Dairy Free Meals

Enigma, dairy is anything with cows milk or milk products in. Mostly its the lactose in the milk that causes the allergy, for my baby its the cassein (the protein that causes milk to thicken and make cheese)

Sorry guys what is dairy allergies?

Hi again, just a thought, you can try rice milk powder. Its available at Dischem and tastes much better than soya milk.

Its great to use in cereal, but when you mix it, mix the powder with a little bit of boiling water, then add cold water. It dissolves better in boiling water.

I also use it to make custard for my LB, just cause he can't have milk, doesn't mean he can't have peaches and custard...

Wow, thanx ladies. You have given me a lot of great ideas.

They usually have cereal with soya milk during the week en then scramble egg on weekends. Cooked veggies, chicken, pasta, stews, mash, patato for lunch and dinner and lots of banana. I think I will bake some muffins next week and try to introduce carrot sticks and cherry tomatos.

Hi Twintastic, i am keeping my son gluten and dairy free for 2 years as I am very very very severely gluten intolerant and my hubby has a bit of a dairy allergy.

I do use goats milk products as no one in the family seems to be sensitive to that and my son reacted badly to soya.

So he gets goats milk for milk
Woolies sells great goats milk yoghurt and some stores sells the cheese as well.
I'm in Jhb, and buy goats milk form a farmer here, and cheese from his cheese maker at Farm City.

I understand your problem as I know how difficult it is to pack lunch for myself!!

Things that often find their way into my lunch box:
cherry tomatoes, little blocks of cheese (goat), carrot sticks, boiled egg, cucumber sticks, those small salad "mielies", cup of soup, muffins (baked myself), gluten free viennas (I think you get dairy free ones too).

Hope this helps!

Toddlers love dried fruit. Woolies have great little packs of them and these dried fruit rulers. Free range dry wors. My Jade could eat "ghetti bolonice" (spaghetti bolonaise - damn how do you spell bolonaise) every second day nearly could she loves it and you hide all types of veggies in that. Pasta with home-cooked tomato sauce and veg, great too.

Dalan was and I am.

I just read all lables and stay away from processed foods if I can. No baked things. Bread is okay.

Pancakes can be made with water for eg and you get cake mixes that require no dairy.

Oli foods are all dairy free so their teething bicuits and cereals are fine. Oats is also fine.

Ina parman gravy is dairy free so I make Dylan veg and protein and carb like rice or potato and then add a bit of gravy to moisten it up a bit.

Mashed potato is really nice if you add sweet potato and use some of the cooking water to mash it.

Stay away from Vienna's and processed meat. You do get dairy free cheese but it is expensive and gross.

Snacks: I give him fruit and flings.

Woolies sell a nice soya yoghurt.