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Anybody else BLW on a clows milk and gluten free diet?

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PinkTulips · 12/02/2007 12:52

because i'm desperate for some ideas!

i feel like all i'm feeding ds some days is fruit and veg which is fine now but he's soon going to be needing a bit more variety.

he likes the gluten free porrige but am wondering what other gluten free cereals would be worth a try?

and wht do you do about bread... is that rice bread stuff really rank?

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Eulalia · 12/02/2007 12:59

What age is he? If over 6 months could prob manage ordinary rice mashed in with some soft white fish. Pulses are good for protein too and can be made into a nice mush. My ds did and still does like baked beans with the sauce rinsed off. Good finger foods. Probably don't need to worry about bread - I used to give ds rice cakes for a snack - you can also get various snacks like carrot puff type things at Asda in the baby food aisle. HTH

terramum · 12/02/2007 13:00

DS didnt have any gluten or dairy products until he was over 1 year. He did eat a huge amount of fruit & veg, but that isnt a bad thing imo, especially as he still eats loads & people often comment on how good is diet is . We got round bread by simply giving him rice cakes whenever we had bread which he loved & rice pasta whenever we had a meal with ordinary pasta - we just made sure they were the same shape! Quinoa was a fave breakfast for a while as well. Yummy with some blueberries added for an interesting colour!

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PinkTulips · 12/02/2007 13:03

yeah, he loves rice cakes, i'm starting to thing that the only carbs he gets are rice based though.

protein isn't too much of an issue as he eats meat and has goats ilk based foods. it realy is the carbohydrtes i think i'm worrying about.... and getting enough fibre into him

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PinkTulips · 12/02/2007 13:04

oooo quinoa, hadn't thought of that! >>

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Eulalia · 12/02/2007 13:05

Butter beans for fibre?

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PinkTulips · 12/02/2007 13:06

didn't like them when i tried them, oddly enough as he's liked most other things i gave him!

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CanSleepWontStarve · 12/02/2007 16:11

We're not gluten free, but are dairy free here.

Have you tried corn pasta? It's softer than normal pasta so actually a bit easier for little ones to eat.

Don't know about gluten free cereal, but could you make pancakes for breakfast with spelt or gram flour and soya or rice milk? You could serve them with bananas or blueberries, and even mix some blueberries into the mixture before cooking (watch out for purple hands afterwards though ).

Presumably you've done all varieties of potato (chips, wedges, boiled, roasted, mashed, sauteed) for carbs too?

How is he with other beans? Waitrose do a fab Italian Bean soup which is packed with all sorts of beans (haven't checked whether it's gluten free), and you could toast some gluten free bread to put in it.

AitchTwoOh · 12/02/2007 21:19

if you look on the blog and search for gram flour or moomin there are quite a few milk and gluten free recipes. and i think that while porridge has gluten it's not the evil kind, but check that out first as am not an allergies expert. i can however, say with some confidence that moomin's chickpea burgers are delicious.

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PinkTulips · 13/02/2007 22:39

cheers aitch.... i tend to dip in and out of the recipes bit on the blog just looking for something in paticular that i need to know how to cook so missed that!

i've been thinking about it and you know... i don't think i've been noticing half of the fibre and carbs he gets. i make them gf pancakes every weekend, he has g-f pasta a few times a week and g-f porrige and rice cakes all the time and has loads of veg including lentils and stuff which must provide a fair bit of fibre? (frantically searches memory warehouse for food pyramid) i just need to up the beans maybe and he won't be so bad!

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AitchTwoOh · 13/02/2007 22:44

oh, and the sweetcorn patties are gf as well i think and really nice.

nearlyfourbob · 13/02/2007 22:59

I don't understand when people say "he'll need more variety", there is an enormous amount of different fruit and veg. Nothing wrong with liking plain food.

Rice, Quinoa, polenta are also useful grains.

And I can't say this enough - we do not need toast - especially nasty substitutes that don't even taste like toast anyway. We don't need to put a spread on things either, it's just a habit. I presume you are just leaving out dairy and gluten until later - plenty of time to have it then, but you don't have to substitute it now.

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PinkTulips · 13/02/2007 23:05

thanks nearlyfourbob..... i think it was trying to introduce breakfast that threw me really, all i seem to give him is gf porrige or fruit and ricecakes and although he's happy enough now i can see him getting bored of porrige every morning!

he's off gluten as his sister is wheat intolerant and being investigated for coeliacs so it's safest to keep him off it til one year, same with the milk, she's intolerant and we're trying to avoid him being so too

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AitchTwoOh · 13/02/2007 23:06

would oatibix be bad gluten-free?

welliemum · 13/02/2007 23:20

Hi PT

We're cowsmilk-free but not gluten free here.

I'll second what nearlyfourbob says - there are so many fruits and veggies - you need never run out.

Sweet potato (kumara) is a great favourite in our house, and for ages I was cooking either that or ordinary potato every day with no boredom from dd1. She's also eaten porridge pretty much every morning of her life since the age of about 9 months (she's over 2) and doesn't seem to mind that either! I would have gone spare with such a lack of variety, but I think babies and toddlers are naturally quite conservative in their food habits.

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PinkTulips · 13/02/2007 23:22

thay have wheat in them, much to my annoyance as dd would probably like them! oats have gluten though anyway.

we don't have dd on a completely gluten free diet yet you see, there's no point til she's been seen by pediatrics as she needs to still be sick we just have wheat cut out. so oddly enough ds is on the more restricted diet even though it's dd that has the intolerances!

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PinkTulips · 13/02/2007 23:24

thanks wellie, nice to know your dd isn't bored anyway..... hopefully ds will be as accomodating!

(he's also a bit sweet potatoe fan btw )

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AitchTwoOh · 13/02/2007 23:30

yes, but i'm sure that i read somewhere that the type of gluten that oats contain is not associated with coeliac problems.

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PinkTulips · 13/02/2007 23:34

that's the confusing thing, when you read it up some sites say they're dangerous and some say not but most say to keep away from the as they're generally processed alongside wheat

it all goes so far over my head i opt for the most fanatical approach for safety reasons, lol! bettter to overdo it for a few months than to fuck up and end up with 2 intolerant to everything kids!

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AitchTwoOh · 13/02/2007 23:43

aaah, i'd never thougth about the processing. as i say it's not a specialist area. if i was you i'd be playing it cautious as well... why take the risk if you don't have to?
btw for breakfast dd often has leftovers from the night before, this whole breakfast cereal thing is boring convention. personally if i could get a fresh delievery in the morning i'd have sushi for breakfast, yum.

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PinkTulips · 13/02/2007 23:45

he's currently working through a monstor batch of fridged porrige like you suggest on the site and loving it so might just keep doing that, can add differant things to it to satisfy my need for him to have variety

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