If your toddler is allergic to eggs &/or dairy

What do you feed them? I think Ty's getting bored with his current menu, but I'm having a hard time coming up with stuff. His egg/dairy allergy makes it hard because he can't have breaded foods or cheese & I'm not much of a cook so I'm running out of ideas.

Here's what he currently eats:
With each meal
- All different fruits & veg
- Breads (whole wheat for lunch and/or dinner)
- Vanilla soy milk or water

For Breakfast
- Waffles
- Oatmeal (the flavored adult kind)

For Lunch
- Hummus
- Chopped up roasted red peppers &/or pickles
- Turkey & Chicken (both grilled/un-breaded cutlets & the deli variety)

For Dinner
- Chopped meat (only plain)
- Sausage (on rare occasions)
- Pasta w/tomato sauce
- Boca (veggie) burgers

It's going to be messy, but I might add a sugar-free jelly to the menu for lunch just to jazz up the bread...

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

Message edited 12/30/2010 10:06:38 AM.

Re: If your toddler is allergic to eggs &/or dairy

My DD has the same allergies still at 3.5 but I am lucky in that she can have most processed stuff with egg or dairy in it, so bread crumbs are ok.

You could make your own chicken nuggets and use panko breadcrumbs and at some italian seasoning, salt and pepper.

I have been giving her peanut butter and jelly since she is 12 months old and she loves it. I buy Polnar since it is made with real fruit juice as a sweetener.

My DD also loves soups, all different kinds so I try and make that for her. Her favorite is white bean and escarole. You could make it and puree the soup before you add the beans so there is some texture.

Roasted chicken breast in tomato sauce with peas was a big hit with her too.

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DS is 1...he is allergic to eggs, dairy and soy. It's a challenge to say the least. Here are some things we eat. I think it seems pretty good, but his Ped wants him to gain more weight.

Breakfast
homemade pancakes or waffles (with blueberries or almond butter or bananas or pumpkin)
Smoothies-Banana, Rice Milk, Almond Butter, Flaxseed Oil and his multivitamin.

toast with olive oil and fruit puree

slow cooked oats made with rice milk and banana (must be chunky for him to eat it by hand-he doesn't like to be fed)

Lunch (sometimes dinner too)
hummus on pita
steamed carrots
pasta with tomatoes and sauce
pesto on toast
chicken & chick pea meatballs
Chicken, Leek and Potato Soup
Chicken and Rice Soup
Roasted Butternut Squash Chunks
Rice made with Vegetable or Chicken Stock
applegate farms deli meat sandwich
sunflower seed butter and jelly
leftovers

Dinner
Whatever we eat. (And I make everything into a "meatball" for leftovers using Breadcrumbs and Egg-Replacer.)

Snack-I'm working on this.
Avocado
Coconut Milk Yogurt with Fruit
Cereal Os
Breakfast Bars (sweetened with juice not sugar)

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Message edited 12/30/2010 11:07:30 AM.

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I forgot to mention in my post, becareful with the flavored oatmeal. Some of them have milk in it (including some of the brown sugar and maple).
I made that mistake once and now my DD will not touch oatmeal and she use to love it.
I originally use to make her plain oatmeal and would add applesauce and cinnamon. You could also add pure maple sugar or some brown sugar.

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Posted by jam11308

Posted by JerseyMamaOf2

My DD has the same allergies still at 3.5 but I am lucky in that she can have most processed stuff with egg or dairy in it, so bread crumbs are ok.

Thank you so much for your reply. Soup is a great idea - I don't know why I didn't think of that! lol

If you don't mind my asking, have your DD's allergies seem to be "weakening" as she's getting older? Our ped said his are pretty bad (esp the egg allergy), but that he should grow out of them as he gets older. It might take until he's high school age though...I have a dairy allergy myself (epi-pen & all), so I just worry that he won't grow out of them

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Soy pudding and yogurt? You can use soy yogurt to bread items that would normally have eggs. My son can have goat cheese so I give him that. I also give him breakfast sausage fruit, waffles-you can give him pancakes made with bisquik and soy milk or water.

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There is a lot of soy products that are dairy free it is just a matter of finding the supermarkets that carry them.
Tofutti brand has their version of cream cheese, cheeses, ice cream and pizza.
Stoneyfield soy yogurt does contain dairy in it and for a while I was only able to give my DD the Silk brand or SoDelicious.

My DD doesn't like goat cheese, but my DS does (he doesn't have the allergy to dairy but does to eggs) and I put it on melba toast for him and drizzle it with honey and he loves that.

The beginning is always hard, but before you know it, it will be second nature.

Also, some items may say said free but will contain casein. I know Amy's dairy free mac and cheese has it because my DD broke out in hives after one bite.

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I use egg replacer and panko bread crumbs to make chicken cutlets. The egg replacer works well, actually - I was surprised.