party food ideas please

[yawningmonster]

Hi ds has been invited to a mid winter party (we are in NZ) and I have been asked to provide allergy friendly food (several chn incl ds will be there with allergies)
So nut, gluten and milk are the problem foods. Age group is 18mths -4yrs old. Would like little nibble type things like you would see at a non allergic party. Ideas please (with recipes).

Also have a recipe for a slice using gf ingredients but has 125g butter in it, would normally replace with df marg available here but too expensive for this quantity) so can I replace some or all of the butter with oil, which oil is best for this and how much oil do I use?

Thanks all.

[yawningmonster]

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[yawningmonster]

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[mawbroon]

I'm afraid that I don't know the answer to your question, but I don't want you being all with no pals.

[TonyJames]

i'm just off out, but will look in mt book later and post up this evening.

[yawningmonster]

thanks you two was just considering going and #experimenting# in the kitchen with recipes which for those who know me means all kinds of bad mojo!

[yawningmonster]

have I scared you all off again

might go start a thread called yawningmonster got no friends.....

[mamado]

Ah allergies. My 2 1/2 year old is dairy and egg allergic, and parties tend to be difficult!

What about chicken with tomato ketchup and crisp coating (easy!). Cut strips of chicken breast, coat in ketchup, and dip into crushed potato crisps. Bake in oven for max 10 minutes. Be careful some ketchups contain gluten.

Breadsticks and houmous - can try having some carrot /cucumber sticks for dipping too.

Sandwiches (gluten-free bread) with soya cheese, soya spread and marmite/vegemite depending where you come from.

Carrot cake tends to be made with olive oil only.

The chef Giorgio locatelli has a daughter who is allergic to literally hundreds of things, and therefore has some great allergy friendly recipes such as his eggless, dairy-free chocolate cake, which can be found here...

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If using marg make sure its dairy free as lots contain milk solids/lactose. If the children can tolerate soya, pure soya spreads are usually the cheapest. If using oil, pure veg oil is probably the best as no real taste and not likely to cause problems! On the whole it would be the same amount of oil/soya spread but depends on what you are making if it'll work!!!

I have good muffin recipies, dairy and egg free bisuit recipies if you'd like them. To be honest, not so up on gluten free, but have numerous allergy friendly cookbooks - let me know what type of thing you are looking for and I'll try to find a recipie........

[mell2]

I would be careful over serving hummous, as my ds2 has reacted to this.

[mamado]

That's true mell2, houmous contains sesame which is a nut. Sorry about that.

[mymama]

yawning monster you can buy egg, dairy and gluten free pancake mix in a shaker bottle you can make little pancakes and spread with dairy free marg and sprinkles (also dairy/gluten nut free) to make fairy pancakes. Cut up fruit/vege sticks. jelly cups - I layered mine with 3 diff colours. I made my ds a boiled choc cake for 1st birthday that was dairy, wheat, nut and egg free. It can also be made into little cakes and iced. (will post if you wish) Chocolate crackles made of choc puffed rice and copha and icing sugar. I have also made banana muffins without the dairy and wheat/egg. (can post if you wish). air popped popcorn, rice crackers with salsa dip. . If the child was okay you could also make little crustless quiches that are dairy free. A few to try hth

[mymama]

meant if the child was okay with egg.

[yawningmonster]

Yay thank you, I like the pikelet idea, the chicken nibble idea and maybe some mini muffins...recipe for these please.

Thanks all for answering!!

[mymama]

Banana Muffins

1 cup wheat free plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 cup soft brown sugar
60gms dairy free spread melted
1/2 cup mashed banana (1 large)
1 egg white beaten (egg replacer works well too)
1/3 cup low fat milk replacement (soya etc)

Preheat oven to 210 degrees celcius. Sift flour and baking powder in a bowl. Add brown sugar, mix well. Combine melted dairy free spread, banana, egg white (or replacer) and low fat milk relacement in seperate bowl. Mix well. Add all of the banana mixture at once to the sifted dry ingredients. Using a wooden spoon, stir until ingredients are just combined, do not overbeat. Spoon into muffin tin or muffin cases to 2/3rds full. Bake 20 mins or until golden. Cool muffins in tin for 5 mins, remove and cool on wire racks. These can also be frozen. I quite often do a double batch and freeze individually for school lunches and special occasions.

[Chandra]

My mama, thanks for the recipe, hope it's as good as the previous one (yummy)

[brimfull]

mamado,isn't sesame a seed?

my ds is allergic to tree nuts and can eat them.

[Chandra]

Sesame seed is related to nut and soya, and some children with nut allergy are also sensitive to it as well, mine was.

Don't know really what to suggest, other than what has been already said... Doritos (plain ones) are safe, probably Doritos with a bean dip?

[yawningmonster]

anniemac would love that recipe and btw what are pikelets called in the rest of the world?

[mamado]

I wanted to ask what a pikelet was to begin with! No idea what you meant!

[yawningmonster]

pikelets are basically mini pancakes

[mymama]

Thank you Chandra. You can also replace mashed banana with 1/3 cup pureed apple and 1/4 cup chopped prunes - yummy too. I basically follow "normal" recipes and adapt them. Anything that requires melted butter does really well with replacement flours, milk, egg etc, especially muffins and slices.