Breakfast, need some non-dairy suggestions.

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My DD loves Greek Yogurt but it gives her the most awful wind so I'm trying to find something to give her instead. She's only 7 months and not quite into finger foods yet.

I've tried porridge, fruit puree, rice pudding, weetibix, scrambled egg, all rejected.

Any ideas?

You have my sympathies. My ds also has terrible and whiffy wind after dairy of any kind.

Provamel make a soya yogurt, which is OK. It's not as nice as greek yogurt but with some honey or some fruit pureed in, banana, if she likes it, can work well.

anything you would normally give at another meal would be fine IMO

eg. cheese sandwich more or less nutritionally equivalent to weetabix and milk, they both contain wheat and dairy

she may not be hungry for a meal in the morning? 3 meals a day at 7 mo is quite a lot, just offer stuff and if she doesn't like it, she will fill up on milk. Milk is still the best thing for her and should provide most of her nutrients until she is at least 1 yo

mine both ate dry cereal

babies normally love it because they can try and pick it up themselves

quite a lot of added stuff including sugar and thickeners in provamel yogurt, I wouldn't give it to a baby

DS wouldn't eat breakfast at all until he was about 9 months. I do agree she might just not be hungry at that time. I would leave it and try again in a month or so.

Yeah, breakfast is quite a new one for us, so I'm not too bothered if she misses it. I think I must have powerful morning milk as she does'nt start looking for food till around 9.30 (bf at 5.30am).

I don't know if I can give her soya as she's under 1 and I seem to remember being told she couldn't digest it, maybe I'm wrong there, I can't remember.

I wouldn't have thought the plain provamel has sugar in it Franny.

No you're right spider

it has got rice syrup and salt however, I think there could be a better alternative

Well, I would try her on a small amount of plain soya with added fruit like mashed banana, and see how it goes. Mine had no probs on it from 6 months, and they produce soya formula for lactose intolerant babies, so it must be approved!

alpro soya yogurt is really crammed with fruit

we still use farleys rusks with warm water to soften them to runny-ish texture

squashed up banana

we make porridge with goats milk instead of cows. babies can have pasteurised full fat goats milk at 1yr, mine all did.

have even found 'honey hoops' cereal in supermarket which they love, call it "honey sweeties" and eat it dry out of the dish - they would have it straight from the box if given chance
This stuff would go soggy enough for LO if it had goat milk or water on!

sorry to bang on about this but Alpro is also very processed and lots of added stuff:

Water, Fruits (11%) {Strawberry (6%), banana (5%)}, Hulled soya beans (7.6%), Sugar, Fructose-glucose syrup, Tapioca syrup, Modified maize starch, Fruit and plant concentrate, Tri-calcium phosphate, Stabilisers: Pectin and Agar, Flavouring, Acidity regulator: Citric acid, Sea salt, Selected cultures: Bifidobacterium, S.thermophilus and L.bulgaricus, Vitamins: Vitamin C and Riboflavin

I think they are fine for older children but would steer clear of things with so many added ingredients for a very small baby as we are discussing here. A banana and a breastfeed would be a great breakfast for a baby - you don't need to be giving proper 'meals' and 'breakfast foods' at this age, at all

Thanks.

I agree there's too many ingredients for my dd at 7 months, maybe she can try it when she's a bit older. I guess it would be the closest thing to Greek Yogurt though, which she loves so much.

Franny, she does love banana, but it makes her constipated, can only give it once every three days.Otherwise she starts crossing her eyes to poo.

This morning I made a big fruit smoothie for myself and we shared it. She only had a tiny bit but I guess it's the taste that matter.

oh poor thing with bananas! How about rice pudding made with whatever milk she can tolerate? If you bake it slowly with some vanilla it is lovely and sweet. Can add raisins when they are ready for raisins

Thats sounds good, quite funny making rice pub with breast milk

I meant pud, not pub........oh dear, dreaming of the pub again.