View Full Version : Can you help me? 20 month old can't take dairy
Star2k
11-02-2005, 04:19 PM
Can any of you help me? My son who is 20 months old seems to be very alergic to dairy being very sick and having bad nappies. He has seen a pead who has tested him for dairy, eggs, wheat, nuts, oranges and tomatoes. We get his results in 4 weeks but so far he seems much better! No more nappy rash and no more sickness! Now i need to know where can i get him food from? He has has some dairy free chocolate which didnt go down too well! He drinks rice milk and will take the soy yogorts! Does any where do easter eggs? Or ice cream?
Help me please!
Clare and co xx
Copper
11-02-2005, 04:37 PM
I can answer the ice cream question. There are dairy free ice creams available
Swedish Glace - the vanilla flavour is usually stocked by Tesco and is an octagonal shaped black box. There are other flavours ie chocolate and strawberry and I have bought these from Holland & Barratt Health Food Shops.
Tofutti - various flavours in a round box - usually found in Health Food Shops.
The Easter Egg question has already been discussed on another thread but as I am not into Easter eggs I can't remember the exact details. I am sure somebody else will post the details.
Copper
11-02-2005, 04:41 PM
I have just found the Easter egg details by using the search option in the tool bar - pretty good for me on a Friday afternoon. Pam posted this info
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
Star2k
11-02-2005, 05:15 PM
Thank you for that... what a mine feild it is... will go a searching for him this weekend the dairy free choch in the health food shop hasnt gone down too well!
Clare and co xx
Tescos and Sainsburys (and probably Asda) do their own Freefrom chocolate bars (made with soya) which most kids love so these are definately worth a try.Trufree also do a range of biscuits which are dairy free.
If you phone up customer services of the major supermarkets they will supply you a compreshensive list of all their products which are dairy free (except Morrisons which are b....y hopeless)!
Goodluck!
Hi Clare, I've just replied to you on HB suggesting that you come here but you bet me to it. Welcome to the site, hope to see you around more.
Pam (PamT everywhere else)
morrisons are bloomin useless but my local one has just started to do a freefrom range and they are the cheapest around for the tru free biscuits:D
get to know your local health food shop. they will normally order stuff in for you.
knowing what's available is even easier, between us all we must have tried pretty much everything.
my fav at the moment is scheese mozzarello flavour, lovely and creamy in texture and mild. great in a sandwich.:drool:
Copper
12-02-2005, 10:58 AM
I have just introduced my mother to Scheese cheddar style and she likes it. I did tell her not to let the colour put her off :)
Lunar
12-02-2005, 01:48 PM
Hello Clare, am new to this site and just finding my way round...seems huge, like 1st day at 'big' school! Anyways, judging by some posts I've seen, many will me think me bonkers, but 'Cheezly' cheese is a firm favourite in this house, as is Toffutti, who do some lovely ice creams and cream cheese alternatives. We use Pure dairy free spread instead of butter or marg, I prefer the organic one in a blue tub but it's rather expensive. Goodness Direct are an online company who sell many dairy free items and we get alot of our foods from them. Some Holland and Barrett health food shops stock a good supply of dairy free stuff too, like Promovel youghurts, frozen veggie mini hotdogs, Redwoods Cheatin Chicken, etc. Most supermarkets sell dairy free milks, spreads, yoghurts and some various 'free from' groceries like cake and cookies.
www.goodnessdirect.co.uk
Hope this helps:)
another mad fool who likes cheesly!! each to their own i suppose!
seriously though seems daunting but it is easier than it appears. just get used to checking ingredients and making stuff from fresh. bit longer to do but the end results will taste better and be better for you. cutting out processed food won't do you any harm.
once you get used to what's available and where from life becomes easier.
I wish I could cut down on processed food but I am really lazy and when we don't have a lot of time it is easier to pull something out of the freezer than to start from scratch. I must try to motivate myself more.
Most supermarkets are getting better at the labelling and list specific problem foods if they are in the ingredients.
