Breakfast ideas free of Egg/Soy/Cow's Milk?

[Ghislaine]

Hi, I'm hoping for some help with breakfast ideas that are free of Eggs, Soy, and Cow's Milk products. Oh, and almonds! I've been diagnosed with allergies and am having a really hard time with breakfast.

It just seems so odd to have a "chunk o' meat" for breakfast but I'm getting to the point where I feel like that and soup might be my only options.

I can have goat's milk products so I don't have to go completely dairy free but I've yet to come across a goat's milk cottage cheese!

Edit> Breakfast sausage is a possibility though I haven't found the I lose very well while eating sausage. Too much fat maybe?

[Mal Lady]

Wow!!!!!!

What a predicament!!:eek: I guess that you need to look at modifying "normal" items and make that work. Still hard thing to do. Pancakes or waffles using "allowed" nut meal and goats milk, vanilla, baking powder, using lc syrup. Meats with fruit. I guess eat a lunch type meal. You do have a problem - but, need to get ingenius and take into consideration foods you like. I am not much help but, wish you luck on your "experiment" on lc.

Sharon

[gitfiddle]

Ghislaine, I make a meatloaf-type dish of 2# ground beef, 1# breakfast sausage and whatever seasonings sound good. It originally called for eggs and shredded cheese, but it has evolved. I found it is tasty with a cup or so of salsa, which adds carbs, naturally. I often shake parmesan on top before baking. Feta is very good on top as I reheat a square for breakfast or lunch. I bake it in an oblong cake pan (9x13?) and cut it into squares, baggie each square and freeze them.

I can see where you would have trouble finding something "traditional" for breakfast. I don't know if there is a protein powder that isn't soy or whey. My traveling snack is a mixture of nuts and dried cranberries (sparingly, but they add flavor).

I'm not up on goat cheese, but you could do more if there was a soft one. How about goat's milk? Can you use it to make a shake or cream cheese out of it?

Someone will come along with ideas, I'm sure. :) I wish you luck!

[LisaS]

minute steak with grilled/broiled tomatoes (steak'n'eggs no eggs)
grilled boneless pork chop with sf "maple syrup" and grilled tomatoes (ham'n'eggs but not ham and no eggs)
protein shake with berries (I use whey, you might need rice/pea/hemp)
grilled trout with broiled tomatoes (traditional breakfast food for many fishermen and campers)

am I hung up on tomatoes - no, but they are a traditional breakfast w/meat side dish and their season will be starting soon - mmm, tasty.

[Mitra]

Mushrooms sub well for the tomatoes for variety. I like kippers occasionally for breakfast.

My supermarket sometimes has buffalo ricotta. I don't know if that would work for you as a cottage cheese-type thing.

[Ghislaine]

Thank you all for such great ideas. Goat cheese is actually easiest to find in a soft form. I just haven't quite figured out what to do with it when I can't mix it with eggs!

I'll have to look into the alternative protein powders. If I'm lucky I'll be able to get rice or hemp locally.

I'll have to look into nut meal pancakes. Flax seed is supposed to work as an egg replacer so maybe I can work something out.

I appreciate all the thought you've given to this.

Ghislaine

[gitfiddle]

Goat cheese is actually easiest to find in a soft form. I just haven't quite figured out what to do with it when I can't mix it with eggs!

I would go with fruit. You might use it to thicken a goat milk/fruit smoothie in the blender. I'm thinking it could be combined with berries/nuts when soft and chilled or frozen for an ice cream type treat. How about mixing it with fresh mushrooms and/or sauteed onions and baking it, like Brie?

I just checked on Google and there is goat yogurt also. Redwood Hill Farm had a bunch of recipes, not necessarily breakfast, but they all sounded wonderful.

[Seymour Spectacles]

I've tried the plain goat yogurt. I like it. It's lower in sugar than (most) cow's milk yogurt too. If it's still too high in carbs, strain it (with a coffee-filter) to get rid of the whey and you'll end up with a thicker yogurt with fewer carbs.

You could probably add a few berries to the mix for added flavor and nutrition.

