Dairy and soya free meal for kids and adults

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3 kids age 9 (one dairy and soya free) and 3 adults. What can we have for dinner? Roast chicken and wedges? Free From noodles and chicken?

I would say you can do all them without dairy or soy very easy. I don't east dairy and gluten and often it is quite to adapt a recipe to my needs.

-Shakshuka
-Spaghetti bolognaise and many other tomato based pasta recipes
-Jambalaya
-Curries made with coconut milk with no soy sauce. Fish sauce is a good sub and doesn't taste fishing in a finished meal- assuming they can have fish?
-Paella
-Tagine
-Baked potato or sweet potato with beans, coleslaw, ham/pineapple, tuna/sweetcorn/mayonnaise etc

You can make this fish pie DF & SF if you swap the quark.

I didn’t say all of them I said pretty much all of them. I’m dairy intolerant so I would make them all dairy free using alternatives but lasagne contains cheese, shepards pie people tend to put butter in their mash, pie sometimes contains milk, enchiladas contains cheese, toad in the whole contains milk, curry people sometimes use cream.

@Coconutter24

I see. Well what I do is not add the dairy, for example I wouldn't add any dairy to the mash in a shepherds pie, I wouldn't put cheese in the enchiladas, I'd make toad in the hole with oat milk, I never add cream to curry, I sometimes add coconut milk. And so on.

We used to be dairy free. If a recipe calls for milk, just use water instead. Avoid cheesy foods. Coconut collaborative do a nice yogurt like thing. Sorbet instead of ice cream. Never found a spread/fake butter we could get on with so used hm mayo or oil in our own spray bottle instead. Don’t buy spray on oil - expensive and invariably full of crap.

Lots of bread (and other pre-made stuff) contains skimmed milk powder. We got a bread maker (Panasonic) and used olive oil instead of butter. Still do it now.

Avoid convenience food and cook what you generally eat with tweaks. Soya is not great for hormone development anyway, so best avoided regardless.

We use Oatly oat cream for making creamy dishes.

Most korma paste is diary and soy free, mixed with coconut milk works well.

You can get sweet chilli sauce which is soy free to make a nice stir fry.

For a roast dinner, I've made yorkshires with oat milk that turn out fine, there are some free from gravy's that are soy and dairy free.

For tomato based dishes we use passata rather than jar sauces, much more control over ingredients then.

Bangers and mash.

Can't beat it, food of the gods.

We are a dairy, egg and oat free family. Our meals are typically

• enchiladas
• macaroni cheese (Jamie Oliver recipe but don't add vegan cheese, instead add bacon lardons/pancetta)
• cottage/shepherds pie
• burritos
• roast
• chicken burgers (home made in airfyer. I use coconut yogurt to bind the coating to the chicken rather than egg)
• spag bol
• chilli
• steak and chips
• salmon and steamed veg
• range of curries, using coconut cream
• lasagne

As you can tell I like my stodgy home cooked food. I typically make most of it with turkey mince so we aren't eating too much red meat.

That’s how do it by using alternatives. The original recipes contain dairy but it’s so easy to sub that out with something else

People seem flummoxed when it comes to vegan or dairy free but you can make the same meals, you just swap out the ingredients or don't add them.

I would suggest to go for veggies:
Warm Soups and quiche/pies are a perfect choice. Simply avoid the cream/milk which is completely optional.
Sweet potatoe soup
Chicken noodle soup
Tomato soup
Quiche with leek

Hope it helps!

I agree with using dairy free ingredients like oat milk and dairy free spread if your favourite meals are normally dairy based.
Can’t comment on the best vegan cheeses but I’m sure that someone on here will know which ones work best.

Scampi is a source of calcium. I've just checked my packet of Lidl Scampi and it's DF & SF