Milk free baby food?

[Auntie97]

Hello all,

I’m a first time poster here! My 5 month old baby is allergic to milk, he’s drinking a prescribed formula from the GP.

Can anyone recommend any oatmeal’s, porridges, cereals or other foods that don’t contain milk? I’m having a hard time finding any since all ingredients list milk somewhere.

I’d really appreciate any help 🙏🏻

Fleur Alpine do a dairy free baby cereal FLEUR ALPINE Organic Oat Baby Cereal Dairy Free - Yummy Baby Porridge for Deliciously Smooth Breakfast Meals | Nutritious and Easy To Make Cereal 5+ Months with No Added Sugars | 7 Servings : Amazon.co.uk: Grocery- I always bought from Amazon, they've a couple of different types and I alternated between oat and rice.

Ella's kitchen have a dairy free range Dairy Free Baby Food | Weaning | Ella's Kitchen

These say may contain traces of milk or soy which usually means they're produced in the same factory as products that contain it.
Aptamil Organic Baby Rice 100g 4.6+ Months | Sainsbury's
Cow & Gate Pure Baby Rice Cereal 100g 4 Month+ | Sainsbury's

No milk HiPP Organic 100% Baby Rice 6+ Months 160g | Sainsbury's

My little one had CMPA. You don't need to feed them food marketed as baby food, just use normal supermarket oats or Weetabix for example. Babies can eat what we eat (more or less) from 6 months old, just modified by how to serve etc.

My little one has cmpa, we just use normal oats to make porridge, or normal wheatabix rather than special baby cereal (it’s a rip off in my opinion) or I think ready brek is also dairy free.
I also add fruit purée to porridge/wheatabix to make it different flavours.
I would just get reading the back of normal food packets as it will save you a fortune, and it’s often healthier with less sugar etc

You'll need to check but I'm pretty sure Aldi's porridge pouches are vegan.

We just used regular porridge or Weetabix and rice crispies once she was a bit older. We did porridge with pudding rice in the veg early days after our paediatrician suggested it as we were questioning oats.
Some of the products like ready brek are milk free but are "may contain" due to manufacturing. It most cases we keep may contains on my daughters diet as the risks are quite low. Some manufacturers take more care with cross contamination than others. I have ready brek crop up as a higher risk for cross contamination so we avoid them.

C you don't have to feed just cereals, unless you want to of course

The Caroline Walker Trust has some great suggestions of first foods to try in this guide and lots of them are DF. You'll probably need from page 13.