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Thank bananas it's Friday ....

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The Banana Project   My aim is to make as many Dairy free Banana recipes, as I possibly can in 1 year.  Then posting them once a week, to keep you all updated on the hits and the misses.         Coconut and banana Carmelle   This week I made a dairy free Carmelle, using a Greens dessert mix .  I bought the Dessert mix a while ago when I discovered it was vegetarian.  It's usually made up with milk, so I wanted to see if it would still work when using a non dairy milk.    I could have made one from scratch using vegan gelatin, but to be honest It was cheaper to buy the dessert mix.  Especially since I planned to use Coconut Cream , which is more expensive than normal milk. I mixed 1/2 pint of coconut cream and 1/2 pint of soya milk to make the creamy dessert base.        The plan was for the banana's to be on the top, once the dessert was turned o...

Dairy free treasure hunt

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Looking for Food's that can be made dairy free or are dairy free is kind of like going on a treasure hunt. The ones you thought were safe aren't... and the ones you thought you couldn't eat are OK. Like a treasure hunt your never really sure what your going to find..... Every so often on my shopping trips round the local supermarket I have a look at the ingredients on a few products that look interesting.  One of my favourite desserts of all time is creme carmelle, I havn't found any dairy free alternatives so I wondered if i could make my own.  Apparently I can with Green's, just by substituting dairy free milk.   So when I saw the pack for the Lemon Meringue pie filling at the Pantry today, I had a look.  Again from looking at the ingredient list and instructions to make, it's definetly dairy free.  It's not Egg free though, they havn't invented a vegan meringue yet.   You could still use the sa...