No egg no milk food ideas for a 12 month old

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I need ideas on what I can feed my 12 month old child. Long story (health related, I'm not just deliberately looking to omit these foods) but for now she can't have cows milk or products containing cows milk, or eggs (but dishes with eggs baked in are fine).

She also won't eat with a spoon.
She refuses all fruit although I offer it often.
She refuses all meat except if it's in bolognaise.
She loves vegetables, bread and pasta.

Breakfast - toast (will only eat it with butter on, and I've tried avocado, jam, banana on toast, all refused multiple times. I could get some
Milk free butter? but what else can she have other than toast? Porridge made with water?
Lunch - pasta in tomato and basil sauce? Today she just had mashed potato and carrots.
Dinner - vegetables? Tonight she had penne with a bolognaise sauce and some broccoli and cauliflower but what else could she have?

Help me!!!

Have you tried her with fish? Fish pie (with a dairy free white sauce) would be soft and easy to swallow.

Have you tried sandwiches? Something "sticky" like tuna mayo?

What about veggies or breadsticks dipped in houmous for lunch?

Have you tried her with cereal from the Free From section ? Make it with oat milk, dairy-free formula or other dairy free milk?

What about a dairy free pizza?

Breakfast - could she have cereal with a milk alternative such as oat milk or soya milk? Cereals she could have could be weetabix, cornflakes, rice krispies, shreddies
Crumpets?
Natural alpro soya yogurt

Lunch - sausages (maybe not so 'meat' like) & mash made with dairy free milk and butter
Jacket potato and beans
Dairy free cheese spread on sandwiches
Cream crackers
Houmous and breadsticks

Dinner - fish, potatoes, rice?

Speaking from experience of fussy children I have found offer what toy want to give them, if they don't want it don't give anything else until they have had the original thing you made them, and only do small portions so it doesn't look overwhelming to them

Thanks, these are great ideas. I'm clearly having a mental block.

She has special formula so i could use that as a milk sub in some things I suppose.

Keep them coming, I appreciate it!

Same allergies here with my twins

Breakfast is generally cereal with oat milk (weetabix is very filling).

Snacks generally breadsticks, fruit, rice cakes

Lunch is either sandwiches, crumpets, Pitta bread and hummus, crackers etc with vitalite or other dairy free spread plus some fruit / veg

Dinner varies - one is in a fussy phase right now and doesn’t seem to like any carbs, or any protein in its natural form! I make home made tomato and veg sauce which they love with gnocchi but they won’t eat pasta, they’ve gone off potato, sometimes they’ll eat sweet potato. Grr.

They’ll only eat meat / fish that’s processed - so pate in sandwiches, beef mince (meatballs mainly), things like fish fingers and chicken Goujons. It’s awful but I just get whatever I can into them.

Ive been really lucky that my boys have always liked fruit and most veg, and their new post 2 fussiness has not extended to those things. They are both autistic which makes it more difficult.

I’ve now taken to putting a little bit of a new food on their plate along with the things they do like and then ignoring it. Often they’ll try it after seeing it multiple times but there’s no stress or forcing them.

I also started giving them soy yoghurts recently which they love.

One question - are you giving nuts at all? I’m anaphylactic to nuts and sesame and after the scary egg reaction from one of them I stopped giving them these things a long time ago. Finally saw an allergy nurse for testing recently and she said that not giving them nuts when they’re not allergic could really increase their chances of developing an allergy so I’ve bought three but butters and been told they need to have them a few times a week. 😳

Honestly, the hydrolysed formula is grim - oat milk is so much nicer, shouldn’t replace the formula until they’re 2 but it’s great for cereal, cooking etc.

The only thing they don’t have is dairy free cheese as they think it’s gross. Can’t say I blame them!

Soy milk in moderation (1 to 2 cups a day) is a usually good alternative and is suitable for children aged 12months +. However approx 40% of people who are intolerant to cow’s milk are also intolerant to soy milk. It’s worth a try though
Make sure your her diet contains other calcium-rich (or calcium-fortified) foods because soy milk isn’t enough on its own. Also, because soy milk is made from plants, it doesn't have any vitamin B12 which is found only in animal foods (including cow's milk). If you choose to use nut milk, get the unsweetened versions fortified with calcium and Vitamin D and make sure your her diet contains other sources of healthy fats as nut milks are very low fat.
If she likes vegetables, will she eat beans, lentils and chickpeas?
Bean burgers www.babyledfeeding.com/recipes/baby-veggie-burgers-updated-recipe-baby-led-feeding-cookbook/
Falafel www.annabelkarmel.com/recipes/cherubs-chickpea-patties/
Chickpea tagine with couscous www.organix.com/recipes/aubergine-chickpea-tagine
Chickpea or lentil curry www.organix.com/recipes/baked-sweet-potatoes-chickpea-spinach-curry
Lentil bake www.healthylittlefoodies.com/curried-lentil-bake/
What about nut butter?

You dd has dairy allergy but a bit younger....

Ready Brek and porridge made with oats milk and mix in apple puree etc. Cheerios, Weetabix and shreddies are dairy free. Peanut butter or marmite on toast (I think marmite is df - we haven't done that one yet).

Earth's Best df chicken nuggets
Earth's Best meatballs
Mac and cheese vegan or df
Tuna
Bagel and df cream cheese
Chicken slices with veg sticks
Yogurt and granola
Raisins
Bananas on toast

Just double check packaging for eggs.

I'd get a milk for cooking with that you can all have in cooking. We used Oatly, on the recommendation of the dietician. Check with yours if you have one. I believe there are more milks available now than when we were doing this.

That opens up cereal and porridge for breakfast - and if you make a thick porridge, and then spread it into a square about a cm thick, once cooled, you can cut into fingers for spoon adverse kids. My youngest still likes his cereal dry, so dont discount a handful of dry cheerios, if your not too sugar adverse. Shreddies are another one that works dry.

Have you ever tried a fruit puree with her? That is another thing that can go on cereal.

Check the milk content, but crumpets, pitta, savoury muffins, wraps are all ways to vary bread /toast.

Would she eat a vegetable risotto? Again, that can be turned into balls which is better for finger eating (Arancini - Im assuming deep fried egg coating would be ok as baked is ok - just omit the mozzarella in the middle if thats the recipie you like).

Fish is a good suggestion, as is a savoury spread for the toast - marmite or bovril?

Soup with bread to dunk in it.

Good luck- we just kept trying him with bits of our own meals rather than making stuff especially. Less demoralizing when it's all chucked on the floor!

No arancini for us - fried egg is not okay whereas small amounts of egg baked into a food is. I don’t get it either but there we are!