Hi all,
I would like to thank you Lunar as I thought I was the only one on the website who liked Cheezley. Everyone else seems to hate it. :bleh:
Have you tried the melting variety yet? I had the melting Mozarella and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
And Matt calling us fools. You don't know what you're missing Matt. (Well you probably do, actually)
Kind Regards.
Lan. :D
Lunar
13-02-2005, 02:42 PM
:drool: Hi Lan, yes, I don't think I've found one of their 'cheezes' I don't like!!! Pizza is a bit hit in this house, so melting cheese is a must! Joe was over the moon when he had 'cheese' on toast for the first time! Thanks goodness for the internet, would be lost for shopping otherwise^_^ Since finding 'toffutti' cream cheeses, cheesecake is back in the house. We did a raspberry one for a dinner with friends once, had shocked faces from the guests..."but we thought you don't eat dairy?", had great fun watching their disbelieving faces when told it WAS dairy free:naughty: Got asked for the recipie from some:D
Hi Lunar,
If you fancy putting the receipe for Cheesecake on here, I certainly wouldn't complain and I doubt many others would either.
I like pizza as well but have not tried the melting one on it yet. Have yet to experience the gorgeous taste of that.
Kind Regards,
Lan.
I've made a baked cheesecake using natural yofu in the past. It worked ok and tasted good but there wasn't a lot of cheese after all the water had baked out of it, I think you would need quite a lot of yoghurt to get a reasonable depth. I can't remember the recipe but I think it has egg and lemon juice in the cheese bit and needs baking to set it. I'm sure that Steve posted a cheesecake recipe on here a long time ago (maybe as long as 2 years ago?), that recipe used toffuti spready cheese.
I like my tofutti slices for pizza. I do the dough in the breadmaker, squash it out into a pizza shape, throw on some dolmio/ragu pasta sauce and top with whatever plus a couple of cheese slices. Makes a lovely deep base pizza and the tofutti slices bubble.
ok fools was a bit harsh but yes i do know. tried them and have to say not impressed. scheese much nicer.
tofutti aswell spread over biscuits..:drool:
Cheezly and Scheese are both as bad in my opinion, I don't like either of them and found the melting mozarella cheezly too salty.
Tofutti fan here.
have you tried the mozerralla scheese? it's alot less salty.
with you on the tofutti though, very nice. shame my local health food don't stock it. i must stop being so lethargic and order some in.:drool:
It was the mozarella that I tried and found too salty. I could do with a trip out to my favourite health food shop but it's about 5 miles away in a direction I don't usually go so its a special trip and I tend to spend too much when I go. I do need to go to get some mini-eggs for my littlie.
at end of the day if you're happy with tofutti why bother changing. there's atleast three diff tofutti's so you've got variety there. latest one i saw was country veg i think! don't fancy it myself but.....:)
I haven't tried any of the flavoured soft Tofutti spreads and only used the cheddar style slices. They don't taste much like cheddar but they serve their purpose on pizza.
Hi all,
I used to love Toffuti soft cheese but found the flavourings affected me badly. I can eat the plain version, but am not really fussed on it. The garlic and herb made me feel sick in the end as constantly repeated on me. Shame really as did enjoy it.
Nice to know others can still enjoy the creamy taste. :drool:
Kind Regards,
Lan. :D
Yvette
15-02-2005, 03:48 PM
Thank you for the easter egg list just bought some for my daughter Anna.
The first time she has had a shop bought easter egg for girls
bought it from woolies.
I bought a bang on the door one for my daughter from Woolies too, she usually has to make do with the Bart Simpson one. I prefer the G&B Maya Gold one if I can find any.
I've seen quite a few G&B ones with mini eggs, but the mini eggs aren't dairy free unfortunately.
