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Anything containing:
? Milk
? Milk powder
? Caseinates
? Hydrolysed casein
? Whey
? Milk solids
? Non fat milk solids
? Casein
? Hydrolysed whey protein
? Whey syrup sweetners
? Lecithin E332 unless stated as soya
Milk free diet.
First things first. It is really daunting to start off with but once you get into the swing of it, it does get better and easier.
Under 1 year.
Generally not recommended soya based products but depends on specialist seen as cousin of my son was given soya based formula at a very young age. He is galatisemic not milk protein allergic and I think this was relevant. We had 2 formulas that were milk protein altered (non-allergenic) peti-junior which we didn?t get on with and nutramigen which was ok but smelt foul (actual both smell foul!). You can use rice milk which is both milk and soya free.
General.
There are a number of milk free products available ? we even found that if we hunted there were some baby jars that were milk free.
Milk:
We use soya milk generally, there are lots of different brands so if darling child doesn?t like one try another as they taste very different.
We use rice milk and a teaspoon of cinnamon to make rice pudding (mum is allergic to soya, and boy to cows milk protein)
Spread:
Vitalite is both milk protein free and soya free and can be bought in most Tesco stores and some others. Most cake recipies work well with vitalite (have found 1 or specialist ones which have tasted of soap as relied on butter taste so test if wanting a fancy recipie for a big occasion!)
Watch: olive oil spreads often contain milk protein (whey) even though you wouldn?t expect them too.
Baking:
Most recipies can be adapted to be milk free ? exceptions being cheese cakes. Cream based cakes should be ok as you can buy soya based cream ? Alpro main brand but another for wipping cream (yet to test) Actually tastes ok.
Yoghurts:
The soya yoghurts are actually quite nice but watch out with giving several in a week as the added bacteria can give dippy tummies to little people.
Soya based custard:
Many different brands ? we use the alpro out of personal preference and it tastes like normal carton custard.
Watch: some food you would expect to contain milk does! Example gravy granules, fruit juice ice lollies. Recommend you get in habit of checking everything (its hard at first but now I do it even when the boy isn?t with me and the food is for me its that much of a habit) and expect companies to improve recipies! When they do so they often add milk and don?t always advertise the fact that they have improved the recipie!
Oh and thought I would pass this on Aldi sell ice cream cones which don?t have milk in so my son had his first ice cream cone this year ? aged 4! And he knows about his allergies as we have made it clear when he couldn?t have something that it was because it had milk, he is now so in control of his allergies he tells adults when they get some thing wrong and if he wants something he asks does this have milk in it. So makes it easier when he starts school in sept.