Recipes with ready brek

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I'm trying to get my DD (12 months) to have 25g of ready brek (for the calcium - she has multiple allergies)

She's refusing straight porridge. Any ideas on making them into some type of finger food?

Have you tried making some porridge fingers? She may eat those.

Is calcium a particular concern? Have you tried her with smooth almond butter, tinned sardines on toast, tinned salmon made into fish cakes or just a sandwich? Does eat green veg like broccolli?

Which milk does she have?

My dd was a terrible eater at that age but she liked the fruit puree pots so I used to mix it half ready break, half fruit puree and she always wolfed it down.

Mix with fruit puree for flavour.

Or make with less liquid than normal, and spread onto a plate in quite a thick layer, and allow to cool. Cut into fingers. Can be dipped in yoghurt, but I guess that is out?, can be dipped in runny stuff!

Or got to say that I always mixed ours with fruit purée, or a chopped banana or raisin or berries. Lots of lovely fruit around to choose from at this time of year

Thanks! Ill give those ideas a try.

She is on koko for cereal but still BF. she doesn't seem to tolerate fish.

Erm if she's bf, why are you worrying about her calcium intake?

According to kellymom bfing will provide her with 36% of her daily calcium requirements.

If she doesn't like fish, 50/50 bread is DF and has good calcium content, as does the almond butter and the green veg

We are dairy, soya, egg, wheat, nuts and fish free! Hence the worry about getting enough calcium in her

That's a lot to avoid OP, must be tough getting a balanced diet. We were egg and nut free and that was tricky enough.

You can make oat cakes using it. They're really easy & I think dairy free if you use olive oil. I made them to use a a box that wasn't getting eaten. They were lovely!

Smiling, thanks! Do you have the recipe?

I'm trying cookies today with banana and dates. I hope she takes to them.

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/oatcakes_74180

Oops, sorry!!

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/oatcakes_74180

I've just realised it uses flour though, can you get wheat free flour?

DS was thought to be lactose intolerant when he was about 18 months, although we later found out it was something else. I seem to remember dried figs apparently being high in calcium & also cannellini beans which you can use to make hummus. DS still loves the hummus now!

Meant to say in the recipe I replace the lard with olive oil & I left out the salt as well.

That is a lot to avoid. Yes, dried figs are high in calcium. Hadn't heard about the beans myself. Will go and look that up so that I can add them to my limited diet

Thanks Smiling!

Do you mind if I ask why you thought it was lactose intolerance? I ask because I suspect my DD might be too, though she has CMPA too.

DS was still BFing until he was about 18 months and once we stopped he had really horrible diarrhoea (tmi!). When I took him to the doctor they said lactose intolerance so we went dairy free. It just got worse though, although he eczema completely cleared up.

When we saw a nutritionist she suggested 'non specific toddler diarrhoea'. Which basically boils down to an immature digestive system. Being dairy free had made it worse as it meant he was getting too much fibre & not enough fat in his diet. He still suffers a bit now at 3 if we don't watch how much fruit & veg (as if!) he's eating.

It sounds as if you might be having other issues that we weren't though if you're having to cut out wheat & soya.