We are just finding out my 14 month old daughter has some food allergies. She is allergic to.... wheat, soy, cows milk, beef, nuts, shelfish, corn, eggs and also beans....I am buying special milk, breads, and pastas, that are all made with rice, my question is this, anyone have any idea on meals, that don't contain any of the above things that she allergic to...Really the only thing she can eat are plain rice, and things made with rice, and fruits and veggies. She can also have chicken and pork. Just wondering if anyone else out there is going thru the same thing, and could give me some pointers.. Thanks so much...
I just wanted to thank everyone for helping me out and pointing me in the right direction. I was a little baffeled, as to what to feed her, I should have just asked for a list of foods she can eat, that might have made it eaiser.LOL... I just am a little overwhelmed, with it all and all the information and how to figure it all out, and what is safe and what is not. But not much is safe, because of the soy, things that don't have soy usually have milk, eggs or wheat, and so on, anyone already been here, knows what I am talking about. Another thing that's hard is, making sure my older children don't sneak her food, or leave anything anywhere she can get it.
Thanks again, for all the info, I am going to sit down tonight, after everyone goes to bed, and check everything out...Have a great day...
Hi P.,
My kids also have food allergies. We found the best cookbook- it has really saved us! You can only find it online. It's called the Egg Free Dairy Free Kid Pleasing Recipes and Tips by Theresa Kingma. She has a lot of really yummy recipes and very helpful tips.
I know how stressful this can be. You can find good support groups online also. Best of luck!!
B.
Hi P. - my 8 year old daughter also has a great many food allergies (milk, soy, eggs, nuts, wheat). Over the years I have found a few things that work: Soup - she loves homemade soup. Not as hard as it sounds - boil beef ribs or chicken for the broth and add rice pasta, potatoes, veggies. She likes that and it can be eaten over a few days. I have also been making a "chicken risotto." Ground chicken cooked thru - I add chicken stock (buy it at Fabulous Foods in Crozet, VA) and brown rice. Again she loves it. I have found ALEXIA french fries for her. They have only sea salt and canola oil. Snacks are a bit trickier - popsicles work for a dessert. Let me know if this is helpful and I will try and think of some other foods. Best - J.
Sorry to hear that she has so many restrictions. However, its good to find them out earlier rather than later.
Do you have a health foods store near you? A neighbor with lots of allergies shops there. They have a wide variety of specialty things not in regular stores.
I think I have some suggestions, I hope you can use some of them:
Milk allergy: I have a milk allergy. My grandma used to take Carnation non-dairy creamer and mix it with water so that I could have 'milk'. Just a thought.
What about brown rice?
Food ideas:
flour or spinach tortilla wrap with turkey or chicken veggies and honey mustard.
veggie burgers
turkey burgers
tofu
salads.
regular (red can) pringles.
baked potato or sweet potato
stir-fry using veggie or canola oil
Hello P.,
I truly understand what you are going through, my son is allergic to milk, soy, a certin type of peanut and shellfish. I had him on infant milk this whole time, and now I am looking for milk that will be okay for him to drink. He is now 2 and I know that milk is important to a child's diet. Good Luck because I do understand.
Dear P.,
I am a Doctor of Oriental Medicine. I encourage you to strongly consider seeing someone who can help your child. Chinese Medicine can rid your child of these allergies. We have had good results at our Center in Towson. Go to our website and read article on "Oriental Medicine for Your Little Ones". www.mcim.org
Sincerely, S. M
Hi P.,
Call the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughter's in Norfolk and talk to the nutritionist.
There is a website for stay at home moms.
SAHM.meetup.com/
The Norfolk Attachment parenting Group might give you some help too. Good luck. D.
I also have food allergies. I count myself blessed because as long as I don't eat what I'm allergic to, I feel great. People who are allergic to airborn stuff can't get away from it and suffer more. A diet of rice fruits and veggies is a very healthful diet. Can your daughter eat beans/ Then she will have complete protein too. Stick with this diet. Sometimes kids lose their allergies when they get older. AF
Hi P.,
My now 2 year old was given this same list of allergies at about 14 mos as well. He also has asthma & eczema. Both which we found out was triggered by the food he ate. We cut out everything at first, then we started reintroducing some items and watching for reactions. We have narrowed the list down to nut and dairy products. We do however give him limited amounts of cheese.