I also found some Whizzers speckled eggs today in a shop that I've never been in before. I love finding treasures in new health food shops. Hubby wanted to get a vanilla pod so he paid £1.09 for a single pod!!! Anyone know where they are available any cheaper? Huddersfield has quite a good afro-caribbean food market with lots of exotic fruit and veg but unfortunately today wasn't market day and there was only one stall but we got some garlic at 7p for one bulb and 13p for 2 bulbs - weighed out at 50p per lb. They will get planted in the allotment and should produce 30-40 bulbs (our year's supply) in July.
vanilla is just very expensive, buy cheap and you just won't get the quality.
make it last, kilner jar full of caster sugar then bury the pod. this will make all the sugar vanilla flavour. then even when you use the seeds replace the pod. this should last ages.
i have to say i use the expensive extract, it is costly but it lasts for ages at a teaspoon a time. only way to get cheaper...do you know anyone who lives/visits madagascar? buy it direct. i'm sure you could over the internet.:drool:
Is that where it comes from? They all go on about vanilla pods on cookery programmes and the "do your house up to sell it" type programmes (warm one in the oven for a lovely smelling house) so he got ideas about what he could do with one. It will probably sit in a cupboard until it has lost all flavour and it got broken in half by the kids yesterday too.
Still think pretend cheeses are vile. I agree with Matt that you don't need to go for the free from ranges and cooking without dairy is quite interesting really. Some of the dairy-free margarines taste and look odd - Tescos for example and we find most of the Pure ones a bit strange too. I would say the best are Sainsburys Free From and Marks and Spencers Dairy Free (not the low fat version) are the best we have come across. Other suggestions for children (if you don't want to cook) are Birds Eye Fish Fingers, Spaghetti Bolognese and Aberdeen Angus mince with pasta and vegetables in the Marks and Spencers chilled children's range. What about sorbets - have you tried them?
pam get the pod into a sealed container and fill it with sugar. otherwise you'll just have a small black stick within a couple of days!
i'll stick with my scheeses and the occasional tofutti. i don't tend to have the cheedar scheese, mozerallo, edam, cheshire.....
well each to their own. nice to have a change every day or so. and i manage to avoid eating too much jam or other stuff. :drool: just need to make a wheat free and dairy free lardy cake. possible just lots of hassle. one good reason to reintroduce wheat:lol2:
I'm with you Tan, the cheeses are vile but I tend to keep some tofutti slices for when I want to make pizza, at least I can have a topping that isn't dried out then. They keep for ages in the fridge unlike the other stuff that has to be eaten within 3 days of opening.
Matt, the vanilla pod is already dried, I can't imagine it getting much dryer. My mum came back from the Canaries this week and brought me some saffron, but it is the ground stuff which I'm told is basically the sweepings up with a load of food colouring added and can be quite nasty in terms of allergic reactions so I don't know if I dare use it.
the vanilla pod was a con then. they shouldn't be that dry. they should be quite moist. shame as they cost so much.
saffron, if it isn't the stamens then ditch it. as you say sweepings up from floor and often not saffron either.:o
very expensive stuff in real life. like anything if it's too cheap to be believed then don't believe it.
you get what you pay for. and if you bought it as a tourist.......it's not like you will ever take it back is it.
I will have to hide the "saffron" in the cupboard for a few months and then ditch it once the kids have forgotten about it. I would have preferred a couple of strands of the real thing rather than this great big bag of yellow powder, but that's my mother all over, she tends to go for quantity rather than quality.
The vanilla pod is definitely dry, I didn't know they were supposed to be moist. I don't know what his lordship plans to do with it - I'll leave that one up to him.
vanilla is fermented in the pods not dried. i'd take it back to the shop. the pod should still be flexible and soft. thats why they are sold in airtight containers so that they don't dry out.
fresh vanillla very nice but it is easier to use the extract. the expensive stuff not the flavouring. lovley cakes and custards....
i have to say it's my favourite smell. just wish those candles you can buy actually made the house smell of it when you burnt them. i'm always disappointed when i burn them.:(
These pods were stored in a cellophane bag and sold in another cellophane bag. Sounds like we were conned then!
I know what you mean about the candles. You'd be better off using an oil burner and adding a few drops of vanilla essence to some water and heat it up with a candle.
just remember for future. like i said though essence better. is liquid and lasts longer, less hassle. all well and good to have the fresh but it's a cheffy thing not real benefit just looks good for the cameras.
i might get the candle from the pier shop. they've got a buttered vanilla i think. smells lovely will it smell nice when burnt? might treat myself and find out.
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