Dairy free breakfast ideas for BLWer needed!

[mayx3]

Hi my DS is nearly 11months and has a dairy and strawberry allergy (not intolerance - he gets a rash), hopefully he'll outgrow it and I have an appointment with dietician but not til June! I'm BLW as he hated eating from a spoon, loving it and find meals easy, but breakfast tricky to get variety into without dairy (or a spoon!). Until recently not been a problem as he generally didn't eat much first thing, but recently he's started eating more in the morning so I'd like to offer him some variety. Currently he mostly has toast often with banana mushed on and fruit or cheerios - dry. I'm hoping for more ideas! Thanks in advance!

some of our usuals:
toast with dairy-free spread and marmite, or jam or peanut butter
fruit
porridge made with breastmilk or oatmilk (eaten half with hands, half with a spoon)
cereal with just enough milk to make it a bit wet (same as above)
pancakes

Hiya, mum of a 12 month old semi BLW'er here. I fund the 50-50 approach easier with dietary restrictions, otoh ds4 is also not having gluten so we're more restricted.

Eggy bread is a simple idea that can be made dairy free, so ideal. Also flapjacks made DF, hoemade cereal bars (easy to do a batch and keep in a tin) and wedges of hard boiled egg. Holland and Barratt sell a delicious DF cheese spread alternative called tofutti that ds4 loves, and the plain version can be blended with other flavours for variety.

Brilliant thanks for those - it's funny how sometimes you just can't think... Must look out that spread...

Peachy - sorry what is the 50-50 approach... I should do a search, but...

Gluten allergy too - I don't envy you...

sorry for all the ...

Ah you won't find anything on a search LOL

No, simply that I use a spoon sometimes and BLW methods others; my overall lean is towards BLW (eg with regards to weaning readiness, importance of self feding in development) but I am happy to spoon feed yoghurts, or use (shock LOL) a puree if I am out and about and it is easier. However, I am of the old school (ds4 is after all a dc4 LOL) and fly by the seat of my pants a lot.

Oh and he doesn't have a gluten allergy, what it is (if I can explain without sounding a loon) is that casein and gluten are sometimes beleived to be implicated in autism; two of my boys have been diagnosed with autism and school think the third has adhd and dyspraxia, linked syndromes. So knowing that ds4 has the casein intol anyway, we decided to skip gluten until he is 3, because obviously anything to reduce thechances of asd, given his genetic susceptibility, is worth a shot for us. So self imposed complexity LOL

Hi Mayx3

I'm not BLW but DS copes more easily with a fingerfood breakfast most days so he has rice cakes or toast with avocado, fruit puree or sugar-free jam (mine's only 7 1/2 months and I'm limiting his refined sugar for the moment - probably irrationally!). I also give small slices of fruit or preservative free semi-dried fruit (sainsbury has a range).

I sometimes give him porridge which you could make with water.

I've tried to give him corn cakes too but their a bit 'chokey' so stopped.

I know it isn't strictly breakfast food but you could try pieces of tofu and is that lactofree milk suitable for babies (I don't know) www.lactofree.co.uk/what-is-lactofree/?

Hi, mung dal pancakes. soak in warm water for about 2 hours (or overnight if easier) and make it into a paste, add salt and whatever else you fancy (chopped coriander, grated boiled potato etc). tastes nice with jam or other spread. Plus it's easy to eat with fingers.

What's BLW by the way?

Sorry been a while, but thanks for all suggestions - I really need to get more inventive... Found Tofutti spread which is going down well and even I think it doesn't taste too bad. Unfortunately he now seems to be allergic to eggs too - damn. Too sensitive a little soul - hopefully will outgrow all these things too.

Peachy at the 50:50 thing - sounded like something there was a book about - but if I'd read your post more carefully I think I could have worked it out. I spoon fed a bit to begin with and only switched because the little darling much preferred to do things his own way.

Ramsi - BLW = Baby Led Weaning, sorry I hated all the acronymns when I first looked at mumsnet and vowed never to use them but...

Why do you not just use rice milk and then give whatever you want for breakfast?