Chocolate needed that is 100% dairy free

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Anything I can give 1 year ds who is severely allergic to cows milk(can have soya)

Who gives chocolate and sweets to 1 year olds? Bizarre.

HEHEHEHE! Mine had chocolate from an EARLY age

FGS they have 20 years to wait for interesting things like alcohol and sex, the least I can do is introduce them to some of life's glorious fleshly pleasures

May be it's a class thing then.

I nearly sacked my childminder for giving DD1 half a chocolate button when she was about six months old. I lay awake. I fretted. Thank f*ck I wasn't on MN then or I would have sacked her.

Six years on, DD1 appears quite unscathed. Both she and her sister (I can't even remember when she first got chocolate - probably from the friend who considers it her Auntlike Duty to give my kids their first tastes of chips and chocolate sauce, preferably in a pub) seem quite sane, really. For children, obviously.

And I'm really quite posh, Xenia. Went to Oxford and everything.

at Xenia.

A little of what you fancy... although only a little!

I'd like that dairy free chocolate cake recipe too!

please, I should say...

Okay my survey failed. It was going to show the more middle class you are the less likely you are to feed one year olds sweets and chocolates. I am obviously wrong. As I've 3 children at university and no idea what they imbibe I can hardly maintain my position on this thread.

I'm very common INDEED

And I'm probably two foot shorter than Xenia because I have awful stunted working class genes

I wouldn't feed SWEETS

Sweets are VERY common

Only poor people eat sweets

But chocolate darling is the food of the gods

When chocolate was brought back from the Americas I think only the very rich had it. Didn't we start those chocolate / coffee houses for it to be imbibed within? Tobacco came from there too. All these addictive bad substances from the New World.

xenia, to imbibe means to "soak up" or "absorb" ...that's an odd way to eat chocolate!
there's a website called dietaryneedsdirect.co.uk who do loads of allergen/intolerence free foodstuffs. hth. x

And tomatoes. And indeed potatoes, wasn't there big outcry about eating both of those? Definitely tomatoes. They were considered poisonous on account of being related to deadly nightshade.

I suspect Xenia is actually right. Left to my own upmybum devices I wouldn't have given them chocolate for ages.

When chocolate was brought back from the Americas I think only the very rich had it.

It's the same now with that Green and Black's stuff

I love giving my small children chocolate

They get it at least once a week

Chocolate is such a PLEASURE for me, I want to share it with EVERYONE

In the winter I make them hot chocolate just with milk and melted chocolate in it

yes well tar is good if you can afford a car but the horse and cart doesn't need it and it fills the belly

I am not very rich

and I love Green and Black's

and raspberry ruffles

Lol at "upmybum devices"

Surely there's nothing wrong with a chocolate button?! I try and steer my DD clear of sweets with ingredients that look as though they belong in a lab rather than a kitchen but I do that with most food.

I was being really snobby about ketchup at the weekend until a paediatric (sp?) nurse told me that a paediatric (?) dietician (sp... di i even go to school?!) told him that it was an excellent source of Vit C, so hey ho.

Dairy free choc cake recipe (For Commoners)
60g cocoa powder
50ml water
1 tbsp lemon juice
150ml soya milk
100g 'Pure' sunflower spread (the soya one doesn't work as well)
150g caster sugar
200g plain flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp vanilla essence

Grease and flour 2 20cm cake tins
Preheat oven to 180C (Gas Mark 4)

In a small bowl combine the milk and lemon juice. Leave for a few minutes to sour.

Cream the margarine and sugar together until light and fluffy.

Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and cocoa. Add to the sugar and margarine mixture, alternating with the soured milk and the water. Stir in the vanilla and mix well.

Spoon the mixture into the tins. Bake for 20 minutes in the centre of the oven or until the cake is dry and cooked. Allow the cakes to cool in the tins for 10 minutes before turning out and cooling completely.

I make this a lot, as it is the only dairy free recipe that holds its shape well enough to be iced. Hope your LO enjoys.

That would be 180 degrees in English.

Surely there's nothing wrong with chocolate buttons? Of course there is. Huge numbers of British parents don't give 1 year olds sugar. They didbn't in the early 1980s either when we had our first children. It's just an unnecessary food and you don't want your children associating something that is bad for them with pleasure. It's like saying if you're very good I'll give you a cigarette.

Come on Xenia

The first one's free