Not sure where to put this- but if your child has a statement, is their allergy / intolerance mentioned on it? Also does anyone know where to get individual soya cartons (not flavoured?)

[Peachy]

DS3 has a statement of sn and cannot have milk. I have it in writing from the Head that he can have Alpro soya which is flavoured but Head is out today and it took the teacher under 2 mnutes to tell me he cannot have it any more, must have plain. I have never seen plain, not in 3 dairy reactive kids in this size and school won't serve from a big carton.

The local Tesco now only stocks bottled alpro individual which they also won't allow, so unless I can track this down he has to go without.

Only way I can see this beinga ddressed is if its in his statement (review next month).

Also as his picture is missing off the allergy wall- he might have an intolerance but he gets raging diarrhoea, projectile vomiting and severe worsening of his ASD symptioms ncluding loss of speech; the tehr children on thre all bar one have mild allergies to much less commn ingedients

Peachy - our morrisons has a big section for food like this - I am going later and will look. Shall i get you some?

we don't have Morrisons here Scorpio- shall we combine your place with mine LOL? We might get a range . If there is anyt here could you tell me? There is one about 10 miles away (and it'd be expensive to post) but I don't mind going out of my way if I know I can get it, iyswim? Ta

Will do. Won't be going until this evening but will post on AN what there was.

had exactly the same scenario with the milk and sadly dd now is missing out bu come to think of it am sure her dairy allergy is mentioned on her statement so will have to check it out too, i did look for the 250ml cartons of milk but found that alpro say it's available at specialised stores i have never found it and the shop staff looked at me like i had 2 heads!

I just found some online but you have to buy in bulk and its out of my price range with P&P atm .

I'd be looking at almost £20 a week for both school kids on DF.

I don't get why non-dairy intol kids get it free but they don't provide an aternative.....

Im absolutely certain that i found it in the local MASSIVE tesco - its a 24hr one too. Unfortunately i was looking for ricemilk so didnt take much notice, but i am almost certain that it was unflavoured and they were without doubt single serving sizes - sold in a pack of 3. I rather feel they were in with the 'long life' milks rather than the 'free from' range.

Incidentally, were you looking for the orgran a few days ago? because if you were, tescos (the smaller one) had that too, in with the free from range. Actually i bought some thinking "well if peachy wants it instead of another brand... I'll give it a go"

cross post!

do you know i was thinking exactly the same!!! why is it that youngsters can get milk free - yet we have to BUY soya and take it in??? that is SOOOOOOOOOOO unfair.

I have some individual Rice Dream cartons that I bought in a health food shop.

Our local Holland and Barrett do individual, plain ones.

Peachy
I had huge trouble with the school but got his food issues put into his statement and raise it at every single IEP.
I have given them a detailled written record of the effect of G&C on him and even sent in some photos of him after some silly bitch gave him some chocolate cake one day.

Some of them really do think that intolerance is a bit like 'not keen on'.

I have had to keep hammering it for 8 years now

I'm pretty sure my local shop does them.

I will ask them who their supplier is.

This might be a silly suggestion but could you just pour some from the big carton into a smaller container for him to take in each day? Or would the school not accept that for some reason?

Sorry I realise my last message was a bit daft as you would obviously have thought of that already. Have they explained why they won't allow bottled alpro original?

list of stockists here

Apparently, Holland and Barrets and health foods.

here you can get a case of 15 for £6.05, with free delivery on orders over £36.00, so 6 cases, which at 1 per day per child, would last you 9 weeks. So £4 per week.

Hope that helps!

Hi not sure if this will help but my local independent health food shop stocked Alpro Soya and now Provamel (same taste). Oatley (oat based milk) also do cartons but not sure about the plain flavours. They ordered in a case of individual cartons and gave me a small discount. Maybe worth asking even if the shop only has the flavoured Soya on the shelves. Shop is called Sunrise in Hockley, Essex if you live this way. I am surprised the school is being so unhelpful. Do you need to go to the LEA to get something on his statement or maybe your Doctor could write a letter to the school? Goodluck.

HI there
I hope this thread doesnt come to late for people i recently have had a similar problem with my son who like myself cant take milk. Due to this my son one day at nursery heard him shouting for milk like the rest of the kids and it reminded me of what i went through all those years ago at school. So i have been on a soya milk 250ml mission. I have spoken to Alpro Soya who have advised currently they only make strawberry and chocolate flavour in the 250mls. They did do the orginal flavour but due to poor demand they have take this off the market. They have confirmed with me in writing that if demand takes off they will reinstate the orginal flavour. They advised it was down to the supermarkets and what they order. Therefore i have contacted Tesco, Asda, Morrison and Sainsburys and advised them that on adverage there are 2 children per nursery are on soya milk. The demand is there as Alpro's sister company Provanmill make different flavours and are selling well. Sainsburys have been fantastic and have confirmed they will stock the chocolate and strwberry flavour and if demand take off they will contact Alpro asking for other flavours to be made. Morrisons have advised they will speak to there supplier and take it from there. Tesco are looking into the matter along with Asda. What i am requesting from anyone who reads this post to please contact the supermarkets head office by letter and your request will be taken seriously. I am currently trying to think of ways to promote this thread as i feel it is an important one for us mums who want the best for our children. As i have said for me in my family it is a heredity one and its not going away anytime soon.
Thankyou for reading this and please take time out to write to the supermarkets to make a difference.
Carla