Long haul travel with dairy intolerant toddler?

[KnockedUpMell]

Please please help with suggestions of what to pack...

My DS (13m) will only eat home cooked food at the moment. I'm trying to get him to eat things that I could take with us or find there readily- have tried canned pasta shapes, baked beans, packet tuna for sandwiches, Ella's kitchen toddler meals, chicken nuggets, fish fingers, but he refuses to eat any of them! At this rate he'll be surviving on bread, cereal and fruit purée!! (we're going to Mexico for 2w in August).

What else can I try?? Eating out with him is such a nightmare, and I really don't want to have him develop diarrhoea while we're travelling... Would really appreciate suggestions for things I could get here and pack for the trip.

August is quite a way off. plenty of time to get him used to a more varied diet. and surviving on bread, cereal (with soya milk) and fruit puree for 2 weeks sounds perfectly good to be honest.

My son survived for a week on nothing but cereal, bread, chips and icecream! almost ruined my holiday

I suggest you try your best to get him to eat new things but most of all, don't worry too much about it, as long as he gets the main groups of foods (carbs, some protein and fats) he will be absolutely fine.

We travelled long haul to the US for 10 days with my 2 year old and she is dairy free and egg free. It wasn't easy and she didn't have a great diet whilst we were away because she won't eat unfamiliar food, only really likes home made and familiar foods.

Honestly, she mostly lived on fruit, veg, chips and bread whilst we were away, not ideal I know. The way I looked at it, we were having some amazing family time and if that meant she had a below-par diet for 10 days then so be it. Once we were home I made sure we went straight back to normal meals.

The plane was fine, I filled my hand luggage with food for her. Packed sandwiches, Ellas Kitchen puree pouches, yoghurts, rice cakes, cereal bars etc. Security spent a little extra time looking through it all and I showed our prescriptions for her allergy meds and they let it all on the plane.

Pack whatever you can, but he will survive even if its just bread and fruit.