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Dairy-Free: The recipe has no dairy products or is able to use dairy alternatives such as margarine or nut milks.

Egg-Free: The recipe does not call for eggs or is able to use egg-free alternatives.

Wheat-Free: The recipe does not call for wheat or is able to use wheat-free alternatives such as spelt flour.

Gluten-Free: The recipe's whole food ingredients are free of wheat, rye, barley, and oats and I believe the packaged foods are able to be obtained gluten-free. You'll have to check individual packages to see if they contain gluten or cross-contamination.

Peanut-Free: The recipe's whole food ingredients are free of peanuts or peanut by-products or are able to use peanut-free alternatives, such as vegetable oil. You'll have to check individual packages to see if they contain peanuts or cross-contamination.

Tree Nut-Free: The recipe's whole food ingredients are free of tree nuts or tree nut by-products including walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts/filberts, pistachios, cashews, almonds, brazil nuts, Macadamia nuts, or chestnuts or are able to use a tree nut-free alternatives, such as soy milk. You'll have to check individual packages to see if they contain tree nuts or cross-contamination.

Soy-Free: The recipe does not call for foods with soy protein, but may have soy oil/soy lecithin or it is able to use a soy-free alternative such as rice milk.

Vegan: The recipe is free of all animal products and by-products including meat, milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, poultry, and honey or is able to use a vegan alternative such as agave syrup.

Vegetarian: The recipe is free of all animals including meat, fish, shellfish, and poultry. All recipes here are safe for ovo-lacto vegetarians.

Abstaining: Many religions, such as Catholicism, Buddhism, and Seventh-Day Adventism, incorporate fasting and abstention from food in their teachings. All recipes here are appropriate for those religions which abstain in whole or in part from animal products. They are tagged as vegetarian.

Moderate Fast: Some religions, such as Hinduism, incorporate fasting and abstention from meat, fish, poultry, milk or eggs. While some might allow shellfish, no recipes here contain them. Recipes appropriate for moderate fasting are tagged as vegan.

Strict Fast: Some religions, such as Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism, incorporate days of fasting and abstention from meat, fish, poultry, milk, or eggs as well as from alcohol and olive oil. Those recipes labeled as "Strict Fast" do not contain these ingredients.