Re: lunch box ideas? + honey

December 12, 2002

Thanks everyone for your ideas ) It seems like sourdough bread, butter /

cheese is a common theme. I think he will like that. I remember now that

butter and cheese sandwiches were common in the sandwich shops in France (was

there about 12 years ago). Unfortunately, he doesn't like eggs...maybe in time

his taste will change, since he is pretty adventurous otherwise.

As an aside, I have been baking with sourdough recently, after successfully

starting my own starter using rye flour as Sally suggests in NT. I had tried

before using wheat flour, and it didn't come out nearly as well---rye flour

starter is easy and seems very vigorous.

I was reading Nature's Children by tte de Bairacli Levy (1997 Ash Tree

Publishing) last night and came across the subject of honey and babies. There

are numerous cautions - in the beginning they read like this (pg 44) " Caution:

Infants under one year of age may very occasionally get botulism, a dangerous

food poisoning, from honey. " The on pg 46 " Remember the caution against using

honey for infants under one year of age. " Then, it breaks down a bit, and I

can't help but laugh because she seems like such a spunky person/writer ( pg 50)

" I always use honey as my sweetener, but modern honey, produced from bees fed

terrible chemicals, and worse yet, white sugar, may be dangerous for infants " .

Then on pg 48 she gives a recipe for infants with dysentery, and includes honey,

but adds " or maple syrup, if there is a fear of botulism spores that may be

present in the honey. I do not fear! I use only approved healthy honey! " .

Well, I love her writing, but there appears to be some level of danger to

feeding babies under 1 year honey-so I wouldn't risk it, especially since there

is access to other good sweeteners, like maple syrup.

Vivian

----- Original Message -----

From: ChrisMasterjohn@...

Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:28 PM

Subject: Re: lunch box ideas?

What about Cheese? (raw if you want).

Cheese sandwiches, a hunk of cheese, etc.

Will he eat hard boiled eggs? I bring hard boiled eggs and a salad for lunch

a lot, or hard boiled eggs and some fruit.

Chris

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