Convenience food for DCs with multiple allergies: which is your favourite?

[garliclover]

Mine are (for a diet free from wheat, eggs, milk and sesame):

Orgran tinned spaghetti
M & S jars of pasta sauce (especially bolognese)
Baked beans
Tinned sardines/mackerel/tuna
Orgran rotondo biscuits (added calcium)
Combination of millet, quinoa and amaranth pops for cereal (sold separately on goodnessdirect)
Wholegrain Rice Krispies (fortified with iron and calcium)
Oatibix (for iron)
Readybrek or Tesco Hot Oat cereal (for iron and calcium)

Any others?

An avocado, halved and eaten with a spoon, maybe with some filling such as tuna and dairy-free dressing.

Just realised that Uncle Ben's sweet & sour sauce is wheat, milk, egg, gluten and nut free too. Kids had it for first time this evening with rice noodles and loved it - result! I'd always assumed that all Chinese sauces contained soy sauce so wouldn't be any good for my two - just goes to show you should never assume!

Glad to see this one back, its great for ideas. I'll have a think about what we have been eating recently and come back if I think of anything good...someone mentioned an avocado, totally agree, great to throw in a lunch bacg for a quick snack, my DD loves it just on its own.

Recently we have been lazy and using Dolmio bolognese sauce for spag bol. Not sure if its gluten and soya free though...my DD is allergic to milk, egg and nuts.

Good to know about the uncle bens :)

Great about the Dolmio stuff. Will give it a try.
One thing that worked today as a snack was two Nairn's oatcakes with Vitalite and blackcurrant spread. DS went off oatcakes completely for months, but this version seems to have changed his mind...
freefrom, I thought your DS was ok with soya? Has that changed recently?

Hadnt really thought about oatcakes, but good idea. My DD loves cream crackers, dry or with vitalite! Poor girl! However, her dad loves dry cream crackers so she must get it from him!

We are in Scotland and have recently started to buy Malcolm Allan steak pies from ASDA - got one for new years day and more recently, when the in laws were visiting as it is easy and tasty. DD loves the pastry :)

freefrom, totally agree with the kinnerton...the lollie pops are a life saver for us! Very easy to throw in a lunch bag or when going out for dinner...a good distraction and pretty tasty! Not sure if its been mentioned before but asda do choc orange free from buttons which are nicer than the normal ones (if you like orange choc).

Hi garliclover you're right, they can both eat soya but not soy sauce as it contains wheat so most Chinese food is a no-no (they often put soy sauce is flavoured crisps too so have to be wary of that).

This thread is great. I'm going to print it out and give to my mum who really panics about feeding DS with all the things he can eat highlighted.

DH nearly jumped for joy when he found out ds can have Heinz beans and pork sausages! He very nearly cancelled tonights hairy bikers chilli in favour of them!

Our quick ones are dolmio stir thru sauce, youngs freefrom fish fingers, dairy free choc buttons and of course baked beans (now with sausages)

I felt so sad when DS tOld nursery that his best Xmas present was real chocolates that he could eat. They are the choices caramel chocolates, he loves them.

I picked up some dairy and nut free pesto in Waitrose, but have yet to try it.

Mayola is great for in sandwiches etc.

Sounds as though sainsburys are good for their free from range? My local are Tesco they are ok but not great.

Which shop is best for free-from in your opinions?

Liking the ciabatta tip. We have milk and egg allergy. No wheat allergy byt possibly a contribution to his chronic constipation which sucks as he LOVES bread!

I guess we'll have to tick soya off the list first though we've tried that one once so far. (we're weaning).

WhiteTrash, I get freefrom stuff from lots of different places as I find that there is no one place which has a good enough range. I use a combination of Tesco, Holland & Barrett, Sainsburys and when feeling rich, Ocado and Goodnessdirect.

Some new things:
Amisa buckwheat crispbreads -- DS loves them with Vitalite and blackcurrant spread.
Tesco freefrom digestive biscuits are, amazingly, free from wheat, milk AND egg! And not too disgusting.
For lunch: a Dietary Specials brown (or white) ciabatta roll cut in half, baked in the oven for 10 mins til crispy, topped with some olive oil and Sainsbury's pizza topping. I gave them to DS's nursery for his lunch, as the other kids were having pizza, and he loved them! And while they had brownies for pudding, he had a much healthier date and apricot slice (recipe from Tanya Wright on the Allergy UK website), which I made with Readybrek instead of normal oats: this made it much more squidgy, like a proper brownie.

Soya dairy free here and some egg

Baked beans with sausages - loved
Mns multi seed sliced loaf mmmmm
Costa blueberry muffin and apple cinnamon too
Freefrom strawberry or vanilla ice cream
Sainburys sausage rolls
Aldis breakfast muffins and crumpets hooray
Aldi multi grain fruit bars yummy

We are getting there !

dd allergic to milk, egg, nuts and fish.
I was really excited when I found she could eat Birds Eye Vegetable Fingers and she calls them "not fish fingers".
Also we love Sainsburys duck spring rolls and Livingwell free from pesto which is in Sainsburys/waitrose/Tescos.

Ellovera, Sainsburys sausage rolls are dairy free??

