dairy-allergic party guest; food help please

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One of the guests at dd's party (4th b'day) cannot eat dairy. Her mum will be there and will bring some food for her but I would like her to be able to eat some of the stuff that everyone else is having.

Do Supercook 100s&1000s have milk in them? I've lost the label off the tub...

Is Tescos dairy-free "Pure Soya Spread" any good? Will the kids who can eat dairy turn their noses up?

And do Tescos sell any cocktail sausages that are dairy-free? Or Somerfield, I can get there too. I realise I can go to Tescos and read the labels, but Mumsnet is the fount of all knowledge, and ds yells if the trolley stops for more than 2 seconds.

Any recommendations for sweeties of the sort to put in pass-the-parcel layers for 4-yr-olds?

Thankyou!

the 10p bags of haribo sweets are ok for dairy allergic, otherwise ask the mum... (one of dd's friends is same)..

How very thoughtful of you fruitful.

Soya marg is find but I think Olivio is slightly nicer. My allergic son eats goat's cheese, milk and butter. You can get lovely soft Philidelphia style goats cheese which doesn't taste at all rank.

I wouldn't have thought hundreds and thousands would have dairy, but her mum will know. They're just sugar and colouring aren't they?

Haribo, marvellous.

Sausages and small sugar strands don't feature in their diet so the mum doesn't know.

I use 'pure' soya spread, and most people can't tell the difference, so I'm sure Tescos will be the same.
Check crisps - a lot have milk products in, but there are also loads that don't, so your dd's friend could have the pick of anything.
I've checked 100&1000s and they are fine - no dairy.

small sausages are a 'mare - they all seem to have lactose in, but you can find sausage rolls dairy free.
Maybe check if dd's friend is dairy free or lactose free - if lactose, then avoid goats milk, etc.

pretty sure Olivio isn't dairy free. 100s & 1000s are fine, & it's easy to make fairy cakes with the dairy free spread. If you want ice-cream, tescos do a 'swedish glace' which is d-f & most kids will eat it quite happily. Well done you for making the effort!

If your Tesco has a Kosher counter, look for products marked 'Parev', as they will be dairy-free. There are lots of nice biscuits, cakes, snacks and sweets, as well as savoury foods and ingredients. A large supermarket (or one in the right part of the country) may have a Kosher chiller cabinet and/or freezer as well.

My son has the pure soya spread... I'm sure the other kids won't turn their noses up
Yes I'm sure Olivio has dairy (whey) in...
Crisps are a nightmare.. plain hoola hoops or walkers salt and vinegar or plain crisps just of the top of my head...
Jelly is good especially if made with lemonade instead of water...
and as mentioned before the 'swedish glace' icecream is lovely...
good luck

and I agree with the others...well done you for making the effort. It will be appreciated, I'm sure.

Hmm, kosher food at Tescos in a small market town in Hertfordshire... I typed in Kosher in the search engine and they said "We're not sure what you mean...". I can ask though!

Dd has already instructed me that we need hula hoops (the trick is to prevent ds from biting his fingers off). And I was going to do home-made frozen juice lollies.

I'll ask friend what I'm looking for on the labels.

Thanks for you help!

Check with the Mum about the Hula Hoops. They now rather irritatingly contain a warning that "they are produced on a line handling milk". I will now not give them to my dairy allergic dd.

If you have a Waitrose near you then they do cocktail sausages in a orange packet in their chill counter which are dairy free - well the last time I bought them they were!!

Well done you for thinking about your dd's friend. My dd is always absolutely delighted when there are things she can eat safely - she always usually has to take her own stuff too!!

I buy 'salt and shake' plain crisps for DS and remove the salt sachet. They are def. dairy free. Tesco do an own brand version too.

I've not found any dairy free cocktail sausages in Tesco's, but they do a dairy and gluten free sausage in the free from range which you could chop up, or there is a pack of premium sausages which are also fine (more expensive, but nicer than the Tesco ones). I could check the exact make if you like, they're in my freezer at the momement.

Soya spread should be fine, but I prefer the sunflower version (do you mean the soya one in a green tub? I forget the name of it.). However, our Tesco's have stopped doing the sunflower version. Peanut butter (Tesco's own, not sure about others) and mayonnaise are also dairy free.

If you want to 'fix' the pass the parcel, I've seen small green and blacks chocolate bars in our health food shop. If you get the dark chocolate variety, they are dairy free.

In fact, try a health food shop if you want more help- they're usually better informed than Tescos.

Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about providing food for the guest. I would prefer to bring all of DS's food to a party and be 100% sure that we weren't going to have a horrific night because he'd eaten something that he shouldn't have. :)

Doritos Dippas are dairy free, most original versions of crisps may do. Asda sells some coctail sausages that are, I believe, dairy free. Baguels (by the Original american co or something of the sort) are OK. Check bread packages if they mention casein or whey (or more obvious descriptions) they are out.

As per sweets some chocolates, especially the dark chocolate are also OK

It is a very nice gesture of you to think of this child but, if you struggle don't dispair, most of us, mums of allergic children, have gone to a lot of trouble to learn to identify which food is OK and which is not, and wouldn't expect you to master the subject for a single occassion. We know well that is HARD work. :)