dairy free, egg free, nut free toddler food???

metalwood

Hi all,

I have 16 month old toddler who is dairy, egg and nut intolerent and suffers from bad excema. The minute she eats any of the above by mistake she is out in a rash and scratching like mad.

She is on a very simple diet and I am looking to expand her food range especially for lunch and tea as she is getting bored and turned off by it.

Typical day consists of ready brek made with soya milk, toast / soya butter and orange juice for breakfast

lunch and tea is usually potato/veg occasionally some chicken/ham as finger food with pured fruit and soya yohurt

She has been on this for past 8 months and is now fed up with it, does anyone have any ideas how to change around her diet

Many thanks.

metrovelvet

Use rice products? Rice noodles, rice dishes.

Switch around from chicken, use beef or lamb, shepherd's pie?

Dfens

Have you tried any goats milk products - they tend to be really good for allergy sufferers. My DD was allergic to eggs at around this age (now 4 yrs) but thankfully grew out of it & DS has the same now but hoping that he'll grow out of it too.

With the pasta, always check that it is drum wheat pasta and not egg pasta (you probably already know this) - amazing that some servers in restuarants can still look at you funny if you ask if the pasta has egg in it or not. Also applies to some noodles.
Be careful with the egg (sometimes called albumin) as it's in lots of things you wouldn't think of, some crackers, nearly all cakes/buns, even a muller rice I accidentally gave DS a few weeks back!
Most cereals are ok - oat porridge is good (oatmeal baths are good for her skin too), weetabix, shreddies, cheerios (also do as a small snack).
For snacks - raisins, apple slices, ricecakes/liga/farleys rusks, dried fruit (mango, papaya - 'sweetie fruits' my DD calls them), crackers/breadsticks & dip (hummous). Try expand her range of fruits/vegs (sweetcorn, sweet potato, avocado (can mix with this with apple also)).
Have you tried fish (sometimes can be an allergen) ?

Do you have a local healthfood shaop, they may be able to suggest some things too?

Gyalist

metalwood wrote: »

Hi all,

I have 16 month old toddler who is dairy, egg and nut intolerent and suffers from bad excema. The minute she eats any of the above by mistake she is out in a rash and scratching like mad.

She is on a very simple diet and I am looking to expand her food range especially for lunch and tea as she is getting bored and turned off by it.

Typical day consists of ready brek made with soya milk, toast / soya butter and orange juice for breakfast

lunch and tea is usually potato/veg occasionally some chicken/ham as finger food with pured fruit and soya yohurt

She has been on this for past 8 months and is now fed up with it, does anyone have any ideas how to change around her diet

Many thanks.

Have you had your child your child tested for allergies yet?

Quality

My little man has a dairy allergy.

I make him rice pudding with Soya Milk. I mix it with fruit puree or jam to sweeten it up for him.

You can also buy tofu cheese in the health shop, great for cheese on toast or as a finger food,

Annabel Karmel book is great. Great ideas for finger foods etc.

I make up the batches of dinners and freeze them for my fella.
Chicken and apple casserole, beef casseroles etc, I do a batch of about 6 of each.

Also for breakfast I use the organix banana porridge and also from time to time I give the baby rice crispies. He loves them.


Hope something here helps..

Sleepy

Virtually any traditional meat and three veg, most durum wheat pasta meals based on a tomato sauce (bolognaise, napolitan) etc would be fine.

Chuck it in the blender for a brief blast if it's too solid for her...

metalwood

thanks all ive started her on some pasta and is loving it i will get around to the other foods soon:)

armabelle

metalwood wrote: »

Hi all,

I have 16 month old toddler who is dairy, egg and nut intolerent and suffers from bad excema. The minute she eats any of the above by mistake she is out in a rash and scratching like mad.

are you sure your LO is intolerant to these things? Our GP also said that our LO's had an allergy of some kind because they developed eczema since we moved here from spain (before that they had great skin) but he was wrong because the water here in Ireland caused it. We also tried removing various things from the diet as per the GP's instructions but none worked. In the end we found our own way. Just goes to show that parents sometimes have more power than GP's to cure their children where we found that here in Ireland the GP's prescribe more medicine rather than figuring out what is actually wrong and the cause etc.

Wesser

With that many allergies you need to see a dietician seriously why would you be taking advice over the internet.


The vast majority of eczema is just plain old eczema with a caused by an interaction if certain genes being expressed to a varying degree and environment e.g. water heat humidity and temperature.

Food can be a trigger if is very severe and that is the case you need specialist input.

Wesser

Ha just realised this post is 8 years old.
Annabelle!!!???

armabelle

Wesser wrote: »

Ha just realised this post is 8 years old.
Annabelle!!!???

I know! but I thought good info is timeless