Do you like avocados? Maybe you can have something like bacon and avocados. I love the avocado/prosciutto combo. So, maybe the bacon and avocado combo could work too?

Another option might be to add some coconut milk to your breakfast. You could add it to a protein shake, for instance.

My morning shake often consists of blueberries, water, coconut milk and protein powder. It's pretty tasty and quite filling.

Having food allergies is a drag but if you stretch your creativity and keep asking/looking for alternatives ... I'm sure you'll find them.

Good luck! :)

PS - Another option is to make a fortified hot cocoa (or chocolate "milk"). Mix 100% cocoa powder (which is low in carbs), water, non-carb sweetener and coconut milk. I sometimes have this as a treat. It's quite satisfying.

[Relief]

I gave up all dairy for a while and found that rice protien powder was very good. for awhile I made a morning shake everyday day with berries, rice protein and coconut cream. delish!

I have also made pancakes with nut butter and eggs and they were very good. I'm thinking that you could sub flax meal plus some liquid for the eggs( coconut cream or goat's milk maybe ) and come up with something pretty decent. try cashew or macadamia nut butter --expensive but yummy!

[maxlharris]

FWIW: I would look into making an effort to break the conventional view of breakfast and breakfast foods. There is no real reason, other than convention, that breakfast has separate breakfast foods. I think the most helpful way I got around this was by eating breakfast for dinner a bunch of times. It demystifies breakfast foods as only for breakfast. You can go the other way. Many are the times I've had leftover chicken wings, steak, pork chops, etc, for breakfast.

I would also look into an allergy retest, since these tests are notorious for false positives (like 50% of positives are false when done correctly, the rate skyrockets with errors in testing procedure).

[Liliana]

(Along the lines of the previous post, I find that if I wait until I get hungry to eat breakfast, almost anything works as breakfast food.)

If you can get goat milk itself, making a home-made curd cheese should be quite easy. I've only done it with cow's milk, using 1cup buttermilk for every 1qt milk. I suppose you'd have to make your own goat buttermilk first, by acidifying the milk with a bit of vinegar or lemon juice and letting it sit for a while.

The curds turn out kind of small; I don't know how that would seem as a substitute for cottage cheese for you.

Check out http://Biology.clc.uc.edu/Fankhauser/Cheese/Cheese.html
He seems to use goat milk for most if not all of his cheeses.

Are you familiar with Gjetost? Strong-tasting semi-hard norwegian goat milk cheese. Brown. Sliceable. Pricey, sadly.

I'm very lucky to be living in Italy, where I can easily get fresh buffalo milk mozzarella, a 200g ball of which is generally my breakfast of choice. (This is a soft cheese, not aged. Not soft enough to be spreadable. A 200g ball of it resembles a squishy baseball.) And sometimes it's my lunch, too. I understanding that this has recently been becoming more available in the US, depending on where you're at. (I haven't yet sourced buffalo milk here, so I've not tried making my own mozzarella. Cow's milk mozzarella just doesn't come close.)

If you can find goat cheese with a rind that comes in single-serving sizes, like 100g/3oz, this may appeal to you: split it like a sandwich and grind some black pepper into it, put it back together and wrap it in a couple of very thin-sliced pieces of meat (I use the ubiquitous-here prosciutto or speck) and heat it in a heavy pan over a very low flame or in the oven until the meat cooks at bit and the cheese begins to ooze, flipping once about halfway through (5-7minutes in a pan). I then eat it as is or scrape it onto a wasa crispbread or two.

In fact, I think I'll go make myself one right now...

[Adriana]

I gave up all dairy for a while and found that rice protien powder was very good. for awhile I made a morning shake everyday day with berries, rice protein and coconut cream. delish!

I have also made pancakes with nut butter and eggs and they were very good. I'm thinking that you could sub flax meal plus some liquid for the eggs( coconut cream or goat's milk maybe ) and come up with something pretty decent. try cashew or macadamia nut butter --expensive but yummy!
Where do you get the rice protein? I've checked Whole Foods and our local health food store with no luck.