What mother wouldn’t like to get more fruits and vegetables into her kids tummies? I know I’m always on the lookout for ways to encourage better eating habits in my older son, Mr. Charm. But he’s not always interested in my attempts. He’ll pick out ‘the good stuff’ and leave … Continue reading
This is the basic recipe for what my husband calls “AWESOME!” I’m pretty sure you can tweak this to your own preferences and it will still remain awesome. Peel a few carrots, then cut them on the bias. In a frying pan, add whatever oil/fat is acceptable on your diet … Continue reading
What do you eat for breakfast when you’ve eliminated nearly everything from your diet? Well, you look at what you can eat and try to figure something out. We can have white potatos and beef…well, steak and hash browns is a popular breakfast, right? Except, we don’t have any steaks. … Continue reading
I got up with the kids this morning to let the Geek sleep in a bit (returning the favor!) and started off with our breakfast potato pancakes. Mr. Charm was playing in the new addition, when suddenly he ran up to me shouting “Murray!” (our cat) and grabbed my hand … Continue reading
The Geek read my posts from yesterday, and so this morning, he let me sleep in. Until 1:00 P.M., y’all! Sometimes that man knows me better than I know myself, because my mood is decidedly more upbeat today than it was yesterday. Exhaustion can drain you of everything, even good … Continue reading
Today was a bad day for me. We stuck with the diet; it’s already starting to occur to me just how monotonous this is going to get, but I’ll stick with it. I don’t know how to begin to describe why this day was bad. Lots of little things just added … Continue reading
Yesterday I got the news that we could use the probiotics on Mr. Happy. We decided to use the same probiotic on Mr. Charm, since the children’s had corn it in. So today, my boys both got probiotics in their beverages. (Mr. Charm had been taking the corny one for … Continue reading
Today was the first day of our whole family elimination diet. I think I jumped into this before I was ready… When I arrived in the kitchen this morning to make breakfast, I realized the only pineapple we had was in the little tubs. Okay, no problem, those will be … Continue reading
We visited the dietician today, and she really didn’t have too much to add to our rough draft diet. She made a few suggestions of things that would be good to add, and offered advice on a few things that we might be surprised were allergens – like olive oil … Continue reading
This morning I called both the pediatric Allergist and the GI doctor. I wanted to tell them about Mr. Happy’s increasing reaction to the Neocate, and our experiment this weekend with dilution. The GI was in labs all day, so his nurse (who was barely comprehendible) took a message and … Continue reading
