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Editorial Review: Filled with 200 easy-to-make, lactose-free recipes, this invaluable cookbook also advises on what ingredients to look for and avoid when shopping, and what restaurants can do to ensure a lactose-free meal. Includes a Quick Fixin section of 30-minute-or-less dinners and desserts, a safe brand-name food list, and a nutritional analysis of each recipe.
Customer Reviews:
3 of 3 found this review helpful:
A "must-buy" if you have a lactose restricted diet!, 2003-10-02
This recipe book provides a great deal of helpful information on alternative lactose free products and what to look for on the label to find lactose, as it may be hidden in some other ingredients. The recipes are delicious and simple. There is a wide variety of unique recipes to try. My husband and I are having the best time with the wonderful ice cream recipes! This recipe book is a must if you are lactose intollerant or have a lactose restricted diet. The book is well worth the low cost!
19 of 20 found this review helpful:
idiot's guide to living with lactose intolerance, 2002-09-12
This is the silliest cookbook I have EVER read. Sheri Updike doesn't offer interesting new takes on the foods we all love; she substitutes lactose-free milk and margarine for regular milk and butter and claims to have created new recipes. She offers a "recipe" for Jiffy cornbread mix, using lactose-free milk and margarine! I could have done that when I was in middle school, but I was too busy baking dairy-free cornbread from scratch! And did I mention that Updike's writing is awful? For example, "According to personal taste, as the eggs cook the whites will become opaque and the yolks will harden." Actually, I'm pretty certain that regardless of my "personal taste," the eggs will cook as above--that's basic science--which, like basic writing, Updike apparently missed. Avoid this book!
7 of 8 found this review helpful:
Helpful information, but . . ., 2002-06-05
I found the off-the-shelf safe list helpful, but almost all the recipes require dairy substitutes, many of which are difficult to find in my small rural community and most of which are soy-based. My husband is lactose intolerant. I am not, but I cannot eat soy. I was hoping for recipes that would help me get along without dairy products, not simply use soy-based substitutes. I don't want to fix two meals every night, one lactose-free for my husband and one soy-free for myself.
11 of 11 found this review helpful:
Easy lactose-free living, 2002-01-27
I checked this book out of the library to see whether it was worth buying, and just 15 minutes into reading it, I went online and ordered it. This book contains a wonderful, well-researched collection of recipes, but what I liked best about it was the commentary at the beginning that discussed substitutions and products you can buy off-the-shelf that are already lactose-free. The author wisely points out something that so many "dairy-free" or "milk-free" information sources omit: Just because a product's ingredient listing doesn't contain the word "milk" does not necessarily mean the product has no lactose. She provides a helpful list of other ingredients besides milk and butter that actually contain lactose in amounts that may affect those who cannot tolerate it. I myself developed lactose intolerance in just the past few months, after 20-some years of tolerating dairy products with no problems. This book has been a godsend -- I've gone from panicky and nearly devastated (thinking that I could never have chocolate again!!!) to optimistic and relieved, after learning that lactose intolerance does NOT have to mean I'm doomed to eat only granola and rice for the rest of my life.
14 of 16 found this review helpful:
Wonderful cookbook if you can find the ingredients, 2000-04-08
Now that I've finally found a local store that sells the Tofutti brand products used in a lot of the dessert recipes, I'm thrilled. The Hydrox cookie cheesecake turned out superb - no soy aftertaste.The non-recipe commentary is enjoyable. The recipes are easy to follow, although some are quite involved. Unlike some of the other cookbooks, this one has more "real" recipes - actual foods that normally contain lactose.
This book is definitely worth adding to your collection if you're lactose intolerant. Be prepared to hunt a little for some of the ingredients though.
