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If your baby is dairy/soy intolerant, what do YOU eat?
treble_clef
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My baby has been reacting to something I'm eating since 3 weeks old or so. So I've been avoiding dairy, and although she is less gassy, her stool has still been mucousy and green. Recently I also noticed that she might be intolerant with citrus. I haven't tried avoiding soy, just because it's so hard for me to avoid it...I know I'm a bad mom, but soy seems to be in everything including my prenatal vitamins... Now her pediatrician told me to cut out soy from my diet as well, and I'm wondering what I can eat... Cooking two kinds of dinner for my family seems like a nightmare to me...
Do you have any recipes or food recommendations? TIA!!
m/c - Dec 2005,
DS - March 27, 2007,
m/c - Oct 2009,
DD - Feb 20, 2012
Proud mother of two breech babies:)
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Re: If your baby is dairy/soy intolerant, what do YOU eat?
It's really not bad once you get used to it. You need to eat a ton to make up for the lack of variety. Also, most rice milk is calcium fortified, so that's an easy way to get calcium. I am completely dairy and soy-free (no soy lecithin or anything). Here are my favorite things:
Breakfast: honey nut cheerios, fortified rice milk, eggs made w/o butter, whole foods pork breakfast sausages (great way to get calories and fat)
Lunch: whole foods touch of honey whole wheat bread, applegate farms deli meat, tuna w/ dairy/soy free mayo
Snacks: stacy's simply naked pita chips, tortilla chips, salsa, back to nature crispy wheat crackers, avocado
Dinner: anything from the meat counter - pork, chicken, steaks, lamb, ground turkey, etc with spice rubs (most of these are soy/dairy free in my experience); alexia sweet potato fries, puffs, potato wedges, etc, corn with salt&pepper instead of butter; applegate farms chicken sausages w/ marinara sauce and pasta
Dessert: back to nature california lemon or madagascar vanilla cookies, almond milk chocolate pudding
My biggest advice to you is to eat as much as a teenage football player. I have and I'm 10 lbs lighter than pre-pregnancy (I was slender to begin with) and still losing. I eat more than my 6'3" DH at every meal. If you're dairy-free, it's next to impossible to get enough fat and calories to continue to make milk if you're eating like a normal human being.
I'm dairy free and mostly soy free. I do most of the cooking and we barely notice the difference. You have to cook from scratch and eating out is difficult. Here are some ideas:
breakfast: eggs, toast, jam, nut butters, avocado, fruit.
lunch: sandwich with meat, salad, hummus, chips.
dinner: hamburgers, grilled chicken, pasta, falafel and pita, grilled veggie salad, homemade pizza w/o cheese (surprisingly good), herb crusted pork tenderloin, black bean burgers, sausage with cabbage slaw.
treats: cookies, fruit crisp (sub oil for the butter works great), brownies, carrot cake.
What are your typical meals that you are having trouble modifying?
Thank you for your replies!
I'm having problems with having to really plan ahead to cook so that there is food when I'm hungry I guess. I used to like milk shakes or yogurt for quick snack to add calorie, but that's out. If I can't think of anything else I can eat, I end up starving, so I'm losing a lot of weight. I have to look into what I can really eat that's quick.
Also, I can't put my husband and my son go on the elimination diet with me, so I have to cook for them separately, which takes extra time...
I would totally do this for my daughter, but I need some help coming up with meal and snack ideas... I bake my won bread to make sure there is not dairy or soy in it. Maybe there are more recipes for people in my situation???
Proud mother of two breech babies:)
Mspimama.com is a good site for recipes as well as intolerantoffspring.com
You really don't have to cook two separate meals for you and the rest of your family. My H still eats dairy. If we have baked potatoes, he has butter cheese and sour cream and I just have a little earth balance and salt and pepper. You really just have to sub out the butter and you can sub rice milk for dairy in just about anything without issue.
If you like ice cream, try some made with coconut milk, it's really good!
My dinners are mostly meat, like grilled chicken or fish and veggies. Original crescent rolls are dairy and I believe soy free as well. If you make your own bread, almond butter and jelly sandwhiches are good! For snacks, I like fesh fruit, pretzels, Oreos, plain lays, tortilla chips and guacamole.
Breakfast is easy. There ate tons of cereals you can eat, you just have to check labels or you can do oatmeal.
I do a lot of sandwhiches for lunch, again, just check the labels to make sure they are casein free. Apple gate farms is good and hormel naturals is ok too.
Hope this helps! The only time I find it really difficult is eating out
Proud mother of two breech babies:)