What can I feed DD (10 months old, vegetarian, avoiding cow's milk)

[nickeldaisical]

please help :)

DD is quite happy to shovel food into her own mouth.

she's got eczema and although she hasn't been advised to avoid cow's milk, we figured it wouldn't hurt.

God, I miss milk chocolate. :(

she's still BF.

I'm rather stuck for food ideas, really. We made some goat's cheese biscuits and she likes cream crackers.
she doesn't seem to care much about toast, but anything biscuit textured she devours.
she likes broccoli and other veg - doesn't seem to care if it's cooked or not
she also loves apples. but doesn't like cooked courgettes.

I'm just running out of ideas, really. Because I work, we end up eating breakfast at the shop, and it seems to always be cream crackers (dry because she won't eat it with spread on it), and I'm worried she's not getting a proper balanced diet.

examples of typical days:
milk feed before waking, cream cracker for breakfast, apple mid morning, water, goat's cheese biscuit, goat's cheese on toast for lunch, then only milk till tea time. (she'll have carrot or broccoli as a snack too)
when she's hungry she'll choose milk first, but then she falls to sleep.
tea-time she'll have generally what we have, just small bits of it (last night it was pizza, about 2/3 slice in total, the other night it was a mild curry, so quite a few chunks of veg and potato)

what else could I think of for daytime?
tia :)

[Downbytheocean]

Ooops think that should be moreish

[nickeldaisical]

i was going to say, poor tina !
i love the idea if adding lentils and sweetcorn to pancake batter and using buck wheat flour with normal flour too.

[JollyJackOLantern]

I haven't read the whole thread, but do you have longsleeved bibs? We got some of these from amazon. Gets out of the banana on clothes issue :)

Also, have you asked on the Baby led weaning forums? They have a huuuge list of recipes and I'm sure there must be other veggie, milk free children :)

[nickeldaisical]

bloody autocorrect, eh!
dh has made sweetcorn fritters before. so that's also good.

we have just eaten a homemade soup.
we used pumpkin as the base and added potato, pine nuts, onion, red kidney beans, lentils , carrots, marmite and assorted spices (instead of using shop-bought stock)
whizzed it up in the blender and served with bread and butter
dd really lapped it up- i did use a spoon, but she also grabbed it and was sucking it to death! i kept loading it for her and also dipped some of the bread. she ate quite a bit of that and we've frozen loads.
all ideas of protein etc from here. :)

[JollyJackOLantern]

Oh, and DS was managing a spoon fairly confidently about 12 or 13 months so there's not long to go before she'll have it sussed.

[nickeldaisical]

we didn't have any when the banana incident occurred but we do now

thanks will look at blw forums- didn't expect to be lost for ideas but it's the non-dairy protein thing that threw me!

[nickeldaisical]

she made me laugh cos she grabbed it and started eating from it- hit and miss because it was upside down and then handle end in! but she managed okay with a bit of guidance!

[JollyJackOLantern]

I think DS was about 10 months when we started making sure we gave him cutlery at every meal. He didn't do much with it to begin with but he usually did pick it up at some point during the meal and slowly got better.

[golemmings]

We were going to do blw but not cooking meat myself combined with no dairy/soy meant we gave up. As a veggie most of my food is so sloppy I rarely use a knife so its pretty lousy for blw.

[NorksAreMessy]

Am I the only one to be astonished that little baby E, whose birth we followed through THREE threads is now 10 months old?
And she can read and everything!

[JollyJackOLantern]

I was surprised by that too, Norks. I kept having to go back and check.

[Merinda]

Just wanted to add on buckwheat - Dove's farm that make lots of fre-from flours have great buckwheat pancake recipes on their website. They are lovely.


And as for milk chocolate, there are quite a few dairy-free chocolates on the market, Booja-Booja is fantastic, MooFree is another great one. Ocado and Waitrose have them for sure.
(Bessant and Drury make fantastic dairy-free ice-cream by the way)

[LadyWidmerpool]

Has anyone suggested falafel?

[Rollersara]

Am impressed with the variety already, DP and I are veggie and most of what we (and therefore DD) have is fairly liquidy!

