Thanks for sharing your request with us, Kay. We can understand that baking with so many limitations can be quite a challenge. As far as milk substitutes, rice milk would be a closer approximation to dairy milk than coconut milk, so we'd opt for that if you can. If not, feel free to experiment with coconut milk. Omitting buttermilk powder or non-fat dry milk powder will make a slight difference in the final product, but you can still get a tasty pizza crust without it, especially if you use rice milk instead of the water called for in the recipe. Olive oil and coconut oil can successfully be used in place of butter in some applications, but another option to take a look at would be a butter-substitute like the vegan buttery sticks made by Earth Balance. You'd have to do a little research on whether it's a good fit for your grandson's allergies (same with rice milk), but we find that it tends to perform a lot like butter. Keep in mind that any alteration to a recipe is likely to change the final product in some way, and you're talking about making several, so it's going to take some experimentation to get a given recipe just the way you like it. But when you do, it will be oh so worth it! Best of luck and happy baking, Kay. Mollie@KAF

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