Non gluten bread is VERY expensive..

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soya milk is less so. But how do you follow that diet without breaking the bank?

Have someone else buy it for you that has a lot of money. I tried the diet myself and would with my kids if it wasn't so expensive and so hard to get most stuff. I have no clue how my mother handled me off the stuff just for three months.

Eat rice, corn, beans and potatoes for your carbs. The best way to keep the budget down is to cook your own food, then you know it's ok. I carry an emergency supply of carrots and corn cakes with me, and when I get home, if I'm starving, I have a plateful of beans to scare off the hunger pains. Fruit is great for emergencies too - banana's, apples, pears etc.
Nuts are good hunger fillers too - carry around a packet to snack on. If you feel motivated enough, you can cook your own gluten free/dairy free cakes and biscuits - you can use arrowroot and a variety of other gluten free flours as a substitute to wheat flour (don't ask me what they are, I'm too lazy to bake). All unprocessed meats are ok - provided they don't have commercially produced gravy or sauces on them. You can make your own gravy using arrowroot as the thickener. Most asian sauces are gluten and dairy free - there's heaps to choose from. Asians are generally lactose intolerant, so their diet is safeish - except for normal noodles and cakes. Bean noodles and rice vermicelli are good substitutes.
The only thing, is that's it's all horribly healthy. When you feel like some junk you can eat... Fries, iceblocks, sorbet, some lollies (check the packet), 75% Lindts dark chocolate (most others have dairy in them), some health food nut bars.... and then the expensive treats from the gluten/dairy free bakery you've been trying to avoid cos it's way too expensive. Or.. better still, you convince your mum to take up gluten free cake making!

Well what should I make for my lunch every day? Because I usually have sandwiches, I need something I can carry around cold.

Try a tupperware of some rice. Asian people's food is generally free of such stuff, although I don't know a single brotha who is lactose intolerant. IMO, lactose intolerance is more common among Non-Asians. (get yo' facts straight)
Or, barring that, get a corn tortilla and make Mexican-style or even American-style wraps. Wraps are tasty, lowcarb, and great.

Thank you I will try that.

Does this diet really have any effect for you guys, or is it just the placebo effect?

I didn't see any changes for the 3 months I was on it.

Hey dude (brutha) - I'm asian too... I get my facts from my family and other boring stuff like statistics.
My mum and I didn't think we were lactose intolerent until we discovered what happened when we didn't take any in. It's a proven fact that as asians get older, their ability to process lactose diminishes - and as you obviously know, there isn't much call for dairy in most east asian diets. When you don't eat much in the first place, an intolerance is less likely to be picked up. In some parts you get yoghurt being used, but that seems to be an east meets west scenario.

Lunch is hard - tupperware is the key!

About the effects - there's another post about milk/gluten free in the general section where you can read up a bit on why and what.

oatcakes, tom. (just had some for supper, coincidentally...). for lunch - cheese, fruit, eggs (hard boiled, as no amount of tupperware is going to make fried eggs un-disgusting by lunchtime), salads (i'm thinking coleslaw or potato salad etc), huge bar of chocolate (obviously), crisps (if you ain't too bothered about fat etc.).

any use?

oh, and soya milk tastes like sick and makes you fart humungously. rice milk is much nicer (although just as expensive). goat's milk is the best (well, i AM a capricorn...), but still pricey.

I use corn tortillas and rice cakes instead of bread. Rice cakes are great to make sandwiches on. For example, I eat the gardenburgers which are similar to hamburger patties but made out of plant stuff instead of meat. Just put some cheese, mustard, a tomato or onion slice, and the patty on the rice cake and eat it. No need for bread.

I've found some tasty chicken egg rolls from the store. Surprisingly low in fat and at least I get some vegetables that way. But no soy sauce for me thanks. Plain ol' plain ol' fer me.

By the way... a friend of mine told me they had read in a book written by two doctors that the best water to drink is distilled cause it's the closest type of water to the kind in our bodies. And therefore we wouldn't need to drink as much of distilled water as opposed to tap or bottled spring or all the others because there's less minerals, etc., in it so the body doesn't have to chuck a lot of it away. So, if you drink distilled, no more aiming for 8 cups per day. (/me is happy. Don't like water quite so much.)