Re: new to diet, any ideas

[Guest guest]

You are a very loving cousin. I make " rice crispie treats " for my girls. I

use " safe " marshmellows, magerine and any " legal " cereal. The fruity & coco

pebbles cereals work really well. When I use coco pebbles I add peanut

butter to the marshmellows as they are melting. My girls are 2.5 yrs old &

LOVE these.

We used to eat graham crackers as our " staple " snack in the van. They were

easy & not too messy. I have replaced that with Qaker brand mini apple &

cinnamon rice cakes. My girls love them. I put them in cleaned yogart cups

so they can have numerous at a time and I don't have to keep throwing more

back to them while I am driving.

Godd luck. Continue to post your questions here. This is a wonderful group

of loving parents of autistic kids who are very helpful to each other.

Mom to Kelsey, Amber & Hannah b12/4/98 @33.5wks

[Guest guest]

I hope you mean the Malt O Meal brand cereal & not the Post brand Cocoa

Pebbles. Those are not OK.

[Guest guest]

My children avoid almost all of the things you mention here. I use

primarily Ener-G rice bread and Shelton's hot dogs and bologna frozen

from my health food store. I have a few recipes for the things you

indicate. Also, you can buy Piknik potato sticks at a regular grocery

store which are " safe " per your list here. There are also pre-made

baking mixes which my children can use. I use Arrowhead Mills Wheat

Free All-Purpose Baking Mix that I buy at my health food store, and

I make a few modifications to other gfcf recipes. Here is my site

link for on-line foods and recipes, for your information.

http://home.pacbell.net/cscomp/parentin.htm#onlinefood

Here is my site link for gfcf school lunch ideas. You can look here

and decide which of these easy ideas might be appropriate for your

cousin.

http://home.pacbell.net/cscomp/lunch.htm

Good luck.

> My, cousins 4yr is autistic. she will be starting the diet, however

> her diet seems to be a little more intense than what i have reading

> about. they have to remove her from wheat, gluten, corn, casein,

soy,

> eggs, citrus, sugar, preservatives, dyes and nuts. this is to be

done

> cold turkey. her current diet consists of sandwich meat, cheese,

> potato chips, french fries, yogurt, peanut butter, cookies, icepops.

> I often help with the caretake of the child. i have also offered to

> bake, cook and whatever else i can do to help them get thru this

> stage of the game. thath is what brought me here. we are looking for

> any suggestions on homemade snack foods such as potato chips and

> cookies. thanks in advance.