lazy mum who is sick of sandwiches, baked potato and pasta, needs ideas for finger foods for 1yr old with dairy, soy and egg allergy

[bunnyhunny]

the message title sums it up!

ds is allergic to dairy, soy and egg, and we are getting bored of eating the same old thing. He finger feeds, and won't let us spoon feed.
So, things I can make him for lunch that are a bit different?

btw we just did cous cous, which he loved but is extremely messy!!

[foxinsocks]

ooh dd had the same allergies at that age

lots of fruit and veg (but you know that already I'm sure!)

Beans were a big favourite (butter beans, flageolet beans...)

Home made kebabs (I found at that age that fish kebabs were the best - so pieces of salmon or white fish with peppers, courgettes, anything that's quite easy to eat - you can eat these too so that's easy, just put some marinade on yours)

Lamb casserole - if you slow cook the lamb for around 2 hours with various veggies (I normally do cabbage and green beans) it goes all soft and will melt in his mouth. Again this is something you can eat. Just drain his so it's not too wet for him iyswim. Rather than doing butternut mash, put his in cubes for him.

[Habbibu]

Risotto? There are some good rice cake recipes of Aitch's blog. Also fish cakes are a handy standby which my 15 month old has been hoovering up for ages. Soup - give him chunks of bread to dip into it. I'm sure you'll get plenty of other ideas, but will return if I'm inspired. Ooh - felafel, beanburgers, lentil burgers - all freezeable.

[sagitta]

Bunnyhunny, you really are me a year ago! (just wrote on your other thread). What about fishfingers/ fish cakes, potato cakes, risotto (you can fry it in balls, and makes yummy finger food), sausages, carrot/ veg sticks and hummus, pizza.
Just noticed you said allergic to soy - sorry about message on other thread then - not helpful.

[bunnyhunny]

kebabs sound good. and casserole. he has baked beans, but I havent tried others yet, as they are in the same family as soya apparently..

I tend to restrict our meat to chicken, as i don't eat any other meat, but I guess I could cook and freeze the casserole.



so did your dd grow out of her allergies?

[Habbibu]

Realised that some of the rice cakes contain egg, so no good. Kebabs, fox - what a magic idea!

[foxinsocks]

the soy is a right pain isn't it (not that the dairy and egg aren't but soy is blardy everywhere!)

Yes, she outgrew dairy and soy by 2ish and then egg very recently (she's 7 now). We still have a query over seafood and tbh, I'm not 100% sure her egg one is fully gone but it's gone enough that she can eat cakes etc. now.

[catesmum]

my dd2 loves rice noodles which can be mixed with loads of things

[bunnyhunny]

fox - that is reassuring! and yes, soy is everywhere!!! and we eat a lot of thai food, so he can't even have the soy sauce/marinades, so it would be tasteless...

loads of ideas from everyone. I am writing them all down to stick on the fridge

[EffiePerine]

Chick pea/butter bean casseroles (pulses, onion, tin tomatoes)? Easy to make, can chill or freeze for later and DS loves picking the bits out of it.

[bekkaboo]

bunnyhunny im in same position as you and also alleric to sweetners and fish. He seems to live on sausage, ham sandwiches and toast. Reassuring im not on my own.

[trixymalixy]

potato scones (although check ingredienst as some do contain egg)

There's a good recipe on aitch's blog for turkey twizzlers.

[sox364]

my daughter cannot have wheat egg milk (all dairy) soya, seafood, tomatoes,or citrus fruits.

Its been hard but we've got the diet cracked now. its annoying we cannot use hardly any of the freefrom range!

mrs crimbles cakes are great. co op or holland and barratt.
we get pasta biscuits flour and xanthum gum from dr on prescription. I home bake bread using flour mix suitable for coeliac but had to do a lot of online searching to rule out milk powder and egg in ingredients. Scherr ? spelling ..mix a, b and c are good. One for breads, one for cakes and waffles and the like and the other for general use. Their website has 100's rcipes but its slow trawling through to find one free of other stuff!
orgran bread mix is good.
i order sausage from local butchers and basically most meals are meat and 2 veg type.

lo profin egg replacement has no soya in.

dietician has just come up with ?maxijul bars like chocolate in white pink and pale brown, you can cook with them or eat like that.

Sainsburys do chicken nuggets my dd can have in their frozen free from bit.

if i think of anything else i'll come and add more! just have to go cook again!

[sox364]

she loves chick peas, stinks the house out boiling them but you can buy tinned.

use sprouter to sprout beans? may need to wait a bit for that, at a year may not manage to eat these.

i make tougher jelly (use less water) cut into cubes for finger pud. Can sneak in fruit puree, bits of fruit or disgusting prescription milk to make creamy looking cubes.

also use lots of dried fruit, (yeast coating mind) and make faces on plate all the time. eg; monkey faces by overlapping ham and adding cucumber eyes , grated carrot hairy eyebrows etc. etc. older siblings love to help do this at mine.

[StripeyMamaSpanx]

You can make egg/wheat/dairy free pancakes with gram (chickpea) flour - just mixed to a batter with cold water.

[sox364]

just made pancakes, had no gram flour but used buckwheat and water, a triumph!!! she loved them and were so quick and easy to do. kept some over for breakfast!
thanks stripeymamaspanx

[qsack]

bunnyhunny I can sympathise as my 1yr old has the same allergies although the soya one is very mild and he seems to tolllerate wysoy formula but i do my best to avoid any more soya in his diet. it's his birthday on weds and i'm looking for an egg and milk free birthday cake. any ideas? i'd heard boiled chocolate cake could be done? does anyone have a recipe?

[bunnyhunny]

ooohh! hope I'm n ot too late.
I have a lovely recipe for an egg free cake
here
had to post it on the recipe thingy incase anyone else needed it
[feeling helpful emoticon]

[bunnyhunny]

but looking at the recipe - I actually used 4 oz oil instead of 5oz marge. don't ask why.
but it still worked and was lovely.

[stroppyshopper]

we have some of the same issues. for finger food around that age I did fish/potato balls (poached fish and mashed pot, roll into little balls, could add some finely minced chives). also mini-patties: pork & apple, beef and (free from) bread crumbs, chicken and apple. easy to mix up yourself, just keep the fruit/veg/other ingredients to a very fine mince. You can freeze little patties uncooked, if they are thin and small you can cook in frypan from frozen. also, any kind of berries are good finger food (cut the larger ones up).

HtH