I could murder a cheese toastie!!! Support thread for those of us on restricted diets for sake of BF DC.

[trixymalixy]

I keep seeing other support threads on MN and know that there are others in the same boat as me who are breastfeeding allergic children and have had to restrict their diet in some way.I thought we should have our own thread to have a moan and commiserate and share tips.

I'm currently cutting out egg and dairy for the sake of my DD.

The things I'm missing most are:
cheese toasties
baileys
proper butter on toast
milk in my tea

On the plus side I made some amazing rocky road with Tesco value digestives, pure spread, marshmallows and half soya, half dark chocolate adapted from a Nigella recipe that I could totally recommend.

Please come and moan with me!!

Did this for about 7 months (though was a bit lapse at times) for ds, well gave up dairy.
I really missed cheese to in all guises as I am a cheese fiend & of course milk for a tea. Swapped to coffee as oat milk was then bearable.
I quite liked soya chocolate pudding with crumbled up digestive & chopped banana for that sweet fix treat (well every night).
Hope you can return to your normal diet soon. My sympathies are with you, I hated it & felt very hard done by!

Oh, it's sooooooo hard, but on the plus side after 20 months of a restricted diet with my DD I was extremely healthy and THIN! Piled it all back on as soon as I stopped BF though! Gorged myself silly on pizza, icecream, biscuits and cheap chocolate.mmmm.

Currently pregnant with DC2 and am counting on an enforced diet to shift my excessive bulk!

I did this for a few months with each of my DCs and I do commiserate!
The second time around I used to have sheep cheese instead of cow's, and that made a big difference. Hummus was also a big hit, and plenty of home made cakes using dairy free margarine (and you can get egg replacer from a health food shop). Flapjacks are nice and filling too!

oh yes, good idea.

I am excluding milk, eggs and soya (90% of milk allergic children are soya allergic too, although allegedly all 3 proteins are too large to transfer to mother's milk-I think many would find otherwise!)

I miss, ooh, well everything. Hot chocolate, marmite and butter on toast. Pesto and pasta.

and to add insult to injury, I'm not even llosing weight

Fab idea! I'm excluding dairy for my ten month old DS2, who was diagnosed as cows milk protein intolerent two weeks ago. As I'm veggie, it means I'm now an egg-eating vegan lol.

My favorite foods are/were pizza, skinny lattes, cheese, dairy milk, cheesecake, custard ... so I'm pretty much missing everything. Although it has been easier than I expected (and I've just discovered that bourbon biscuits are df, hurrah!!). And I'm losing weight

Oooh, just what I need. I'm just coming through withdrawl from dairy, soy & gluten and beginning to feel a bit better about things. But it's so hard still, even second time round for me! My BF appetite is cavernous, so I gorge on rice cakes and ready salted crisps.

I really miss decaf lattes, mince pies (at the time!), ice cream, croissants and pasta bake with cream of tomato soup and creme fraiche.

BTW after eights are dairy free too! I'm avoiding all chocolate too though as in early days DD2 had more of a reaction to it than ordinary dairy . With DD1 I'd eat entire packets of bourbons at a sitting until we worked out the gluten thing.

Me too! I'm egg and dairy free. Milk chocolate the hardest for me but I find chocolate oatly good for the chocolate hit! I love the sound of your Rocky Road Trixy!

at all of those who are losing weight!!

I'm obsessive in my quest for the perfect egg and dairy free cake so end up eating loads of the rejects!!

Notanexcitingname, I make a good hot chocolate with Oatly and lindt chocolate melted in the microwave.

I slipped up yesterday and had some mozarella and DD has been really shrieky all day, feel bad.

I think I should make that was losing weight - my mother bought me a catering pack of flying saucer sweets to cheer me up on Saturday, and they are now all nearly gone

I tried making DS2 custard last night using neocate. OMG it was vile.
I'm struggling a bit with recipes - what do you do when a recipe includes cheese? Leave it out or use something else milk-esq to try to make it creamy? DS loved stuff like tuna and tomato pasta sauce with cream cheese, and I'm still trying to work out what substitutes to use.

Cake, there's a good soya cream cheese substitute by Tofutti that you can get in most health food shops.

