Lactose Free products at WDW?

[budbeerlady]

My 10 year-old son has had problems with dairy and one ice cream cone can keep the whole family up all night with his crying. But I discovered that it was not the lactose he was having problems with. It's actually the hormones and steroids given to the dairy cows. I switched him to organic milk 3 months ago and since then he has been able to enjoy hot chocolate and cereal. It makes so much sense, since women are warned that medications can pass through their breast milk to their babies, wouldn't it be the same for cow's milk? He still has trouble with ice cream, so I have to find organic or buy one of those ice cream machines and make it myself with organic milk. I think we'll try out some Lactaid for our trip to WDW.

Bingo!!!! I thought I was lactose intolerant but seemed weird how I could take a whole bottle of Lactaid and still be sick for hours!!! I cannot have the hormones that they are pumping into our milk supply!!! My fix is imported cheese or even Amish Cheese, I can eat a ton and not get sick! And organic milk and yougurt and ice creams!!!!!

Luckily we have an amish market not far away from my house. (Where I live an hour isnt far to get to something) So not only am I getting the hormone free cheeses, I am getting hormone Free, Free range beef and chicken. Double plus!!!!! Gotta love what we are doing to ourselves with all of our scientific advances!

Another thing that helped before I made the dairy type switch was green tea! A capsule before dinner often kept me from getting sick on foods I love to eat. If not it was oding on Immodium A-D.

 

[Mellie0119]

Interesting ideas here for me to try! I've had problems with milk off and on for years. I've found that by going to non-fat milk products I can lessen (or eliminate) most symptoms. I may have to try the organic milk, recently even the non-fat milk has been giving me fits. Thanks for the ideas!

 

[MAKmom]

Deb Willis site allears has wonderful advise on eating in WDW with speacial needs.

Orgainic Milk is a smart choice if you drink milk. I'm not sure Lactaid is orgainc.

FYI: Do you know all the calcuim in milk is added to milk? YOu can get your calcium from tums, L'il Critters Calcium Gummy Bear vitiams & other supplements. Silk soymilk has a Enhanced milk that is VERY good. To get my kids to drink it I started with adding Nestle Quick & they could not tell it was not MILK. It took months to get them to accept we are off milk. I think when your body tells you you are lactose intolerent its time to stop. Taking suppplements to keep drinking milk does not make sense/scares me. Milk is not good for you. Its really hard to accept this . The Milk industry has Brain washed us for generations.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Ok, just got back from WDW with a baby with Milk and egg allergy. (and me that can't have it either, because of her.) However I am lactose intollerant, but it never stopped me before. I would take lactose intollerant over milk allergy any day, so much eaiser.

WDW did pretty well letting me know what I could and couldn't eat. However there was A LOT that we couldn't eat. It was rather disapoining. Even places that I had read or was told was milk free didn't have anything. Most sit down places had soy icecream (Ohannas and CP.) That was nice to be able to have something. Beaches and cream had nothing dairy free, and I had to eat the kiddie burger because the adult buns had dairy in it.

Epcot was the worst. All the food at WS and all I could find that I could eat was the preztel from germany, and really it wasn't very good. I ended up with a popclycle. The even said all the geleto in Italy was milk based.

The cheifs were very good, however when you get to a place like CP and the baby wants to eat right away and you have to wait 10 min for the cheif to come and tell you what you can eat, then another 10 or longer to get though the line it wasn't a good experince.


The info on this thread has been interesting. I am going to look for the book, and once I can eat milk again (after this baby is weened or outgrows it) I plan to try the dairy atvantage. While I will re introduce milk into my diet some, I think I will keep many of my non milk habbits. (lost 15 pounds this way.)

My good news is the next trip to WDW I hopefully won't have to deal with this (at least for me, it might take DD a few years to out grow it.)

 

[budbeerlady]

Thanks for telling us about your experience. I am surprised about Epcot having less choices, maybe send a letter about that being something they can work on.

 

[mtakac]

Wow. I'm surprised about Beaches and Cream. I would have thought they would carry a few Italian ice flavors.

Epoct: If you like sushi, that is usually a safe food for me. I've worked at Japanese restuarants. You sometimes need to be careful of dairy in salad dressings and some of the breadings (ie. tempura). However, the maki rolls are pretty self-explanataory - rice, seawood, meat and/or veggie.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Wow. I'm surprised about Beaches and Cream. I would have thought they would carry a few Italian ice flavors.

Epoct: If you like sushi, that is usually a safe food for me. I've worked at Japanese restuarants. You sometimes need to be careful of dairy in salad dressings and some of the breadings (ie. tempura). However, the maki rolls are pretty self-explanataory - rice, seawood, meat and/or veggie.

Most of the sushi I find around here (pre made) has egg white in it. (she is also allgergic to egg white, not the yoak.) However that allergery is not as severe and I have hope she will out grow it soon. I sneak some egg yoak and whole egg cooked in here and there (but she can't have any.)

Part of me gets the feeling I was just asking the wrong people and in a better safe then sorry way they said "yes it has milk in it."

The bread at LaCelier had milk in it. However I ate some of the pretzel because it is really rare for for pretzel to have milk in it. However I had one reall good steak there, and I was able to eat the roasted potaos too. It was a very enjoyable meal.

 

[MAKmom]

Deb Willis also has vegan info. If its Vegan its Dairy & egg free.

 

[DisneyPhD]

Deb Willis also has vegan info. If its Vegan its Dairy & egg free.

I know, I read that chapter of the passporters with disabilites before I left. Much of the stuff I read was vegan, they said had milk in it. (most of the time the cast members had no idea what Vegan was!) I asked if there was milk in it, they didn't know, I asked if it was Vegan, they were "what is that?" They did ask the cheif and he said it had milk in it."

We managed, but I was disapointed. Oh well. I am home now and I think I might make my own egg and dairy free chocolate chip cookies today! I did carry a bag of dairy free chocolate chips with me and that sure helped when DD couldn't eat something her big sister could.