Re: Oils for frying - for Joe

July 1, 2001

At 11:21 pm 7/1/01 +0000, you wrote:

>'s diet is still severely limited. The only things he'll eat with any

>regularity are GFCF chicken nuggets and potato chips.

How long's your son been GFCF? With our son he went through phases of foods

that he never ate before and suddenly got 'addicted to'. This included

cashews and grapefruits. Before the diet I remember we noticed certain

'adult foods' that he couldn't get enough of, like olives (yuck, my wife

likes em too) and pickles. Seemed weird for a 3 yr old which was his age

back then.

Somewhere in those first few months though he started eating meat, and in

general not only a better variety of foods but also started filling out. We

used to see his ribs, and his weight was below the chart. Now he's on the

chart and looks to be just a perfect weight for his size.

>Anybody fry with olive oil? Just sounds a little odd to me. What

>abt heavy oily taste, or smoking?

Now that I've gone GFCF to keep my son company I've used olive oil in place

of butter on baked potatoes and I think it's great. For frying, keep the

heat down a bit so it doesn't burn maybe... but we've been using it for

frying for years in our house. It's gotten cheaper the last few years, I

think my wife gets a 3 qt container in the supermarket (Hannaford or

Walmart or GU) for less than $15 now, not sure though about that.

Marty

Recommended Posts