limited food till one

E is allowed fruit, vege, meat and maize and rice till 1.. (has a suspected dairy allergy that is getting tested jan 13th) ...though in his letter says likely delayed onset IgE reaction)

now a few things..firstly when he gets tested i know even with negative responses it might not be right and that I still have to introduce things slowly.. but I'm finding it frustrating.. mostly when we go out.. the others are all having lots of different foods (some that I wouldn't feed like peanut butter sandwiches ) but still he tries to get it all..and I know he has no idea that it's yummy food he's not allowed but I'm getting frustrated..

I know it's only 8 more weeks.. and I know some research says keeping him off all food till one helps (which is awesome) but am I feeding him enough and what can I do for variety? thanks to cuppatea he has a much bigger range than I thought he would be able to have but still i can't give him normal things the others have and it's hard to find what to give him....

at the moment he has baby rice(I tried him again this week and he loved it and was fine so maybe last time rash was teething? because he gets similar rash when teething constantly)

so baby rice and cut up kiwifruit(1/2 ) for breakfast(or rice bread)
lunch is pumpkin potato and beef or something similar (so he has all blue cans or red) and some of his special chips or biscuits
tea is veges and some cut up real veges

bottles 630, 1030, 230 and 630

I got like that towards the end of the year with Spencer, when part of me was thinking this is ridiculous restricting all these foods, especially when the developemental paed drilled me about it and seemed shocked that he didn't even have egg in cakes and biscuits. (I wasn't aware that cakes and biscuits were essential food groups!!!!) anyway once I saw Rodney and he had his test and came up positive to stuff I was really relieved that we had gone to the trouble of being so vigilant and also lots of stuff came up negative, like gluten, soy, fish which opened up a whole new world of foods for him, perhaps if he had those earlier he would have had a reaction to them and not be able to have them now.

Plus, he doesn't know about "yummy" foods, he thinks the foods he has are yummy. And look at what he is eating, its nutricious and good for him, far better than what a lot of other parents give their kids. So partly you need to change your mindset a little on what is "yummy". So fruit and dried fruit is now yummy and chocolate is yucky and gross.

MrsMojo wrote: As a parent it means a lot more effort and creativity required but it's so worth it for a well child.

So true!    So give yourself a pat on the back for all your extra efforts - is IS a lot of work, it IS a great deal more planning and it can be a PITA. But it's what we've gotta do, so we do it. If you've been advised to keep him away from the allergens until further tests, then I'd say stick to that advice, as you've nothing to lose doing it. A limited diet doesn't bother babies and toddlers much, and it's only for a short time longer. They still find their favourite 'special' foods amongst it all... Ella's total fave these days is green olives - she'll go mental for them! Hey, the kid's got taste, who am I to hold her back?

Edited by Andie

good point..thanks for the reality check:)

You could try different fruits for breakfast just to make it a bit different. Does he have jam yet? or you could make him sammies with mushed banana filling or toast with fruit or vege puree on for lunch.
McCains make some hashbrowns that don't use egg or soy or have any crappy preservatives so you could try him on those.
Roast veges is another good one for them too and easy and quick to do. I also make my own chips as well for him, using potatoes and kumara and just do them in the oven, they only take 15mins.
He might be ok with baked beans (can't remember what is in them off the top of my head), not spaghetti though as they have cheese in
Now its summer you could try him on salads, jacket potatoes (use olive oil or rice bran oil instead of marg/butter), you could make things like cottage pie, just with the potato topping either use a bit of water or a little oil instead of milk and butter (we don't even notice the difference anymore).
That's all I can think of at the moment, will get back to you if I remember anything else that is soy and gluten and fish free. (as well as obviously dairy and egg and nut free).

Oh I have a real easy banana and sultana muffin recipe that is dairy and egg free you would just need to substitute the flour for the healtheries gluten free stuff, let me know if you want that. And if you do a search in the recipes someone posted a dairy and egg free biscuit recipe a while ago as well, would just be the same would need to use healtheries flour.

Spencer has that jam and has always been fine with it. Pectin is in the skin of most fruits not sure about the lactic acid but he's never had a reaction to it. Obviously no jam is gonna be super great as they all have tons of sugar but just as something different now and then doesn't hurt. You don't have to toast rice bread it just says its better toasted, I used it for sandwiches and Spencer never seemed to mind.
I will put up that recipe later, as long as you use the gluten free flour that healtheries make or rice flour (which I have never actually seen for sale anywhere) then it will fine.

He loved it:)