Time to inform myself on the milk issue... I am not completely ready yet, although we have decreased our milk intake drastically since May. Still, I find it harder to give up milk than wheat and sugar. Or maybe not milk, but cheese and yogurt...In the summer I was a lot more consistent, but now as veggies and other options are not there, and the darkness somehow seems to require this extra calcium intake, I've been stocking up on ecological yoggie and butter a bit more than usual.
Really, is it only me, or is going milk free without allergies more freaky than going wheatfree?
Yes, it is. I mean, I don't think it is. But people react quite strongly against it. I've been saying I don't believe dairy (especially cow's milk) is healthy for 20 years and people either look at me like I am totally insane or they can get quite aggressive. (I'm not even kidding.) Good luck anyway! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd ps. As with leaving sugar, your taste evolves. When I first left out dairy from my diet completely and then for the first time had cheese again, I thought it was gross. But as fast as I got used to NOT eating cheese I also got accustomed to the taste again. But it was easier to leave cheese out the second time. Cheese made of sheep's or goat's milk is easier digestible and doesn't have a lot of the nasties that cow's milk include (such as hormones and antibiotics). I recommend nutritional yeast flakes, very yummy to make "un-cheesy" sauces out of!
I have never liked the taste of milk, so that was not hard at all to give up. But greek yoghurt in tsatsiki for example was more difficult. I believe I will still eat it (organic) from time to time though.
Also, milk is addictive for a reason, so that the CALF will want it and keep growing (like human breast milk). That's why it's difficult to give up, not only because of the taste.
Sorry for the long comment! :)
Förresten så kanske denhär boken intresserar dig. Har inte läst den själv så kan inte uttala mig så mycket men jag har läst mycket OM boken.
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Lovely! Comments! Me like!!! I totally agree on almost everything. I have had my dairy free moments. I think the whole family was dairy free for a coupld of months in the summer when we did the shift. And yes I found everything with cow milk in it quite yacky back then, even butter. Then slowly but steadily I have let go of the dairy principle (because its so easy with home made wheatfree bread, and because the whole family likes the organic greek yoggie). But littel bit of more whitewashing and the white stuff is gone forever from our fridge! ... and that's when this family turns into real paleo-freaks!!!
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