milk free baby foods

[fionab]

I have had 5 milk intolerant children, and I am finding it increasingly difficult to find a decent range of milk free baby foods. Heinz used to have quite alot of their range - but when you check now it has a little message saying 'now contains milk'!

Are there any more parents like me out there? The other thing I find very annoying is that the milk free products tend to be in the organic ranges, and are therefore more expensive, and I am fed up with being penalised for having an intolerant child.

Any milk free baby recipes would be greatly appreciated, as I want to give my son the widest variety of tastes possible.

Thanks

[Lan]

Hi there,

Sorry to hear you are having so much trouble finding children's food that's dairy free. I certainly know how expensive it can be to find foods for myself, so for young children it must be hard.

I find that Tescos and Sainsburys do free from ranges which are not too badly priced, and contains items such as biscuits, crisps, cheeses, ice-creams etcetera.

I would also suggest buying the following book. It has many dairy-free child friendly recipes such as toffee apples, doughnuts and knickbocker glories.

It is called the Lactose And Dairy Free Diet Plan For Children And Adults. The author is Carolyn Humphries and the ISBN No is 0-572-02683-8. It is priced at £7.99 and a must have for all dairy-free people.

Hope all this is helpful.

Lan. :D

[theramminator]

Spam deleted.

[matt]

the comments by theraminator made me very uncomfortable. i don't know whether it is healthier or not, i suspect not as babies need a good varied diet and going vegan is going to make that harder, not impossible but harder.

also, this is meant to be a site for us to aid each other not shove our beliefs down each others throat. maybe i'm just being a bit sensitive this morning. if so then sorry.

just felt i needed to say something. each to our own. believe what you want to believe, eat what you want to just don't try to make me do the same.

[Pam]

A good vegan diet can be nutritionally sufficient but there is really no need to go the whole hog just to avoid milk products. Children can be so faddy with their food so it is best to offer them as wide a range of foods as possible in the hope that they will get a balanced diet.

I object to people using support group message boards like this for their own advertising purposes and I won't even be bothering to look at those links.

PS, where are you Matt? I thought it was only me who posted on here at such ridiculous hours. Mine is usually due to insomnia but I suspect you are in another timeband.

[Steve]

Originally posted by matt@Apr 29 2004, 05:59 AM
the comments by theraminator made me very uncomfortable.

That was just someone trying to post spam messages on the site. The user has now been banned from the site.

[Lan]

Hi all,

I would like to advise you regarding the comments that were made, by someone called therhamminator. I would like to advise you that this was spam mail and something that we will not allow on the forums.

Open discussion and different opinions are welcomed but not when they cause offence and distress to other users.

therhamminator as he calls himself has now been banned from the website indefinitely, and all messages deleted.

I have not read the messages myself but have been told by Steve that they were offensive, and not suitable for the site.

If you ever see anything like this on the website again, use the report button above the message to let us now.

Kind Regards,

Lan

:rant:

[kelly]

In reply to fionab, are you or your partner milk-intolerant?

Nor me or my husband are, but we have a 26-month old milk-intolerant (and soya intolerant) son, and I'm wondering our the next baby (due in a couple of weeks) will be the same...

I had lots of trouble finding formula milk to suit my son when I wanted to stop breakstmilk, and I'm concerned that I'll have the same problems with the new baby, but at least this time I'll be on the lookout for it!

As for milk-free baby foods, it can be difficult to find them. When my son was a baby, I used to make my own baby food - I spend Sunday mornings making lots of different things and freezing them in baby-food jars, including fruit. Now he is older I still do it but have to make more exciting stuff and larger portions! :-)

Most of the baby food jars have those nice ticks along the labels so you can tell at a glance if they have milk or not, but if those ticks are not there then always read the ingredients as even jars like "Baked Beans and Bacon" contain milk!!! (that one has always made me wonder)...

Safest thing is always to make your own baby food if you have the time. I have recipes and stuff like that I can send you if you want.

K.

[fionab]

Hi Kelly,

Neither my husband or myself are milk intolerant now, but we both had the symptoms that our children have had when we were babies/small children, and my husband has had serious gastrointestinal illness (resulting in removal of his large bowel) which was set off by slightly off milk.

I have been making my own food, but I would love to have any recipes you may have, I do have serious time constraints for this however because I have seven other children who are now milk tolerant. As for whether your baby will be intolerant, I was told by a Consultant that either my first child would be a one off or all my children would be intolerant - then to prove that theory wrong my second child was fine and all since have had varying intolerances, the latest being the most sensitive!!

Good luck with your new arrival, hope all goes well !! :thumbsup:

[gingin]

Hi everyone with babies, just thought I would pop in a leave a link to a site below called Driven Snow, they have a section on baby foods I thought might be interesting as you can order online.
http://www.drivensnow.co.uk/index.asp?pagi...numberofprods=9 (http://www.drivensnow.co.uk/index.asp?paging=1&searchstr=&CatID=1&SubCat=37&numberofprods=9)

regards
gingin

[linz]

try the pure dairy website it has alot of different receipes that are easy to make and my son loes them