Too much fruit for dairy free 14 nth old

[helsbels03]

Help, my ds 14 mths old and is dairy intolerant and I am running out of ideas for snacks. He is a very good eater, weetabix and banana or orange for breakfast, usually sandwich, cucumber etc picnic type lunch then a meat and 2 veg dinner- which he wolves down.
However he also snacks in between meals on fruit, my mil thinks he has too much fruit and that is causing runny nappies rather than dairy intolerance so I have agreed a trial of less fruit . (hopefully it will make no difference and she will agree with dr that he is dairy intolerant and it is nothing to do with blw that she also had some issues with!) but I can't think of anything else to give him!!!! All suggestions welcome even obvious ones!!!!!

Rice cakes, bread sticks, crumpets, hummus and veg sticks, cherry tomatoes, peanut butter on toast.

HTH

Thanks for the ideas will be adding to my shopping list

Google "toddler diarrhoea" - I had this problem - it is too much fibre and not enough fat.. Best of luck

How about a few plain biscuits, scones or things on toast? Your MIL probably has a point.

BLW - no problem
dairy intolerance - fair enough
MIL's opinion - there to be disregarded as necessary - however she probably does have a point about too much fruit contributing to the runny nappies.

Cheese sticks to accompany carrot sticks or apples might help as well as the other suggestions.

Ignore that!! Can't believe I even wrote cheese sticks after the dairy intolerance bit!! Unless you can get dairy free cheese, that is - there are some vegan cheeses around I think. [bublush][bublush]

Phew! Found some vegan cheese... www.buteisland.com/a_suppliers.htm

If it's lactose intolerance rather than cows milk protein allergy then LactoFree cheese and ice-cream are fantastic. The company have an app to help you locate stockists and it lists which products they have. Also we have made lacto free biscuits for odd special treats and even to our DDs joy at 3 now found Moo Free "milk" chocolate eggs!!!!!! Dairy free if it's lactose hardly impacts us now thanks to free from aisles. We panicked when the runs came back but it was too much fibre and fruit (sorry).

can he eat eggs? how about some chopped up hard boiled egg

Thanks all for ideas have been searching dairy free cheese etc and found a local stockist. Not sure about the lacto free milk tho as we tried him on their full fat milk and it you'd not agree with him at all. Dr says to keep him totally dairy free as not sure if it is lactose or protein. He goes back end of April so we shall see

It's a good indicator it isn't lactose or isn't just lactose. That's tougher but the free from stuff even when no labelled as such is often dairy free. Good luck.

Can he have soya??

You can get yogurts made with soya milk.

Otherwise you can buy yogurts called "wot no dairy" which are made with pea protein.

DD likes the peach/apricot one

As tanterose said if he can eat eggs, perhaps a pancake omlette, i cook one egg, whisk it up like you would for an omlette, then pop into frying pan with a little butter and cheese and then cook like a pancake, i.e. Leave it until it becomes round and flip it over to cook the other side, i then cut into strips for my ds, very popular, but just realised the cheese wont be possible for you.

simpson where do you buy your yoghurts please? DD cannot tolerate dairy or soya and has recently gone off goats yoghurts too, so i am on the lookout for an alternative? thanks

sorry to hijack your post OP - for snacks we stick to fruit too, also raisins, rice cakes, organix biscuits, (sometimes rich tea if daddy's about!), have also started making cakes with pure sunflower spread and muffins with sunflower oil just so she can have same snacks as her brother, without feeling left out. crumpets and tea cakes nice for a change too but some contain milk so read the label first!

We are on oat milk at the moment.

Soya milk makes DS2 react.
Almond gave him the runs
Rice he refuses point blank.

Do speak to a dietician/ consultant about what milk as it varies on ages/medical circumstances.

Oat biscuits, flap jacks, bananas good for bulking out poo

Ham or other cold meat?

shelley - they sell them in holland & barrett. They are quite new I think. DD only likes the orange ones.

thank you, i will have a look next time i'm in town - will be nice for her to have something different for a change!

sometimes they are kept in the fridge section. I think they are about 70p each. Only sold individually iyswim.

They do recipes on the net for dairy free flapjacks, you could up the amount of seeds used and just use a bit of fruit.

I eat loads of fruit (thank you reduced section) and have never had a bad tummy from it because you get used to it.

I found lots of flapjacks etc made the diarrhoea worse for my DC (he is on a dairy-free diet).

See this www.patient.co.uk/health/Toddler's-Diarrhoea.htm

From trial and error, I have found it is important to compensate for the fat missing in the dairy you would normally have in milk/yoghurt/cheese. I would suggest oily fish/avocado/puddings cooked with "pure margarine" (eg crumble)/meals with olive oil in them/coconut oil

I have recently discovered my dc can tolerate sheeps cheese/yoghurt and buffalo - it might be worth you testing this out as it does make life easier! Best of luck

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