Author Topic: UK - wheat/dairy/egg free bread? (Read 6131 times)

Buntybear · « **on:** January 25, 2011, 19:52:29 pm »

I have been buying Ener-G bread at Sainsbury's but they have stopped doing it! Help! A lot of gluten free breads seem to have egg in - even that Genius bread I keep hearing about.

Any recomendations please??

jesie · « **Reply #1 on:** January 25, 2011, 20:16:30 pm »

Can I just tag in here cos I would also love some everything free bread.

Or a receipe, have you tried? I tried and it was awful

Buntybear · « **Reply #2 on:** January 25, 2011, 20:40:14 pm »

Oh no, not going to try

Loved that bread as would keep in the fridge for 10 days. Homemade never would $:-\$

Think I am going to have to try and Asda or Tesco tomorrow and see what they have to offer.

squeakersmum · « **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2011, 20:52:17 pm »

Asda definitely have a free from range...not sure if it's free from all the things you're looking for though.

squeakersmum · « **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2011, 21:07:31 pm »

http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/premadelists/premadelistscontainer.jsp?premadeListId=1214976584037

This is the White bread from the asda site - they have some other bits and pieces too.

L76 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 25, 2011, 21:15:45 pm »

I've been buying Tesco free from range for my DS. They do a brown loaf.

It actually tastes really nice. Especially toasted.

Buntybear · « **Reply #6 on:** January 25, 2011, 21:21:35 pm »

Steph - is it the Dietary Special one? I forgot to say that we are off soya too so can't have that

Thanks Leanne - Tesco won't let me look at their products without registering with them and suppying my e-mail, contact details and inside leg measurement

. Was thinking about going in tomorrow as going past one anyway.

L76 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2011, 21:24:40 pm »

I just tried to check the tesco site (I am registered with all measurements!!!) but the bread I bought didn't come up on the search. I seem to remember on the packet it did say New. I was going to check the egg thing for you but i am sure it is egg free. I've thrown our last packet out as I slice and freeze mine.

Buntybear · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2011, 21:35:40 pm »

Thanks I will pop in tomorrow and have a look. Going crazy as toast is our fave stand by for our allergic bub!

jesie · « **Reply #9 on:** January 25, 2011, 21:49:39 pm »

I looked in our Tesco yesterday and they all had egg. But if you do find anything I'd love to know

Buntybear · « **Reply #10 on:** January 26, 2011, 14:29:00 pm »

I have scowered Tesco and Sainsburys today but to no avail. Sainsbury's did say they haven't discontinued Energ-i but it is 'on hold'. FX it comes back as we are lost without it.

L76 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 26, 2011, 15:00:39 pm »

I'm off to Tesco later so going to check for you. Will let you know.

Buntybear · « **Reply #12 on:** January 29, 2011, 15:12:19 pm »

Well I have trawled Sainsbury's/Tesco and Asda now and can't find anything Olly can have. Have had to order it on line as Olly is teething and off his food - we need this bread! £16 for 3 loaves!

jesie · « **Reply #13 on:** January 29, 2011, 18:15:31 pm »

Wow, that's made me want to try making it again!

(just realised your LO is 2 days younger than mine

)

Buntybear · « **Reply #14 on:** January 29, 2011, 19:27:27 pm »

Happy 1st birthday for 2 weeks ago then George!

Is it George or yourself that needs the bread??

jesie · « **Reply #15 on:** January 29, 2011, 20:18:59 pm »

Happy birthday your little munchkin too

It's for George, he can't have gluten, egg or dairy at the mo

hoping as he gets older it will change though.

Buntybear · « **Reply #16 on:** January 29, 2011, 20:43:57 pm »

Ohhh it is hard isn't it. I still BF so I follow it too. Having a wobble tonight as diet is so restricted, feeling very sorry for myself

chips again!

What kind of foods do you give George?

jesie · « **Reply #17 on:** January 29, 2011, 21:27:38 pm »

G eats the same things over and over

Breakfast is Nairns(?) Gluten free porridge or musli with 1/2 a banana.
(last week we tried rice krispies but they didn't like him so we now know he can't have barley)

He eats rice and Annibel karmels egg, dairy and gluten free pasta with various things for lunch. I buy a Tesco tomato pasta sauce, heinz baby Mediterranean veg sauce, I make a mushroom sauce and add things like ham, tuna, chicken and also make a fish sauce.

For tea he'll have things like shepherds/cottage pie, stew, various meats and veg, jacket pot, beans and ham or tuna etc. Fish pie.

I cook everything, portion it and freeze it. If I can he'll have what we have but that's very rare.

Our local chippy does gluten free fish and chips on the last Tuesday of the month so we had that for the first time this week and it went down a treat

He has lots of fruit, he can't eat plum, but not had a problem with anything else.
Fruit and jelly is a nice treat.

