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Share your tips for living with food intolerance with a2 milk - £300 voucher to be won NOW CLOSED

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JustineBMumsnet · 22/11/2016 09:30

Whether you have experience of living with your own food intolerance or your child’s, it can be a difficult and confusing experience that you’ve probably now learned a lot from, and a2 milk would like to hear the tips you now have for living with a food intolerance. Maybe you’ve found foods which are surprisingly okay for you? Or sneaky foods which you thought would be fine but weren’t? Perhaps you know about places to eat out which are especially accommodating? Whatever your tips for living with food intolerance, share them with a2 milk below.

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Share your tips for living with food intolerance with a2 milk - £300 voucher to be won NOW CLOSED
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glennamy · 26/11/2016 17:26

The only problem we have had is with white bread... We made the switch to wholemeal and it was solved, and tbh it tastes a lot better. :)

spottypjs · 26/11/2016 17:33

My advice is shop around because places are starting to sell products designed for food intolerance cheaper and also plan ahead, especially when going out for food.

pennwood · 26/11/2016 19:41

My tip is to check the ingredients all the time as recipes change often without notice so you can get caught out.

freefan · 26/11/2016 21:07

I have found that if I look hard enough there is usually an alternative recipe I can follow or an alternative meal

stefalfie11 · 26/11/2016 21:46

Always check the labels it doesnt matter if you've been buying a product for ages, the companys change the ingredience without any warning!

juju3 · 26/11/2016 21:52

very hard but has to be done

vickyors · 26/11/2016 21:56

My husband has a honey intolerance, and it means we have to check the oddest things.. all dressings are dangerous.. he responds by vomiting profusely, and is then very unwell. We cope by asking people before we go to their homes, and I taste things.. but it's tough. There are some lovely treats with honey in! So we get by by checking, and I'm like some kind of bodyguard, tasting his food!

LaPharisienne · 26/11/2016 21:59

Keep trying new recipes, or you'll end up eating very badly out of laziness and boredom... it is hard work though, somanything that makes eating dairy-free easier gets my vote.

fazkin · 26/11/2016 22:00

My son has multiple allergies some of which severe so we always carry epipens. We've learnt things as we go along. Eating out - always make sure he has one meal that he can have -usually chips. It would be amazing if all restaurants listed their ingredients or atleast the common allergens or have special menus with this on request. The best place we have found to be Jimmy's Restaurants (buffet place) as they list all the allergens over all their food.

twinklenicci · 26/11/2016 22:04

my eldest had trouble with all sorts of food intolerance, i think its really just trial and error, or at least that is what we did. They even have special milk which we got on prescription for him which really helped us.

Roraima · 26/11/2016 22:10

Unfortunately milk is a big problem in the house. We are all terribly intolerant. We've tried all versions and different types and they have all being the same. We use substitutes most of the times or none at all.

AngelwingsPetlamb · 26/11/2016 23:15

When my son was a baby he had lactose intolerance very badly and it wasn't until he was given soya milk to drink that it settled down. Now we use Lactose tablets from Holland and Barrett, the only place we have ever found to buy them. Just take them 20 minutes before eating a meal and they counteract any unpleasant symptoms.

chocolatemonster888 · 26/11/2016 23:34

my daughter is lactose intolerant. we cook everything from scratch, make our own white sauce and cheese sauce with Vitalite spread and lactofree milk. Google everything! so many bought products have lactose in like crisps, why has crisps got lactose? I'm astonished at the amount of things that has lactose. Shock

phillie1 · 27/11/2016 07:05

means cooking from scratch much more, and reading all the labels

fraggle84 · 27/11/2016 07:41

My daughter is allergic to cows milk protein and soya so I'm hoping she can have this?

My tip is online shopping as it makes it much easier to check labels!

defineme · 27/11/2016 08:29

Pizza Express do a pizza without cheese that's nice and Morrissons have just started stocking hemp milk in the uht section which is delicious.

Marg2k8 · 27/11/2016 11:34

Nobody in my immediate family has any food intolerances, but friends do and also cousins. When we invite them to a family occasion, we would invite them to bring something that they can eat, if what we have is not suitable.

kamaxtra · 27/11/2016 11:39

I don't do well with too much dairy, nor do I feel well when I eat a lot of wheat. To avoid this I never have milk at home, I simply use almond or coconut (such delicious and easy alternatives). With wheat, I never have bread at home, and I snack on oat cakes (wheat and gluten free) if I want something a little carb-y.

alsproject · 27/11/2016 12:47

Always read labels as they are a lot better now with allergen information

feefeegabor · 27/11/2016 15:20

My daughter's bestie is gluten intolerant and the first time we had her over for tea, I didn't realise it was so difficult! We had to chop vegetables etc. on a different chopping board and had to break open a new pat of butter just to make sure nothing was cross-contaminated.

Ikea1234 · 27/11/2016 16:50

As a coeliac, it's wise to have a "separate" kitchen, with your own area, own toaster, own butter (so you don't collect even the slightest crumb) and your own shelf / cupboard. Knowing the smallest cross contamination can cause a hospital spell, it's wise not to take chances.

MrsMarigold · 27/11/2016 17:02

Cook from scratch then you know exactly what's in the food. Look at food in terms of groups and just try to have something from each of the major food groups every day rather than focus on elimination.

devito92 · 27/11/2016 19:42

Maybe I'm strange but I don't suffer from any food intolerances

Rachdayan · 27/11/2016 20:34

I have a nut allergy and it only very occasionally catches me out these days, but I do read the ingredients of any new that I am buying and if i'm eating out and not sure (anything with chocolate is risky because of manufacturing processes and nut oils) I take a tiny nibble and wait 5 minutes to see if I feel a tingle. If I do, someone else gets to eat it!

JoJoBaldwin · 27/11/2016 20:57

Pinterest is amazing for recipes for various food intolerances, I don't know what I would do without it!