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Active Lifestyles 
Egg Free Diet
General Guidelines For Egg Free Diet
| Foods | Allowed | Not Allowed |
| Breads & Starches | Plain enriched white, whole wheat, rye bread, or buns (without egg products or brushing with egg for glazing). Biscuits made from egg-free baking powder, Crackers and homemade breads made with allowed ingredients. Most cereals and grains, such as rice. |
Commercially prepared pancakes, waffles, donuts, and muffin. Zwieback, soda crackers, bread crumbs, and pretzels, Egg noodles or pasta, Baking mixes, fritter batter or batter-fried foods, French toast, Fried rice containing eggs. Any commercial bread or bread product made with egg products or brushed with egg for glazing. |
| Vegetables | All fresh, frozen, dried, or canned. |
Any vegetables prepared in a casserole or with sauces or breading that contain eggs in any form (such as hollandaise sauce, vegetable soufflé or batter-fried vegetables) |
| Fruit | Fresh, frozen, dried, or canned fruits and juices |
Any fruit served with a sauce containing egg such as custard sauce, Fruit whips |
| Meat, Meat Substitutes & Eggs | Baked, broiled, boiled, or roasted beef, veal, pork, ham, chicken, turkey, lamb, fish, or organ meats, Meats breaded and fried with egg-free breading | Eggs in any form, from any animal including egg powders, or commercial egg substitutes, Soufflés, Commercially breaded meats, fish, or poultry, Meatballs, meat loaf, croquettes, some sausages. |
| Milk & Milk Products | Whole, low-fat or skim milk, buttermilk, Cheese, cottage cheese, or yogurt |
Cocomalt, eggnog, malted beverages, boiled custard, Ovaltine, protein drinks containing egg, egg products or egg protein, Pudding, custard, or ice cream |
| Soups & Combination Foods | Soup or broth prepared with allowed ingredients | Any stock cleared with egg (consommé, broth, bouillon) Turtle or mock turtle soup, egg drop soup, any soup with egg noodles or macaroni. Prepared entrees or combination foods that contain eggs in any form |
| Desserts & Sweets | Gelatin, fruit crisp, popsicles, fruit ice Homemade desserts prepared with allowed ingredients, Hard candy |
Cakes, cookies, cream-filled pies, meringues, whips, custard, pudding, ice cream, sherbet Chocolate candy made with cream or fondant fillings, marshmallow candy, divinity, fudge, icing or frostings, chocolate sauce. Dessert powders Pie crust or jelly beans brushed with egg whites Fat-free desserts made with Simplesse™ |
| Fats & Oils | Butter, margarine, vegetable oil, shortening, cream gravy, oil & vinegar dressing, eggless mayonnaise, bacon. | Salad dressings and mayonnaise (unless egg free) Tartar sauce Fat-free products made with Simplesse™ |
| Beverages | Water, fruit juice, fruit drinks, Tea, Carbonated beverages |
Root beer, wine, or coffee if clarified with egg |
| Condiments & Miscellaneous | Sugar, honey, jam, jelly Salt, spices |
Cream sauces made with eggs, Hollandaise sauce, tartar sauce, marshmallow sauce. Baking powder containing egg white or egg albumin, Any product made with Simplesse™ |
Be sure to avoid foods that contain any of the following ingredients:
albumin, egg whites egg yolk dried egg egg powder egg solids egg substitutes
eggnog globulin livetin lysozyme mayonnaise meringue ovalbumin ovomucin ovomucoid ovovitellin Simplesse™
Information for using egg substitutes:
For each egg, one of the following may be substituted in recipes:
1 tsp baking powder, 1 Tbsp water, 1 Tbsp vinegar or,
1 tsp yeast dissolved in _ cup warm water or,
1_ Tbsp water, 1_ Tbsp oil, 1 tsp baking powder or,
1 packet gelatin, 2 Tbsp warm water (do not mix until ready to use).
Alternatively, you can use the product: Egg Replacer™ for leavening baked products. It is a dry powder sold in health food stores. The substitution amounts are noted on the package. Do not use the cholesterol free eggs sold in grocery stores. They are still 100% egg protein.
