CROCKPOT YOGURT ALLERGEN FRIENDLY

[tummyache]

I just found this on another site. Can't wait to try it with rice, almond or coconut milk, as I am very dairy intolerant. Those of you really sensitive may to need to experiment if using an alternate milk for a starch/sugar that will work with the starter. I plan to make it plain and not add any sweetener.

CROCKPOT YOGURT ALLERGEN FRIENDLY

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Online source for Dairy and Soy Free Yogurt Starter: www.customprobiotics.com



Wake up in morning and have fresh, healthy, cheap, allergen-free, yummy yogurt! Puree in some frozen fruit or a large drizzle of maple syrup, honey, or agave to sweeten it up. If you want it to be thicker whisk in 1/4 cup tapioca starch along with the 2 cup starter mix--it's what the pro's do!



8 cups or 1/2 gallon of milk(cow, goat, soy, rice, almond or coconut!!)

1/2 cup plain yogurt OR 1/4 tsp probiotic



Use at least a 4qt crockpot.

Pour 1/2 gallon of milk into your crockpot and cook on low for 2 1/2 hours.

Turn off crockpot and let sit for 3 hours.

Take out 2 cups of the milk and stir in the starter, yogurt, or probiotics.

Return mix to crockpot, stir gently, and cover with lid and then all with a heavy towel.

Let sit overnight!

[ukbill]

"Puree in some frozen fruit or a large drizzle of maple syrup, honey, or agave to sweeten it up. "

Errr maybe not a good idea?

This is an HFI / FM site a no go area for fruit, sweetners and syrups of any sort!

Doing that would be potentially leathal for an HFI and really bad for the FM afflicted as well!

Most HFI's seem to have problems with Soy milk and Soy products in general, Almond milk is terribly sweet and totally unsafe for HFI as is most coconut milk.

SO why post this?

I make Yogurt all the time and if you are eating it within the week all you need is fresh milk (ultra filtered is best) a spoon full of yogurt from a fresh pot of a natural yogurt (additive free) of your choice and a warm place to stand the mix to set over the next 8 hours..

In the winter the top of a radiator is great.

Job done.

Simples

[tummyache]

I included the whole recipe because the fruit and sugary stuff could be added after the yogurt is made for those in the family who do not have HFI. You are right...we wouldn't want to include it. But, I can not have any dairy in any shape or form..even minute amounts. So, I plan to try this with unsweetened rice or almond milk and use a starch instead..probably tapioca. I don't know if it will work or not...but I would love to be able to eat yogurt! Some of us do not have HFI to the sever extent, so maybe some of those folks can use this recipe- of course, minus the sugary stuff. Amyway, I am hoping so.

[ukbill]

Sorry if I seamed to come down a little hard on you about the fruit and sugary stuff.. but you would be very surprised how very intelligent people can make assumptions as to what is and isn't safe for an HFI child.

I will not recount horror stories here but some people will assume it is safe.

I have had professional nutritionists (more then one!) telling me bananas are safe for HFI diet!

The best selling newspaper in the UK ( a Murdoc paper, so you know its going to be bad) admits it never knowingly over estimates the intelligence of its readers.. believing lowest is always best.. and tell people what they should think rather than challenging them to have to think for themselves.

Unfortunately its sales figure kind of prove its right..

If you are HFI then I would expect Almond milk to be very sweet indeed.

I have tried all sorts of fake milk in the UK and all of it is horrid sweet stuff.. not nice at all. I understand your Dairy problems.. is it a skin eczema problem you have with Dairy?

I know people can be Lactose intolerant and Lactose free milk is available in the UK but the only people I have seen with a general cow / dairy problem have eczema.

If they can go on a totally beef free diet (no meat, fat or dairy protein for 3 months or more then the eczema clears up and they are then usually able to go back onto beef products and the eczema stays away.

We used to sell Goats milk to families with children with eczema and this worked 99% of the time.. 90% total cure in 3 months..

Doctors used to send their patents to us to buy the milk..

This was before you could get Goats milk from just about every supermarket in the country.

[tummyache]

I came home from the hospital in 1942 unable to digest cows milk formula [Mom told me she mixed stuff together to make formula but couldn't remember what exactly - they never even gave her "a chance to breastfeed as it wasn't fashionable at the time".]. I was a very fussy, unhappy baby with projectile vomiting. Mom said I would roll up into a ball and scream. The doctors didn't have a clue..finally they found out I could keep goats milk down somewhat better + they started me on solids sooner..rice cereal probably. Mom had a very hard time getting goats milk and had to go a long distance to some farm outside of Los Angeles.

I remember having horrible tummy aches, headaches, feeling nauseous a lot as a youngster, and always skinny. I was a very finicky, poor eater, nervous and easily tired. I didn't like sweets or much in the way of fruit, but would eat some vegetables - I'm still like that. The slightest bit of dairy makes me really ill even to this day - so have to be careful that meds + vitamines have absolutely no dairy products in them. Went to a GI + Allergist during my 30's who both came to the conclusion that lactose and dairy proteins are problematic. Much later, in the 1980's, a U of Tx biomedical research group of scientists and doctors doing blood experiements told me that my lymphocytes would die if they came in contact with fructose. They were quite surprised by this and thought it a novelty. They told me I was fructose intolerant and to stay away from sucrose, fructose and artificial sugars. Dah! I could have told them sugars didn't agree with me if they had asked. We assume it is HFI, but will ask the GI when he does the gastro biopsies in October to verify it since my "diagnosis" was rather unusual.

[carolyn]

Wow! Be careful with the coconut milk! It was once literally nearly the death of me on a Centreparcs holiday! I'd asked about fruit & sugar in the dish that I ordered but nobody mentioned the coconut milk. I didn't taste anything sweet. My friends went to everywhere I'd eaten the next day & asked for the full ingredient list of everything. I was not a well bunny!