So this just in… my 10 month old girl, Nina, has been diagnosed with three food allergies: milk, eggs, peanuts.
This was, at first, devastating news. Will the allergies fade away? Peanuts, not likely, but milk and eggs, maybe. What kind of milk? What part of milk? Don’t know. The allergist just said to stop having any dairy, eggs or nus in our house. We are now living the life of meat eating vegans, without nuts.
This food allergy trinity makes it very challenging to buy prepared or packaged foods. Everything has the small fine print disclaimer: processed in a facility that also processes milk, eggs and/or peanuts and tree nuts. This little bit of copy means that box, or bag, or can of food is off limits. It might as well be an anthrax popsicle, as far as my 10 month old is concerned, or so the allergist wants us to believe. The trinity also makes impossible to eat food from restaurants, because they all use butter, or cheese, or cream, of nuts, or eggs in some way or another.
So, we’ve been cooking — everything — from scratch. It’s good because it’s healthier, but it’s very time consuming. Maybe we’ll have to get a box freezer and cook in bulk.
Keep an eye out for recipes that are milk, egg, and nut free.
Talking to Kazumi about it… she recommends looking into Macrobiotic cooking – for starters you can check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobiotic_diet but there are many other resources.
The more I think about your meat-full veganism, it’s maybe a good idea to start a site (this one?) with recipes… For now, you will have to do some of the heavy lifting, but by creating a site for these kinds of recipes, you will attract other parents in a similar situation – and all of these people will have their own solutions to contribute.
From a quick Google search there are many Allergy sites, but all of them want to be everything for everybody. Nowadays the web is big enough to support small sites that have a laser-sharp focus on only one issue. And this sounds like something you have to deal with either way, so you can as well make it the focus of a website. I think meateatingvegans.com is still available.