Changing Menu’s
I did a menu plan this week, but didn’t get around to posting it on Monday. As it turns out, I may as well have not bothered.
After years of agonising on my part about her behaviour, eating habits (or lack thereof) and general health, an allergy test yesterday showed Kiki (and likely Miss Moo) is allergic to: weat/gluten, all dairy (including sheep and goat dairy) and soy.
If you can imagine, that pretty much exludes so much of her already limited diet of yoghurt, milk, cereals, breads, cheeses, pastas and rice.
The doctor has been fantastic, and loaded me up with reading material, lists of books to track down (including recipe books) and a promise of a referral to a dietician if we see an improvement with replacing or cutting out these foods.
On the plus side, I have so far found gluten, dairy and soy free: bread mix, milk, pasta, biscuits, butter replacement, flour, cereal and noodles.
Kiki is excited about the prospect of these new foods (which she helped me shop for) and the fact her stomach is likely to stop hurting in a week or so. To be perfectly honest, so am I.
It has been a long road to get to this point, starting I guess when she was 6 weeks old and I was crying on the phone to the health nurse because she wouldn’t feed or sleep or stop screaming. She has only started reliably (ie more often than not) sleeping through the night in the last 18 months. If she eats too much lactose or rich foods she vomits.
She is still complaining of a sore tummy today, but she is already much happier and loves a lot of her new food (most of which she has eaten before anyway.
So now I’m on the lookout for new recipe’s to try for the whole family (I figure if 2/5 of us have it, it’s likely the rest of us will feel better if we all eat this way) and ways of modifying my favourites (the doctor has already given me a variation for my apricot chicken I’m keen to try) in keeping with our new diet.
If you have any you would like to share, or websites you know of, feel free to leave links to them in the comments (or use the contact form).
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Heidi was wheat, dairy, soy, nut and egg intolerant up until about 2.5yo. We found the Orgran brand products were the best at the time. It is a hard work but many more products come onto the market each year that are suitable which makes life a little easier.
Thankfully fresh fruit and veg are always an easy alternative
I’m wheat and cow-dairy free. Think Asian - lots of rice, rice noodles, vegies, fish. I love the Orgarn pasta too - my family now prefer it to wheat-pasta as it’s lighter to digest.
I’m glad you were able to find so many suitable substitutes so quickly. She has no trouble with fruits and vegetables?
Holy dooly! I don’t know how you survived this long! Both of my children were dairy-intolerant from birth - I only discovered recently that I was, too. Which is why we had goats when I was little. Anyway, my toddler (2) is gluten-intolerant too - which also, I’ve discovered, comes from my side of the family.
Some of the GF cake mixes are a great way to get into GF baking. Especially the mud cakes - nothing like a mud cake to make you feel like life isn’t too different *grin*
Oh yes, lots of new and exciting foods to try in an isles I rarely go down at the supermarket.
The doctor has her on an elimination diet for now, she has suspicions about lots of fruit and vegetables as well.
Tonight we served up steak, rice, carrots and potato and she ate the rice and left everything else *sigh*. Nothing’s changed then.