What can I eat while bf baby with cmpi?

[Aaliyahsmummy]

I'm really struggling cutting food out of my diet:( I just have no idea what to eat for breakfast,lunch dinner or snacks

What are your favorite meals/snacks?

Thanks!

[TripleTime]

Cold meats, salads, wraps. For breakfast I font eat the standard cereal, I have a smoothy with frozen fruit & dairy free suppliment.

Fruit is a good snack, rice crackers with advo. Just have to think out side the box.

[Areca]

Make your own snacks. Use Soy Milk (Vita Soy, or Smooth White) instead of cows milk and you can't taste the difference. You can make anything from muffins/cakes to rice pudding.
I have Vita Soy's protein enriched rice milk (it's not as sweet as other rice milks) on my cereal.

The So Good chocolate soy ice-cream is really yummy. Just let it melt a little first (I always find the first couple of mouthfuls just taste like straight soy...after that it's fine. I know lots of people who like this ice cream).
Use nuttelex butter (it's dairy free).

Corn thins with avocado and cherry tomatoes are a delicious snack!

We make lasagna but insteaf of having cheese on top I make a white sauce using soy milk and nuttelex.

There's dairy free biscuits in the health food aisle (freedon foods make them). Sweet Williams chocolate is fairly average, the white chocolate in particular tastes like cardboard. If you like dark chocolate I think Lindts 70% dark chocolate is dairy free.

I don't have to be dairy free anymore but my DD1 is 5 in one week and she is anaphylactic to dairy (and eggs and tree nuts). You get used to it. The majority of my food is dairy free. There's no subtitutes for cream or cheese unfortunately but everything else can be done.

[Aaliyahsmummy]

Thanks everyone lots of things I hadn't even thought about :D

Now I just have to make a menu plan and rid my house of all the bad foods to I'm not tempted!

[Thermolicious]

Please look into soy vs a nut milk (like almond) it's pretty controversial still but for me it was better IMO to play it safe and to go with almond milk.

Good luck with your journey and I hope your little one gets some relief :)

[WorkingClassMum]

Many children with CMPI are also intolerent to soy and wheat, so I'd also try to limit your soy and wheat consumption as well

Orgran make a great range of foods, and there is so much more available these days - I find the larger Coles supermarkets have a better range than Safeways, and Aldi's have next to nothing

[Areca]

Please look into soy vs a nut milk (like almond) it's pretty controversial still but for me it was better IMO to play it safe and to go with almond milk.


Agreed! I only use soy for cooking. We use rice milk for drinking/on cereal etc. Almond milk was a no go for us with DD1 being allergic to tree nuts.

As far as wheat/soy reduction goes. Whilst kids with a CMPI can be allergic to wheat and soy as well if your DD isn't showing any signs of a reaction there is absolutely no need to try and eliminate these out of our diet. It's worth keeping in mind that she may have more than a CMPI so if she shows symptoms then a food diary will help, and she should get a skin prick test to rule out any further allergies after she is 6 months old. To eliminate them unecessarily just makes your life impossible. With DD2 I had cut our dairy, egg, nuts, fish and was deciding whether to cut out wheat or soy next and her paed stopped me in my tracks. Her symptoms were manageable (eczema but not bothering her, she was happy, healthy and growing beautifully) and advised I wait until she was spt before doing anything else. It wasn't good for my health to continue cutting major food groups out. Turns out her allergies were to egg and banana so I'd already cut out too much as it was. I see it on here time and time again that people automatically recommend cutting out soy and wheat as well and it's truly unecessary unless it is causing problems for the baby.

[Thermolicious]

Agreed! I only use soy for cooking. We use rice milk for drinking/on cereal etc. Almond milk was a no go for us with DD1 being allergic to tree nuts.

As far as wheat/soy reduction goes. Whilst kids with a CMPI can be allergic to wheat and soy as well if your DD isn't showing any signs of a reaction there is absolutely no need to try and eliminate these out of our diet. It's worth keeping in mind that she may have more than a CMPI so if she shows symptoms then a food diary will help, and she should get a skin prick test to rule out any further allergies after she is 6 months old. To eliminate them unecessarily just makes your life impossible. With DD2 I had cut our dairy, egg, nuts, fish and was deciding whether to cut out wheat or soy next and her paed stopped me in my tracks. Her symptoms were manageable (eczema but not bothering her, she was happy, healthy and growing beautifully) and advised I wait until she was spt before doing anything else. It wasn't good for my health to continue cutting major food groups out. Turns out her allergies were to egg and banana so I'd already cut out too much as it was. I see it on here time and time again that people automatically recommend cutting out soy and wheat as well and it's truly unecessary unless it is causing problems for the baby.
:doh: yes rice milk, why could I not think of that word this morning :confused:

[cindye]

I have just come off a dairy and soy free diet after 7+months. Still BF my 11 mth old, but she's all good now.

I saw a dietition who gave me some good ideas.

Breakfast
There are a few breakfast cereals you can have with rice milk for breakfast. During winter I would have porridge made with water most days. I would add either brown sugar and cinnamon / golden syrup or frozen raspberries for some variety. For a decadent breakfast I would have bacon / tomato fried up with worcestershire sauce and fresh parsley on sourdough. You could also have eggs on toast.

Lunch
If you don't have to avoid soy, most breads are ok. i had to stick to lebanese / turkish / sourdough breads because I couldn't have soy. I would have tuna / cold meats / salad / avocado and mayo (just check that it doesn't have dairy - most are just made with oil and eggs) as fillings.

Dinner
We stuck to meat & 3 veg / bbq'd meat with oven roasted potatoes and salad / tomato based pastas / casseroles / risotto made with oil instead of butter and without parmesan / rice noodle salads with chicken and lime and chilli dressing. Dinner was definitely the easiest to work around and quite often I would save a small portion of dinner to have for lunch the next day.

Some snack ideas
Fruit
Vege sticks / bread sticks with hummous or baba ghanoush
corn thins with peanut butter or avocado and tomato
homemade caramel popcorn with peanuts
Allens lollies:D
Lindt 70% chocolate melted with marshmallows / strawberries for dipping
Weis frozen sorbet for ice cream substitute (I actually found a coconut based dairy free icecream that was ridiculously expensive, but it was a nice treat!)
Home made LCM bars (use nuttlex instead of butter)
Oreo cookies!!!
BBQ shapes
Plain potato chips
Plain corn chips with salsa or guacamole made with lime and herbs

I have some recipes for dairy free brownies / coconut and raspberry loaf and orange, walnut and cranberry muffins if you want me to post, just let me know!
HTH

[peanutbutter&jelly]

I love going back to basics at the moment - vegies with homemade hommus (you can usually have commercially avail. just check the label, I make mine because I just prefer it :) ), rice cakes, HUGE salads with goats feta (wait a while, maybe a month, then if you feel brave, eat some, see if bub reacts - we get the marinated goats feta from aldi - so good and DD can cope with it), we're eating a lot of wraps at the moment, since I'm doing a 6 week health kick challenge, so tabouli, hommus, lean meat and tonnes of salad stuff. Its easier in summer I think, because we're more inclined to eat salads that fatty, cheesey, heavier winter foods?

I found winter hard, even though I ate tonnes of homemade soups and casseroles (love the slow cooker) and I'm finding it much harder to be soy limited (after a couple of pieces of bread eaten by me, DD reacts :( )
Its a much healthier way of living from where I sit, because a lot of the "bad" foods I used to eat KFC, cheeseburgers, potato chips, nacho cheese doritios etc all contain dairy - a lot easier to cut out when its for the baby rather than because I *shouldn't* have them :)