Ideas for diary free food nursery can feed DS?

[beakysmum]

Since I have asked DS's nursery to give him a dairy free diet (finally caved in and started it at home and boy is his excema better!!!) he always comes home starving. He often wants to eat a full dinner with DH and me at 7pm.

But then, I'm not surprised he's hungry. Today nursery tea was cheese sandwiches followed by fomage frais. He of course was given Marmite sandwiches and fruit. Not many calories in that!

So what do I suggest nursery gives him? Or am I asking nursery the impossible?

Thanks in advance

Ham, chicken, jam tarts, sponge cake, eggs, all are dairy free. Nursery are being a bit lazy and very stingy!

Why not give them a list of what you give him? They may just be unsure and are trying to play it safe.

Thanks. I think the truth is that at home I bulk him out on dinners, cereal, toast etc which are all dairy free and for his 4pm snack I do give a cake/ biscuit which has dairy in.

Nursery seem a bit dim on lots of things though, so it seems safer to give them a blanket rule of "no dairy" than confuse them by saying keep it low dairy.

I feel they are being lazy/ stingy / not thinking through the diet they are giving him, so I'm interested that others think that too. Will suggest the ham, chicken, tarts

I agree that you should not risk the no dairy/low dairy confusion but still think they are being a bit unimaginative.

You could ask them to give him Alpro soya yogurts instead of fromage frais. Alpro also do soya cream and soya custard in case they need substitutes to these too.

As for sandwiches: egg, ham, turkey roll etc etc.

Spanish omelette

Egg for protein
Potato for carbs/calories
Onion for flavour

Our little girl loved it when we were on holiday in Lanzarote, so I cooked it for the first time today. My wife was predicting disaster, but it's dead simple and came out really well.