nicola

[nicola]

hi could anyone help me i have a 18 month old daughter who is dairy and lactose intollerent she wants anything my other daughter has to eat does anyone have any kiddie finger food recipies they can share with me please :)

[ellsie]

They always do! Perhaps you could do it the other way round and give your eldest similar things to eat when the little one is around. Sandwiches are easy and you can give fruit and crisps to both. Hoops and crisps ready salted are ok also Walkers salt and vin. Make your own pizza fingers with or without cheese or cheese substitute. Puddings and sweets are trickier. Have a look round the health food shop for soya yogs and ice cream. At the end of the day she will have to learn that there are things she can't eat at the moment but try to offer an alternative when you can.

[nicola]

hi ellsie thanks for the advice i gave my eldest daughter some dairy free buns and she didnt even no the difference they both enjoyed eating them and i also enjoy making them any recipies would be gratfully recieved. does anyone no if morrisons have any dairy free easter eggs:)

[Copper]

Hi Nicola

Pam posted this on another thread in this forum


Here is a list of availability for Kinnerton free from eggs, just received from Gillian Phillpot.

Simpsons Dairy Free Egg
· Wilkinsons of Jersey
· Sugro Buying Group
· P & H McLane Ltd

Luxury Dairy Free Egg and Bar
· Waitrose
· Woolworth’s
· Wilkinsons of Jersey
· P & H McLane

Simpsons/Groovy Chick Dairy Free Egg (displayed in a mixed case)
· Sainsbury’s
· Waitrose
· Woolworth’s
Looks like a visit to Woollies or Sainsburys for me, we don't have waitrose locally

I hope that this helps
Copper

[Pam]

No, Morrisons don't do dairy free easter eggs, I've looked already. Try Tesco, Sainsbury, Waitrose or Woolworths. Your main options are Kinnerton (Bang on the Door, Bart Simpson or The Safe Chocolate Company), Stamp Collection bunny or Green & Black plain or Maya Gold eggs (don't get the one with pralines). All are dark chocolate.

Tesco and Sainsburys both do free from chocolate bars which are more like milk chocolate. You can also buy Whizzers speckled eggs which are like Cadbury's mini eggs - these are available from health food shops and some supermarkets if you're lucky.

Virtually all cake, bun and biscuit recipes can be made using dairy free ingredients - use Pure spread for cakes and Stork blocks for biscuits and pastry (tubs of stork contain milk but hard stork doesn't). You can also use alternative milks or water where the recipe uses milk. Cheese is the main area that you come unstuck in cookery as the dairy free alternatives aren't brilliant.

Swedish Glace ice cream is very nice and is available in most supermarkets. My milk drinking husband prefers it to normal ice cream. It is about £1.65 for 750ml in the vanilla flavour and usually slightly more in other flavours.

[matt]

i'll throw in my yearly reminder. lakeland sell choc egg moulds for 2.95.

so you buy your own choc bars and make them yourself. cheaper and you def know no milk. just a little bit of hassle. easy though and if the kids are old enough then they can help. painting choc on inside of mould.:drool:

[Pam]

I can never get an even layer of chocolate in the moulds but I did learn the trick of tipping them upside down on clingfilm so that you get a lip around the edge to stick them together. I also put a little oil on kitchen roll and give the moulds a wipe round before filling with chocolate so that the shells come out more easily when set.

I don't see the point in struggling to make your own when they are available in the shops and there are certainly more available this year. For less commercial ones D&D chocolates or www.condelcatering.com do Easter Eggs by mail order.

[matt]

yeah i know it's a fuss to do your own but it is a lot cheaper and you can have fun, several layers of choc not just one thick one. then you can alternate between dark and white. or add dairy free smarties. ie just generally play and make them unique.

let the kids loose and see what they do!

generally i'm a tightwad and don't like paying three time the cost for choc that's been made by a machine. handmade choc eggs ok but why charge more just because a different machine has made it?:angry:

[matt]

that or make a easter cake;

either the traditional simmel cake, light fruit with marzipan layer....

or, like there's a choice....a choc sponge, with choc cream in middle, choc icing or just melted choc over the top decorated with choc shavings or whizzer balls etc.

now that's got to be better than any egg?:drool:

[Pam]

Matt, have you found some dairy free white chocolate? If so, where?