Those first few months were really difficult, now we know his TRUE trigger foods and we stay clear of those and give the others in limited amounts. My son has a pretty healthy appetite and likes to eat variety of foods.
We plan on having the prick test again when he is a little older because we were also warned that the test wasn't so accurate in children that young.
Hello P.,
My son is 3 1/2 years old and is allergic to pretty much everything. He is in what i call "the no food diet." =)
Currently, I'm using this book "The kid-friendly ADHD & Autism cookbook." The book is pretty good because it is easy to use.
I'm also using the following websites:
http://gfcf-diet.tacanow.org/
http://www.gfutah.org/gfcfrecipes/
Good luck,
M.
Hi P.,
Both my boys have food allergies and we've had to alter how we eat. I know how difficult having a child with an allergy can be. One child has a milk allergy and the other a peanut allergy. We stir fry several times a week. You could stir fry chicken or pork in some oil with garlic and some vegatables. My children love it. You can eat the stir fry with rice or rice noodles. You can also make a soup with the rice noodles, chiken stock, vegtables and potatos. Take a look at these websites http://www.foodallergy.org/, http://allergymoms.com, http://www.kidswithfoodallergies.org/recipes.html. They should have some recipes on them.
Eating will be a challenge for awhile, but have hope that your child will outgrow some of these food allergies. My son's milk allergy is less severe then it once was and my nephew outgrew his egg allergy. Remember to always carry benedryl and an epi-pen with you and plenty of safe snacks for you child with you. Good Luck. Let me know if you have any more questions.
Hi P.
I have a food intolerance to albumen (egg white), gluten, and soy. I keep my son away from those foods for the most part because they are common allergens. Unlike me, he gets congested from milk, so we make kefir - a fermented milk. We do eat egg yolks, wild alaskan salmon (also comes canned), organic free-range chicken liver. I know that they make goat butter, if she is allergic to cow's butter. The "Namaste" products are really great for allergen free baking. I made a great carrot birthday cake with their spice cake mix. I have had good results with flax "goop" as a replacement for egg white.
Hi P.,
My son was severely allergic to dairy (anaphylaxsis) from the ages of 12-18 months. His blood allergy tests all came back negative, so the pediatrician suspected he would outgrow it, and he did thankfully. My son also has a sensitivity to rice and corn (and still does). Even in that short 6 months, I learned a lot about food allergies. I pretty much couldn't buy any prepackaged food or eat out at all, because casein is in so many things. And with as quickly as he had had a reaction (he got hives with welts around his mouth and I could hear him trying to swallow within 2 minutes of having cow's milk), I had to be extra vigilent about cross-contamination.
Our pediatrician recommended a website called Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) for help and info. There's a main site and a site for kids. I found both to be extremely helpful. I purchased a cookbook from FANN so I could make a cake that was dairy-free for my son's birthday.
While this doesn't answer your question about what to fix, hopefully the links will be of some help.
http://www.foodallergy.org/
http://www.faankids.org/
One of the moms from my mom's group posted this info about gluten-free products:
"Amazon.com has a whole gluten free section and they sell things in bulk. Another good website is www.glutensolutions.com. One of the best bread/donuts/cookies website is www.kinnikinnick.com ."
Good luck!
If you go to allrecipes.com, you can search for recipes with AND without certain ingredients. I hope that helps in some way.
This is a great site for gluten free eating and feeding children - http://www.cookingtf.com/index.html
You may also want to check out the local Weston A. Price chapter, http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/waphb/
They're very helpful if you post a question on their forum.
I know it's tough, but hang in there... it does get easier. I've lived with allergies to those same foods all my life.
Hello P.! I was going to unsub from this list but then I saw your post.... You are NOT alone! I have 6 kids, all of whom have sevre food allergies. You name it, we have dealt with it. Do you carry epi pens? There is alot to learn and it can be very overwhelming. First, look at the website Kids with food allergies. It costs like 15 bucks a year but in it's former days as POFAK, it saved my children's lives!
