Wheat and diary free

Being hit with the need to avoid foods if tough. I've been there. There are some very good sites on line which give a good outline of dairy/wheat free foods. I found rice milk very helpful, there are other nut and bean based milks available but they are not nutritionally equal to dairy, lacking many of the essential minerals and vitamins. There are a wide range of butter substitutes on the market using soy or other oils. Eggs is a sad one, they are so useful for many essential minerals and things I've not got an idea for them and if you rely on produced foods they are in so very many products you possibly do not expect them to be in. Gluten is not as simple as it might seem many grain mills do not separate wheat from oats so off the shelf oats can be compromised too. Increasingly there are different flours available in health food shops but the perform differently to wheat which makes baking more complicated.

Wheat as bread has been a lynch pin of our western diet. It is possible to find wheat free breads. It is possible to find old flours like spelt which does not contain gluten. For many, gluten intolerance is a modern concern. For many it comes from the modern fast bread making practice which does not provide for long proving of the dough. Over night proving gives the gluten time to work itself out so it is not as dominant if not lost in the final loaf of bread. Long proving is not practical for many these days.

Returning to the vitamin and minerals loss from abstaining from dairy and eggs, it is advisable to take a good vitamin and mineral supplement to prevent other impacts of a restricted diet.

I'm casein intolerant (dairy protein not the sugar) additionally I've issues with salicylate a form of phenol and histamine intolerance both of which make many foods particularly fruits, vegetables impossible for me to eat. Histamine is more complicated and covers almost everything else. You may think mine is a cop out, I use a specific multy enzyme product which replaces the enzymes my body is not making or not making enough of. I can now have a regular diet, so much relief.