Parenting a healthy child is a big enough responsibility. Parenting a child with food allergies raises the challenge to a whole new level. There is reading the food labels, considering allergy treatment, warning other parents before birthday parties and adapting your cooking to egg-free recipes.
Egg is a useful ingredient in cooking, because of its binding and emulsifying properties. Substituting may be tricky. When eggs are used to bind a mixture for baking, replace them with a similar amount of liquid (water, soya milk or juice), approx 2-3 tbsp per egg.
In baked recipes that require a bit of lift, use one of the following for each egg replaced: half a small, ripe mashed banana, 3-4 tbsp soft tofu blended with the liquid ingredients of the recipe or a heaped tbsp of soya flour mixed with 1-2 tbsp of water.
For binding, replace every egg with: 2-3 tbsp tomato paste, 2 tbsp cornflour or potato starch, 2 tbsp mashed potato or mashed sweet potato or 2 tbsp quick cooking oatmeal.
Egg-free recipes to get you started:
· Cheesy potato bake (it’s also gluten-free!)
· Chickpea salad
· Pasta with peas and bacon (also a budget dish)
· Creamy chicken casserole (also gluten-free).
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If your child has a gluten allergy or a gluten intolerance, you suddenly realise just how many convenience foods contain gluten: from bread and pasta to things like bottled sauces and even baking powder!
It’s possible to buy gluten-free bread and biscuits, but it’s usually cheaper to make them at home. And it’s less trouble than you think with delicious family recipes such as these, so easy even the kids can cook them:
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In Australia, peanut allergies have been on the rise for the past few decades, probably due to the repeated exposure we get from processed food. Peanuts are ground-growing nuts, not tree-growing nuts, and it may be that your child is allergic to only peanuts, or only tree nuts (hazelnuts, walnuts, macadamias), but not both. If you’re not sure, avoid both.
Of all the food allergies, nut allergies are responsible for more emergency situations than other food allergies. If your child is allergic to nuts, please make sure both she and the people in her environment understand the gravity of the situation. If your child is very allergic, it’s best never to keep nuts in the house nor even eat nuts yourself outside the house.
Nut-free recipes are fairly common, as well as common-sense. Provided you cook everything yourself in a nut-free kitchen, and provided you read all labels, your cooking should be free of all traces of nuts. Nevertheless, here are a few nut-free recipes to get you started:
If you’re not confident about reading food labels on ready-bought foodstuffs, Eating Safe is a tool that analyses shopping items for you.
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Lactose allergy is best known as cow’s milk allergy. Children who suffer from lactose intolerance don't produce the right digestion enzymes to break down the sugar found naturally in milk products (lactose). The undigested lactose ferments causing tummy aches.
Managing your child’s lactose intolerance is not as simple as removing dairy products from your diet, because dairy products are still healthy and good for your child provided the lactose has been removed (through a natural process called fermentation, or even through heat. Read more about it here.)
If your child has a food allergy or intolerance, you will need many recipes to convert your home cooking into allergy-safe cooking. Lactose-free cooking is easier than you think. Next time you’re making dinner for the family, try one of the following lactose-free recipes:
Discover more recipes online in a fun social forum for parents: Kidspot Social, where parents go for me-time. Find out what’s for dinner in their house tonight - feel inspired… or less guilty about your own offering.
Lactose intolerance in babies is a different issue altogether, and its handling depends on whether you are breastfeeding or bottle-feeding.
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Homemade bread is the stuff fairytale parenthood is made of: a smiling serene mother with her hands in yeasty dough, a crowd of smiling serene children who sniff the air appreciatively when the shiny warm homemade loaf comes out of the oven… right? Yeah right.
While freshly baked bread may not be the perfect answer to children’s tantrums and mum’s cabin fever, it is a lot cheaper and healthier to eat. Here are some easy family recipes for homemade bread:
Do you have a favourite recipe for homemade bread? Share them online with other mums and dads at Kidspot Social. And here is one of mine: take your favourite homemade bread recipe and add a Tablespoon of all of the following (unless the recipe already calls for it or unless you are allergic to one of the ingredients): poppy seed, quiona, flax seed, sunflower seed, sesame seed, bran.
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