I tend to use the Oatly cream substitute in pasta sauces or make a white sauce using Oatly milk and sometimese add the powdered cheese replacer stuff (chedareese?) that you can get in tesco.

You can get vegan cheese as well, but it's vile.

Oh and custard is nicest made with Oaty milk IMO.

Hi there, I'm new to all this as DD had no problems with what I ate. However DS aged 5 months had lots of digestive issues and when I gave up dairy they improved lots.

I miss natural live yoghurt and parmesan on pasta, mainly. I find oat and rice milk on cereal quite nice and the Pure sunflower spread is ok.

I miss real-butter biscuits and scones though - things like cheese scones and shortbread, with a real buttery flavour - yum!

I should probably start a thread on the allergy page as DS now has eczema and I don't know how best to tackle it. Especially as although he's exclusively bf now, I was hoping to start BLW in a month's time.

Look up the cookbook by Harry Eastwood as well, if you're particularly missing sweet things. She makes all kinds of cakes and yummies, but has replaced egg, diary, flour (and a lot of sugar) with vegetables and nuts. It works strangely well!
In our household we actually have a nut allergy as well, so we just leave them out but they still taste good.

DAiry and soya - free here .. (and don't eat eggs but will have stuff with egg as ingredient, eg cake)..

Have been for 17 months, and then 6 months (with ds's 1 and 2)..

I reeeeaaalllly miss:
cappuccinos
normal chocolate
cheeeeeeeeese (toasties, pizza, mozarella...)
ice cream
Alpro soya yoghurts
...

yes, I make hot chocolate with Oatly, but that's about it.
And why don't any cafes have oat milk???

oh, and ds1 is allergic to egg, so have to make everything without egg anyway.

chocolate oatly is v good though

Which shops sell oatly cream? I'm found oatly milk, but I've tried the local Sainsburys, Tesco and Asda and can't find it anywhere. Is it with the 'free from' selection, or the UHT milk, or the fresh dairy? DS2 can't have soya either, I'm being allowed to have some soya but not too much so I'm trying not to start buying soya cheese etc unless I really start missing cheese.

Tesco is the only place I have found that sells Oatly cream. They put it in the UHT milk section, but only in big ones.

I agree naturopath, plenty of coffee shops have soya milk (vomit), but nowhere has cottoned on to oat milk, which is soooo much nicer!

I was dairy and egg free for nearly 2 years with DS and have been for 6 months now with DD. She is being allergy tested on Monday, but I'm fairly sure she is allergic as well, from the way she is when I slip up.

I generally am managing to substitute fairly well for everything, but it's the cheese that I miss most.

Lovely melting cheddar cheese toasties, divine port and stilton sauce with fillet steak, aubergine parmagiana, mmmmm, drooool!!!

Holland and barret for oatly cream...

Can I join in ?

Currently sat gorging myself on toast with real butter and golden syrup [yum]

I'm about to restart my elimination diet after falling off the wagon a couple of weeks ago. So just indulging today and then back on the wagon. This thread has been the kick up the jacksy that I needed

I miss ALL of the ones already described, plus dairy milk in a big way and toast toast toast...

Good luck Trixy with your dd's allergy testing. Let us know how you get on. Fingers crossed she's not
My second dd turned out to be allergic (more so than dd1) and actually its not too bad, so much less of a shock than with dd1.
By the way are your specialists/ GPs/dieticians advising you exclude allergens?

I've just reread the thread- Bourbon biscuits are daiary free cake? Right I'm getting my coat on to go get some now!!

I developed severe dairy allergy in 6th week of pregnancy and am a huge cheese,butter and cream fiend. Thought my diet would become mundane. Alpro soya desserts are great for quick fix, also 'nak'd' range of fruit and nut bars (see the website) also made choc brownies with bananas. Bendicks bitter mints, Bitter orange, bitter ginger all dairy free chocs. Ate a box a day when breast feeding completely. Have only recently been able to tolerate a small amount of dairy, 4 months after birth. Antoinette Saville's new cook book (bright green cover) very good except I substitute gluten free flour for ordinary flour.

Ice cream from Swedish Glace now my family prefer it to organic dairy!