ingredients

Cooking dairy and egg free requires patience and help. Especially if you are like us and are experiencing this for the first time in your life. Just about everything changes after you start cooking and baking egg & dairy free… Now, we all know what flour, sugar and the basics are, but when you are faced with substitutes there are ingredients that you will need that are different and sometimes hard to come by. I know, because this happens to me on a weekly basis.

For example. When I first set out to start baking, I needed Nutritional Yeast… I thought, huh, yeast. It must be in the aisle at the grocery store with the flour and other baking stuff. Wrong. Not only was it not in the store – the store manager had never heard of it… I turned to family members that cook vegetarian and they pointed me to the heath food store that I had often passed, but never visited. This learning curve doesn’t just start and end with ingredients… There are vegetables and fruit out there that Will can eat and might like and I have no idea what they look like or where to buy them.

Asking questions is extremely important in this process. I hope that our growing list will be of use to others out there wandering the shelves alone…

• BRAGG – Found at the health food store near the Asian foods — kinda tastes like Soy Sauce. Read about it here

• Ener-G Egg Replacer is good as a minor ingredient — like a binder, but definitely not as the featured star of the show. It can be found in most health food stores with the baking goods. Read about it here

• Nutritional Yeast – Found at the health food store with other dry ingredients — Our store carries it with in the “buy in bulk” section where you can fill your own bag. Resembling small corn flakes, this yeast has a cheesy taste to it.. Read about it here