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BenChuy · 05-06-2004, 07:56 AM

I, personally, am a Milk intolerant (not that pussy lactose intolerance thing) so eating is difficult for me and i have to cook almost all of my meals. I found a great book, called Recipes for Dairy-free living by denise Jardine. As opposed to those crappy veggan meals i was having to blindly modify, this thing is just great and all of the items on the ingredients list are easy to get and relatively inexpensive. Anyone else have dietary problems and such?

Polyphobic · 05-06-2004, 08:13 AM

I can't handle caffeine, to much cheese, acidic foods/drinks, and some fattier pork. My GERD meds and fiber have alleviated this somewhat. Still I have to be carefull. I did something wrong last saturday and was very sick for 18 hrs straight. My son was teething that night. Thus, a completely miserable night.

cherriesue · 05-07-2004, 08:17 AM

I'm highly allergic to nuts (especially peanuts), coconut, avocado and shellfish. I don't drink caffeine because I suffer from insomnia and I don't need to consume anything that will keep me "up".

Rodney · 05-08-2004, 10:05 PM

Not me, personally, but my wife and I used to run a weekly church dinner attended by 10-20 people and 1) one of the regulars was allergic to dairy, 2) one of the regulars couldn't have wheat, and 3) one semi-regular got violent headaches when she ate beans. Made cooking real interesting! Pasta salad was nearly always a winner, because it doesn't need to have dairy and we could always make a smaller separate batch with rice or corn pasta. And we did a lot of vegetable soup, barley soup, pea soup, and so forth.

There were problems with coffee and tea, too, because the caffeine did keep a number of people up and church coffee sucks anyway. So we stuck to water and fruit juices.

We did homeless suppers that were entirely vegan because 1) it's cheaper, 2) a lot of the "homeless" around here are Rainbows, and so eat vegan, and 3) with a bunch of amateur cooks in a dingy church kitchen of doubtful cleanliness, cooking without meat (and dairy, if possible) is the easiest way to avoid food contamination. In stews, I used to use a meat subsitute, textured soy protein, that came in meat-like chunks. It has a nasty aftertaste, but it was dirt cheap; you buy the dried TSP by the pound, then reconsistitute it with hot water. I found that throwing a lot of A-1 sauce and cider vinegar into the water was a good way to kill the aftertaste. So good that on more than one occasion I was confronted by angry vegan vagabonds who thought I'd put meat in their stew under false pretences.

05-06-2004, 07:56 AM	#1 (permalink)
BenChuy Insane Location: About 70 pixals above this...	Cookbooks for Food allergies I, personally, am a Milk intolerant (not that pussy lactose intolerance thing) so eating is difficult for me and i have to cook almost all of my meals. I found a great book, called Recipes for Dairy-free living by denise Jardine. As opposed to those crappy veggan meals i was having to blindly modify, this thing is just great and all of the items on the ingredients list are easy to get and relatively inexpensive. Anyone else have dietary problems and such?

05-06-2004, 08:13 AM	#2 (permalink)
Polyphobic Runt Location: Denver	I can't handle caffeine, to much cheese, acidic foods/drinks, and some fattier pork. My GERD meds and fiber have alleviated this somewhat. Still I have to be carefull. I did something wrong last saturday and was very sick for 18 hrs straight. My son was teething that night. Thus, a completely miserable night. __________________ <--The great infidel-->

05-07-2004, 08:17 AM	#3 (permalink)
cherriesue Insane Location: trying to avoid being groped	I'm highly allergic to nuts (especially peanuts), coconut, avocado and shellfish. I don't drink caffeine because I suffer from insomnia and I don't need to consume anything that will keep me "up". __________________ we die only once and for such a long time

05-08-2004, 10:05 PM	#4 (permalink)
Rodney Observant Ruminant Location: Rich Wannabe Hippie Town	Not me, personally, but my wife and I used to run a weekly church dinner attended by 10-20 people and 1) one of the regulars was allergic to dairy, 2) one of the regulars couldn't have wheat, and 3) one semi-regular got violent headaches when she ate beans. Made cooking real interesting! Pasta salad was nearly always a winner, because it doesn't need to have dairy and we could always make a smaller separate batch with rice or corn pasta. And we did a lot of vegetable soup, barley soup, pea soup, and so forth. There were problems with coffee and tea, too, because the caffeine did keep a number of people up and church coffee sucks anyway. So we stuck to water and fruit juices. We did homeless suppers that were entirely vegan because 1) it's cheaper, 2) a lot of the "homeless" around here are Rainbows, and so eat vegan, and 3) with a bunch of amateur cooks in a dingy church kitchen of doubtful cleanliness, cooking without meat (and dairy, if possible) is the easiest way to avoid food contamination. In stews, I used to use a meat subsitute, textured soy protein, that came in meat-like chunks. It has a nasty aftertaste, but it was dirt cheap; you buy the dried TSP by the pound, then reconsistitute it with hot water. I found that throwing a lot of A-1 sauce and cider vinegar into the water was a good way to kill the aftertaste. So good that on more than one occasion I was confronted by angry vegan vagabonds who thought I'd put meat in their stew under false pretences.