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Anonymous
| I make my son his food, we just found out that he is allergic to eggs? Almost 80% of the recipes I find for him (ex pancakes, meat balls) have eggs in the ingredients. What can I substitute it with? |
Anonymous
| For things like pancakes and baked goods you can use "Egg Replacer" which comes in a box from health food stores. I can't remember the brand name. |
maria
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I haven't tried it, but you can use ground flax seeds mixed with water:
http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/replacing-eggs-with-flax/ |
Anonymous
| Not a cooking substitution, but you can buy Vans brand frozen waffles at Giant or WholeFoods. They're egg-free. |
Anonymous
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My son is also allergic to eggs, so we've thought about this quite a bit. Eggs have different roles in different recipes, and there's no replacement that works in all situations. For cookies & cakes, I find that the boxed egg replacer (Enter-G, or something like that, is the brand name; you can get it at health food stores) does an OK job of binding the ingredients together for baking. For pancakes, you may want to use ground flaxseed, mixed with a bit of water and whipped, to encourage fluffiness. Applesauce is useful in some baked goods to get a rich, moist texture that can also come from eggs.
You might also want to look for recipes that are written to be egg-free. Substituting anything is a trial-and-error process; egg-free recipes mean that someone else has already done that work for you. I really love the Veganomicon cookbook; everything is egg-free (as well as dairy-free). And for special occasions, I love the cakes at Sticky Fingers, the vegan bakery in Columbia Heights. |
Anonymous
| ener-g egg replacer. it works well for things like cookies. |
Anonymous
| You can also buy egg replacer at Whole Foods and Wegmans. I've found Wegmans a great place to shop for my child with multiple food allergies. |
Anonymous
| I also strongly suggest you join the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, which happens to be in Fairfax but is a nationwide advocacy and information organization for food allergies. It will provide you all the information you need as a new food-allergy parent, and also publishes allergy-friendly recipes in newsletters and cookbooks. I've been a member for the 9 years+ I've been raising a food allergic kid, and this is the one thing that has made life easier for me. Foodallergy.org. |
Anonymous
| Bakin' Without Eggs is another great cookbook for baked goods and there are several recipes for pancakes. |
Anonymous
| In baked goods, 1 tbs ground flax seed + 3 tbs water mixed together until it becomes gooey, can sub for each egg |
Anonymous
| Applesauce has worked well in baked goods I have prepared. |