DD has just turned 6 months and we’re starting weaning this week. My partner and I are vegan, DD is not going to be vegan but will be vegetarian. I’m looking at different meals I can make for her (when we get to the stage of proper meals!) but I can’t seem to find any information about whether it’s ok for her to have small amounts of plant based milk in cooking (in scrambled eggs, maybe on weetabix etc), instead of cow’s milk? I will buy yoghurt, cheese etc for her, but I’d rather not buy milk because it just won’t get drunk before it goes off. The NHS website says she can have them as a main drink after 12 months, but I can’t see anything for before that.
She’s mainly breastfed, so I could use expressed milk, but that seems like a bit of a waste. I could make up a tiny bit of formula (she has a bottle or so a day, sometimes none if I’ve managed to express) but that seems a bit of a faff. I also wouldn’t be surprised if she’s not great with dairy from a dietary point of view. Me, my partner, both of his older children and my siblings have dairy/lactose intolerances so it stands to reason that she might do too.