As you dust off your bicycle or lawn mower, and check the bicycle gears, oil and tires, remember to update your refrigerator and pantry to accommodate some staple ingredients to help you support your dairy-free lifestyle, too. Here are local retailers who can help.
Let’s start with the basics; dairy free ingredients available from local grocery and supermarkets. As a general rule, grocery stores near St. Louis based colleges and universities are likely to have a wider array of non-dairy choices. Grand Avenue shops, Webster Groves/Kirkwood area and a few Middle Eastern and Indian markets along Manchester Road are good places to unearth new, healthy dairy free ingredients.
A classic non-dairy brand is Toffuti ® truly non-dairy sour cream and Turtle Mountain’s So Delicious coccnut milk kefir is available at Dierbergs. Hains So-Good ® brand non-dairy frozen desserts, soy and almond milk can be found at Dierbergs and Schnucks grocery stores. Trader Joe’s stores have their own store brand of refrigerated soy based creamers, block and shredded cheeses, tofu, soy milk and nuts. Even Wal-Mart will contain some basic dairy-free ingredients like Wal-Mart, Silk and 8th Continent ® refrigerated soy milk, and non-refrigerated rice, almond and soy milk, tofu, frozen edamme soy pods, Smart Balance ® non-dairy buttery spread, EAS ® soy protein powder, and Bob’s Red Mills soy flour and almond meal/flour, Chaokoh ® coconut juice, Knox ® unflavored gelatin, as well several brands of quick-cooking and old-fashioned oat meal, almonds and soy nuts.
Experts say it takes at least 40 days of commitment to adopt or change at new lifestyle or habit. These transition days allow a person to contemplate and plan for the change, get the necessary tools and materials, and find substitutes or alternative rewards to reinforce the change. A dairy-free diet requires some planning and finding new food ingredients but with a little creativity, practical, delicious new dairy-free recipes will quickly become family favorites!
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