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What do you eat?
I'm currently on a no dairy diet (nothing with cow's milk protein), but also cannot substitute with soy or other products. As part of my meals I try not to eat any processed food, I do have the occasional Uncle Ben's microwave rice.
I'm trying to cut back/out junk food as I tend to eat crisps and these milk chocolate chunk cookies from Sainsburys (these have to go because of the chocolate, because they are not good for me, and because I have a one a day addiction).
I don't like peppers, don't usually eat much pork or lamb, and no onion heavy meals. I feel like I'm always eating the same things and am now stuck with less of my go to options because of the no dairy.
What are your healthy go to options for breakfast, lunch, and snacks? I'll take any great dinner suggestions too to help shake things up.
Re: What do you eat?
I tried out no-dairy for a few weeks and it was really hard! Apparently all my go-to meals involve cheese :-)
We've been experimenting lately with asian food (Chinese and Japanese food are almost always dairy free). We eat a ton of quorn stir fries and DH made a fantastic sort-of miso soup recently with soba noodles, bok choi and other veggies and tofu. I eat the exact same thing every day for breakfast and lunch for months now (granola bar - there are a couple brands I switch between as I'm trying to cut back on processed sugars - and coffee for breakfast, and a wrap with turkey and lettuce, hummus and carrots and some dried fruit for lunch)
Hummus is a go-to item for me and DH eats a lot of eggs. I have a hard time in the afternoons - I get super hungry around 4-5pm so I'm actually spending some time today looking up snack options, I swear there are things out there that I just forget about!
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For breakfast, I like peanut butter toast (whole wheat) topped with raisins and drizzled with honey. I couple that with a fruit or compote and yoghurt (obviously no yoghurt for you).
For snacks, I like fresh or dried fruit and nuts.
lunch-I love rice or pasta with or without veggies and with herbs. mmmmmm. Other than that, I usually pick a meat and attempt to make a meal out of that. Right now though, I'm craving sweet potatoes
OMG, I miss those cookies. So good. DH would get them all the time, it is probably better we can't get them now!
We are trying to be healthier. I roast a lot of vegetables now. Lean turkey, chicken, salads.
You are a strong woman to give up dairy. I love cheese.
Frlcb- I'm glad someone else knows how good these are! I started eating them while pregnant and seriously have one everyday.
Giving up the dairy is not a choice, but because DD is having some issues and the doctors think this will help. It's killing me! I didn't realize how much cheese and chocolate I eat. The chocolate thing has been relatively recent as I've tried to cut back on crisps. I've always been more of a salt eater than a sweet eater.
Right now for breakfast I have eggs & toast, dry cheerios, a peanut butter sandwich, or an apple and peanut butter.
I'll have berries and/or grapes if they are good when I go shopping. Then I usually have crips, pretzels, crackers, or my apple and peanut butter for a snack if I didn't have it for breakfast.
For lunch I usually do a wrap with chicken, avocado or spinach, and tomato.
For dinner I usually do a protein, rice/potato/pasta, and a veg.
I'm a primal eater so you probably won't consider what I eat to be very healthy. Can you have coconut milk? Because this recipe is amazing. http://beta.primal-palate.com/blog/chocolate-and-raspberry-pot-de-creme/#more-4
You can find dairy free dark chocolate. Ghee is dairy free butter. Almond milk is really easy to make at home also - just almonds and water.
My favorite snacks are nuts, boiled eggs, trail mix, carrot sticks, celery. I usually plan my meals around whatever veg came in my weekly organic veg box, since it changes every week it provides some variety.
I'm dairy free, being that I love a mucus-free diet and cow's milk (other non-human milks as well) is a THE source of mucus (read: THE source of ailments).
For breakfast I have a few options. I always start out with an apple/carrot/celery/orange juice (LOVE my Breville juicer!).
Then, first course can be cereals in rice or almond milk and granola; tea and raw cheesecakes (from the raw pastry shop); tea, sprouted bread with agave or honey. The second course is usually hubby's scrambled eggs with salmon.
All of the above (minus the eggs) usually double as snacks as well, if I'm home. Whereas, if I'm on the go I'd grab a KIND bar (love the "nut delight" one, hmmmm) or a slice of raw cake.
For lunch/dinner we pretty much stick to a few key combinations of pasta/rice-meat/fish-steamed/raw veggies etc...
We have our veggies before the pasta course, so it's usually salad or steamed spinach or whatever other green we have ready. Then pasta (gluten free for me) with tomato sauce (my basil sauce is a favourite) or tuna sauce or rag? etc... At times I would make veggie soup and combine the two courses by cooking some broken spaghetti or linguine on the side and put them in the soup, which we call "minestrone".
When we get bored of the usual picks we change it up by having ravioli or tortellini instead, or I'd make baked potatoes or saffron rice etc...
Second course could be baked tilapia, cod cakes, meat choices, prosciutto platter etc...
Finally, when we get REALLY bored we just go to our favourite asian restaurant on University Place, lol
You should look on pinterest for food ideas. Its pretty much where I find all my new recipes. Here's what I'm making for dinner tonight. It does have peppers, but you blend them up with pineapple and honestly it tastes like sweet and sour sauce. I thought it was really yummy the last time I made it!
http://cookbad.blogspot.com/2007/08/pot-roasted-chicken-with-sweet-and-sour.html
I'm lactose intolerant, so I try to avoid most dairy. Although I will still indulge in cheeses & chocolate because the resulting stomach ache can be worth it (especially in France!).
I eat a lot of fish and meat. Salmon is probably my favorite and baking it in the oven with some rosemary & sea salt sprinkled on it is super easy. However, I've found a ton of good recipes using fish in other ways. A couple of weeks ago, I just made a basic white fish in a coconut milk sauce with a little bit of curry. Last night, I made some parsley & quinoa noodles (they sell them pre-made that way at our local health food store) with some olive oil & salt drizzled over it and a filet of white fish (I don't know the names of any of the fish here in France, I just point at what I want at the fish stall). DD and I ended up mashing the fish with the olive oil and mixing it up in the noodles and it was quite good.
You don't like lamb, so I'll skip those recipes, but I eat a lot of lamb. It's one of DD's favorite meats. In the U.S., I used to also eat a lot of ground turkey in different recipes, but I can't find it here.
Non-meat proteins I love are quinoa and lentils, brown, green and red. I like mixing black beans and quinoa or red-kidney-bean chili and quinoa. DD prefers these mixtures inside a warmed tortilla. I prepare the lentils in a lot of different ways, but one of my favorites is a carrot, walnut & scallion lentil salad with a walnut oil & sherry vinegar dressing. (I can post the recipe if you want it.)
In the U.S., I used to make soba noodles a lot, but the ones I've found in France aren't quite as hearty and taste different. I don't mind as much, but DD doesn't like the ones here, so I've given up on them for now. Udon noodles are also good, especially in a coconut milk kind of stew.
I don't do anything very interesting with veggies. Mostly, I steam them. There's a cauliflower gratin recipe I make sometimes for DD, but that has cheese. Baked kale chips are awesome. There's a recipe for them at allrecipes dot com.
The 101cookbooks blog is good for vegetarian ideas, as well as the blog author's several cookbooks. I left them back in the US, but really miss them.