Highly allergic toddler! How to make sure her diet? - Page 2

[whooopsy]

Originally Posted by kjbrown92

It's on my blog (in my sig). Not sure if it's in the recipes sticky at the top of the page as well.

!! wow-i love your site !! its great that one can search by allergen. i already found some interesting dishes that i might try out :

here is the recipe from your website (i hope its ok to paste it in here)

--> i have a question: what is a yoghurt starter? i am not sure if we have that one in germany (where i live)...

Coconut Milk Yogurt

This is about 15 batches worth of work. I finally got the consistency and the taste right!

3 14-oz. cans of coconut milk (watch for additives like guar gum if you’re sensitive to legumes, and this does not work with low fat coconut milk - believe me, I’ve tried)

3 Tbs. Tapioca starch

1 tsp. corn-free vanilla extract

1-2 tsp. sugar

½ tsp. non-dairy, non-soy, non-wheat, etc. yogurt starter (I use GI Prohealth’s GI ProStart starter)

Heat the coconut milk, tapioca starch, vanilla, and sugar to 140°F (using candy thermometer), stirring occasionally. Remove from heat when it gets to 140°F, and let it cool to 90°F. Stir in yogurt starter. Pour into jars (I use a strainer to catch any tapioca that gelled) and incubate for 12 hours. Cover and refrigerate.

Side dish; Breakfast; no wheat, no tomato, no soy, no shellfish, no potato, no nuts, no milk, no legumes, no gluten, no egg, no corn, no citrus, no chocolate, no berries.

[Chinese Pistache]

Originally Posted by whooopsy

how do you deal with situations when your dd sees other kids eating something different and she is not allowed to eat it? what do you say when she wants to try it or looks sad because she cant?

I have food for my allergic kids at all time. Muffins, dry cereal, fruits, etc. I always take snacks when we go out so they never go without when other kids are eating. My dd goes to a little preschool two mornings a week. I gave her teacher a bag of safe suckers as treats for dd for prizes.

[whooopsy]

Originally Posted by Chinese Pistache

I have food for my allergic kids at all time. Muffins, dry cereal, fruits, etc. I always take snacks when we go out so they never go without when other kids are eating. My dd goes to a little preschool two mornings a week. I gave her teacher a bag of safe suckers as treats for dd for prizes.

yeah, i do the same! but sometimes my dd wants to try the stuff of the other kids and is sad that she cant...

[whooopsy]

@kjbrown92

can you make the coconut yoghurt also without / or with a substitute for yoghurt starter??? my daugther is higly allergic to milk and i understand that there is lactose in yoghurt starter so i suppose she cannot eat this...

[kjbrown92]

Originally Posted by whooopsy

!! wow-i love your site !! its great that one can search by allergen. i already found some interesting dishes that i might try out :

here is the recipe from your website (i hope its ok to paste it in here)

--> i have a question: what is a yoghurt starter? i am not sure if we have that one in germany (where i live)...

Actually there's a rule about posting other people's recipes... not sure where it is, but somewhere on the site it tells you what's okay/not okay to do.

The yogurt I use is www.giprohealth.com. It is considered non-dairy by the FDA (<2.5 ppm), but there is a minute (<2.5 ppm) amount in it. My kids and I are dairy, soy, corn, gluten (and more) intolerant and we've been using it for a while now (whenever I posted that recipe probably) and we tolerate it. But not sure if everybody does. It seems expensive but you only use a little per batch.

[whooopsy]

Originally Posted by kjbrown92

Actually there's a rule about posting other people's recipes... not sure where it is, but somewhere on the site it tells you what's okay/not okay to do.

The yogurt I use is www.giprohealth.com. It is considered non-dairy by the FDA (<2.5 ppm), but there is a minute (<2.5 ppm) amount in it. My kids and I are dairy, soy, corn, gluten (and more) intolerant and we've been using it for a while now (whenever I posted that recipe probably) and we tolerate it. But not sure if everybody does. It seems expensive but you only use a little per batch.

thanks for the info.

and sorry if i wasnt supposed to post your recipe.

[kjbrown92]

Originally Posted by whooopsy

thanks for the info.

and sorry if i wasnt supposed to post your recipe.

I'm okay with it since I've posted it on here before. But MDC put the rules in place so there aren't copyright issues. A link is usually good because someone can go to it if they want to (and it helps with "visits" on their website, to track the number of people who are actually looking at their blog/website).

I don't think there would be lactose in yogurt starter, but possibly remnants of casein. Though I don't know if there's <2.5 ppm of milk what part of the milk that would be in the giprohealth.com starter.

Can you make yogurt without starter? You have to have the right microbes in there.