dairy free dinners help!

[sunshineandshowers13]

I need some help and inspiration please!
My dd2 who is 7 has to have a dairy free diet and we are struggling for inspiration. She likes the usual kids stuff fish fingers, chicken, mash, chips, lasagne, spag bol, roast and yorkshires, pizza etc. loves fruit but not so hot on veg! But how do you do lasagne and macaroni and pizza with no cheese? can manage with soya milk no bother but the cheese thing is proving to be a problem.

ant ideas and inspiration would be gratefully received!

the cheese thing is a sticking point, tbh. There's some soya cheese stuff, looks and smells gruesome but my dc like it (but they've been df since birth or very small, so know no better different) I tend to use the soya milk and make a garlicky sauce with herbs and stuff in, and in the end it's far nicer than the naff cheesy stuff.
For other ideas, I do a yummy chicken korma (use coconut milk and chuck a carton of soya cream in at the end, delish!) and basically hunt around the mn archives because we've had loads of threads on this, and we all throw our ideas and recipes in. I find that there's pretty much an equivalent for everything, even ice cream so they don't lose out at all. We liven ice cream up with fruit sauces and sprinkles - watch out for ice cream cones as many contain milk
Pizza - we make our own or get basic bases, and put on passata [sp?] onions, mushrooms, bacon bits, italian seasoning, red peppers, and a small sprinkle of the minging soya cheese stuff

Dairy free cheese

Sorry pressed post to soon!

Is it totally dairy free or is it lactose free - if its the latter then you could try these products

yes, the Pure stuff is completely df, so assuming she's ok with soya then they are fine
this is the stuff we have (sometimes)

Ds is allergic to milk and eggs so we do:
sausage/beef/chicken casserole
roasts
chilli
spag bol
shepherds pie
corned beef/chicken/beef pie (ready made pastry - fabbo!)

Really need to find some veggie recipes because all this meat is so expensive!!

We use Pure and Oatly milk.

oops sorry - just saw your cheese question - have no idea we haven't even tried to replacate cheesey recipes.

Oatly is much better for making a White sauce than soya milk. I make lasagne with White sauce, and don't substitute for the cheese at all. I also make pasta with White sauce and put bacon and peas in, a bit carbonaraish.

You can buy a dairy free cheese sauce mix in a little orange tub. Haven't seen it for a while though.

I also make pizza without any cheese.

Dairy free cheese is vile.

You can get a dairy free cheese sauce mix in Tesco in the free from aisle. It's in a little sotck/gravy type tub, yellow and black I think.

It's awful stuff though. I just don't do the cheesy things.

We've just found out ds is soya intolerant too, that is proving bleeding impossible! Dairy I coped with but soya too? Any idea's?! (sorry for the hijack sunshine!)

or maybe an orange tub

Ds is soya intollerant too. But we find he is ok with soya when it is buried in the ingrediants rather than straight soya milk/ yoghurt.
We just use Oatly instead.
It's a bummer isn't it?!!

DD is dairy free. We use goats cheddar - Village Green is the best tasting one we have found. It is sold in Waitrose and (I think) we found it in Tesco the other week. Tesco own-brand goats cheddar is fine, but the VG tastes better.

DD cannot eat most chocolate because of the dairy content (it's amazing how many brands of 'dark' choc have milk powder in). We found a good supplier of goats milk chocolate (started by a lady who's DC was allergic to both dairy and soya) - Google billygoatstuff and they should pop up. She is delighted to have their milk chocolate coins in her Christmas stocking (oh, & they come in pretty little organza bags too). As a treat she sometimes has 'chocolately porridge', which is porridge made with goats or soya milk, with a spoon of cocoa stirred in (try and crush up the cocoa a bit, if it gets lumpy in the box like ours).

With pizza, I try to do my own with buffalo mozzarella (DD is fine with buffalo milk) & goats chedd. You can buy pizzas with buff' mozz', but sometimes the bases contain dried milk, or the toppings have dairy cheddar too - I always have to check labels.

For cake-making I use marg', normally the Pure Soya. However, for white sauces etc I use goats butter (much dearer than marg, but we like the flavour).

Does anyone else have a set of in-laws who feed DC dairy products even though they know it will provoke an allergic reaction (which I then have to deal with)?

hijack away GDBD, cos next week we go soya free AND dairy free too!!!Billy goats stuff choc is lovely and they do easter/halloween/xmas etc so it means the kids dont feel as if they are missing out. We found using goats milk/butter/cheese really quite straight foward and really just replaced like for like.

But, now no mammalian milk at all and as of next week no soya and i too am freaking out! tbh not sure either of these diets is going to make any difference to her but we have to try and you never know. I was never sure about buff mozzarella so have steered away from it. And i'm lucky in-laws are on the whole great and stick to diet(although they think its a bit "out there" to have food intolerances!)