Food craziness in Sweden (intolerances, I mean)

I'm not going to complain about anything at all because, LUCKILY, I'm talking about intolerances and not allergies, but they are giving me a hard time anyways, I also have to admit that. Fact: I'm currently intolerant to lactose AND eggs.

So, last year, when I was in Copenhagen, I found some products that helped me overcome my lactose problems and I managed to be, more or less, happy with my life. You know, it's really difficult to live without dairy products. I know vegans, I know! You do it! But I have not reached that state yet, sorry, although... who knows! Ironically, vegan diet would be the best for me but, please, with a steak on the side! (another fact: I'm trying to reduce my meat consumption, there you go ^^).

Let's go back to Denmark. So I found some products in there and I was okay with that (read post about that). But when I realized I was moving again, this time to Sweden, I got scared for a second. Shit! Will they have lactosefree milk? Some cookies? Butter? I mean, scandinavian gastronomy is based on dairy food, but I didn't know what to expect and, as I said, Denmark was not heaven, you know. Moreover, lately, in Spain, they've been releasing all these fancy lactosefree products that danes didn't even had, so I was kind of jealous and all. And then, as a parting gift (thank you, btw), I developed my intolerance to eggs, which just made everything awesomly perfect (and goodbye to trying to eat less meat...).

Whatever. And August arrived, I moved to Uppsala, and I went grocery shopping for the first time. And, oh, babies, OMG!, Sweden is the LACTOSEFREE HEAVEN !!! Ok, maybe not that much, but almost!

And this is just the ICA selection (Willy's also has lots of them!)

Laktosefri mad (Aliments sense lactosa)

Un dels temes força importants per a mi, i que em generava preocupació abans d'arribar a Copenhagen, era el menjar sense lactosa, quina oferta em trobaria, de làctics, i no-làctics. No em puc queixar, de moment.

Pel que he sentit, es veu que hi ha gent que ha tingut problemes per saber què és llet i què no, i quin tipus de llet és cada tetrabrick que veus, perquè hi ha moltes opcions, %, i molts noms estranys. Jo no tinc aquest problema. No puc escollir. ;) Però, com a Catalunya, pots trobar llet, alguns iogurts, nata líquida o, fins i tot, formatge feta, sense lactosa, tot i que jo encara no l'he trobat ni tastat.

      

També hi ha altres productes lactose-free: alguns embtotits, pa, llets de soja i arròs, etc., però també pots trobar pa "normal" sense lactosa (i bimbo!), i galetes, brioixos, snacks... i, en general, els embotits i salsitxes tampoc porten lactosa, a diferència del que trobes a Catalunya. Sembla que Dinamarca no abusa tant de la lactosa!