Dairy and soya free recommendations

[Onelittleone216]

Ive been advised to cut out dairy and soya from mine and my 8 month old son’s diet for 6 weeks to see if it has any impact on his eczema. He’s not got an ige allergy but the doctor wants to check for a non ige one.

What are the best buys/recipes/baby weaning hacks with this? I like oat milk and coconut yoghurt, and so does he, but feel a bit lost with general meals, snacks etc. He eats well, 3 meals a day, fine with all other allergens, so want to keep up his good appetite (and also not eat boring food myself!).

Also is there anything to look out for that might catch me out, supermarket bread has soya in which caught me by surprise for example!

Co-op bread is df and sf and only 49p! Quite a few bits at the co-op are in fact. B and M sell nice cheap flapjack bars for 39p which are also df and sf.
Kelloggs rice crispie multigrain things are also and can be softened in oat milk for a baby…
Coconut collaborative make nice yoghurt type things- most supermarkets have these.
Bourbon biscuits are mostly okay too… but other biscuits and cakes tend not to be.

For a wee one I guess you might be sticking to fruits, veg, pasta etc which are all fine still… oat milk pancakes are nice! Oh and we use flora spread.

Best places for bread are Tesco, coop and Aldi. Most of their own brand breads are soya free. Sainsbury's are absolutely awful and it's only their bakery bread that is soya free. Bread products like crumpets, pittas, wraps and bagels are usually soya free.

Oat milk can be used to substitute milk in any recipe. Nutritional yeast can be used to make a white sauce a bit cheesy. Jord yoghurts are our favourites and only option due to other allergies.

Baking blocks are dairy free and can be used to substitute butter in recipes.

Oat milk for young children should be 3g fat per 100ml, about 60 kcal per 100ml, 120mg calcium and have iodine too. The recommended ones are alpro growing up milk or oatly barista. We get our oatly barista on subscribe and save with Amazon. You get 5% of if you put through. Less than 5 boxes of 6 and 15% over 5. They have to be separate orders. It makes quite a difference to the price to us but does require storage, we get an order once a week.
Chocolate - for you the green and blacks velvet edition are mostly dairy and soya free and for little ones moo free chocolate is dairy and soya free

Definitely spend time making sure any oat milk you buy is fortified.

Plenty of good dairy free margarine out there, I like Pure for baking.

Barista milk makes fab Yorkshire puddings.

Don't spend time looking for dairy free treats for your little one.