These bakery items
use instant cake mixes that contain lactose:
- Biscuts, cookies, cakes and pastries: You can switch to lactose free milk and formula milks as ingredients in these items to avoid lactose.
- Breakfast cereals: a bowl of cereal with milk in the morning can similarly create problems in your bowel.
- Desserts with milk: preparing smoothies, milkshakes and sherbet exposes you to significant lactose.
- Potato chips and snacks: it is better to make a healthier choice in terms of light snacking. Fruits are a go-to for healthier munching.
- Milk chocolate: dark chocolate can be used to satisfy craving instead of regular sweet milk-chocolate bars.
- Mac and cheese: preparing pasta with cheese is just too much lactose on your plate for your gut to digest.
- Powdered coffee creamers and tea whiteners may contain lactose. Hot cocoa, instant coffee etc. are a caution in this context.
It is essential to keep a balanced diet after subtracting a number of necessary macronutrients and minerals that may have come easily with milk. Below is a guide in this regard.