Any Lactose Free treats for us grown ups?

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Help!!! Just today been diagnosed as highly lactose intolerent and feeling really depressed at prospect of no biccies/chocolate and ice cream. Anybody got any tips for really good treats that are available from say late night garages :o rather than special free from ranges for when I get the munchies and need a little something? Any ideas would really cheer me up as feeling very blue....

Plain chocolate?

Check the labels of all plain choc as lots of them contain milk in some form or other. G&B's Maya Gold is fine.

• Non-McVities jaffa cakes
• ginger nuts
• Make friends with a good health food shop - you can get lovely cakes there (usu vegan)

Lactose free is the easier of the dairy intolerances. There is dairy free ice cream by swedish glade. it comes in vanilla and neapolitan. Some of the main supermarkets stock it. To go on top, there is a cracking' chocolate sauce in a squeeze bottle by Askeys - that is in most supermarkets as well. Keep some in the freezer for emergencies
Biccies again - it depends what you like. off the shelf lactose free include rich tea fingers, party rings, pink wafers, pink and whites etc (very kiddy the last ones, but that's who i buy for, but i had forgotten how much i liked some of these!).
Shops own free from do lots of ranges including chocolate muffins, bakewell tarts, farmhouse slices etc. My kids also like the alpro soya desserts - they do a dark chocolate version. Longish sell by dates - keep in stock!
Chocolate is very personal. I like dark chocolate - kids are happy with cheaper tasting ones. Lots of brands out there, some in supermarkets, some in health food shops, some on-line. The art is finding the one that you like - and again keeping it in stock as there isn't that much on offer at the dead of night.

Thanks guys, obviously i just need to be more organised, it doesn't help that I seem to be really struggling with soya as well, thankfully there is Lactose Free Milk so all is not lost - don't understand why you cant buy lactose free cream then you could make lots of desserts yourself. Also does anyone know if you can eat butter? I've read some things thats say yes and some things thats say no?

Arla also make lactose free youghurts which are scrummy and cheese which is not. The lactofree milk has been a Godsend for me as all the alternatives taste vile and I like loads on my cereal.
Was going to suggest the soya cream but just re-read your last post

Not sure about 'proper' butter but DD and I have been using olive oil spreads with no adverse effects.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss cream based desserts, but once in a while I risked it initially and then spent hours in agony regretting it so I have finally conceded defeat.

I find Hobnobs don't affect me

Oh, and marshmallows

My husband is lactose- intolerant. If you don't mind/like baking most recipes can be adapted so you use stork marg instead of butter..

This choc. cake recipe makes an amazingly yummy cake!- just replace the milk with lacto-free milk:
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/6652/naughty-chocolate-fudge-cake

Oreo cookies have no lactose/milk product.

I got a frozen apple strudel from Sainsburys yesterday night- also no lactose/milk product.

I think it's waitrose that do a really nice pizza with no cheese on it..

low fat garlic bread is still okay as that's marg (not butter)

Also- just be careful and read labels on other things. They put milk products in the weirdest things- crisps etc..

There is one thick cream on the market that i have found - but it is really quite unpleasant. single cream is fine. The problem with thick cream is all in the process. Whipping/double cream needs a high % of fat so that when it is beaten it can 'hold' the air bubbles. It varies from about 35 - 40 % fat. Soya and alternatives don't have that level of fat. The only thing that remotely comes near is vegetable fat. Whipped vegetable fat
I've found that dairy free single cream with melted dairy free chocolate makes a good chocolate sauce topping. You can heat it as well. Very rich too.

Oh some great ideas - I also found out that Percy Pigs were lactose free (grin)! I am seesawing between joy that I will be thin, pain free and can maybe go camping again, and desperation that I will never ever again eat another Malteser! Was much cheered up when I found Lactase tablets in the Health Food shop but my consultant told me yesterday they were crap. I am already getting on DH's nerves by constantly reading labels and that has now lead to the other depressing fact that I need glasses. Oh the joys of getting old...

PS Auntevil where do you get the dairy free cream? just want something for Christmas Day! Is that like Elmlea or something?

We use alpro soya for the cream usually - most supermarkets stock it. They also do a dairy free custard that you could add some alcohol to as well?! I did once get some coconut cream from a health food shop - i think the brand was kara? Next summer i am going to try freezing the alpro yoghurts onto lolly sticks to see how it goes.
Sad about the maltesers, but you could make your own chocolate honeycomb. That's my task for this weekend for my DS. I have the recipe - so fingers crossed.
I use lactase drops when on holiday (camping!). You can get them on the internet or a good health food shop. You need to drop it in the milk for 24 hours to take out the lactose. Nobody can tell the difference - so you can use whatever milk you can get locally. It isn't something i do all the time, but useful for going away.