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I've been reading about food allergies and considering experimenting with removing dairy from a couple of my dc's diets. That said, this is an ENORMOUS undertaking. I'm not a whimp, mind you....but my head swims trying to figure out what I'll feed them. Going through the breakfast options alone makes my head spin...everything I've been want to make has dairy in one form or another. My kiddos are NOT big cold cereal eaters, they're spoiled and like hot breakfasts.
I made granola and served it with almond milk this a.m. They all groaned that there was no yogurt. I thought I'd heard before that yogurt is not that problematic. Am I making this up? If you were removing dairy from your dc's diets suspecting a sensitivity, would you kaibash yogurt as well?
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The only dairy product my daughter is able to eat on a regular basis is Parmesan cheese.
We make waffles and french toast by the jumbo batch and freeze them so they are quick to grab in the morning.
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Yogurt is not an issue if you are dealing with lactose intolerance because the cultures in the yogurt will help your body digest the dairy.
If you have a true dairy allergy you have to cut out every last trace of cow milk for three weeks (two weeks to clear your system and one week to notice a change). Could you do eggs? Omelets? French toast? Goat milk yogurt for the granola? All fruit smoothies?
You have my sympathies.
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Thanks for the suggestions. Susan, goat's milk doesn't present a problem for folks with a cow's milk sensitivity?
We do a lot of eggs around here, but everyone wants them with CHEESE and lashings of it. 
I put milk in my french toast.....condensed. Recipes?
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When ds had his milk protein allergy we took yogurt out of our diets--along with all the other stuff. Interestingly, it was something he had issues with for years after we were able to give him milk and other dairy. The one dairy thing he could not tolerate without intestinal issues was yogurt.
There was a great book by an author, Jane Zukin, that was really helpful for me regarding removing dairy from diets. You might want to see if the library has it.
Could you make oatmeal with soy milk or water? We preferred water here. Waffles/pancakes we would use soy milk. There are dairy free cheeses for your eggs. My ds loved soy yogurt. A quick trip to Whole Foods or Wild Oats type stores might be helpful. And I got an awesome recipe from Vegetarian Times for a ricotta-like cheese(warning--made with tofu) that helped us with lasagna and stuffed shells. Dh even was OK with it!!
Good luck. It was an education for me--amazing we can live without cow's milk......
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I'm on rice milk at the moment. It's not too bad. The protein enriched one with chickpeas tastes better to me than the just plain rice one. I won't give you brands because I'm in Australia.
I make French Toast and Oatmeal with water now and add rice milk to the oatmeal at the end.
My quick and easy and non messy French toast version is to put the maple syrup in with the egg and water rather than leaving it for pouring on. That way my toddler can eat it with her hands.
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My youngest has a true milk allergy, but only to cow's milk. She eats goat's milk cheeses (cheddar, mozzarella, feta, and cream cheese for bagels), but she doesn't like the taste of the milk alone. I really don't cook any differently than I used to, just substituting rice milk in recipes (tried soy, but the results weren't usually that great)and using oil instead of butter or margarine. We also get a soy "sour cream", soy yogurt and soy or rice ice cream. Over the holidays we found some soy "egg nog" and peppermint "hot chocolate". She's not suffering a whole lot 
Oh, and she *loves* meusli or granola with orange juice instead of milk- I haven't tried it, but my younger brother (who is on kidney dialysis, so avoids dairy) took her word for it, and loves it!
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I just don't put milk in french toast. I beat some eggs, add syrup or brown sugar, cinnamon and vanilla. We love it . . .
I don't love plain scrambled eggs, either. I started chopping a small amount of frozen bacon and cooking it first then adding my beaten eggs to the pan. I eat less bacon that way and the eggs taste better, too.
Careful substituting soy for everything. It is also a common allergen and one that could act up if you have a sudden influx of it. You might also look into soy as a health food. I'm not such a fan, but people tend to have pretty strong feelings on the subject.
I don't have a dairy allergy, by the way, so I apologize if I'm making this sound easy. I know it's not.
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one of my sons is lactose intolerant, though it doesn't affect his behaviour, just his daily, you know, bm. i can actually judge the amount of lactose he's consumed by how solid (or not) his dirty business is.
Anyhoo...
Dr. Sears has a list on his website that I read long back (askdrsears.com) that shows the varying lactose content of dairy foods. It surprised me - skim milk, for example, has WAY more than cheddar cheese. So, if your child has an intolerance (as opposed to a true allergy, which would be exceedingly rare,) then I'd just try to eliminate the biggies. Consider what your kids are getting on a weekly, not daily basis - symptoms can accumulate over several days.
My son loves chocolate soymilk to drink, or vanilla, but not plain. It's really cheap @ walmart. Also loves oatmeal with apples & raisins cooked into it (or whatever you like) some sweetener and a dash of his vanilla soymilk. He eats a ton of yogurt without problems.
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