I make biscuits. (but he'd rather have fruit)
Had a right mission trying to make an edible cake for his birthday, one was so bad it made my sister gag LOL

But i'm desperate for bread for his lunch.

Well done for sticking with it!
G went onto formula at 10 weeks, it was meant to be just while I was getting the dairy out my system, but I felt so rubbish, like I was poisoning him, I couldn't do it anymore

Buntybear · « **Reply #18 on:** January 29, 2011, 21:40:09 pm »

Wow sounds like you are fabously with his meals! Olly refuses to eat most things I have made and so I don't bother with things like fish pie etc

which makes life harder. He prefers finger foods at the mo. Did try him with rice in a Tom sauce yesterday but again refused. Would you mind sharing the recipe for the mushroom sauce? I don't know whether it was the tomato he didn't like.

Now that is interesting re the rice crisps. nursery gave him that for first brekkie there on weds and he has been farting like a trooper ever since (sorry tmi!) and been having loads of NWs. Didn't know it had barley in it??

jesie · « **Reply #19 on:** January 29, 2011, 22:02:15 pm »

Yes and it was the dietitian who told me to give them to him to give him more of a variety, so I did. Didn't know barley had gluten in it until I asked on here as by day 3 there were big problems I didn't like

so stopped and he's back to normal now.

The mushroom sauce... I just chuck.it all in i'm afraid, but its
1 big tbsp lump of butter (dairy free)
2 heaped tbsp's of flour (gluten free, plain)
Milk... umm... about 16oz (formula - nutramigen aa)
Diced mushrooms (i guess this depends on how strong you want it to how many you put in, I use most a punet of small ones or about 3/4 large ones)

Melt butter, in sauce pan, add the flour, stir into a dough (i do this off the heat), add milk stiring in on the heat, I whisk it cos its easier to get no lumps. I do 8oz. Then make another 8oz and add what I need. Then add the mushrooms.
I leave it to cook on a low heat until I think the mushrooms are cooked. It will go a beige ish colour.

Obviously you can which ever butter, milk and flour you can use, are you just gluten free or more?

Sorry, I hope that's helpful, but as I said I just chuck.it all in.
I made the mistake one time of adding lots more flour to thickening it up, and it went really thick! It does get thicker as you cook and stir, if not them do add more flour, and if its too thick, add more milk.

I've been very lucky, G will eat anything I give him, apart from crumble

its the food that doesn't like him

do you think that's varied enough though? I just think its the same things over and over again.

Buntybear · « **Reply #20 on:** January 29, 2011, 22:11:46 pm »

Thanks, yes I just chuck things in for a white sauce so I will def give that a go. At nursery they shove a bowl in front of them and expect them to either feed themselves or they will feed them - neither of which works for Olly - so I am going to have to go back to things he can eat out of a bowl so he can practice

Normally we do porridge with oatmilk and fruit pot and GF toast for brekkie, lunch and dinner are chicken or salmon chunks with GF pasta or potato (discovered chips and hash brown this week

) and veg. Your menu sounds positively haute cuisine compared to us! I am a real foodie but am stumped at the mo.

I did know barley was gluten but never thought it would be in rice krispies! They can't do a scratch test for gluten so he wasn't tested for it. I am going to read up about it now as his wheat allergy was classic - hives, vomiting etc - coeliac disease sounds more of an GI problem

.

If you don't mind me asking what were your son's symptoms after eating barley?

Thanks for your help x

jesie · « **Reply #21 on:** January 29, 2011, 22:36:08 pm »

Day 1 he was a bit moody and tearful, but you know what it's like at this age, I didn't even consider the food, I thought teeth! Gave him calpol.
Day 2 after lunch I realised he had only pooed once on day 1 and not at all yet that day (he usually has a good 4 poos a day which i'm not 100% sure is normal bits a different story LOL) he was worse than day 1 very tearful, cuddly, sleepy, appeared uncomfortable and just plain unhappy. He had a poo at 4ish. It was hard and not nice for him to get out. After wards he was happy, laughed, ran around.... but it was short lived and only lasted half hour, then he started to get funny again. I had tried calpol which hadn't helped him at all and then I realised the poos which made me question the rice krispies.
Day 3 the same as day 2 but a bit worse, and I had given up on calpol by now. Had 1 poo which was even harder and uncomfortable for him than day 2!
Day 4 went back to normal cereal, he went back to day 2 symptoms, two poos which were softer
Day 5 was like day 1 but 2 poos again a little softer
Day 6 same as day 5
Day 7 4 poos, very happy monkey was back!

