dairy and gluten free cooking

[amyce]

Hi
My HV has passed on some recommendations from the local hospital dietician about food for babies with eczema and these include delaying gluten until babies are 8 months and delaying dairy for one year. The theory is that by delaying potentially allergenic foods the baby's gut has more time to mature and hopefully sensitivities can be avoided.
My son is 6 months and has eczema (not dreadful but not good) and has soya formula (Wysoy) prescribed. Has anyone got any thoughts about delaying certain foods? Also, has anyone tried cooking with soya formula - maybe tried to poach a chicken breast in it or something? Can you freeze it as part of a recipe? Does anyone know how to thicken a white sauce without flour?
It's as if weaning wasn't complicated enough! Thanks

you can use corn flour (no gluten) for sauces. you should be able to get gluten free info from celeac (sp?) society

sure others have more info

I weaned my daughter with Wysoy and she still continues to have this as her "milk", with regards to freezing it-I used it in most recipes that had milk in and never found any problems-neither did dd(from being a small weenie premmie babe by the age of 1not taking off the 7 weeks prematurity she was above the average for weight and continues to be a big girl)
I weaned her slowly starting with carrots etc and then fruit and to this day she eats all fruit and veg without batting an eyelid which of course I am very pleased about due to the difficulties with diet that could come about

Yep ds1 is gluten free- white sauce can be made using corflour. I'll dig out the recipe tomorrow (think its 4 tablespoons to half pint but I'll check)

white sauce recipe

2 tbs cornflour
1/2 pint soya or rice milk
1 tbsp dairy free margarine

Mix cornflour with 4 tbsp of milk

bring remaining milk to the boil

add cornflour paste stirring
bring back to the oil

add marg.

DS1 has been gluten free for almost 2 years now, ds2 (now 16 months) has always been gluten free. So if you need any further specific tips please ask. Most of the books I have are for a gluten/casein free diet so most recpies are milk free as well.

Have yuo come across Barbara's kitchen? She has a website. She supplies gluten free flour, xanthan gum and has a few recipes as well (lots of bread recipes). She's worth talking to- you should findher site on a search engine.

Hi there

Did the HV mention goats milk? Full fat stuff is a good alternative for dairy allergies - it's supposed to be closer to human milk and easier to digest.

With a vegan hubby we use soya substitutes all the time for cooking, no problems really. (just don't put it in coffee - not likely for ds!)

And for future reference, SoGood soya drink is ok for over 12 months and my ds loves it.

Thanks everyone. I'll try the cornflour recipe!

by the way amyce, you can get rice flour (very fine) and potato flour as well - and the potato flour comes out alright in baking if you want to try it in making muffins or biscuits or something.
also keep a good eye on your baby's teeth (if he has any yet) since wysoy is basically sugar - need to be pretty vigilant about brushing, I'd think about fluoride drops if it isn't added to the water in your area and if you don't feel that the soya is helping sort out the eczema I'd think about going back onto dairy.
by the way goats milk made my daughters eczema much worse - varies from child to child obviously