How do you cope with dairy-free diet for an underweight child?

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Ash, this is fantastic advice, thanks so much! I just had a look at that website and will be making a few purchases. I've bought some nuttelex and tofutti imitation cheese spread, both of which she turned her nose up at, but she's accepting the nuttelex now and I'll keep working with the other one. I'm so so so relieved to hear that there's imitation cheese available. We have a big whole foods grocery store called about life down the road and I hadn't had a chance to check it out yet, but I bet they'll carry a lot of these products too. I bought some rice milk for her to try today too.

She had a peanut allergy confirmed a few weeks ago, and we're not yet sure about other nuts. I'm waiting on our allergy dietician's appointment and was told to avoid all other nuts in the meantime, which is a shame because I keep hearing how great almond based products are.

I'm trying to stop freaking out about this and start seeing it positively, DH and I used to eat really healthily but it's slipped over time so I think we could benefit too.