Egg/dairy/gluten free recipes please!

[ilovetosleep]

I'm really struggling with ideas for myself and DS (10months). I hve spent my life eating everything and anything and I'm struggling particularly on the snacks/carb front - bread, cakes, biscuits etc (I know these aren't essentials, but am severely sleep deprived and am craving it all!) Tried baking buckwheat bread and it was a disaster - a solid rock - and cakes have been v disappointing. Am not UK and free from sections in supermarkets are very poorly stocked, and have yet to find anything that is free of all 3 things, apart from tortilla chips and oatcakes.

And lunches I'm finding particularly difficult for DS without bread - he wants to eat what his big bro is eating and favourites for him are sandwiches and dippy eggs! DS is an ardent spoon refuser so I'm looking for baking recipes for finger foods. At the moment he eats a lot of stews and roast dinner type meals, or gf pasta which is fine for dinners but not really lunchy iykwim.

Thanks in advance!

I love this site www.theintolerantgourmet.com

You might find ordering some products online is useful. Orgran egg replacer was a saviour to me, although I've recently discovered the binding power of flaxseed. www.orgran.com

There are several gluten/wheat free bread mixes available at the supermarkets (or you may need to buy online; try doves farm or just google GF bread mix). You can use your replacement milk - like koko or whatever you can get easily and we use the egg replacer by ener-g, but the orgran one works just as well. There are also several ener-g breads that you can buy online that are free of all of the above (and more), though we live in central london and still have to buy them online, and they're also quite expensive.

For cakes, try googling wacky cake or crazy cake and using a GF flour with the recipe (which is naturally egg and dairy free). Alternatively, use a mashed banana instead of an egg and whatever 'milk' you have along with your GF flour in a normal cake mix. You might also want to try one of the GF tortilla recipes that you can find on google ...eg www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/quick-flat-bread-tortilla-wraps/ for lunches.

good luck!

Feel your pain - my DD is gluten and dairy free and very very picky. She tends to eat lots of rice and popcorn! For lunch she has gluten free oatcakes and goats cheese, things like frittata (sp?) which can be cut up into strips, crispbreads / veg sticks dipped into hummus. Strips of chicken, turkey etc are easy. Pom Bear crisps if you can get them are good.

Thanks for the replies. It looks like a complete overhaul of the larder is required! That intolerant gourmet blog looks good. If not a bit like hard work ( but this isn't going to be easy!) I tried a bread mix a few weeks ago and I don'f know what I did to it but it came out solid. No bossy would eat it! I suppose I need to stop trying to replicate bread and find an alternative such as flatbreads. Have tried corn tortillas but DS struggled with them being so thin. He's very good with strips of meat and cooked veg, it's carbs I struggle with - spoon refuser so won't eat rice easily, or mash, and there isn't always time to roadmap potatoes, esp at lunch. But then again there isn't always time to bake bread either I guess!

I've heard about the banana thing but I loathe banana and the cake baking is mainly for me! Will look up wacky cake next.

Another thing I really struggle with is breakfast. He breastfeeds a lot over night so is rarely hungry at breakfast but I'd like to entice him. DH does breakfast for both Dcs and is always in a rush so the quicker the better. Porridge is not really working as he refuses to be spoon fed, and porridge fingers not much success either. Any ideas? He'll pick at a few gf cornflakes but no where near enough to keep him going. He's a bit funny with banana too although any other fruit is ok, but that's not really much of a breakfast either (it's pudding in this house!)
We have mastered gf pancakes, can these be made the night before a reheated do you think?
Thanks for the tips, any more welcome!

ilovetosleep; We are gluten/dairy/egg/legume/gourd/soy/corn free and we have similarly hard bread. it helps if you leave it to rise a long time (longer than the recipe) - try overnight in the fridge if you can't leave it somewhere warm, safely, for several hours.

Otherwise, you could make your own GF muesli bars, or as we used to do in the early days, just eat whatever he wanted that was left over in the fridge... just because it's breakfast, doesn't mean it has to be what an english person would typically have for breakfast! We eat a lot of smoked salmon (because both DS's love it) a lot of kosher sliced turkey (watch out for ingredients on your deli slices!), occasional pancakes (yes, they're healthy enough reheated, but depending on your recipe may get a bit crumbly), i bake bread, slice then freeze it wrapped in 2 slices each (it goes hard really quickly) which we have sometimes, and DS likes puffed rice.

If you hate banana, try using soaked flax seed as an egg replacement (can't remember exact quantities etc just now, but will be easy to find on google).

Mayfair mummy, do you have a bread recipe you could share/ point me in the right direction? We made great cupcakes yesterday from oh she glows website which I'm chuffed with, plus some mashed banana and pat cookies which I thought would be good for DS for breakfast but he found them a bit dry and crumbly I think and slat it all out!

Hi lovetosleep; At the moment i use a doves farm bread mix, with ener-g egg replacer and whatever 'milk' i happen to have in the fridge at the time (we use koko, oatly and almond milk regularly). I leave it to prove longer than they suggest, and it seems to work, at least enough for DS2 to ask for toast and jam regularly! We had to search for a while to find a bread mix we can use (we have more allergies than you), so we are very limited in what we can try. It's probably worth trying a couple more mixes; there are many out there that we can't do! We also use coconut oil for the oil; i think the flavour is a touch nicer than sunflower etc.
good luck!

I guess ordering online is your only option then. Either use Amazon or find an online allergy shop that ships to your country. They will have the ingredients you need.

You really have to try Cybele Pascal's The Allergen Free Baker's Handbook for bread, scones, cakes, biscuits and a whole host of other delicious baked recipes. I've tried almost all of them and they are all delicious!

One point though - she recommends making your own flour mix from a few different kinds (rice flour etc) but I just use Dove's Farm plain flour (and Doves Farm bread flour for the bread recipes) and they still work perfectly.

Nobody even realised the biscuits and cake I made for my DD's birthday party were allergen-free, they really are yummy.

She also has a regular meal cookbook that I've just discovered and bought too.

My DD has wheat and egg allergies too and there's only one store bought bread she can have - DS white ciabatta rolls I just cut the rolls into slices and she love it.

Other ingredients you'll need:

Orgran egg replacer

Xanthan gum

Good luck!

For cakes and biscuits, I would advise using gluten free flour in vegan recipes, which automatically exclude eggs and dairy, and (for cakes), tend to produce a wetter batter which suits g/f flour.

If you've mastered g/f pancakes, you could use them to make savoury wraps for lunch (obviously leaving out any sweetener, and perhaps adding in herbs and any other savoury flavourings of choice).