Milk and Egg Allergy

miri123

Thu, Mar 08 2007, 8:26 pm

hi momo, feel your worry and pain, I have 2 sons w/ milk and egg allergies among other allergies as well.
Challah: I just add more water 4 eggs is about 1 cup.
My neighbor makes cookies for my son and she adapts the recipe she changes eggs for apple j. or OJ they come out delicious.
I have a great chocolate cake w/o eggs that is delicious and the easysest ever, I will look up the recipe for you.
You could also look up online, I think epicurious.com has an allergies feature so u could look up recipes without those ingredients.
My son may have Dr Praegers fish sticks for breakfast or meatballs or chicken.
Hatzlacha u could PM me for more information.

Ima'la

Sun, Mar 11 2007, 4:09 am

My son has milk allergy (along with nut, peanut, sesame)...he eats cereal with soy milk for breakfast. If taste is a problem, there are different flavors available or you could try rice milk or almond milk.

How old is your child? Mine was diagnosed at a year, as soon as I started him on dairy. I think it makes it easier for him to accept b/c he's lived with it his whole life, so this is what he's used to. Also, it could be that he’s so accepting of it and never begs for food he’s not allowed to have because there were occasional times when he ate food he was allergic to by mistake and he remembers that the reaction was unpleasant (although, b”H, not life threatening).

It's not a big deal to give a baby (approx. under 2) different food from the rest of the family. Now that my son is a little older, I explained to him that sometimes we have milchigs for supper. I told him that when we have milchigs, I could heat up a pareve frozen schnitzel for him (there are a variety of healthy ones available that he likes), but if he feels bad that he can't eat what everyone else is eating, I'll just always make fleishigs for supper. He said that it's fine if I make milchigs and make him a schnitzel. In other situations, if people will be eating something he is allergic to, I try to make sure he has a good alternative – e.g. pareve ice cream instead of milchig, or another nosh instead of bamba. I also gave him a lollipop to keep in his knapsack in case nosh is given out in gan and he can’t eat it.

I think one of the most important things is to educate the child about his allergies. Teach him to ask whatever adult is in charge if he’s allergic to whatever snack has been distributed. A teacher or friend’s parent could easily forget. It’s important to say “allergic” because if the child just asks if he’s “allowed” to have it, the adult might not realize he’s referring to allergies. (When my son was little, he used to say, “Is this milchig for me?” He would say that bamba was “milchig” for him!) I recently heard of a child who was allergic to eggs and the class was baking and the teacher forgot and this child was given the job of cracking open all the eggs, and of course had a reaction. The first thing I thought was, "If the child is old enough to crack eggs, why didn't she know she is allergic to eggs?!" (To be dan l'kaf zechus, it could be that she didn't know she couldn't TOUCH them.)

Re: egg allergy, how sensitive is your child? Some people who are allergic to eggs can still have baked goods containing eggs if they are baked very well. That could make things a bit easier.

Sorry to go on and on - hope at least some of this was helpful!

Mom2girls

Mon, Mar 12 2007, 5:26 am

thanks for replies, I'd love your recipes please thanks!
my child is 6 and we thought was lactose intolerant for past 6 months so the milchig part we're used to - she knows to alwasy ask if milchig and she doesn't take it ( I also reward when she goes toa party and there's stuff she's not allowed - she gets points for it..) but now with the eggs she ;s really upset... I did go with her shopping to choose some cookies she can have for school and I'm busy the whole day telling her not to trade nash with her friends...
I'd love some cookies/cake recipes and genereal things
thanks!
ps she's not allergic to touching.. but if she eats eggs in any form/shape she gets severe stomache pains

suomynona

Mon, Mar 12 2007, 6:48 am

Here's a delicious and easy choc. cake recipe without eggs:

WACKY COCOA CAKE

3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups water
3/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons white vinegar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan.

Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in large bowl. Add water, oil, vinegar and vanilla; beat 3 minutes on medium speed of mixer until thoroughly blended. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Frost as desired. 12 to 15 servings.

granolamom

Tue, Mar 13 2007, 8:53 pm

my dd was mildly allergic to eggs and dairy when she was younger (mild meaning the blood test was positive, symptoms were rash and behavioral stuff).

we basically stopped eating kugels and had more salads, which was really better for everyone.

you can substitute 1/4 water for one egg in some recipes (such as challah).

for baking, I found that in many instances you can use tofu (use silken tofu, whip it a bit in a blender and 1/4 cup = 1 egg)

also you can make egg free mayo from tofu too

miri123

Tue, Mar 13 2007, 9:40 pm

suomynona wrote:

Hey I've almost the same recipe or the same (didn't chck yet) from the Moosewood cookbook but I don't use the blender just do it by hand and also I ad coffee, the vinegar is the last thing I ad. It is delicious nobody would think that doesn't have eggs. It's so easy that you dd could make it and she will feel really proud of herself and maybe complain less ?
Many of the regular packaged cookies don't have eggs.
Granola bars are a yummy treat and no eggs.
BTW I frosted with a mixture of peanut butter and honey, it was yum.