Joelle Sparks enjoyed preparing dinner for her family; but, everything changed when her youngest received a dairy allergy diagnosis. “It wasn’t just about changing out cheese,” she notes.

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Joelle first worried about opposition. Mac and cheese without the cheese? Tacos devoid of sour cream She pushed herself, though, to see family favorites through a dairy-free perspective—and what she found shocked her.

Alfredo was substituted by cashew cream. Added to sauces, nutritional yeast gave them complexity. Even her children developed fondness for mashed potatoes made from coconut milk. “They hardly even noticed the difference half the time,” Joelle says. Actually, they began to ask for seconds.

Planning ahead—not strictly but rather just enough to prevent last-minute panic—helped her stay with it. On Sundays she would prepare sauces and keep basics like avocados, dairy-free milk, and canned beans on hand.

Dinner at Joelle’s house is now full of love, taste, and warmth, not only free from allergies. She says, “It’s not about what we’ve lost.” “It’s about what we have learnt to produce together.”