Non-dairy, non-soy yogurt?

[Gloria]

I continue to try to find substitutes for my old foods. I know I should give them up, but I guess I'm still at the bargaining stage.

Last weekend I decided I would make my own rice milk. I put the cooked rice in the blender, added the warm water and proceeded to blend. Within a minute, the top blew off the blender and I had rice all over my kitchen and clothes! Undaunted, I cleaned everything up and tried again with half the ingredients. My blender died. I gave up. I bought a new blender today, but I'm not sure I want to try again.

The next night I decided to make my own GF, DF, yeast-free and egg-free bread. It was gummy inside. The squirrels were happy to get a second loaf of my bread within a week. Do Breads from Anna require yeast and eggs?

I made some waffles from scratch yesterday. They were delicious. Even my husband liked them.

I've been missing my yogurt. I used to eat it daily at work along with fruit and a bran muffin. I've purchased the rice yogurt at Whole Foods, but it's expensive ($1.49) and tastes awful. Today I decided to make rice yogurt in my yogurt maker. I didn't find a single recipe for it on the web; I should have been forewarned. After 12 hours, it separated into water on the bottom and white liquid on the top - a total failure.

Does anyone have a non-dairy, non-soy yogurt substitution? Has anyone ever tried making yogurt with the Hemp milk? It's pretty tasty and nutritious. It'd make great yogurt, if it's possible.

[tex]

Sorry to hear that the rice was so belligerent, but I certainly admire your dedication.

I can't help you on the recipes, since I've never tried to make yogurt. Here are a couple of threads on another board, where they they discussed making non-dairy, non-soy yogurt. If you've already seen these, I apologize for wasting your time:

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/ar ... 33035.html

http://www.mothering.com/discussions/ar ... 44866.html

I can tell you that Anna Sobaski has developed a bread mix that does not require yeast nor eggs:

http://www.glutenevolution.com/products.html#yeastfree

Based on my experience, her bread mixes are the best on the market.

I would guess that the main problem with dairy-free yogurt is finding a starter culture for it, or am I wrong?

Here's a site with a paragraph describing the making of dairy-free yogurt:

http://www.savorypalate.com/Ezine/February2005.aspx

(See the paragraph titled "Dairy-Free & Delicious -- New Booklet Available")

A dairy-free starter culture for your yogurt project can be purchased here:

http://www.customprobiotics.com/

If their starter cultures will work for almond milk, maybe they will work for hemp milk, or maybe someone at the custom probiotics site can suggest a starter culture that would work for hemp milk.

Good luck,
Tex

[Gloria]

Thanks, Tex. I think I might have seen those sites, but I was searching for rice yogurt at the time. I don't think it's possible to make it at home. I might try the coconut powder. I can always try the hemp milk - it's only $3.69/qt. at Whole Foods. I'll let the board know what I find.

I ate at my daughter's yesterday and had a touch of butter on my corn-on-the-cob. Today I had a small reaction. Makes me realize that I'm far from being out of the woods and that the Entocort isn't doing the entire job for me. It took 3 weeks after starting Entocort to see a difference. But I also began my restricted diet 3 weeks after starting the Entocort. That's when I got my test results back from Enterolab. It's possible that the diet has as much or more impact than the Entocort.

[tex]

I have a hunch that you are quite correct about your treatment. I believe that for some of us, with very severe cases, Entocort or diet alone, may not bring relief, (at least not in a reasonably short span of time). Until the gut has had sufficient time to heal, a combination of the two treatments seems to be a much more effective package for the really tough cases.

After healing is complete, (which may take six months to a year, in some cases - much longer than many GI docs realize), you will probably be able to maintain remission with either the diet, or a maintenance dose of Entocort, but both shouldn't be necessary.

Thanks for the update on your results with the Entocort and the diet.

Tex