Dd is almost 2, allergic to wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, eggs, sesame, bell peppers, tomato, everything in the squash family, peas, lentils, some beans.
I try to give dd the following at every lunch and dinner (all animal products are organic, as is most of the produce):
*1 protein source (hamburger, roast chicken, turkey breast, organic all-beef hot dog, refried beans, etc.)
*1 grain/starch (brown rice pasta, brown rice bread, brown or red rice, millet, quinoa, corn, baked sweet potato, etc.)
*1-2 veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, asparagus, etc.; I count avocado in this category, too, b/c she's allergic to so many veggies)
*1 fruit (melon, banana, berries, pear, apple, kiwi, mango, peach, whatever)
For breakfast she usually has a grain (blueberry waffles or pancakes--rice flour, course--Ian's allergen-free French toast sticks or oatmeal), plus fruit and a slice of turkey. Yogurt, fresh fruit, Just Tomatoes dehydrated fruit, cheese, and brown rice cakes are her usual snacks.
It all sounds pretty good, but I feel like everything is SO boring. She doesn't like "dishes" (casseroles, etc.). She prefers all her food separate. There are a few more complicated things that she consistently eats: millet-veggie loaf, fried rice, and quinoa-corn salad. She's getting a little pickier about veggies--tonight she wouldn't eat her carrots, for example, and I can't get any greens into her, no matter how hard I try (won't touch smoothie-type things). Every now and then I make a quick bread or oatmeal bars or snickerdoodles as a treat.
I find preparing safe foods difficult and time-consuming (I hate cooking and I'm a full-time student, so I'm very busy)--particularly because she tends to reject anything more interesting I recently made both a golden yam spread and a spinach and white bean spread and she rejected both after one taste. She turned down a recent kale-potato soup, too. I dunno...I feel like we're in a food rut.
I try to give dd the following at every lunch and dinner (all animal products are organic, as is most of the produce):
*1 protein source (hamburger, roast chicken, turkey breast, organic all-beef hot dog, refried beans, etc.)
*1 grain/starch (brown rice pasta, brown rice bread, brown or red rice, millet, quinoa, corn, baked sweet potato, etc.)
*1-2 veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, asparagus, etc.; I count avocado in this category, too, b/c she's allergic to so many veggies)
*1 fruit (melon, banana, berries, pear, apple, kiwi, mango, peach, whatever)
For breakfast she usually has a grain (blueberry waffles or pancakes--rice flour, course--Ian's allergen-free French toast sticks or oatmeal), plus fruit and a slice of turkey. Yogurt, fresh fruit, Just Tomatoes dehydrated fruit, cheese, and brown rice cakes are her usual snacks.
It all sounds pretty good, but I feel like everything is SO boring. She doesn't like "dishes" (casseroles, etc.). She prefers all her food separate. There are a few more complicated things that she consistently eats: millet-veggie loaf, fried rice, and quinoa-corn salad. She's getting a little pickier about veggies--tonight she wouldn't eat her carrots, for example, and I can't get any greens into her, no matter how hard I try (won't touch smoothie-type things). Every now and then I make a quick bread or oatmeal bars or snickerdoodles as a treat.
I find preparing safe foods difficult and time-consuming (I hate cooking and I'm a full-time student, so I'm very busy)--particularly because she tends to reject anything more interesting I recently made both a golden yam spread and a spinach and white bean spread and she rejected both after one taste. She turned down a recent kale-potato soup, too. I dunno...I feel like we're in a food rut.
It's hard to know what to make her, since she doesn't eat a lot of "dishes", so I at least like to give *myself* some ideas!
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