[JoanneG]

My daughter has food intolerances and as a result our whole family diet has changed. I cook mostly from scratch so I'm not worried about convenience foods but how difficult will it be to find the following ingredients.

Rice Milk
Oat Milk
Soya Milk
Polenta
Cornflour
Gram (chickpea) Flour
Buckwheat Flour
Duck Eggs

[Ana&Steve]

Can't help with the rest, (not there yet!) but I have seen both Soy milk and
Polenta in several places.
Ana

[wiki]

I used to get rice milk in Te Anau which is tiny, so I think you'd have good luck with that in most places. Cornflour is really common (but in small packets as it's only really used for thickening)

for duck eggs you'd probably want a farm supplier

[Lupin]

My daughter has food intolerances and as a result our whole family diet has changed. I cook mostly from scratch so I'm not worried about convenience foods but how difficult will it be to find the following ingredients.

Rice Milk...no worries, you can get that from woolworths etc
Oat Milk...think I've seen this there too
Soya Milk....easy to get anywhere
Polenta...have some in my cupboard
Cornflour....no worries
Gram (chickpea) Flour....*think* I've seen it in Bin Inn...asian food stores might be the place to look for it, where are you planning on settling?
Buckwheat Flour...Not sure
Duck Eggs....not sure, haven't looked....but you could get ducks :D

HTH, Lupin

[nippa&pippa]

My daughter has food intolerances and as a result our whole family diet has changed. I cook mostly from scratch so I'm not worried about convenience foods but how difficult will it be to find the following ingredients.

Rice Milk
Oat Milk
Soya Milk
Polenta
Cornflour
Gram (chickpea) Flour
Buckwheat Flour
Duck Eggs

All of these apart from buckwheat flour (didn't see it as don't use it, so I don't know about it!) are widely available in supermarket or health food shop. Duck egg, I think I see it one of supermarket, I try remember which.
My family also got food allergies and I also cook foods from scratch. You will find it surprising that some cafes and restuarants will cook foods that are free from for your duaghter. As they did made milk and egg free sandwiches for my children before my daughter outgrew her milk intolence at 12months. Now the foods had to be strictly no egg, fish and nuts for my family (used to be milk too, phew!). HTH

[anna_c]

Not sure about the rest, but we can get both soy milk and rice milk from the supermarket and our local dairy (convenience store) so I wouldn't anticipate any problems there.

[westies]

Ingredients are no problem, most of the supermarkets stock them. Depending on where you live you can find specialised bakery's too. Not sure what the exact diagnosis is with you, but I am gluten Intolerant and have struggled alot since arriving here, the main problem is cross contamination, and people seem to be less aware, although it is getting better, there is a GF bakery in St Heliers, Auckland which is great, also some good outlets on North Shore. Biggest concern is eating out which we love to do, we only go to places where I am confident they know about the cross contamination.
Good luck to you.

[speckythecky]

try this web site

http://www.ntolerance.co.nz/Default.aspx

[JoanneG]

Wow - there's more available than I ever thought there would be!

Thank you Speckythecky - that website is fantastic. I'm so pleased to see Orgran products there as I've found them very useful.

Luckily cross contamination isn't too much of a problem as my daughters symptoms, although debilatating are not life threatening. Hopefully awareness will grow as this problem becomes more effectively diagnosed.

Buckwheat comes from the Rhubarb family. It comes as flour and flakes and has a lovely nutty taste. Perhaps it has a different name.

Thanks for all this info - now I know my daughter won't starve!