Cow's Milk question please

[BlueBumedFly]

After years of blaming DH for our kids allergies, I find out this week I am to avoid Cow's Milk for the known future among a cluster of other items including egg white (that would explain DD's egg allergy and milk reflux then....).

Anyway, can anyone please tell me the best milk-free 'butter' on the market? Also any hidden bear traps I need to be avoiding?

Eggs and Nuts I can do, Cows milk is a new one on me. Devastated about cheese.....

I use vitalite or pure.

Tesco's low fat value spread is also dairy free.

We use Pure Olive. Have only found it on Ocado though.

Oh lovely thank you, will try Pure first as you have both recommended... However, I do now have the Ooooohhhhhh Vitalite advert song in my head :)

Thank you for posting

pure sunflower. pure olive tastes weird. (soz).

they do it in tesco too.

OK cool thank you. I shall do a taste test... from a girl who has survived solely on Anchor Butter her entire life this is going to come as a shock. Luckily I like Soya Milk so that is a good start.

Vitalite tastes better than pure and is cheaper Good luck.

Vitalite is the cheapest so we use that (have used Pure sunflower in the past). What's really annoying is that in Spain one of the Floras is dairy free but they don't do it over here grrrr!

Could only get to Waitrose this morning so got Pure, avoided the Sunflower one as I have been told to avoid sunflower seeds which may very well be my brain thinking twaddle. I will hunt out some vitalite though for sure!

We found Pure in Asda. It's not too bad.

In terms of "bear traps", the most unexpected one for me was crisps. And certain gnocchi.

M&S also do a dairy free spread. DD loves Pure sunflower but turned her nose up after her first taste of Vitalite!

agree with others that crisps are a problem area. Also some cheap sliced ham has milk protein as do some sausages.

For me one of the biggest issues is bread. You will generally find that burger buns often have milk in them, most bread in hotels and restaurants seem to contain milk. If you stick to sliced prepacked bread you are generally OK - although I noticed on my last trip to M&S that virtually all their bread is now 'unsuitable for milkk allergy sufferers due to the methods of manufacturing used'

Oh and most cereals are Ok apart from Special K which contains milk!

good luck :)