When Mr. Charm turned one, I made him a dairy and egg free chocolate smush/eat cake and some homemade chocolate ice cream.
He wouldn’t eat any of it. In fact, his face was straight up “UGH!”
Mr. Charm at his 1st Birthday Party. Look how suspicious he is of the cake!
See? “Please don’t make me eat it, Mama!”
That winter, I found a dairy free hot cocoa recipe that tasted AMAZING.
He refused again. Even with my allergy-safe homemade marshmallows on top!
Secretly, I was ecstatic. I LOVE chocolate. The Geek isn’t as big a fan.
So I don’t have to share.
And with a son who doesn’t like chocolate?
I STILL don’t have to share!
<Happy dance! Happy dance!>
Alas, it appears that Mr. Charm was just…developing his taste buds. Suddenly, the kid is a COMPLETE Chocoholic!
There was the incident the first week we were fructose free when he snuck handfuls of chocolate chips.
Then a week later, snagging at least two of the free samples of chocolate at the health food store.
Two days ago, I found him with an ENTIRE square of semi-sweet baking chocolate in his mouth! My Mom keeps it in her fridge, on the bottom shelf of the door.
Mr. Charm can open the fridge. And so, he helped himself!
The scariest part of this is that the baker’s chocolate has dairy solids in its ingredient list.
How do you convince a two year old that he shouldn’t eat something because it will make him sick? He just doesn’t understand…and it’s awful to know he’s making himself worse with all the foods I just can’t keep him from ‘sneaking’.
All I can say is, now that the Geek has picked up the dextrose for me back home, I SERIOUSLY hope that I can find a cocoa powder without inulin added that Mr. Charm can tolerate.
This kid is desperate for some chocolate snacks!
Sigh. Guess I’ll have to share, after all. (One day. Many years from now. When we can all eat chocolate again.)
Do your kiddos sneak foods? How do you handle it?
Cocoa powder has inullin??
Well, honestly I’m not sure! I was trying to find out if cocoa powder was safe for FructMal and – again – couldn’t find anything definitive. One of the message boards I read through, however, had one person who mentioned that their nutritionist advised them that cocoa “should” be safe…as long as it didn’t have inulin added. So, I took that to mean that SOME brands of cocoa powder are safe, pure cocoa, and others are tweaked in some way.
It’s another thing on my list of things to learn about! (That list is really getting out of hand! LOL)