to basics in the kitchen.
You'll get used to checking the labels on everything, every time you go shopping, in case the manufacturers have changed the recipe without mentioning it on the front of the pack (as they do, all the time). Another thing you will grow accustomed to is having to make most stuff yourself, or go without.
Hundreds of tasty recipes at your fingertips
It's hard enough coping with food intolerances, without having to rack your brains for meal ideas. Gluten and Dairy Free-Easy has recipes that are good enough for the whole family. Whatever the occasion, from a five course formal dinner to a quick snack for the kids, you'll find plenty of ideas and inspiration, so you won't need to look anywhere else.
All the recipes in my book are suitable for children, of course, (except those which contain alcohol) but there are some that are particularly likely to be appreciated, and I have marked these with the label Recipes Kids Love and moved them to the end of each section for ease of reference. It's perfectly possible that your kids will like the other recipes just as much, or even better - and most of the recipes selected for children will go down just as well with adults.
So, if you buy my book, what do you get? Press the play button (possibly twice) for a short guided tour.
Summary of Contents
Gluten and Dairy Free-Easy is a completely searchable electronic book which you can download in minutes on your broadband connection. As well as choosing recipes from the handy index, the search facility lets you find all the recipes that use a particular main ingredient (for example, beef), making it easy to plan your meals.
Here's what you get:
- 102 completely searchable pages
- 210 gluten-free recipes
- 85 recipes selected for children
- All measurements in American, metric and Imperial
- Universal pdf format — usable on Windows, Mac, Linux and many cellphones
- Accessible to specialist reader software
- Topics covered:
- Basics
- Soups and starters
- Main courses: meat based
- Main courses: fish based
- Main courses: vegetable based
- Main course accompaniments: side dishes
- Main course accompaniments: sauces
- Vegetable dishes
- Desserts and puddings
- Desserts and puddings: accompaniments
- Cakes, bakes and sweeties
- Terrines and patés
- Salads: main course salads
- Salads: main course — vegetarian
- Salads: side salads (mostly vegetarian)
- Salads: dressings and dips
- Preserves and pickles
- Drinks and smoothies
- Celebrations and party specials: savory
- Celebrations and party specials: accompaniments
- Celebrations and party specials: sweet
- The following Bonus Reports come with your copy of Gluten and Dairy Free-Easy:
- Gluten & Dairy Free-Easy Report: Hidden Dangers
- Gluten & Dairy Free-Easy Report: Gluten Substitution
- The Health Site Quick Cooking Conversion Charts
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