vegan baby (due to intolerances) help!!

[iris66]

DS (8mths) has multiple food intolerances (that I'm praying he'll grow out of) but for the moment I have been advised to keep him on a vegan diet (no dairy/eggs/meat/fish) I'm waiting for a dietician appointment but wondered if anyone knew of any good books on vegan food so I can give him a more balanced diet, solids wise (he's still having about 4 bf a day but I want to reduce these) grateful for any advice

Baby and child vegetarian recipes by Carol Timperley is pretty good.

Obviously not all the recipes are vegan, but a fair few are, and if not, things like milk and butter, or cheese in recpipes can be replaced with their vegan alternatives.

blimey that was quick! thanks

I would ring the Dietitians and ask inf you can have an appointment ASAP

If he has many intolerancies it will be wise to stay away of nuts too. So careful when choosing vegan meals as many of them contain them.

DS is allergic to milk, egg, nuts, fish and soya... I will check if there are some recipes suitable for a baby in the books I have.
I'll be back in 20 min

thanks Chandra - sesame, oranges & strawberries seeds bring him out in hives & he can only do organic wheat too it's a pita but allergies and the development of them, runs strongy in the family ( i developed anaphylaxis from mosquito bites whilst living abroad) so genetically, the poor kid didn't stand a chance

oh and this might be of use...

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Here is some interesting reading material on vegan babies. Hope this helps you. It sounds as if you might have a challenge on hand!

Good Luck.

Sorry x post with the dad on here!

Is he OK with chicken?

I have found several recipes for under ones, in the weaning book of an author who can not be named (see red square at bottom of the thread, excuse the slip but it is for a good cause ).

They are:
Pick-up sticks
Mixed root medley
Corn Chowder
Thick courgette and leek soup

With chicken (in case he can have it):
Chicken Peach Casserole
Chicken with sweet peppers
Chicken & Mushroom stirfry
Chicken and vegetable oat crumble
Chicken casserole

For when he is older, there is a nice book of family meals called "Food for All, a glutten, diary, egg and nut free cookbook" by Geeta Sidhu-Rob. I got mine from Amazon.

We have a set of 20-25 recipees that DS can eat and cook in batches to freeze (so he can take a nice meal to nursery every day), we also cook the same food for all the family it is easier and has less risk of trans-contamination, and any leftovers are frozen for the "nursery meals". DS is 3 yrs old now and as long as we give him a portion of proteins and 2 vegetable/fruits per meal he is fine. Broccoli, which he eats by the ton, provides the extra calcium he needs.

Any other question please ask

P.S. In terms of feeding allergic/intolerant children, there is a lot of good practical advice in threads in the Allergies topic

great link - thankyou so much (I feel utter pleb for not doing a google on vegan now ! - blame sleep deprived brain ) the wonderful world of mumsnet....

Chandra - chicken seems to be a no no too. I put some homemade organic chicken gravy in his dinner last weekend just as a test & it exploded out of him! (understandable though as I seem to be becoming less able to digest animal too) loves lentils/peas/beans tho thankfully. Will have a mooch over on the allergy site.TY

am wondering how chicken gets round the whole 'vegan' thing? is it because its ugly?

No Twigglet, it's because it has a face.

Iris, the only thing that I would be a bit careful about the vegan thing in an atopic child is the use of soya and nuts as main sources of protein. Both are major allergens so, please thread carefully.

am avoiding nuts but do have concernes over soya (I drink soya milk & have been giving him soya yoghurt) no reactions thus far but will keep a closer eye (will also ring the dietician again tomorrow to try to hurry up his appt!)

That's good you've seen no reaction from soya, as you can use it a lot in cooking, yoghurts, spreads, in sandwiches, and swedish soft brand soya cheese is actually pretty nice.

From what the specialist told us last week, you can be a bit braver with soya, it is an allergen, but not one that they are particularly concerned about, ie would not cause the level of reaction you could get from nut allergy or dairy, egg etc - it might give some eczema but not anaphylaxis. But I'd take the dietician's advice rather than my own...

I've got "Veggie Food for Kids" by Sara Lewis and "Vegetarian Pregnancy & Baby Book" by Amanda Grant. They do include dairy, but some of the recipes will be vegan.

Things like hummus and marmite are good for sandwiches. Also anything with beans/lentils, and try to make sure he gets lots of variety in fruit and veg. One of ds's friends (age 5) is from a vegan family, and he seems to have a very restricted diet, as he doesn't eat many sorts of veg or salad. He has never tried things like hummus or felafels (until he came to our house, and then didn't like them) and seems to live on a lot of sweet carbohydrate foods, e.g. bread, jam and cakes (made with vegan spread)

Actually that is the other thing. If yiou are doing your own baking, you can buy "pure"spread, made with either soya or sunflower oil. It is dairy free, suitable for vegans. HTH.

Hummous is made from sesame which is another very common allergen. Take care with this. Its like nuts - they often advise leaving introducing until a bit later

Thanks for all the book references
alison222 - he (luckily) loves his fruit & veg I only found out about the sesame thing when his lip went all hivey after hummous was all set to race to A&E but it went down again pretty quickly.

Hi, I've got a great cook book that is entirely vegan... not that it mentions it. The Organic Baby and Toddler Cookbook by Daphne Lambert and Tanyia Maxted Frost. I'm bringing DS up vegan for health and allergy reasons, and this book is so useful. HTH