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Posted: 25 April 2010 at 10:29am |
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My 4 month old boy has reflux and I have been able to figure out some of the things that trigger it. I gave up dairy when he was 6 weeks old but I didn't really notice any difference. The past few weeks, his reflux has gotten worse so I thinking that I am going to have to go dairy free again to see if this helps. I really struggled last time to come up with ideas etc for foods that I could eat.
So for those that are dairy free, can you please suggest food ideas for snacks, lunch and dinners? Also products that don't contain dairy? Helpful websites? Baking recipes?
I aslo can't have coffee/caffiene, plain eggs (eggs in baking seem to be ok), broccoli, cauliflower, onion, garlic, spicy foods, nuts, grapes.. i think that is it so far that I have discovered!
Thanks in advance :)
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Posted: 25 April 2010 at 12:40pm |
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www.healthyfood.co.nz has an option to search dairy free recipes. I use that for dinner sometimes.
Some breads are dairy free (bagels often are). Some hummus-type spreads are dairy free also (not all, you have to read the labels), so I often have a bagel with hummus for lunch.
Fruit is a good snack. If you want something sweet, try doing home baking with dairy-free margarine instead of butter, and apple juice in place of milk. Or some biscuits are dairy free also (just not usually chocolate ones). For a naughty snack, whittakers dark chocolate is DF also.
Dinner is actually pretty easy. Anything along the lines of meat and 3 vege can be dairy free. Mash potatoes with margarine or mayo. Tomato-based pasta sauces are often dairy free.
I hope that helps! Dairy free is hard to begin with, but is actually pretty easy once you get your head around it. (I've been dairy free for about 2 months now).
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Posted: 25 April 2010 at 12:43pm |
hehe, our babies were born the same day! Must be a day for troublesome babies 
Just wanted to add that I didn't see any improvement from going dairy free until about 12 days after stopping. I then reintroduced it after 15 days, and it took about 24 hours for her to go back to screaming the house down and refusing to feed. Actually, there was an immediate reduction in powerchucking, but still heaps of spilling and screaming for 12 more days. I guess because I'd been eating plenty of dairy it took a while to work it's way out of our systems.
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Posted: 25 April 2010 at 4:57pm |
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Dairy free is definitely a getting your head around things. I just basically replace anything dairy with oil & rice milk. I don't use spreads because we are additive & preservative free here as well.
Nice biscuits are dairy free. Salada crackers, Sakata crackers, Kettle chips. Make Muffins, or a dairy & egg free chocolate cake. If you google Cocoa cake it will come up.
If dairy free isn't working or you think it's not, try adding soy free as well & double check everything for milk products, whey, casein or one of the other numerous names milk comes under.
Porridge is a brilliant thing for BF as well :)
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Posted: 25 April 2010 at 7:21pm |
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Thanks for the replies. It is definately going to take a bit of practice to get used to.
This might be a bit of a silly question, do I just cut out milk, yoghurt, cheese etc or do I also need to cut out things like muesli bars that have milk products in them?
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Posted: 25 April 2010 at 7:38pm |
Hi,
our little girl is lactose intolerant so we are constantly looking for subsitutes. Rice milk works really well in baking. You can use margerine (although that has soy often and a lot of babies that react to dairy also react to soy), sunflower oil or vegetable shortening in baking, instead of butter.
I get a lot of my recipes from diaryfreecooking.com
Good luck with your diet, I really feel for you exclusions diets while bf are so hard, especially as you need to eat a lot to make enough milk. 
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Posted: 25 April 2010 at 8:06pm |
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Julia, I would cut out absolutely everything with dairy in it first. Give that at least a week & then may be add back in a food you like which has milk products in it & see how he copes with that, but with you saying that you didn't notice that much difference the first time around I'd say you'd need to go strictly dairy free.
From having missed doses of losec & then giving it again, it definitely takes a week to heal the damage that has been done.
If you are like me an adore creamy cheesy pastas just make a white sauce, switching butter with oil & milk with rice milk & add around a teaspoon of salt & voila, surprisingly a cheesy tasting sauce!
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Posted: 25 April 2010 at 8:15pm |
This is a really useful site for people with food allergies
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Posted: 26 April 2010 at 9:12am |
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Kel- the last time I went dairy free I don't think I did it for long enough as I wasn't fully certain that he had reflux. But now we know that he definately does so I will cut out all dairy products for the full 2 weeks and then try adding a little in and see how he reacts.
Thank you for the websites, will def come in handy. I will just have to get more creative in the kitchen and am trying to think postively about it, seeing as I really like my food!
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Posted: 03 May 2010 at 9:40pm |
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the best place i found to search dairy free recipes was a vegan website...just add the eggs back in.
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