Need Different Food Options for My Daughter

I would never recommend Soy Milk as it would be like giving your daughter a high dose of birth control pills. For more information about that fact go to http://www.wholesoystory.com/ It states specifically that "Parents who feed their infants soy formula are unwittingly giving them the hormal equivalent of three to four birth control pills per day." Also to "studies...suggest that the estrogens in soy infant formula can irreveresibly harm the baby's later sexual development and reproductive health." page 331 of book, The Whole Soy Story. One of the reasons women use soy during menopause is the benefits of the plant estrogen, but this isn't good for babies. Why not use Rice Milk?
Here is a website which has real egg substitutes, no actual egg or parts of eggs, http://www.ener-g.com/default.aspx This site also has milk substitiutes and gluten free as well.
I go to a lady who uses a Integrated Query System scan to find out what is going on in the body. It isn't medical, but is more informative than any tests doctors can do. Find someone inyour area who does this kind of scan and have your daughter tested, you might be able to rid her of some of her allergies. If you live in the Ogden, Utah area I could send you her name and number. Hope this is useful.

It's hard but doable. I love sunbutter (I find it at the our local health food store, Vitamin Cottage) as a substitute for peanut butter, both because it's cheaper than any other alternative (though still expensive :() and very tasty!

We also had soy allergies so we use rice milk, you can get it pretty cheap in bulk at Costco (about $2.80 I think per half gallon) or at Walmart ($3.00 per half gallon).

I have a friend who is working on a website that will allow people to filter out food they can't have...it's still in progress, but for now she has a blog that has some yummy stuff that avoids pretty much all the major allergens: http://blog.easyaspierecipes.com/

Good luck...it gets easier as you filter out the things they can't have and just focus on all the yummy stuff they can have!

I think rice-based foods are a good option.

We like soymilk. I started giving my son Herbalife kids chocolate shakes with soymilk once a day since he was 1 years old. Now he's 3 and his pediatrician says his growth percentile has improved quite well since. The kids shakes are nutrient rich shakes (fiber, vitamins, minerals, protein). Feel free to contact me about it at 800-850-0609.

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Goats milk protein is to similar to cow's milk proteins. So if it is the protein she is allergic to it's best to avoid goat's milk. Soy is a good option once in awhile but it has alot of estrogens which can cause both girls & boys problems. A good option is almond milk & since it's a tree nut and you did'nt mention tree nut allergies it may work for her. I use www.chow.com (search vegan) and food networks website (search vegan) for great recipes. Then you can add any additional meat proteins. There is an awesome vegan cupcake & icing recipes :0)

For shopping another great resource is http://www.kidswithfoodallergies.org/marketplace-foods.html great "fast food" options. Take care and keep in mind she does have a good chance of outgrowing a few if not all of her allergies. Never say never :0) G

my almost 1 yr old loves the Veggie Crisps from Costco. she has no problem eating them with no teeth. good luck!

Same situation here. After avoiding eggs, dairy, and soy for the first three years of his life he outgrew them...not so much with peanuts. Our allergy doctor recommended rice milk and it actually is pretty good. I try to stick with a lot of fruits and veggies for snacks.

I would try goats milk before soy, however if it is the proteins she is allergic to, then goat will be just as much of a problem. (I know, as I went through the exact same thing with my daughter. She is now two and is allergic to milk, eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, and fish.)

I use soy milk with her. I know there is a lot of debate about soy milk, but my daughter also is very underweight and rice milk just does not have enough fat or protein in it for her. If you daughter is healthy sized, then I would go with rice milk before soy milk, but make sure she's getting fat and protein from other sources.

Some great ideas for finger foods are avocado bites, cooked beans, brown rice w/ smart balance (butter substitute) on it, baked sweet potatoes or yams, frozen peas (great for teething).

You can buy sunbutter (like peanut butter but made from sunflower seeds) and make sandwiches for her. Cut up into small pieces for a finger food.

Whenever I make waffles or pancakes I have to make it from scratch, rather than a mix because mixes contained powdered milk. I just substitute soymilk in place of the milk or buttermilk in the recipe, and it turns out fine. My whole family eats them. I do the same with muffins. I have a bran muffin recipe that my daughter LOVES that I can send to you if you're interested.

Most recipes aren't that hard to adapt if you just substitute soy milk and make a few alterations (leaving out nuts, etc.)

I also make green smoothies almost every day. Throw in some frozen fruit, some juice or water, a bunch of spinach (you won't even taste it), a splash of lemon juice, a few tbsp of flax seed oil, and blend. They are really yummy and so healthy. You can use other kinds of greens as well. Sometimes I use collards or chard or kale. You could throw in some tofu as well to bump up the protein quotient.

