Month: June 2010

No Dairy, That can’t be good!

Posted on by JC

Over the past few weeks I’ve not been too well. One thing that was pointed out to me was that I may be lactose intollerant… This worried me a lot – I love having milk in many things. I never realised how much I enjoyed milk/dairy stuff in things or how many different things dairy is actually in.

I’ve always had a low tollerance for chesse, and that probably helped with the idea going into my head. I don’t now think I am that as it seems that actually drinking/eating dairy seems to relieve this issues.

I told a few friends and one in particular, gave me a load of good advice on how to cope with it that I would like to share as you could also find it useful.

Some Good Advice

Hanging around in shops reading labels and a LOT of just cooking from scratch.

If you can eat soya, then there are loads of dairy alternatives open to you that I can’t have. Much easier for you to locate safe chocolate too!

Most large supermarkets have a special diets section, have a look, avoid the gluten free baked goods, they are horrible!

This is the butter they get: http://www.puredairyfree.co.uk/ they have it in big tescos and sainsburys.

Biscuits – cheap bourbons, party rings and rich tea biscuits tend to be dairy free.

There is a dairy free ice cream, sold at most large supermarkets, some even have multiple flavours! http://www.swedishglace.com/

This brand: http://www.alprosoya.co.uk/ gets sold in lots of supermarkets, they do nice flavoured soyashakes and mousses and stuff.

I like this because it’s dairy and soy free: http://www2.oatly.com/ I get their stuff from Waitrose.

Pizzas: you could try non-dairy cheese, but it’s a bit weird. They get non-dairy pizza bases, put the tomato puree base on as usual, and load up the veg and bake, cheese free! It isn’t the same.

Beware!

Be careful with pasta sauces, crisps and pre-packed meats, these can all have unexpected dairy. Cereal and cereal bars often contain milk 🙁

List of dairy things in ingredients:

  • Lactose
  • Caesin
  • Whey powder
  • Milk
  • Cream
  • Butter
  • Yoghurt

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Kittens, Cats or Meercats…

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Over the past few months, I’ve looked after my parents cats on and off – I still call them kittens althou they are not that small any more. They have lived with my parents since the end of 2008 when they were kittens.

I’ve found them to be quite entertaining. They do like to fight with one another and attack anything that they can. Never leave anything like a remote control, pen, or phone on a table – it will soon be found on the floor as they’ve pushed it over the edge – to them its just another toy and thats why its there.

The weather has been quite windy here, and the cats still insist to go outside… which is fine. I found it funny when I opened the door and they came running in with large bounds, stretching to double their size and then the wind hitting them and it looking like they are now bendy cats. They didn’t seem to pleased and moaned a lot upon getting inside. Give them food, and they are happy.

Can you convert a cat to a meercat?

If you have cat treats its a suprise what they’ll do. I had them both on their hind legs stretching up for the sticks of random fishy stuff. They reminded me of meer cats – so yeah, its possable to make them look like it – not actually change into them Obviously.