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Is there such a thing as a non-dairy ice cream?

26 replies

GodzillasBumcheek · 09/03/2009 09:36

DH hates soya products, is lactose intolerant, but very much missing yoghurts, ice cream etc. Is there anything readily available (besides lacto-free yoghurts which he has tried already)?

I don't really buy online (no credit card) and can't imagine it's cheap to buy ice cream by internet anyway, so any advice would be welcome - even how to make my own with lacto-free milk!!

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SobranieCocktail · 09/03/2009 09:45

Swedish Glace is non-dairy but is soya-based. BUT it really doesn't taste of soya. Might be worth a go? You can get it in health food shops.

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SobranieCocktail · 09/03/2009 09:48

Mking your own ice cream is v easy if you have an icecream maker (otherwise it's tricky to make it smooth and non-crystalline). You could try following any icecream recipe but subsituting e.g. rice milk or coconut milk for regular milk/cream.

Bilbomum · 09/03/2009 09:54

The Oatley website has some recipes for ice cream which I keep meaning to try out. Looks quite simple to do and would be worth a try.

My ds is dairy and now also soya allergic and I haven't found a yogurt substitute yet.

Swedish glace ice cream is made from soya but much nicer than the usual soya stuff, even I like it. Have you tried him with that yet? You can get it in most supermarkets. The chocolate one was particularly popular with my boy before the soya allergy became a problem.

bestfriendswithbenefits · 09/03/2009 10:00

Booja Booja is dairy free, and very nice. Google it for stockists.

Peachy · 09/03/2009 10:02

Non dairy ice cream:

1 litre rice milk or lactofree milk (the hazlenut and almond is good in puds- we use in rice puddings)
0.5 litre non dairy creamer.... I reckon you could use a goats milk or sheeps yooghurt at this stage, and if not soya intol the rice would hide the (I agree awful) soya taste of the cream substitute. It might be worth trying to condense rice milk by simmeringa reducing as a replacement? must be worth a shot; it's the thickness that factors here.
3 egg yolks.

It doesn't say sugar but I would add it, possibly vanilla sugar, for texture as much as anything.

Heat the creamer / yoghurt / condensed rice milk. Whisk the egg yolks with milk and pour creamer etc over the mix. Stir and cool. Place in an ice cream mixer (if you dont ahev one freecycle always worth a shot).

Ultimately ice cream is just stir frozen custard and you can make that from rice milk but it can mean thickening with a bit of coprnflour if needed. Wouldnt that blended with puree make a yog substitute?
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GodzillasBumcheek · 09/03/2009 10:10

Oooh, thank you all

I should have asked this ages ago!

Rofl because i didn't think of looking in a Health food shop now

Er...will look in my local HF shop and find out what's in there (i really did forget), and then get back to this thread if no luck.

How embarrassing though...

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PfftTheMagicDragon · 09/03/2009 10:18

Swedish Glace is very nice.

CMOTDibbler · 09/03/2009 10:21

Most of the bigger supermarkets sell Swedish Glace, and if you are really lucky, you can sometimes get the cornetto a like gf/df cones.

I have bought ice cream on the internet (to get the aforesaid cornettos), and as I wanted a number of their frozen things it was fine - all came packed in dry ice and totally frozen

Peachy · 09/03/2009 10:25

I would agree swedish galce is nice and tastes better than many own brand ice creams!

CMOT whuich on line shop do you use please (though if I tell Pratchett mad Dh i've been taking food buying advice from CMOT Dibbler he'll think I had acid for brekkie LMAO)

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GodzillasBumcheek · 09/03/2009 10:28

Er...i just googled and i don't think i can afford Booja Booja!

the swedish glace and rice cream looks nice though. has anyone tried Rice Cream?

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Peachy · 09/03/2009 10:32

Nope bt if its anything like as nice as rice dream you're onto a winner

mawbroon · 09/03/2009 10:33

I haven't tried rice cream, but oatly oat cream isn't bad.

CMOTDibbler · 09/03/2009 10:36

Peachy - I use Johnsons - they specialise in GF, and their website is really, really well labelled for all allergies and includes full ingredients lists. The woman who runs it is coeliac, and if you have a recommendation she will try and stock it. She also only stocks non food too.

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GodzillasBumcheek · 09/03/2009 10:43

sweeeet. not telling DH til i've been to the shops though.

As for buying online, i might try one of those pre-paid mastercard things.

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PinkTulips · 09/03/2009 10:46

swedish glace is really tasty and neither i not the kids like any other soya products. you honestly can't tell it's soya, if someone served it to you and didn't say so you'd thing it was just really tasty ice cream.

trixymalixy · 09/03/2009 11:22

I made my dairy and soya allergic DS ice cream using a recipe from the Oatly website.

It worked really well and was really tasty.

Flibbertyjibbet · 09/03/2009 11:30

If you read the labels carefully you'll find that most stuff sold as 'ice cream' doesn't actually have to have anything from a cow in it.
'Dairy ice cream' has to have a ridiculously low % of dairy produce in it.

Most supermarket ice cream is full of water, starch and the sort of pig fat they get when they sluice the carcass down.

I haven't eaten ice cream for 3 years since I read the article exposing it all!!

Academicmum · 09/03/2009 13:52

I tried the chocolate rice cream, its really yummy. You can buy it from goodness direct www.goodnessdirect.com unfortunately I haven't found it in any of the supermarkets though.

trixymalixy · 10/03/2009 10:49

I looked into the rice ice cream from goodness direct, but the postage on it was so expensive and you had to buy a certain amount of frozen food, so it was going to cost me about £30 for a few tubs of ice cream!!!

Much more cost effective to make your own.

shortcircuit · 10/03/2009 11:47

you can buy Swedish Glace from Tesco & Waitrose. Tesco do a neopolitan which is very popular.

Academicmum · 10/03/2009 17:37

I agree goodness direct is expensive for postage but I tend to buy quite a bit in bulk from there as I'm currently dairy-free whilst BF my dairy-allergic ds2 (plus I'm veggie). Its pretty good for lots of dairy-free, veggie stuff generally that you can't seem to get in the supermarkets. That said, I just bought a Kenwood ice-cream maker for about £23 and tried it out a few days ago making oat-milk ice-cream with a ton of yummy fresh fruit in it and I was really impressed even if I do say so myself!

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GodzillasBumcheek · 10/03/2009 21:01

Well, i had a look in my local health food store (the only one i know of within walking distance)...erm, it was, how can i put it...crap. There was a different sort of soya ice cream but i wasn't willing to risk it. That was it. Just the usual soya milk and rice milk.

Haven't been to a supermarket yet though to check if they sell Swedish Glace.

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loobeylou · 11/03/2009 21:05

OP swedish glace is in a black octagonal tub, and comes in flavours but honestly the vanilla is LOVELY very creamy tasting and vanillary

my dairy intolerant DD also likes sorbets, often these are df but you can also make them yourself

loobeylou · 11/03/2009 21:08

freeze some pure fruit smoothie (any brand), when solid, blitz in a food processor for a few seconds to soften/loosen it up, hey presto, sorbet! and no nasty additives!

chipmonkey · 11/03/2009 21:52

looby, I love your word "vanillary"!