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High calorie dairy and wheat free meals for low percentile baby?

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SunshineLollipops9 · 16/01/2025 21:34

i posted recently about my DS not being interested in weaning and being low percentile (0.4th!)

The last few days he’s been more interested and I am trying to think of high calorie meals to make. He is allergic to dairy, soya & wheat. He also isn’t a fan of BLW and is more in to traditional purées/mashed foods. Any ideas? I don’t care that it’s unhealthy as I just need to chunk him up!! - Which sounds so wrong as I didn’t even give my oldest a flavoured yoghurt until he was over 1 😂

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Cdoc · 16/01/2025 21:36

Have you cleared him of nut allergens OP? If yes, and he’s not a Blw fan, maybe porridge with peanut or almond butter?

fanaticalfairy · 16/01/2025 21:38

Nuts - peanut butter on toast
Olive oil and pasta
Scrambled eggs cooked in high fat butter.

FlyingHighFlyingLow · 16/01/2025 22:05

Dairy, soya, egg and treenut allergy here 😅.

Peanut butter! Super high calorie. For breakfast we do ready brek (really fortified), alpro toddler oat milk, fruit and peanut butter. I also mixed the peanut butter with a bit of oat milk into something a bit thinner/less sticky to use as a dipping sauce for BLW or spread on toast.

Mashed avocado, banana and cocoa powder as a mix is good.

Hummus! Nice and high calorie.

Oatgurt - can mix fruit puree into it. There are also these suckie things that come dairy free. Oatgurt tends to be higher protein and calorie than coconut etc equivalents.

Coconut milk and oil. I made 'fish pie' and curry with full fat Coconut milk. So fish pie white sauce made with Coconut milk and I'd poach the fish in it first. The curry was mild obv but my baby loves it.

Topbird29 · 16/01/2025 22:05

Rice pudding made with non dairy milk like almond or coconut based?
High fat foods like avocado/guacamole - with tortilla if corn based?
Jacket potato with tuna and non dairy mayo / vegan cheese? Not sure if that melts?
Fritata - can put whatever veggies/meat you like in. Tinned potatoes are good in these.
Something like cauliflower cheese if can make a dairy free version?
Banana and custard (again if you can make a dairy free version?)
GF sausage casserole with gnocchi?
Wheat free pasta with pesto? Or many other tomatoey sauces?
Daal?
Egg fried rice - can add whatever veggies/ tiny bits of meat you want? We like adding prawns and peas.

FlyingHighFlyingLow · 16/01/2025 22:11

Ooo and for general meals I used a lot of the NHS weaning recipes. They went down well with modifications. E.g. wheat noodle instead of egg noodle in my case.

To give you hope, my baby dropped from 80th centile to under the 20th at one point before diagnosis. Every time we figured an allergy out it got better. Now I have an active healthy 13 month old, who is on the 50th centile for weight (and 91st for height). He looks perfect, crawled early, can walk and speak a few words now.

OtterMummy2024 · 17/01/2025 10:50

Avocado and banana mashed together tends to be popular.

SunshineLollipops9 · 18/01/2025 00:03

Flipping heck, he is now also allergic to egg and have been told to steer clear of nuts until he’s had his skin prick tests as he’s higher risk of being allergic to them too!!

Thank you for all of your suggestions and have lots to try. He seems to really like mash with salmon and broccoli mixed in, so I’ve been fattening that up with plant cream and butter too!

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FlyingHighFlyingLow · 18/01/2025 08:16

SunshineLollipops9 · 18/01/2025 00:03

Flipping heck, he is now also allergic to egg and have been told to steer clear of nuts until he’s had his skin prick tests as he’s higher risk of being allergic to them too!!

Thank you for all of your suggestions and have lots to try. He seems to really like mash with salmon and broccoli mixed in, so I’ve been fattening that up with plant cream and butter too!

If you use the tinned salmon with the bones (they're like jelly, it's not a risk to baby), they're really high in calcium!

FlyingHighFlyingLow · 18/01/2025 09:28

As I said, my 13mo is egg, milk, soy and tree nuts so feel free to PM me x

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