kathy

Having very difficult time finding pre-packaged foods for 19 mo old. She is a very picky eater. You would think that for someone that can't eat just anything she would be chowing down on whatever was put in front of her. She still relies on the Neocate for her main source of nutrition. I have even tried cutting back but she just goes hungry w/o it. She is in daycare and I work fulltime and can't always make something from scratch to put in her lunch.

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Cathy Gardner

Gerber makes a few quick foods. Their apple wagon wheels are a favorite of my 17 month old. Their Gerber Graduates White Turkey Stew with Rice is also milk-free. Disappointingly, they have been revising their product line and seem to be adding milk to many products which used to be milk free.

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kathy

It was pretty sneaky of Gerber to add milk and cheese to their chix and carrot pasta pick-ups. It really disappointed me since they were one of her favorites.

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Kellyann Carvalho

Try enjoy life foods usually found in speciality stores like Wild Oats health section of Shaws. My son is 2 1/2 and daugther 13 months they both like rice cakes, cheerios, corn flakes, puffed rice cereal, oat meal i use rice milk and water, tapioca bread with jelly, ruffles, tostitos, chicken in a can use mustard or oil to moisten, sorbet is frozen fruit they love it because they haev their own ice cream the brand i get is whole Fruit. Hope this was helpfull. i make a lot of theri food myself because my son is allergic to 5 thigns so finding stuff is hard. My son is on food strike also all he wants is his formula dont worry they go thru phases. I usually just offer some thing else for him to eat when he asks for his formula and if he refuses i let him have it. This is the third time thru a phases but they pass my doctor said as long as they are growing and healthy dont worry when they are hungry they will eat.

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kathy

If you don't mind my asking what formula is your son on. My daughter is almost two and just wondering what would be next at our two yr check-up as far as food. She is currently on Neocate but not too sure how much longer that will go on. I've tried her on some rice milk as a "treat" since I use it for cooking as a milk substitute but there is no way she will drink it.

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Lydia

Health food stores have alot of items to choose from. Some of the things I've found are Mac N Chreese (found with the mac n cheese) which has no milk or soy, you choose which kind of milk to use (I use regular rice milk). Also found an all natural hot dog (no milk soy or even preservatives) at Walmart, I can't remember the brand but I want to say it was something with farm in the name they are expensive, like $4 for 8 but my son loves them and they are fast and healthy. Snacks- fruit bars similar to nutrigrain bars I found these in the health food section of my grocery store (these are wheat free, milk and soy free, and preservative free). Graham crackers. Veggie stix, these are in with the natural chips they are made with spinach, carrots and potatos, so my son is getting a little bit of veggies in his diet (but he doesn't know it).

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Eric Rubin

Hi there. I am interested in this topic because my wife and I are both mildly lactose intolerant and we are pregnant. We are worried about our child's allergies and I've been doing some reading about alternatives, especially goat milk. We found this amazing product, Laloo's Goat Milk Ice Cream, that does not cause the typical cow milk reaction in our body.

I'm not a doctor, but I have done a lot of research on this issue. Read below if you are interested...
Not all milk has the same effects on the body. Of course when you compare one milk to another milk, the results will be somewhat similar. But there are some differences that need to be highlighted - mainly the digestability factor for lactose intolerant people:

* Unlike cow's milk, goat's milk does not contain agglutinin. As a result, the fat globules in goat's milk do not cluster together, making them easier to digest.

*goat milk is reported to contain more of the essential fatty acids linoleic and arachnodonic acids, in addition to a higher proportion of short-chain and medium-chain fatty acids. These are easier for intestinal enzymes to digest.

*Goat milk protein forms a softer curd (the term given to the protein clumps that are formed by the action of your stomach acid on the protein), which makes the protein more easily and rapidly digestible.

*Goat's milk contains only trace amounts of an allergenic casein protein, alpha-S1, found in cow's milk.

*Goat's milk contains slightly lower levels of lactose (4.1 percent versus 4.7 percent in cow's milk), which may be a small advantage in lactose-intolerant persons.

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