JTLee
02-10-2013, 04:01 PM
I sort of go in and out of depression about this and I'm at a low at the moment. My son is gluten free and dairy free as well as pretty much on the Feingold diet. As soon as anything sneaks in that makes him crazy, it is very obvious so we are sticking to this way of eating but it gets very hard. I'm living just outside of Paris so a trip into the city to find a health food store takes forever and our big walmart-like stores do not have options (after 3 months of severe headaches we figured out Dr. Schar was not for us).
I've had too many failed bread attempts to keep trying.
My 4 yo ds eats golden apples and homemade pb for breakfast, homemade baked fries with a carrot/beet/pomegranate ketchup for lunch, and then a rice flour crust pizza with the same ketchup sauce and vegusto melty pizza cheese. Every day. On the weekends he'll eat waffles, a very rare scrambled egg, and he usually likes a hazelnut meal and zucchini muffin that I sometimes manage to bake. But too much of anything and he's sick of it. But when something new is found that he likes, he gets so excited and only wants that until...he is sick of it. We only allow the fries and pizza on school days to try to keep him from getting sick of them because without them I don't know what to feed him! In the states he loved tuna salad with blue corn chips but I can't get it to taste the same/the texture is different here so he has turned away from that. And he loved nitrate free turkey sandwiches on Udi's. We need portable options that we can take with us when we are in the city but all we have right now is rice cakes with peanut butter and everyone is pretty much sick of that too. He won't eat any meat...we tried flax bread sandwiches with rotisserie chicken sliced up but it would get stuck in his teeth and he flipped out. He despises the texture of cooked rice. Loves the envirokids berry bars but goes crazy because of the berries. He won't eat soup. He's getting vegetables in his diet but only because they are hidden. He doesn't even like chips or chocolate...those save us in a pinch with my daughter if she is starving while we are out and we have run out of snacks. I know texture is a big issue but so are the ingredients. Does anyone have some recipes that work for kids like this? He would live on gluten, dairy, and berries if he could...he loves everything that hurts him or makes him go crazy. He refused to eat baby food until he was 16 months old so food has always been a struggle! I'm just having a hard time without some of our more convenient stand-bys. I feel like all I do is make his food so I'm losing interest in cooking for the rest of us too :(
DD eats everything :/
I've had too many failed bread attempts to keep trying.
My 4 yo ds eats golden apples and homemade pb for breakfast, homemade baked fries with a carrot/beet/pomegranate ketchup for lunch, and then a rice flour crust pizza with the same ketchup sauce and vegusto melty pizza cheese. Every day. On the weekends he'll eat waffles, a very rare scrambled egg, and he usually likes a hazelnut meal and zucchini muffin that I sometimes manage to bake. But too much of anything and he's sick of it. But when something new is found that he likes, he gets so excited and only wants that until...he is sick of it. We only allow the fries and pizza on school days to try to keep him from getting sick of them because without them I don't know what to feed him! In the states he loved tuna salad with blue corn chips but I can't get it to taste the same/the texture is different here so he has turned away from that. And he loved nitrate free turkey sandwiches on Udi's. We need portable options that we can take with us when we are in the city but all we have right now is rice cakes with peanut butter and everyone is pretty much sick of that too. He won't eat any meat...we tried flax bread sandwiches with rotisserie chicken sliced up but it would get stuck in his teeth and he flipped out. He despises the texture of cooked rice. Loves the envirokids berry bars but goes crazy because of the berries. He won't eat soup. He's getting vegetables in his diet but only because they are hidden. He doesn't even like chips or chocolate...those save us in a pinch with my daughter if she is starving while we are out and we have run out of snacks. I know texture is a big issue but so are the ingredients. Does anyone have some recipes that work for kids like this? He would live on gluten, dairy, and berries if he could...he loves everything that hurts him or makes him go crazy. He refused to eat baby food until he was 16 months old so food has always been a struggle! I'm just having a hard time without some of our more convenient stand-bys. I feel like all I do is make his food so I'm losing interest in cooking for the rest of us too :(
DD eats everything :/