Dairy AND soya free - help!

[Honeymoonmummy]

I have various health issues, mainly due to/ following the birth of my DD 6 months ago, including achiness, constipation and PND.

I have just been for an acupuncture session out of desperation and she has asked me to cut out dairy, soya, spicy food and garlic from my diet. She said everything should be organic/ fresh/ no processed ingredients where possible (eg Hellmans mayo is out even though it's DF), she's suggested olive oil on toast/ jacket potatoes and that I have porridge every day. I know I can have rice milk but does anyone have any suggestions please as to what I can eat?

I'm BFing so need to keep the calories up. I've already been DF for 2 months to help my daughters reflux but I've been using soya products A LOT. I was veggie but I started eating fish when I became pregnant and still do. Oh and I'm not keen on most vegetables, especially bell peppers/ courgettes/ aubergines. I lived on quorn but that's out for the same reason as the mayo.

I don't get time to do much cooking/ baking as DD is pretty high-maintenance.
Anyone got any ideas??

i was too for ages, but not veggie.

mash potato, rice, oatly oat milk. oven chips, anchovy and brocoli pasta, soups,
fish fingers,

houmous, baked beans, omelettes

I have a document I wrote for a friend about feeding their toddler dairy and soya free food, CAT me if you would like me to send it. I was breastfeeding ds1 when we realised he had cow's milk and soya intolerances so I cut out everything myself. Like you, we had made the mistake of eating quite a lot of soya to replace dairy products. Unfortunately I think that contributed to his soya sensitivity.

I am surprised that you say you used to be vegetarian but don't like many vegetables, though. Might not that be the source of your constipation instead of anything more complicated?

Also, I do sympathise as ds2 had severe reflux so I know how draining it is. But I did end up making most of my food from scratch.

I hope the list is of some help anyway

Oatly milk and cream is quite good. I have made lovely potato and root veg gratin with the oat cream, the recipe is on their website www.oatly.com

Butternut squash risotto is delicious and easy and you can roast the buternut squash with lots of olive oil if you want to keep up the calories.

It's lovely if you grill avocadoes on toast for lunch and it's quick and easy.

I always make a huge pot of soup and freeze in portions for a quick and easy lunch.

Thanks guys. Anyone else?

Sorry Mummypig, I didn't read the messages last night before I bumped! I don't use the CAT but could you please send it to evs 71 @ bt internet dot com? Many thanks!

Trixy, I got some oat milk last night, it's quite nice isn't it, thanks!

Hello HMM!

There Yotam Ottolenghi does quite a few veggie dishes with grains and seeds. I reckon they'd be the sort of thing you could do for dinner, then have for lunch the next day (I find lunch a challenge with a baby and end up relying on toast far too often)

Here

and here

You might need to scroll through to find ones that don't have feta or yoghurt.

There are a lot of vegan recipes here. Many are also soya-free.

when I was BF I had soup (tomato/onion/mixed orange veg/chunky veg/mushroom)and salad (bag salad+tuna/egg/chicken slices) for lunch every day. For snacks you can have rice cakes and fruit. I made huge batches and froze them in sandwich bags for each day. I also used this for weaning food for DS. For dinner you could have salmon with baked potato and beans/broccoli/baby carrots, salmon stirfry, tuna cutlets and rice with salad. veg spag bol (sauce-tomato, cauliflour, carrots, sweet potato, mushrooms etc) make big batches and freeze, good luck!

Have e-mailed you but it's a Yahoo! address so you might want to check your spam folder. (my dp says my messages are always filtered out as spam).

Thanks Mummypig, that's really useful. Our email hasn't been working so I've just picked it up.

Aubergenie/ Naomi, thanks!