I'd love to try some new foods with my DS, but I'm feeling uninspired. Okay, trodden down actually describes it better. Does anyone have any ideas?
The problem is that he's got a number of food allergies and sensitivities, as well as huge texture aversion.
These are his food allergies/sensitivities:
Citrus (orange, lemon, etc)
Grape
Berries (all kinds)
Banana
Apricot
Cow Dairy
Rice
Oat
Black Pepper
Cinnamon
Peanuts
We also don't do soy, except a little lecithin is okay.
However, he CAN have goat dairy of all kinds, eggs, wheat, corn, cashews, almonds, walnuts, sesame, (but not sure on pecans yet). He can also have apple, pear, plum, mango, papaya, pineapple, and guava. Honey is fine too.
The kinds of things he does eat are bread and bread-like products (like muffins, waffles, all homemade of course.) Nut butter and mango jam sandwiches. Goat cheddar sandwiches. He will eat nut butter or cheese on Late July Crackers. Homemade pizza on homemade bread. Pasta and homemade tomato sauce (smooth of course). Omelet with goat cheddar only, nothing else. I can sometimes get him to eat a flatbread (Lavash) sandwich with melted goat cheddar, a little honey, and a slice of honey maple turkey deli meat. Other than that, he doesn't like the texture of meat at all. I've tried Earth's Best fish nuggets, but he doesn't like them. The Dr. Praeger's fishies have pepper in them. He won't try beans. He tried hummus (complaining while I was making it that it smelled bad), and so he didn't like it, but I'm amazed that he actually tried it.
I can peel bell peppers and he will eat those (salted). I can cut a grape tomato or cherry tomato in half, salt it and he will eat it. He will eat steamed carrots with goat butter, but not raw carrots. He will eat steamed butternut squash with goat butter. He will eat steamed sweet potato with goat butter. But he doesn't like regular potatoes of any kind. He will eat dry roasted cashews – but is hesitant to try raw cashews. He has eaten marcona almonds (they look smooth on the outside), but not regular almonds (they look textured on the outside).
I just recently got him to eat a few cereals with the goat milk actually on them. Before then, this kind of mixed texture was out of the question.
I'm probably missing something here in what he will eat, but that's probably most of it anyway.
Maybe I should be thankful he's eating more than just waffles. But I'm so tired of making the same two sandwiches most of the time. There must be something else out there he will try.
So, I'm pretty much at the end of ideas, if not at the end of my rope. Anyone care to help?
Edited by KimPM - 8/31/11 at 7:45pm
The problem is that he's got a number of food allergies and sensitivities, as well as huge texture aversion.
These are his food allergies/sensitivities:
Citrus (orange, lemon, etc)
Grape
Berries (all kinds)
Banana
Apricot
Cow Dairy
Rice
Oat
Black Pepper
Cinnamon
Peanuts
We also don't do soy, except a little lecithin is okay.
However, he CAN have goat dairy of all kinds, eggs, wheat, corn, cashews, almonds, walnuts, sesame, (but not sure on pecans yet). He can also have apple, pear, plum, mango, papaya, pineapple, and guava. Honey is fine too.
The kinds of things he does eat are bread and bread-like products (like muffins, waffles, all homemade of course.) Nut butter and mango jam sandwiches. Goat cheddar sandwiches. He will eat nut butter or cheese on Late July Crackers. Homemade pizza on homemade bread. Pasta and homemade tomato sauce (smooth of course). Omelet with goat cheddar only, nothing else. I can sometimes get him to eat a flatbread (Lavash) sandwich with melted goat cheddar, a little honey, and a slice of honey maple turkey deli meat. Other than that, he doesn't like the texture of meat at all. I've tried Earth's Best fish nuggets, but he doesn't like them. The Dr. Praeger's fishies have pepper in them. He won't try beans. He tried hummus (complaining while I was making it that it smelled bad), and so he didn't like it, but I'm amazed that he actually tried it.
I can peel bell peppers and he will eat those (salted). I can cut a grape tomato or cherry tomato in half, salt it and he will eat it. He will eat steamed carrots with goat butter, but not raw carrots. He will eat steamed butternut squash with goat butter. He will eat steamed sweet potato with goat butter. But he doesn't like regular potatoes of any kind. He will eat dry roasted cashews – but is hesitant to try raw cashews. He has eaten marcona almonds (they look smooth on the outside), but not regular almonds (they look textured on the outside).
I just recently got him to eat a few cereals with the goat milk actually on them. Before then, this kind of mixed texture was out of the question.
I'm probably missing something here in what he will eat, but that's probably most of it anyway.
Maybe I should be thankful he's eating more than just waffles. But I'm so tired of making the same two sandwiches most of the time. There must be something else out there he will try.
So, I'm pretty much at the end of ideas, if not at the end of my rope. Anyone care to help?
Edited by KimPM - 8/31/11 at 7:45pm
