Milk and Egg Allergies, other food ideas?

[PhenomenalOne]

I'm one of the really lucky ones eh? I'm pretty allergic to bother milk products, milk, cheese, cottage cheese, etc. and eggs. Milk the worse, so I can eat eggs a few times a week, but not often. Another, and this is my fault is that, I'm terrible with fish, I'm trying to, build up a resistance to it shall we say, but it's been many a year and it still makes me, um, really sick.

As lame as it sounds, does anyone have any other general food ideas that can be used? And with chicken and meat prices (parents money not mine ) have to make due. So far thinking of saving for a meal replacement powder to supplement only when need be. Are things like, chili, tomato paste (trying to get changed to the regular canned tomatoes), leaned ground beef, kidney beans, etc. ok? Stews, with the regular veggies, etc. okay things as well to have, not in big quantities? I can't eat big meals even if I wanted to, I have to eat small like every 30-45 minutes for some reason, so not huge portions. Any ideas, or comments would be helpful. Thank you! Hopefully this made a bit of sense Being in a hurry is a bother huh? Thanks again.

 

[Schez]

I'm also dairy intolerant. Not much you can do except avoid it. I've changed to soy milk, the vanilla flavored is really good.

For cheap but good protein sources - whey protein, kidney beans, chicken (buy big bags in Costco/Sam's club), extra lean beef, extra lean ground turkey, low sodium sliced turkey/chicken.

Stews would be ideal for a low cost meal as you can cook adn then freeze portions to eat during the week. Use cans of tinned tomato but low sodium, lots of veggies - peppers, mushrooms, broccoli. Lentils are a good source of protein/carbs and will bulk up soups/stews. Brown rice can be bought in big bags for really cheap and good source of complex carbs, as well as whole-wheat pasta. Also fruits & veggies are great and cheap, you can even add fruit to a whey protein shake to make it have a carb content too, until you can afford an MRP.

 

[Du]

Look into whey isolate as opposed to whey concentrate.

 

[PhenomenalOne]

Thanks for the help very much and I will do so aobut the whey isolate Thanks for the idea about the Soy Schez, but as irony is a big kick in the butt I forgot to add, I'm allergic to soy lmao. I appreciate your ideas, it's nice to have a follow non-milk consumer, hehe, although I'm not really intolerant, just allergic, makes it tough sometimes but its nice to havea forum where people can ask and get handy answers, agai nthanks very much to both of you Greatly appreciated.

 

[PhenomenalOne]

By the way, my doctor, who is a bit of a bodybuilder recommended as a cheap soruce the canned ham, chicken, turkey. I go with the Maple Leaf brand, it has a good 23g's of protein and either 6 or 7g's of garbs. However I just checked the ham, and know though I don't eat it on a regular basis, maybe twice, if not once a week (Gets old eh? lol ) but it has 513mg's of sodium, which I do believe is quite on the high side, but can anyone correct or advise me on this? Are these okay to snack on everyone once in a blue moon?

 

[greekblondechic]

Are you lactose intolerant or do you have an allergy to dairy? These are two different things, and if you have an allergy to dairy rather than a lactose intolerance even whey isolate won't work for you.

 

[Velvet]

Are you lactose intolerant or do you have an allergy to dairy? These are two different things, and if you have an allergy to dairy rather than a lactose intolerance even whey isolate won't work for you.

good point!

 

[greekblondechic]

Also, if you are only lactose intolerant, I highly recommend taking Lactaid (or store brand equivalent-same thing but cheaper) I used to have to take two lactaid ultra's every time I had dairy, somehow now I am fine just watching what kinds of dairy I eat (no cottage cheese! )

 

[LAM]

Look into whey isolate as opposed to whey concentrate.

also check out some soy isolate protein powders...

 

[PhenomenalOne]

Actually, unfortunatley, I'm allergic, not intolerant, to BOTH milk and soy. Luckily it's not bad, say for someone who has peanuts and has to use one of those syringes (the medical name eludes me currently). I've been using the BioX Extreme Whey as well and I haven't had any real problems from it. The only difficulties I get from milk are acne and then like what someone would get from the flu, nausea, headaches, other not so fun things, this is after a few days of semi-binge milk drinking, lol. Still though, a bit off ice cream is nice every so often but a day sick or a face of pimples isn't