Dairy free and egg free sausage rolls with brown rice and veggies

Slow cooker hedgehog meatballs

Dairy free and egg free 4th Birthday Buffet

Dairy free and egg free chocolate birthday cake

Summer dessert

More slow cooked lamb, something for nothing

Slow cooked lamb

Afternoon tea

Chocolate cake, apricot jam filling and a very OTT topping of sprinkles and marshmallows ... 

Chocolate chip muffins

Meal planning Monday

Monday - Chicken cacciatore in the slow cooker, jacket potatoes, steamed broccoli 

Tuesday - Sausage and noodle stir fry 

Wednesday - Gammon steaks, boulangere potatoes, coleslaw 

Thursday - Pizza with leftover gammon on top and peppers and olives, salads, new potatoes 

Friday - Last of the leftover gammon in a risotto with butternut and peas 

Saturday - Duck breasts with a tangy orange sauce, sweet potato mash, steamed carrots, broccoli and corn 

Sunday - Tuna, courgette, basil and tomatoey pasta 

Dairy free and egg free crumpets

The recipe made 45 ... they should have lasted for ages and I had high hopes of stashing some in the freezer but nope ... eaten in one day.  

Dairy free and egg free summer birthday cake

TV dinner, a picnic on the carpet

I was ill ... boys were loving it!  Check out the dairy free cheese that looks like Red Leicester.

Dairy free and egg free fairy cakes for birthday parties

We take our own cakes to birthday parties ... recent versions have included adding jelly babies and Octonauts rice paper toppers to the basic iced fairy cake ... the ones below were dairy, egg and gluten free so that Grandma could share them as well.  

Meal planning Monday

Monday - cherry tomato, bacon and basil fusilli

Tuesday - butternut soup with home made bread rolls 

Wednesday - broccoli and chicken noodles 

Thursday - bolognese calzones, avocado salad 

Friday - baked breaded cod, potato wedges, peas 

Saturday - chicken risotto casserole 

Sunday - sausages with oven roasted ratatouille, boulangère potatoes

Chicken and veggie risotto with grated soy cheese!

The continuing saga of finding a soy cheese that is acceptable to The Allergic One

Over the past couple of years I've spent considerable time, effort and money pursuing what I had thought was a fruitless search for a soy cheese that The Allergic One likes.  They all seem rather, er, odd to my taste buds and we have thrown out so many.  I have settled for a long time with Tofutti cheddar style slices but The Allergic One often questioned why the cheese served with his spag bol was torn rather than grated.  At long last I am happy to report that he is officially more than partial to Tesco's own brand soy cheese ... it is now a regular feature at family meal times and The Allergic One is able to use the long coveted 'wooden-box-grater-thingy', just like his brother.  

Meal planning Monday

Monday - the boys are four so a birthday BBQ with new potatoes and salads.  Chocolate cake, strawberries and ice cream 

Tuesday - Hedgehog meatballs, sweet potato mash and broccoli 

Wednesday - Chicken hotpot 

Thursday - Brown rice sausage rolls, jacket potatoes, salads 

Friday - Slow cooker spag bol

Saturday - leftover spag bol with jacket potatoes and salad 

Sunday - BBQ burgers and salads 

Dairy free and egg free chocolate loaf cake

This is lush!  Perhaps the best ever vegan chocolate cake?  Would be great for picnics or as a summer dessert served with ice cream and fresh berries.  

Makes 2 loaf cakes, line loaf tins 
Mix 300g plain flour, 100g cocoa, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp bicarb, 150g dairy free marg, 150g sugar, 250g golden syrup and 300 ml just boiled water 
Bake for 35 minutes or until skewer comes out clean at 170 degrees fan oven 

Dairy free and egg free pain au chocolat (sort of)

Right ... seeing as I can't do anything about The Allergic One's allergies or the fact that he seemingly can no longer enjoy a Pain Au Chocolat treat all I can do is Google like mad and try to find ideas of how to make a suitable dairy free and egg free version of said treat and bake my own ... ta dah! ... here it is ... using a bread dough rather than a pastry: 

Although I am duty bound to inform you of the sting in the tale that The Allergic One does not like them much, he prefers the other ones ... the ones that merited a trip to A&E.  Great!  Not. Grrrr.  

