What do you give milk allergy suffer for breakfast?!

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Because I'm struggling!
Ds hates cow and gate banana porridge made with nutramigen. No other 'baby cereals' are suitable for CMPA
Looked at the adult rolled oats, the porridge oat dust stuff! And even though there's no milk in it it says it's not suitable (does anyone know why?)
So I'm going to try and blend some weetabix before adding milk and seeing how he does. He's 7mo with a developmental delay and CMPA so really struggles with any lumps at all. Help?!

I give mine fruit pots with rice or ordinary fine porridge with nutramigen.
Her big sister, also dairy free has bagels, fruit, soya, yoghurt and cereal with almond milk. She loves breakfast so will sometimes have 2 or 3 of those things before nursery at 8:30!

How about making up a big batch of rice pudding (using whatever substitute milk you usually use), freezing it in little pots and giving him that for breakfast?

Obviously with rice, you need to be careful to cool it quickly in the fridge for safety reasons, but otherwise it's a quick convenient breakfast (apart from the initial batch cooking).

I've never bothered with baby cereals, just Weetabix / rice krispies with soya milk. I also used soya milk rather than the formula, on the basis that if she wasn't lactose free, I would be using cows milk.

Scrambled egg?

Fruit and alpro yoghurt is another good one although I don't think it is particularly filling, that isn't such an issue at 7mo.

Regular rolled oats , koko coconut milk or oat milk

Eggs. Boiled with toast/ omelettes / poached

Porridge made with proper rolled oats and apple juice?

This is the pack of rolled oats <
Not suitable aparently

Some v. Good suggestions but he really struggles with any texture bar completely smooth!

The alpro yogurt is a good idea! Does anyone know if there is any own brand/ cheaper versions of alpro yoghurts? He would probably only have 1/2 a small one, but they are £££

Eggs or normal porridge - so a bag of rolled oats, either made up with his milk, or with apple juice, as above.

When he can cope with texture, or finger foods, try french toast, or just toast/crumpets etc. Check the milk content of the bread, but loads of toppings are dairy free.

The picture would be helpful!

Just oats, like this not porridge in a box.
The morning flake, and tesco on brand ones I've got in the cupboard are both dairy free. Looks like you've got a weird packet. Oats should be fine.

Yes alpro are expensive :( have a look at Tescos free from range, no idea what they have but it might be cheaper. Could you make up cereal with soya milk? You could always blend whatever it is to a purée, you could add bananas mangoes or berries for flavour maybe?

The soya yoghurts are mostly full of sugar so you might want to avoid them. Our DD (lactose intolerant) detested them as well.

Oat or rice milk are good substitutes, it doesn't have to be soya milk.

Our CMPI DS has Weetabix made with Nutramigen for breakfast. DH crumbles the cereal so it's quite smooth as he's not exceptionally keen on lumpy stuff either yet.

Apparently you can get coconut yoghurt, but I've seen mixed reviews of it.

It's chunky, it has to be something smooth :( like this m.tesco.com/h5/groceries/r/www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=256184216
It says may contain milk, is that okay or not?

We use the duchy Oat and barley porridge oats from Waitrose. They are dairy free.
Waitrose also do a basic own range which is about £1 for 1kg, it's also dairy free

My eldest adores the tesco Mango yoghurts but really doesn't like the alpro ones. We have to buy them in bulk!

you shouldn't use rice milk for children under 5 due to arsenic levels

Lots of things say 'may contain milk' when they're produced in a factory that processes things with milk in. Ds is intolerant to cmpa so we take the chance but depends in what risk you can take.

I'd start introducing textures sooner rather than later as it's generally easier

AFAIK, rice milk isn't recommended for under 5's. Oatly is good tho.

What sort of reaction does your LO sudffer from with milk? If its milk, occasional contamination, which not good for them, isn't likely to be a massive issue. If he reacts badly to milk, stay clear of may contain.

Would getting normal oats, and blitzing (dry) in the liquidiser, storing, and making up as required be smooth enough?

DOH
suffer

if its MILD, occasional

I don't think soya milk is recommended for boys either. I didn't know that about rice milk but our dietician's appt is taking forever to come through.

We just use formula where we'd use milk.

In the premade porridges the vitamin/mineral mix they use to fortify may be derived from milk for the calcium and therefore contaminated.

Have you tried running normal oats through the food processor?
Custard (with your usual milk) ?
baby rice(ditto)

You're getting confused over the allergy advice on the pack - there's no dairy in those oats as no milk products are highlighted in bold on the label. Oats and oat flour are highlighted as they may be cross-contaminated with gluten.

If there were any dairy ingredients they'd be listed and highighted in bold

DS2 used to hate all textures. He lived on pureed banana mixed with pureed avocado (sounds disgusting but it was fashionable when he was weaning and he loved it.)
Also pureed pear or apple or carrot or sweet potato, thickened with baby rice made up with non-dairy milk.

it says 'not suitable for milk allergy sufferers' too on that label

that suggest possibility of cross contamination too

I've put regular oats through a blender when DS was at that age, then made up with formula or oat milk.

Weetabix should be perfect though, you can make it as smooth as you like just adjusting the milk. You just mush it up with the spoon.

That's DS's staple breakfast, always has been.

Alternatively, stew some fruit, blend, freeze, then he can have those for breakfast.

Look manufacturers put "not suitable for milk allergy sufferers" on bloody everything. It's called defensive labelling and it drives me barmy.

We were advised by the allergy consultant to look at the ingredients and go by those, unless he actually had a reaction - because if we followed all this defensive labelling we would be in just the situation you are in - nothing the poor DC can eat!

DS1 ate Ready Brek for breakfast every morning. It is fortified with calcium as well, I think he got all his calcium for the day in it. And he had it with Rice Milk - it was not considered unsuitable for under fives then, it was recommended by the dietitian.

DS1 is still considered anaphylactic to milk at 14, is tall, lanky and pretty healthy. He eats stuff with no milk or milk product ingredients but labelled "unsuitable for milk allergy sufferers" all the time - and has never had a reaction to anything thus labelled. Every time he has had a reaction it has turned out that the product actually contained milk as an ingredient but it was not declared on the packaging (that has happened 3 times in his life).