Re: OT: vegetarian diet for ASD

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Our son shies away from meat & veggies & gravitates towards carbs-

fruit & GF grains. I have to almost make him eat the others ( " No more

rice today until you have a meat or veggie " )and have really sought

things he'll eat. Your kids may not like these things, but he loves:

Chicken Apple Breakfast sausage from Applegate Farms

homemade chicken nuggets with crushed cornflakes/potato flour crust

-he used to also eat GF chicken-fried steak that I'd make...

He will also eat rice & beans together, which if I understand

correctly is a form of protein that is very similar to that found in

meat...? He also eats some nut butters, such as almond, sunflower

seed, pumpkin, etc, in the form of a sandwich or " ants on a log " - not

meat, but another form of protein.

My son also gets hypoglycemic- which now that he is 6 just manifests

as bad behavior (when he was little he would get shaky & disoriented

& cry non-stop until we'd finally have to shove a spoonful of

something into his mouth. So I know what you mean about having to be

careful on that front!

> >

> > It's funny how each child is different. Our daughter is worse

with

> tomatoes, green peas, pinto beans and grapes than anything else.

But,

> she has never eaten meat. She's only taken a bite from a hamburger

> every now and then.

> > Shari

> > OT: vegetarian diet for ASD

> >

> >

> > This may be an ambitious thing but have anyone of you tried

> vegetarian

> > diet on your ASD children? My family used to be on lacto-ovo

> vegetarian

> > diet. Since my son became ill and his diet more an dmore

limited,

> I

> > started giving him turkey, chicken and beef each once a week.

> Now, we

> > are dealing with yeast (came along with chelation

unfortunately).

> I

> > wonder if maybe he is not able to digest the meats although I

> give him

> > enzyme before each meal. Meat stays in the gut longer than any

> food and

> > so there is more food for these gut bugs. I tried two kinds of

> rice

> > protein but I am not sure if he is tolerating them either.

Maybe

> the

> > timing coincided with the yeast. Just thinking here..anyone

want

> to

> > join in? Thanks.

> >

> > Sheila

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

This post reminded me to mention that at the mini-DAN I attended in

Little Rock zinc was really touted as often making kids less picky.

FWIW

>

> Hi Shari, I second . My son did not taste meat until we started

> gfcfsf.. rotation diet etc. He is only 3 yo and does not crave

> anything except rice and blueberries.I really would like to try going

> vegetarian. How do you do it? Thanks.

> Sheila

>

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