A guide to how much food to bring in with you for your child's food challenge or supervised feed
| Food being tested |
Amount |
Examples |
| peanut |
35g |
either whole nuts, ground nuts, peanut butter |
| bamba peanut snack |
50g |
2 packs |
| tree nuts |
25g |
either whole nuts, ground nuts, or nut butter |
| milk (cow's milk or soya) |
250mls or 100mls |
yoghurt, Nesquik or flavoured yoghurts can be used
|
| cooked egg |
1 to 2 |
eggs, omelette, hard boiled, scrambled (needs to well cooked) |
|
cakes (baked egg or baked milk)
|
3 fairy cakes |
recipes available on our website
|
|
fish
|
60g |
cooked, can be fresh or tinned
|
|
shellfish
|
75g
|
cooked |
| sesame |
tahini paste: 20g sesame snaps: 35g |
|
| lentils or beans |
110g |
cooked, can be fresh or tinned |
| fruits |
100g |
|
We recommend that you bring a little extra of the food your child is being tested for to accommodate for any spillages.
We'll need to weigh out a portion of the food. You're welcome to bring in extra food separately to eat with the tested food.
For example, if you bring ground nuts and fruit puree, we could mix them together after we have weighed out a portion of the ground nuts.