Best/worst gluten and dairy substitutes?

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I had a slice of pizza and some Annie's mac & cheese last night. Oh. My. G*d. I was so uncomfortable last night, even with taking digestive enzyme beforehand.

I can't stomach milk, literally and figuratively. It grosses me out to think I'm drinking breast milk from another animal.

A friend of mine has rheumatoid arthritis and she's cut out dairy from her diet. She reports that her flare ups are fewer and less painful now. I know I could do better without dairy, but sometimes it's just not the same eating soy ice cream.

There is no lactose in cheese. It gets digested by the critters that turn milk into cheese.

Little to no lactose in the pizza or the mac. However, both have a nice large dose of gluten, which is unaffected by OTC digestive enzymes.

Are you sure it's only dairy that is your problem?

(if it were a caseine issue, you'd have an allergic reaction to the cheese - histamine, autoimmune, and anaphylactic stuff)

Most celiackers are also missing the genetic trigger to produce enzyme to digest lactose as adults.

Just being Devil's Advocate here...