Yes white trash, the snack size ones six pack thingy . Blooming ace :-)

DD allergic to Wheat, dairy, eggs and tomato (i think baked beans are an issue so could be the tomato or beans)
Thanks for the tips ladies, it is helpful as feeding my little on is hard. We have been out for dinner and the only thing she could eat was jacket potato with peas and carvery ham!
Sainsburys have just extended their free from range, which is helpful but most of the dairy free cakes, breads still contain egg! so this is still limiting
can't beat wholegrain ryvita for convienience, my DD likes them more than rye bread.
Rye bread - get ones made in Germany, as these tend not to be cooked in factories handling wheat, so Aldi is a good place to get these, but you need to look with the breads rather than the free from.
Ocado do a fantastic free from ice cream in raspberry.
I also cook with Soya cream so meals like fish pie and stroganoff, which are quick and easy can still be made and frozen for a quick meal.
Birds eye fish fingers (only found them on Ocado) and the McCain smiley faces are great (most oven chips contain milk in their coatings).

hackster, which birds eye fish fingers are those? The only ones I see on ocado have wheatflour in them...
Thanks for tip about McCain smiley faces -- DS doesn't often get the chance to have kid's food, not even peas! (actually, what really annoys me is that all the gluten-free stuff is marketed to health-conscious adults as low-fat whereas what I really want is loads of fat to put in my DS! I've started to put wads of solidified coconut milk into his low-fat gluten-free cornflakes....)

Young's do gluten, wheat and dairy free fish fingers. I get these from Ocado for DD. They go down very well with smiley faces or mini potato waffles

Great thread: egg dairy soya free here

We find Aldi great for soya free breads, crumpets etc their regular whole meal loaf is soya free, and our staple bread
We get their part baked baguettes too
Their flapjacks (at checkout) are ace, ESP the fruit one, and dairy egg soya free
They do a nice fruity porridge too
Bourbons, rich tea biccies
Asda kids ready meals: spaghetti Bol and fruity chicken cous cous but not asda bourbons
I struggle with desserts for Ds beyond fresh fruit

Ooh almost forgot. Instant noodles, Aldi's are ok, not sure about others. Chuck out the sachet of chemicals and cook with a suitable DF/SF stock

We are allergic to milk, egg, nuts, fish, legumes. Not allergic to wheat.
Tesco Spaghetti Rings are egg free (other brands may contain egg)
Napolina Tomato & Basil is cheaper than M&S (often £1 a pot).
Chicken curry - use M&S Jalfrezi sauce and put some soya yoghurt in the kids portions to make it more mild. Also if you're dairy allergic but okay with fish you could try Thai curry rather than Indian. Add Tilda Rizzazz Basmati rice and Tesco Light Choices mini naan breads (come in a pack of six, you can freeze them and they defrost in a couple of hours)
M&S sausages - high meat content, often on special offer, can take the skins off to make meatballs.
Tesco Garlic slices, dairy free.
Iceland Chicken Strips BBQ Flavour - nice in tortilla wraps.
Goodies bars, tomato slices, spicy rings, rice cakes
Tesco Italian breadsticks. Tesco large Salt and Vinegar Rice Cakes.
Kettle Flame Grilled steak crisps.
Tesco Bacon Rasher crisps.
Pringles - Red. Hula Hoops -Red.
Tesco Beef & Ale Casserole, M&S Beef Casserole, M&S Irish Stew (tinned).
Make your own Lasagne with M&S Bolognese (tinned),Tesco value lasagne sheets, and free and easy diary free cheese sauce (Holland and Barrett).
Egg free mayonnaise - Mayola - Tesco.
Lots and lots of frozen veg, Iceland and Farm foods are good value.

I saw the young's gluten, egg and dairy free fish fingers in asda today.

Which tesco garlic slices are dairy free?

Sainsbury's value and normal noodles are dairy and egg free. I also chuck out the packet of powder and make my own sauce. The tesco value noodles are also egg and dairy free.

I'll also admit to feeding the kids a fray bentos steak pie , which are egg and dairy free.

Warburtons now do a fruit loaf that DD loves with seedless raspberry jam. The Tesco one is a bit too heavy on the spice for a not quite 2yr old, but this one is lovely.

It's a shame about soya for our dd because otherwise we have the same list of allergies as you freefrom. The nut or soya seems to exclude most free from ranges. However after attempting the diet myself recently, I was just starving all the time (although I was bf too) so it mademevquite sad to have a real insight into such a restricted diet :(

I am now experiencing the fun of neocate with our 7 wk old DS, oh my gosh it is seriously disgusting. But that doesn't even compare to the horrendous wind and poos, seriously stinky :) But unfortunately looks like we have to go down the whole allergy road with him too. At least we've already battled through the nhs so we have got help really early this time, it makes uh a huge difference to have proper support from the beginning.

Anyway sorry getting side tracked.
Plamil do decent chocolates and chocolate spread if soya isn't an issue for you.
Orgran spaghetti tins which I add a tin of tuna when heating it up and my dd loves it!
Rice noodles are also popular
Doves farm choco rice krispies
Houmus with veg sticks (check it is NF)
Chicken slices (waitrose roast chicen slices are everything free because they don't use stock) and I just mix that with some Doves farm pasta and Pure marg and oatly cream and some black pepper, DD seems happy with it!
Orgran dinosaur cookies are very popular
When all else fails, our local chipie for chips or drive through McD for fries!