Oh and I was questioning a friend on day 3 that his happy leaked up to nipples and down to knees during the nights day 1 and 2 then I read up on barley and read a sign is excessive weeing and bed wetting, could this of been why his nappies were so wet? Day 3 also the same. Day 4 leaked but less, day 5 leaked less, then day 6 even less

Gluten has only effected his insides - which is why its so bloomin hard.
The others are so much easier
Egg covered his body in rash and made him sick
Plum was a rash
Dairy made him very ill effecting everything- skin, eyes, breathing, tummy, v&d etc

Buntybear · « **Reply #22 on:** January 29, 2011, 22:46:37 pm »

Thanks - just looked at report from nursery and it says he only tasted it but still looks like some went in. Have just looked at the coeliac sticky where it describes poos

as pale and they fell apart - we had these. Along with the excessive wind I thought it was a strange stomach bug, or that he had eaten something he was allergic too from one of the other babies plates. Now I am worried that it was the barley - will speak to nursery on monday and see if they can remember if he actually ate any. When I was there he was refusing it but after I left they may have got him to try some. Oh what a worry $:-\$

jesie · « **Reply #23 on:** January 29, 2011, 22:56:23 pm »

G's poos weren't pale, they went very dark! I remember thinking Blimey in a few more days it will be black! I wonder what that means?
I am hoping its more an intolerance than celiacs, and that he'll grow out of it. But then I am not willing to pump him full of it for 3 months to get tested either, especially when he reacted that way after 3 small bowls of krispies!
Dr did say though (we went to see him on Thursday) that the gluten in barley is a little different to the gluten in wheat and some can have one but not the other, and others can't if either (if that makes sense)

It is a worry yes. And they should be more vidulent. I'm from a nursery back ground so I know all to well. you are right to speak to them.
G has never eaten anything I haven't prepared, not even DH has prepared anything. He has a little lunch box which he loves to carry around LOL

jesie · « **Reply #24 on:** January 30, 2011, 10:36:45 am »

Forgot to say, the sauce makes 8 portions for G, so I portion it up and it freezes really well

Buntybear · « **Reply #25 on:** January 30, 2011, 11:04:56 am »

Thanks

phoned round all our local sainsburys stores and no one has it. Apparently it is on hold. DH has gone to buy some bread flour to make our own today!

jesie · « **Reply #26 on:** January 30, 2011, 11:14:11 am »

Good luck! I tried it in a bread maker machine and it was horrid, think will try by hand this time. You've given me the push to try today too!

Buntybear · « **Reply #27 on:** January 30, 2011, 11:25:10 am »

Actually dh has just phoned and we are going to try the DS brand of bread. It has soy in it but he is not allergic to soy, we are just not sure if he is intolerant. Still going to give it a go!

kerry,(kaceys mum) · « **Reply #28 on:** January 30, 2011, 17:43:15 pm »

I'm sure morrisons do a range also

KathrynK · « **Reply #29 on:** January 30, 2011, 17:46:41 pm »

Hello SIL
Didn't make it to Morrisons today but I will do tomorrow and will check for you x

Buntybear · « **Reply #30 on:** January 30, 2011, 20:39:49 pm »

Thanks x

jesie · « **Reply #31 on:** January 30, 2011, 22:05:48 pm »

Didn't make any bread today as every receipe I found I had something missing from it, and I found this website which told me how not get bread like I usually do, and I lost it and spent a good hour looking for it and couldn't find it again! Grrrr

Buntybear · « **Reply #32 on:** January 30, 2011, 22:08:09 pm »

Typical eh

Well this Dietary Specials bread was actually really nice! FX that Olly doesn't react to the soy

KathrynK · « **Reply #33 on:** January 31, 2011, 12:28:08 pm »

Went to Morrisons and they only had the DS bread. Maybe the bigger one in town will do something different, our little Morrisons here is pretty useless.

How did he get on after having the bread? xxxx

jesie · « **Reply #34 on:** January 31, 2011, 18:21:19 pm »

Have you tried scones?

I made some for DS this morning and as a really he had his first ever cold lunch!

So I bought some organix finger food snacks and fingers crossed we can start having a "normal" lunch

have given up on bread again until we re test his egg allergy I think.

also made some biscuits which he loved

Buntybear · « **Reply #35 on:** January 31, 2011, 18:26:19 pm »

No havent really made anything yet. Funny as I am a bit of a foodie and have been bought some GF/DF cookbooks from friends. Just too tired from the never ending NWs!

Good news tho, I spoke to nursery this morning and they dont think he had any rice crispies so panic about coeliacs diverted

jesie · « **Reply #36 on:** January 31, 2011, 19:00:28 pm »

I guess though most of the "fun" has gone out of your food hasn't it. People always say "oh poor George it's so unfair/must be so hard/he's missing out on so much" but I say for him its normal, he knows no other way. For you though, you do know another way so it must be hard.

That's great news, at least you can relax again now.

Buntybear · « **Reply #37 on:** January 31, 2011, 20:03:55 pm »

Yep - you have hit the nail on the head. There is only so many ways to serve a potato!

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Author Topic: UK - wheat/dairy/egg free bread? (Read 6131 times)