Re: Oral sensitivity preventing expansion of diet

February 22, 2001

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You didn't mention what foods your family does like to eat but all meals

in my house are the same for LJ and I and any guests that may stop by.,

Idea #! Mealtime can be fun and

decorative (which appeals to my little guy). I have a baking pan to make

donuts and I use this to make mini meatloaves and in the hole I eaither

put mini cornsticks made from cornmeal and water or you can put a scoop

of mashed potatoes or macaroni in the center hole.

idea #2 - french toast is made with bread that has been cut out into

various shapes with cookie cutters

idea #3 - homemade corn dogs with Applegate hot dogs

idea #4 - homemade meat patties. Tonight will be my first time making

the soft pretzel mix from Miss Robins but I also am going to experiment

wrapping the pretzel mix around hot dog and filling some of the mix up

with a chopmeat mixture and sealing it like a turnover

I would say we eat a different meal for lunch and dinner for at least a

month before we have to repeat it. Experiment and HAVE FUN. I let LJ

cook with me too.

on Long Island, New York

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On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:36:07 -0500 Charlene Hilburger charhil@...>

writes:

> Hello,

>

> My son has been GFCF for almost a year now. He still will only eat

> a

> handful of different things. We have gotten nowhere with expansion.

>

> parents into believing they will starve to death. THe reason I do

>

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February 22, 2001

As far as adapting a GFCF meal to members of a family that don't like

the GFCF foods...

I've been preparing dishes GFCF, portioning out what my kiddo gets

(we only have the one kiddo), then adding the " naughty " things in for

hubby and me. It works really well depending on the dish.

For example: Spaghetti sauce prepared gfcf, ladled onto rice noodles

(Mai Fun noodles -- yum!)... Then, I add the parmesan, a little red

wine, and cook some spirulina noodles for the grownups. Then there's

scrambled eggs (if they're an option for you), with potatoes and

herbs I dried myself (be careful not to use freshly dried herbs),

fried in olive oil. The guy gets his portion, then I add some butter

and cheese for my dh and I. You could adapt this to a lot of dishes.

Chili, soups, casseroles... You could serve paked potatoes and offer

non-gfcf toppings along with the good stuff, There are so many

options if you analyze the recipie. Try to cook things where the non-

gfcf element is not crucial in the preparation, and is really more of

a topping, or something that adds flavor.

Anyway, hope this gives you some ideas.

--

February 22, 2001

Charlene,

I also have a extremely picky eater, who also has oral

sensitivity. Right now his diet consists of darifree potato milk, french

fries, chicken nuggets, pretzels, choc. chip cookies, donuts, popcorn,

and occassionally raisens. When we first started the diet he was living

off of french fries, cupcakes, and cereal. His diet has changed very

little over the past 8 months of the diet. He has accepted a few new

items, however they always seem to replace something else he has decided

to give up. It took 6 months to find a chicken nugget recipe he would

accept. But part of that problem was they did not look and taste like

Mcs chicken nuggets. He finally ate them after I stopped trying to

duplicate Mcs. He also starting eating Mcs quarter pounders.

I'm still tying to figure out if this is a food he can tolerate. It

looks like he can about once a week. I still feel he eats a healthier

diet than he use to. He gets lots of supplements and vitamins, something

that he was'nt getting before. I don't worry to much about the variety.

I just keep trying different recipes and hope something appeals to him.

His meals are always different than the rest of the family--we are not

GFCF.

Jackie in Kentucky

Mom to (ASD 5.5 yrs and NT 7yrs)

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