[kirstyh]

Hi Nicola

I have a similar problem as my 1 year old has suspected dairy allergies and he is always wanting what his brother is eating. My solution thus far has been to feed them the same things - although older brother loves cheese sandwiches so sometimes I have to give in on that.

Everything the little one eats has to be finger food as he won't let me feed him anymore and he doesn't know how to operate a fork yet. I feed him sandwiches, fresh fruit and vegetables cut up small and occasionally milk and egg free biscuits. Captain Birdseye do a milk free fishfinger - I use the the cod one and Sainsbury's do chicken goujons that are milk-free. You do need to double check these carefully though as some packs are milk-free and others aren't. I also make homemade hamburgers and cut the burger up small. Annabel Karmel in her children's cookbook has a recipe for chicken and apple balls that my kids love. Unfortunately I've lent my book to a friend so I can't give you the recipe. Trufree do some milk-free biscuits and I always carry some around with me as you can't always guarantee being able to get milk-free foods at coffee shops and the like.

Kirsty

[Pam]

Don't waste your money on Trufree biscuits. Lots of supermarket own brand are dairy free but check the labels first. Bourbon biscuits are almost always safe, as are pink wafer biscuits. Ginger biscuits are generally ok and you might find some more. Co-op or Tesco own brand jaffa cakes, Morrisons rich tea fingers, oaties and shortbread fingers are ok and all at a fraction of the Trufree price. Sainsbury and Tesco both produce free from lists of their own brand products and whilst the ingredients can change they will at least give you a starting point.

Sainsburys and Asda both do some milk free chicken nuggetts (the smart price Asda ones are ok and only about 50p per bag). Birdseye are pretty good but Bernard Matthews stick milk in everything.

For cheese sandwiches you could try Tofutti spread for cheese spread sandwiches or Cheezly/Scheese for a hard cheese (though the hard cheeses are not at all to my taste). I quite often have to do different components in a meal for the whole family as 2 or us are dairy free, so the boys and hubby might get something slightly different to myself and my daughter but with the same potatoes and veg. Either that, or make everyone have the dairy free option - you get used to it after trying it for a while and now there is very little I miss that contains milk (milk chocolate, egg custard, shop bought vanilla slices, tins of rice pudding, cheese sauce mainly but I get around most other things).

It gets easier - honest!

[Copper]

Tescos cheap and cheerful digestive biscuits are dairy free and taste like the real thing too. Asda do some cheap and cheerful digestives too which are dairy free. They are ok but don't melt in the mouth in quite the same way as the Tescos ones.

[matt]

Matt, have you found some dairy free white chocolate? If so, where?

it might be my memory playing tricks on me. i'll have a look around and see.

[matt]

only poor sods like me have to buy trufree biscuits. morrisons doing two for 2 quid!!

most value biscuits will be dairy free.
just have hydrogenated veg fats this months bad guy in the food police book!

bernard mathews. honey roast turkey slices are dairy free! go figure why when everything else he does is packed with the stuff.

happy hunting

[lukesmum]

Just stumbled on this site - it's great. My son is 4 years old and has dairy, egg and nut allergy. Up til now we have given him After Eight easter eggs, not ideal for a toddler but better than nothing. Now I am going to look for one of those Bart Simpson ones ! Other things we use are Fry's Peppermint bars and Dark Chocolate Oranges. His sister is younger than him, so we keep her pretty much dairy free etc as well and they both know no different so don't miss anything. I have always thought how much harder it would have been if it were my second child that had the allergies, so my sympathies are with you.

[Pam]

Hi Lukesmum, welcome to the site. It is my youngest child who is milk intolerant, the two boys are fine and adamant that they don't like soya milk so I end up making two versions of lots of food.

You should be able to get a Kinnerton egg (dairy and nut free and probably egg free too) from Woolworths or Sainsburys. The bad news is that After Eight eggs contain butterfat (the egg but the mints are ok) and I'm pretty sure that dark chocolate oranges do too, the Fry's bars are not guaranteed dairy free either (though do not have milk listed in the ingredients). Also look out for Stamp Collection Easter Bunnies in Tesco or Sainsbury but check about the nuts before buying. Hope you find something suitable.

[matt]

or , like i always say, get the moulds and make yourself a egg from dairy free bars.