According to MIL, if you get banana on clothing, wash straight away then they don't stain! DD has banana just before I plan to put a wash on and no black stains yet! Although just about every other colour

[Woodifer]

2nd peachtown

expressed milk/ soya formula on cereal (mini shredded wheats/ weetabix/ reddibrek/ porridge)

avoiding cows milk/cheese has quite an impact on vege diet - are you certain about excema link?

rice cakes (mini or briken big ones) with smooth peanut butter

hummous on rice cakes/ breadsticks/ cucumber

egg! egg! egg! - omelette (cooled and cut into strips, similarly (same thing!) frittata with veges in) - you could make evening before - and serve cold strips for brekkie.

proteins = lentils/ beans/ pulses

Dal is fab (my DD loves red lentil)

reduced salt baked beans (on toast)

[TwelveLeggedWalk]

We think Ds is lactose intolerant (reflux not eczema) and have had great success weaning with the Lacto Free range - they do hard and soft cheeses, yoghurts and cream (and milk but you don't need that). He has it in everything - pasta, mash etc

Avocado and humous sandwiches a hit here, as was Annabel karmel lentil thing. Can you earmark evenings/days out of the shop for super nutritious messy food meals?

[nickeldaisical]

she likes cutlery - she plays with it.
usually our cutlery - she has a habit of grabbing our forks and knives at the business end when we're not looking [sigh] and then grips her hand round them so tightly it's more dangerous to get them off her.

noted about banana.

will try to make some falafel.

will be looking for free chocolate. i gave up chocolate once for lent and switched to caramel coated blackfriars flapjacks.


she had the spinach and cheese muffin for breakfast, a bit of egg white (hardboiled egg leftover) and an apple just now.
she's sleeping after a BF.

lunch will be a sandwich. haven't decided on topping yet.

[nickeldaisical]

twelve - yes, probable will - the soup thing wasn't too bad last night, and of course, we can bath her and put her straight in jammies after :)

[jkklpu]

Can you get to the shop 10 minutes earlier and give her porridge/ready (with goat's milk) plus banana/stewed apple/stewed pear/blueberries, or something?

[nickeldaisical]

ooh, found this!

jkkplu - i've been trying to give her her breakfast in the morning before we leave - while i'm dressing (so i can watch her) but before i dress her.
mmm, like the idea or stewed fruit in porridge - i could use that as the sauce instead of milk, i think :)

[nickeldaisical]

she's just having shredded wheat soaked in goat's milk and broccoli

[SamSmalaidh]

Where does this idea come from that babies/toddlers need dairy products? If the child is getting human milk then she isn't going to waste away without animal milk

Quesadillas are really good, hot or cold, and you can put anything in them. Easy for little hands to hold.

[nickeldaisical]

thank you Sam - i agree. It's the protein thing, but of course, animal based protein is coming from me, it's the non-animal protein we're potentially lacking

[soaccidentprone]

DS2 is the same as your DD (but DS2 is 10). He has always been veggie, and is ridiculously healthy. He normally gets a 100% attendance certificate every term, so just ignore everyone who says babies need meat or fish . Milk and milk products makes his eczema flare up which he scratches in his sleep. he already has scars on his arms from the scratching.

He normally has cereal and a banana for breakfast and pineapple or apple juice (not from concentrate). If he's at breakfast club he has toasted teacakes with jam (no spread) and some juice.

For lunch he has a homemade bread sandwich, usually with Granose vegetable pate, egg mayonnaise or houmous. Salad ie pepper and carrot sticks, then some dried fruit and a couple of bourbon biscuits. He normally drinks water at school.

For tea we normally have pasta and sauce (made with quorn mince or chunks), veggie chilli (DS2 has the chilli without the chilli powder - he has a very sensitive mouth), Linda McCartney sausages with potato wedges and veg or lentil shepherds pie.

Weekends is normally home made soup, or scrambled eggs etc.

Here's a list of foods which I find useful:

Lidl sell pressed apple juice

Teacakes or fruited bread
Vitalite
Peanut butter (when your dd is older)
Cashew butter
Yeast extract
Dried fruit - sultanas, apple and banana
Tinned beans - baked and chick peas etc

Asda sell really nice dark chocolate spread which is dairy free

Aldi sometimes sell Granose vegetable or mushroom pate. They have also started selling Blackfriars flapjack at 49p (bargain) which is vegan.

Toast fingers, maybe with veast extract or jam might be more appealing to your DD as she will be able to put it in her mouth as one rather than having to try and fit a slice in her mouth. Also breadsticks are really good for dipping in huomous. And yorkshire puddings made with soya or oat milk are scrummy.

i read somewhere that children need to keep trying the same things when if they first reject them, as their tastebuds change as they get older.

This is all making me feel very hungry.

Hope this helps

[SamSmalaidh]

Generally we have far too much animal protein in our diets anyway. I seem to remember under 3s need .55g of protein per lb bodyweight per day - so assuming your DD is 20lbs that's only 11g of protein a day. 100g of baked beans is about 5g protein.