I loved them, could have eaten the whole batch ... low-carb diet or no low-carb diet.  

PS:
Price comparison, Jusrol pack of six make-your-own Pain Au Chocolat are £2.10 or 35p each.  My version (using Tesco prices: ingredients 400g strong white flour @ 25p, 1 sachet easy yeast @ 9p, 50g sugar @ 5p, glug of olive oil @ 9p, 150g Tesco value chocolate @ 45p and a good shake of icing sugar @ 10p) cost £1.03 for 16 of the little beauties, that's 6.4p each.  Got to love that. 

A Bank Holiday trip to A & E

On Bank Holiday Monday we had to take The Allergic One to A&E for the first time.  The culprit was a Jusrol Pain Au Chocolat which does not list eggs or dairy in the ingredients and he has eaten with relish many times before without reaction.  Our choice of breakfast was supposed to be a Bank Holiday breakfast treat.  

He had a few mouthfuls and began to scratch his face, he was rubbing his eyes and quite quickly, within a minute or two, his eyes began to puff up, his lips too and he was very upset telling us he couldn't talk properly.  We gave him anti-histamine but seeing as his reaction was so bad, the worst in several years, combined with the fact that he seemed to be having difficulty talking made us think we should take him to A&E to be checked out.  He was given the all-clear and was home a couple of hours later, thank you NHS.  

It is a worry, we avoid dairy and eggs strictly but had until this point been more relaxed about the 'may contain' warnings that food manufacturers use at the side of their ingredients lists.  If this is his reaction to small traces of the allergens then what would his reaction be if he ate larger amounts?  It's confusing as he has been eating these Pain Au Chocolat every few months or so for quite a while.  Has the recipe changed?  It's a great treat, he loves the taste and also enjoys making them.  Sad for me that he will now loose this treat and we have another item of food to add to the 'do not eat' list.  Plus, do we now need to avoid all foods that say 'may contain'?  

Meal planning Monday

Ah, my much neglected blog, I've been away looking after a newborn but somehow he's now almost four months so I might just have a teeny tiny amount of time to start to record all things dairy free and egg free once more ... although with this week being Half Term, perhaps not ... 

Here's what we'll be eating this week: 

Bank Holiday Monday - BBQ lunch - sunshine is forecast ... shock horror ... so will big old steak burgers with salads and new potatoes.  Strawberries and Swedish Glace for pud.

Tuesday - Bacon and veggie pasta 

Wednesday - Bacon and veggie pizza 

Thursday - Salmon fishcakes, sweet potato wedges, sweetcorn 

Friday - Fish and chips 

Saturday - Roast chicken, jersey royals, steamed asparagus, carrots and peas 

Sunday - Leftover chicken with butternut and pea risotto 

A little bit summery this weekend:

Dairy free and egg free weekly menu plan

Baby has now been  home for three weeks so we are still gladly raiding our stash of freezer meals to help us out when we are too tired or uninspired to cook much ... this week our food will look like this:

Friday: beans on toast, apple crumble and custard

Saturday: beef, veggies and barley from the freezer made into pasties, served with steamed broccoli

Sunday: roasted gammon joint, jacket potatoes, salad

Monday: prawn and corn rosti, sweet potato wedges, salad

Tuesday: beef, veggies and lentils from the freezer, with tacos and salad

Wednesday: veggie burgers from the freezer, home made bread rolls, potato wedges and salad

Thursday: breaded fish from the freezer, jacket potatoes, peas 

Vegan vanilla slice

Vegan victoria sponge

Granary bread

What we cooked today

Today we cooked:

1) more granola

2) more pizza sauce

3) a kilo of ham, for lunch sandwiches ... and pizzas

4) nice salads

5) dairy free pizzas!