I also add extra olive oil to just about everything she eats. If we're having pasta, I dump extra on hers. If she's having toast I spread a very generous amount of smart balance on it (made from olive oil).

That's all I can think of right now.

Good luck!

My son was diagnosed with those same allergies as an infant. It's hard, isn't it! After 3 years, he grew out of his dairy and egg allergies and now, at age 4, he is only allergic to peanuts (though it's the worst one, and he'll likely keep this one for life!). Just some ideas to throw out there, I'm sure you've probably heard most of these. . .
When we were forced to read labels so closely, we realized there's alot of junk in food and took that as an opportunity to get our whole family eating whole foods. Our son eats alot of fruits and veggies and non-processed foods. But, I know it's hard to cook for a family!
I got a bread machine and make my own bread. (that dairy and egg sneaks into the store bought bread doesn't it!) If money is an issue with the bread machine, check out Craigslist or Freecyle. If it's not an issue, spring for one of those horizontal machines that make the loaves look like store loaves. They are easier to cut and work with.
There were certain "processed meats" we just always bought: Hebrew National Hotdogs (I had called them several years ago to verify no dairy in the hotdog binding), Hillshire Farms sausage and we always got turkey from the deli. I had them cut it in a really thick slice so when I cut it up it was more like finger food for our toddler instead of shaved turkey. For a quick meal/snack, we had the Tyson chicken nuggets to throw in the microwave, we got the big bags at Sam's Club. We ate alot of Keebler Club Original crackers at our house. It was just alot of finding something that was dairy/egg/nut free and sticking with it. My son still uses "Sunbutter", a sunflower seed butter made in a peanut-free facility. If you can't find it in a store, check out Sunbutter.com. We buy the 5 lb buckets for his preschool class. And of course cases of soy milk from Sam's Club. I have heard that there have been recent studies showing that too much soy is not a good thing, so I'm clueless on that. My son is now on cow's milk, though he never really developed a taste for it and doesn't drink a glass of it, only has it in cereal, other recipies. There is a cookbook I used sometimes called What's to Eat? The Milk-Free, Egg-Free, Nut-Free Food Allergy Cookbook. It was a pretty good book, though some things were a no-brainer. There's a good pancake recipe in there that uses a baking powder mixture instead of egg. Check out Amazon.com, it looks like that lady wrote another similar book. If you are more into whole foods and really like to cook, I used The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook by Paschal for awhile. Those recipes are more fancy, but that's what I needed once in awhile.

A few other thoughts that might be controversial. There has been research done on allergies and supplements, including fish oil. I was uncomfortable giving my son fish oil, worried that he might be allergic to that too, so I supplemented things with ground Flax (threw it in the bread machine and it was never noticed). He also had chronic diarrhea until 3 years old, and the way we got rid of that was a probiotic powder. We also had him on a great kid's vitamin called Usana (usana.com). Who knows if those things helped calm down his immune system or not, but they are healthy things anyhow!

I sincerely hope your little one outgrows the allergies! Be diligent and that will give you a better chance. Even if there is something that it seems she can tolerate, just wait and it will hopefully pay off!

Good luck!

My daughter has those allergies you listed plus several more. We are also gluten free. We've created a lot of recipes - especially for baking - that are egg free and dairy free.

I'd recommend coconut milk for recipes (if that's not an allergy).

Lindsay and Reagan,
There is hope. Both of our children have similar allergies. Soy is an option, but I know when the kids were little they had an allergy to it as well but not as bad as the others. Personally our children could not do goat milk, but it may work. Our kids are Anaphylatic so Benedryl and Epi Pen.

Rice Milk has been a great option for us. Oatmeal with Rice Milk, Jiffy Muffins and Pizza Crust - Follow Your Heart Vegan Gormet cheese, Prego spagetti sauce, Most spagetti's, Smart Balance for butter substitute, egg replacer for cooking, most Tyson chicken nuggets, Vans waffles.

All the best, feel free to email me should you have any questions, ____@____.com husband is the cook, but I just looked through the pantry and refrigerator.

Take care,
D.

Hello,
have you tried "out of the bread box" bakery. They sell their product at vitamin cottage. Stick to as much fruits and veggies as possible. Children should be eating somewhere between 5-7 servings (adults 9-13). That will fill the menu up for the day.

s far as soy over goats milk, I would go for the goats milk or almond or rice milk before I go for soy. So have proven health benefit when fermented. Soy can disrupt your thyroid, not to mention hormones, etc.

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I hope that helps.
L.