Ideas for snacks for baby who is allergic to loads of foods...

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Hi all,

DS (almost 9 mo) recently had an allergy test and tested positive to oats, wheat, eggs, soya, dairy and nuts ! :(
So now we have to go see a dietician who will guide us on how to introduce these foods. We have already tried yogurt and we seem to be fine with that... so the dairy result was a false positive.

DS is finally at the stage where he wants more than 3 meals a day and while I'm waiting for the dietician to test other foods I really need some ideas on what DS can snack on.
Currently he'll happily eat any number of rice crackers in a day... but I wanted to add more variety.

Thanks in advance for all your help ! :)

My sons is allergic to all of those. I will reel off some ideas, but my son is 2 so Im not sure how helpful it will be.

Dinners are easy its always in 3's for each meal - vegetables, potatoes in many different forms and meat or fish.

Lunches we do brown rice pasta with tomato based pasta sauce.

Jacket potato with tuna and home made soya and egg free mayo.

Rice crackers or corn crackers with hummus.

I bake my own bread, so that with bacon.

Rice and fish with fruit after wards.

Home made wheat and egg free pizza base with tomato sauce and tuna and sweetcorn (tastes lovely, even without cheese!!)

WRT the negative results, was it a blood test or skin prick test? The test are notoriously unreliable. Only right 50% of the time.

However, I made the mistake thinking that a positive was wrong. For example, my son is anaphylactic to dairy but seemed ok on soya.
Then I noticed that he wasnt alright with soya, he just reacted differently, which was green mucousy, acidic smelling nappies and waking a LOT at night.

Reactions come in different ways.

Good luck.

Sorry to hyjack but forducksaje do you have a recipe for the pizza base please????

Hi Hellobear I havent made my own yet, Im doing so next week. We eat gluten free pizza base pizzas in Pizza Express. Looking at their ingredients and taking into consideration the way I bake my bread, it will be incredibly easy!

So, Im planning on following this recipe
Judging by the recipe, there is very little that will go wrong.

If you dont have 'cup' measureing instruments (I didnt until recently) just follow any pizza base recipe and change the flour for Doves bread flour.

Some of the Organix snacks (the crisp-type ones) just have corn and veg extracts in. Easy to eat for younger babies, too!

DS is fond of the carrot sticks and sweetcorn rings

These might not be age appropriate, it has been a while since I've had a 9month old!

We snack on strips of fruit like banana or mango or pineapple and use a small pot with a spoonful of 'Wot No Dairy?' yoghurt (dairy and soya free) as a dip. They like that.

I also make up jelly and put in to about 12 mini pots and they often have that as an afternoon treat, they love it and they only have a little so I think it isn't too bad, though admittedly not the healthiest thing for them.

Toast soldiers, made with your own bread, with honey or jam. If you want less sugar then try marmite, I think that would be ok ingredients wise. Maybe Tartex spread, I think that usually has palm oil in. There are vegan pate style spreads that might be ok too.

We have fruit pots, like the Hipp Organic ones, and the squeezable sachets ones like Ellas Kitchen for when we are out and about.

We have cereal, dry in a snack pot with raisins too. Are there any cereals he could manage? Maybe rice crispies, would they be wheat and oat free? Though I guess he might need to be older for that.

I second the Organix range too, we've had lots from there, though I find them a bit pricey.

Thank you all for the helpful responses ! :)

OHForDUCKSCake we had the blood test. I agree that they are only about 50% correct... infact the GP now tells me that they are more of a sensitivity test as opposed to an allergy test. The only way to truly test for an allergy is to try eating the suspected food !
Was your DS crying a lot at night due to the soya ? My DS has never slept through the night and on some nights is worse than others... not sure if this has anything to do with his food allergies... he doesn't have acidic nappies though...

I also think he should be OK with oats ... he has eczema and we have been using Aveeno creams on him, which are made from oats. Given the amount of Aveeno we apply daily, it must get into his system through his skin.... so maybe he's ok with oats too. That'll be a relief because then he can have something other than fruit and yogurt for breakfast...

Finally... I must learn to bake !! :)