[nicola]

hi lukesmum just to let you know ive found a everything free easter egg at holland and barrets health food shop its 2.99 which i thinks good value to say that you usually have to pay over the odds for free from food ive also just bought my daughter a free from bunny from sainsburys not sure about nuts and eggs though but it is dairy free will check and let you know nicola

[Pam]

What brand is that egg, Nicola? My local H&B aren't usually much good at stocking special event products.

[matt]

will they not order stuff in? my local h+b quite good and will order some things.

worth asking.:D

[Pam]

My nearest two H&B are both 3 miles away and I tend only to call in, rather than making a specific trip, ordering stuff would mean pre-planning which I rarely do. I'd be interested to know what brand the free from egg is as I wasn't aware that H&B did any at all.

[matt]

you need to preplan to travel 3miles??? i thought i was bad. go on pop in and ask it'll onlyu take a few mins and you could be pleasantly suprised.

[Pam]

When you've got 3 kids, work all week and have your weekends taken up with plenty of other stuff you do need to preplan any outing and it isn't just planning the one to order stuff, it is also planning the next one a few days later to collect the goods.

I was in H&B in Dewsbury yesterday (the mothers day mission) - not an Easter Egg in sight, not even whizzers speckled eggs but I did get Tofutti slices. I've got The Groovy Chick egg from Woolies for my little girl so I don't need to get anything else, I was just interested to see what brand it was.

[matt]

aah that would mean the kids are of that age. ie when in a pram you have a certain level of control. still hassle but you have the final say.

when they are teens they can look out for themselves. it's the bit in the middle. they think they're independant and grown up but you have to get them sorted and think for them and get yourself organised. then they moan that you're controlling them! my little 6 year old thinks she's all grown up and can do everything for herself! but would forget to wear clothes if you left it up to her!
she gets all worked up if she thinks that people are telling her what to do all the time. so you have to pretend that she's making the decisions.....pain but funny.

[Pam]

Tell me about it, I have an almost 6 year old girl, and boys of 8 and 12, the eldest is definitely a Kevin type.

[matt]

don't know if i pity you or not with the boys. i'd love to say they'll grow out of it but we all know it'll last until they're twenty or more!!!

mind you teenage girls are not a bed of roses these days. it fills me with dread. and that's without the worry of is she's safe when she goes out. so that's her locked away until she's 21.:lol2:

[Lan]

Hi Matt,

You remind me of my mother (no offence) but she thought I should have been locked away until I was 21 (with reason). She still worries about me now, so I guess that's just parents for you. :bleh:

Lan. B)

[matt]

yeah but now you need locking away for completely different reasons!:bleh:

[Lan]

Tell me about it. :naughty:

[linny]

We were talking about our daughter (8 yrs) and the years to come. My husband thinks he might start a collection of Samuri swords and mount them on the wall ready for when the boyfriends start appearing! I said it was just as well my parents didn't think that about him!!!!! It is a worry though, especially when they go off to secondary school and they have to get themselves there and back.

[Pam]

It's no less worrying with boys. My eldest started high school in September and he seems so small compared with some of the others. The school backs onto a really rough council estate where a large proportion of kids are on ASBOs so it isn't the nicest area but the school offered the best for him in terms of education. Our other local high school is a foreign language centre and he would have had to take at least 2 languages - he is far better off in technology, electronics, design type subjects for which there are plenty of opportunities at this school. I still worry about him though.

[matt]

send him to a juda/karate etc lessons. they are very good to increase kids confidence and general attitude. obviously they also improve their ability to defend themselves. a good one will not allow them to use it agressively.

most kids could do with a confidence boost.

i favour the rocking chair on the porch with a shotgun on my lap. go for the subtle approach for the boyfriends.:lol2:

[Copper]

My two daughters have never given us cause to worry too much. The eldest is fussy about the sort of bloke she wants - has to be interested in sci fi, prepared to do all of the cooking and share the housework - nothing too demanding there :)

The youngest has had a few boyfriends and they were all nice. We were sorry when they disappeared from our lives. She is currently living with her boyfriend of errr 4 years. He is very nice and perfect for her. All of the boyfriends have been perfect gentlmen.

[matt]

hey if only i wasn't nuts and married then i'd be perfect for your eldest! i love sci fi, have always cooked and much prefer to be in a reasonably clean house than a pit.

fav authors ian banks,robert rankin, frank herbert, asimov, kim stanley robinson and orson scott card. sci fi is the best, escapism taken to the extremeB)