At least you can do fruits and veggies- alot of our allergies are those too. Here is our list, My 11yo is allergic to shrimp. My 10 yo- allergic to peanuts and many antibiotics. outgrew dairy and egg. She is sensitive to corn. Cindy- anaphylactic to ALL nuts, peanuts, cherries, other pitted fruits, ALL melons, ALL gourds(pumpkins, squash, peppers) latex, bananas, papaya, kiwi. She is super sensitive and goes from fine to unresponsive in minutes. She has not outgrown any of her allergies even with strict avoidance. Hannah- born anaphylactic to dairy and beef. Admitted to hospital at 10 days for anaphylactic shock due to dairy exposure through breast milk. She would react to dairy in the air, the butter in popping popcorn, pizza smells, etc...She outgrew the allergy after 5 years of strict avoidance, although still retains a mild GI issue. My last 2 are not allergic to foods that we know of BUT we avoid the other allergens and fish.I am allergic to eggs, fish and iodine, and have severe GI issues with dairy.
I would recommend rice milk. It has calcium added and is ok to drink. There are plenty of resources availible for cooking with food allergies at your local library. tThe amount of books published in teh past 5 years on teh subject is enourmous. My personal email is ____@____.com if you would like to talk further or support. I can tell you that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and you CAN live with food allergies. It may mean modifying how you live now, but in the end you will be a healthier family for it. Beware of ANY fast food or prepackaged anything! You will have to cook from scratch to keep the food safe. Check out the FAAN website for a list of what to avoid.
Good luck!
B.
homeschooling mom to 6 kids under 12!
My child is 3 y.o. and has severe severe allergies to peanuts, tree nuts, soy and shellfish. He eats a lot of unprocessed foods such as steamed veggies and fruit as it sounds like your daughter does. I have done things like search for recipies online. I also joined the allergy food network which sends alerts and has recipie ideas http://www.foodallergy.org/. I know someone mentioned going to a health store. I had no luck at those places because everything is made with soy there. They would have gluten free stuff for your daughter's wheat allergy but it may have the added soy. Good luck. It does get easier over time.
Check out yahoo groups... dairy free recipes. I belong to that group, my son is cow's milk, egg and corn allergic, and they always have great ideas... some of the recipes take some adjusting to when they are close to the real thing, but not quite there, but my 18 month old doesn't know any different. One recipe I really like from them is for a "cream of chicken" substitute... You can use it in so many recipes!
-4 tbs Smart Balance (dairy free "butter", I think soy free too"
-4 tbs flour (you can use rice flour or potatoe flour too)
-Chicken broth... the amount you need depends how much sauce you want and how thick you need it.
Melt the butter, slowly mix in the flour (it will be yellow and clumpy), then slowly add as much broth as you want while you're stirring. I usually add a full can so I can use it in recipes that call for a can of cream of chicken. You can make a lot of simple dishes with it!
Oh P. I feel your pain!!!!! At one year my little guy was diagnosed with allergies to Peanuts, Wheat, Eggs, Milk and Bananas. I tried, for a while, to avoid soy as well...but, wow, that was hard!!!! I purchased an amazing cookbook called Spohie Safe Cooking by Emily Hendrix. (You can look for it on Amazon, or check out her website at www.sophiesafecooking.com) It is free of the top 8 allergens. So, NONE of her recipes include wheat, soy, milk, nuts, eggs, or shellfish. There are a few that contain beef--which you can substitute with ground chicken (be careful about turkey--because it can contain either wheat or milk--I forget which!). There are a few with cornstarch....but not many.
The cookbook is great. The recipes are easy--and really tasty. And, the best part, in my opinion, is that the ingredients are weird things you've never heard of! You will likely already have everything you need in your pantry. The only thing I had to do was buy Apple Cider Vinegar! (and, hey, that's an easy one!). She uses oat flour in her recipes which is just oatmeal tossed in a blender!!! Easy!
If you need some more help...or you just want to talk with another mom who has been there, feel free to email me! I've got some recipes of my own too! Good luck! Traci
I am offering these cookbooks because of your daughter's dietary needs, not a disability. My son is autistic and we follow a gluten (wheat), casein (milk), yeast, egg, and dye-free diet. He is also on a low-phenol diet and use all organic products.
Cookbooks: Special diets for Special kids Part I and II by Lisa Lewis. Kid-friendly Cookbook for ADHD and Autism (Can't think right now about authors).
They are good cookboks that eliminate most allergens. Also check online. I have some recipes and can steer you in the right direction for product names as well.
Good luck!!!!!
S.
Try going to a store that serves all-natural products: David's Market, Whole Foods, etc. they should have cookbooks that cater to your daughter's needs. Also, you could go to an herbal store, they too have books and products that can help. I hope you find the answer that works for you. :0)
