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hi all. i am a 32 year old stay at home mother of two very active boys and the wife of an amazing man who happens to be allergic to dairy. it all started in college. we used to order pizza and cheese sticks late night together and pig out before crashing. we would make yummy cheesy food together and split cheesecake when we went out to dinner. all of this changed when he decided to enter in a food eating contest. what a mistake! he irritated his esophagus so badly that after that any time he ate anything with dairy he would get violently ill (i won't get into the details) and it got worse every time it happened.
i love to cook. it brings me joy to feed people good food and see their faces when they take the first bite. i try to fix a nice dinner every night. which doesn't always happen but i try. it became increasingly difficult after the allergy started. i would basically stick to a pretty plain meal of meat, vegetable and starch. nothing exciting and certainly nothing inspirational.
finally, i went grocery shopping and found all sorts of products that were dairy free. i was a tad bit skeptical of how they were going to taste. i like real cream cheese & sour cream & every type of cheese imaginable. of course he was the guinea pig. i would not try any of them for a long time. why should i have to suffer with fake dairy products just because of his allergy? he said that he loved the yogurt and was so pleased that he could finally eat yogurt again (or at least a yogurt substitute). he tried the cream cheese and the shredded cheese and he liked them all.
the next test was cooking with them.
this blog is a document of our daily dinners and my trials and tribulations Cooking Dairy Free!