Friday - Dinner

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Friday - Dinner

Spaghetti (from freezer)

Cooked carrots (cut carrots in strips, boil with brown sugar and water for 15 minutes or until tender)

Strawberries, not pictured.

Soy Milk

Friday - Lunch

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Friday - Lunch

Chicken soup  (another meal from the freezer.  I will either freeze a little after making a big batch or make batch just for freezing. I will omit the noodles for freezing and add when re-heating or omit all together.  Today I used alphabet pasta.   I freeze the soup in a baby food jars -- the one pictured is 6 oz.  I love using these frozen soups when traveling.  First they are frozen to start so they can slowly unthaw in the cooler.  Second they are easy to prepare.  Heat in microwave for a minutes. Third it's packed full of meat and vegetables.  Another variation of this is vegetable soup.  Also see my recipes on how to make your own chicken stock or vegetable stock)

Applesauce

Soy Milk


Banana Bread, not pictured (also not dairy-free, but she tolerated baked goods with milk and egg) 

Friday - Breakfast

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Friday - Breakfast

Eggo waffles with maple syrup.   These waffles do have milk and egg in them, but our daughter is able to tolerate milk and egg in baked goods.  And I think it's good to get whatever she can tolerate in her system.   We haven't had these in months, but I scored a box for 75 cents at Target this week using a coupon matched with a sale.  

Banana


Soy Milk

Second Breakfast: Cheerios

Thursday - Dinner

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Thursday - Dinner

Pork chops (from freezer, we grilled them a couple weeks ago and froze a couple extra for a quick dinner), BBQ sauce

Corn on the Cob

Wild Rice

Grapefruit 


Strawberries, not pictured.  Silly toddler didn't eat them at lunch, but when she saw them on the table tonight wanted to eat them.  She ate four the size of her hand.

Soy Milk

Thursday - Lunch

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Thursday -Lunch

Sunbutter and Jelly Sandwich, sweet potatoes (follow these directions), fresh strawberries

Thursday - Breakfast

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Thursday - Breakfast

Rice Krispies, Raisins, Soy Milk

Pretty simple breakfast today.  

Wednesday - Dinner

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Wednesday - Dinner

Nachos (just use vegan cheese instead of dairy).  Note:  I make our daughter's nachos in a separate dish and bake next to ours in the oven.  Hardly any extra time to do, but took me a long time to realize that I could do it.  Why are the simplest ideas the hardest to come up with?

Leftover applesauce from lunch

Soymilk

I use the taco shells from the kit.  I heat them in oil for a couple minutes, then break into bite size pieces.  I also use the sauce packet with the beans to mash them into refried beans.  I save the taco seasoning packet for future taco meal.  PS.  I go this extra cheap at Target -- I used a $1/2 coupon when they were priced $1.79 each.  Making this only $1.29 for 12 tacos, 3 oz taco sauce and taco seasoning.

I bought these black beans for only 99 cents.  After cooking them, I usually freeze them in 1 cup portions for meals such as this.  Quick and easy and good for you too.

This is the small baking dish I use when I am making a meal separate and dairy-free for our daughter.  It also came with a lid for those meals when she doesn't eat it all and I can just pop it in the fridge for a backup meal later in the week.

Our "real" cheesy nachos on the left.  Our dairy-free toddler's nachos on the right.

Snacks:  No AM snack (slept in again), No PM snack either (she's took a long nap that just about ran into dinner).  She must be growing, again!


Note:  She has a water cup available to her all day long.

If you have missed any other meals from this week, be sure to go here!

Wednesday - Lunch

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Wednesday - Lunch

Tofurky, Smiles, Applesauce, Soy Milk with ketchup and mustard

Wednesday - Breakfast

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Wednesday- Breakfast

Banana -- our daughter for one reason or another won't eat a banana with other food.  By that I mean if the banana is on her plate with other food, she won't eat it.  But if I give it to her by itself before the meal, she'll eat it gone.  So that 's what we do.  I also let her peel it to keep her involved.

Blueberry Pancakes with Maple Syrup -- I make in bulk and freeze.  Simply put in toaster or microwave when ready to eat.  Use a pizza cutter to cut.

