This is another excellent dairy-free guide from Alisa Fleming. Having suffered from stomach issues for the past six years, I have decided it's time to try altering my lifestyle bit-by-bit alongside my permanent medication, hoping that I will feel some benefit. It is sometimes difficult to know whether you have a food allergy such as lactose intolerance but if this is contributing to my health, using this book to remove dairy from my diet, will help.

I had been issued a FODMAP guide by my doctor a while back, which is a list of foods and food groups to avoid in my circumstances. FODMAP stands for Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides, and Polyols, which are short chain carbohydrates and sugar alcohols that are poorly absorbed by the body, they include dairy products. After considering FODMAP carefully and getting two books from Alisa Fleming, I have started removing the offending products from my fridge and replacing them with non-dairy alternatives.

I don't feel I eat all that many products in the dairy class but I guess you don't realise just how many foods do contain dairy. I don't think I will miss it all that much so I will probably think about going dairy-free for the foreseeable future rather than as an experimental treatment for my stomach symptoms, from what I have read lately, dairy really isn't that great for us anyway.

This book gives me so much more confidence to change my diet. It is a huge thing, after all, I have eaten dairy for 30 years now! The recipes all sound delicious, use easily obtainable ingredients, and aren't too fiddly. There are recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks accompanied with full colour pictures.

I would like to thank Alisa Fleming, BenBella and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an ARC in exchange for an honest review.