Soy Milk

Second breakfast:  Kashi Honey Sunshine cereal -- guess that's the favorite of the week.

Tuesday - Dinner

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Tuesday Dinner

Crockpot Chicken
I took the original idea for this recipe from A Year of Slow Cooking.  I just love her blog!


Family Pack of Leg Quarters
2 tsp kosher salt (if you'd like it as salty as the ones in the store, add another 1 tsp.)
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp Italian seasoning
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp black pepper
pinch of chili powder
**Do not add any liquid.  I also add four garlic cloves to the crockpot.**


Simply mix spices together and rub on chicken. Put in crockpot for 6 hours on low.   

Potatoes:  I used leftover potatoes from Sunday.  I made some feta potatoes for us.

Canned Green Beans


Grapefruit 


Snacks: No am snack-- she woke up late and we ate an early lunch before going to the pool.
PM Snack: Enjoy Life Snack Bar, water

Tuesday - Lunch

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Tuesday Lunch

Mic and Cheese (we call it that because it's Mickey shaped pasta), Fresh Raspberries, Peas (used from Sunday), Soy Milk

Tuesday-Breakfast

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Tuesday Breakfast

Cinnamon Spice Oatmeal with Raisins and Soy Milk to drink.  When the soy milk is gone she drinks water.

Second breakfast:  Our daughter is often still hungry after eating oatmeal, so I give her a second breakfast that usually is cereal and more dried fruit.

Sunday - Dinner

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Goulash
Ingredients: Ground Beef (we buy a quarter cow every year), tomato soup, macaroni noodles (note these are made in a facility with egg, however we have never had a problem eating them), Green Peppers, Onions, Frozen cherry tomatoes

Mashed Potatoes: Ours had milk.  Hers just had Earth's Balance Spread.  After boiled, I put hers in a seperate bowl.

Salad: Spinach, carrot, cucumber, Italian Dressing (dairy-free)

Motts Country Berry Applesauce.  She also drank soy milk with the meal.




Today's Snacks
AM: Kashi Heart to Heart Cereal, Fruit Crisps
PM: Teddy Grahams, Prunes, Water

Sunday -Lunch

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Sunday Lunch

Alphabet Spaghetti (1/3 cup Eden Organic Alphabet pasta, 4 oz Hunts tomato sauce, Vegan Grated Topping sprinkled on top).  Sometimes I make extra and refrigerate for future meal.  I also buy 8 oz Tomato sauce cans and freeze the other half in a baby food jar.  I find Hunts Tomato Sauce on sale for 33 cent to as low as 25 cents at Walgreens.   

Frozen Peas.  I put about 1/4 cup in small serving bowl (keep the rest frozen in freezer bag) with a couple tablespoon of water.  I heat in microwave for 1 minute.  If she doesn't eat all then I save for a future meal.

Fresh Raspberries

Sunday-Breakfast

**This is a week-long series that will detail the food that I feed my almost 3-year-old who has multiple food allergies, including dairy, egg, tree nuts, and peanuts.  Each day I will detail the food she eats for her meal.  I will update snacks with the dinner menu.  Included you will see how I menu plan and prepare meals for the allergic child. I will be starting Sunday (although I will be skipping Monday).**

Breakfasts at our house are pretty simple.  We have a couple open cereal boxes to choose from, Quaker Oatmeal (single packs), and pancakes or waffles (I make in bulk and freeze).  We usually have fresh or dried fruit.  It works for us.  Plus I can let our daughter decided what she wants to eat and she gets to earn a little independence.

Sunday's Breakfast

Today our daughter choose Quaker Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal- Low Sugar. 

I heat up water in measuring cup.

Mix all together in bowl.

Served with soy milk.

Today's second breakfast: Kashi Honey Sunshine and Craisins. Often after finishing her oatmeal, she is still hungry.  I usually give her some cereal with dried fruit until she's full.

When her soy milk is gone, she will drink water.

Coming this week: How I prepare Meals

I think the biggest struggle for me initially with having a dairy-free child was planning and preparing meals. This week (in almost real time) I will post our meals for the week and how it works for us.  I'll post each day, three meals a day -- I'll be starting on Sunday (but will be skipping Monday).

Maybe you can pick up a tip or two along the way.