Re: intro diet help please

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All the dried fruit, fruit leather and nuts are not appropriate for a beginner,

you're right.

A voracious appetite is quite common in the beginning, but will begin to settle

down. I think part of what is going on right now is that the bad bugs in his

gut are seriously craving what THEY want..... starches, sugar, etc..... and

are causing him to go on a desperate food hunt. As they die-off and leave his

body, this will calm down.

Many parents report their little kids eating HUGE amounts of legal foods,

though. Maybe their bodies are partly trying to make up for lost time, now that

they sense really good nutrients are now available. It's hard to know.

You'll need to cook enough of the Intro foods to feed an army.... and know that

Intro lasts only 2 days. Then you can add filling foods like butternut squash.

You might consider (for after intro) making homemade coconut milk and having

that be a base for a smoothie, into which you can blend cooked fruit pieces

(which you can freeze after cooking, if you want to, so you end up with a really

" frosty " smoothie), ripe banana, etc. Some parents even sneak pureed veggies

into smoothies. Coconut milk has lots of fat calories, which helps quell the

hunger.

best,

Patti

intro diet help please

Hello,

We are on day 3 of the intro diet, or we're supposed to be anyway.

I learned about PDD about 2 weeks ago and about SCD 5 days ago. I

had just gone out and stocked the pantry with GFCF food a few days

before that, so had to re-do the pantry and start over again.

Anyway, my son is 2 and 4 months old. On the first day we did fine

with the intro diet as he doesn't usually eat much anyway.

Yesterday however, his appetite was voracious and I could not keep

him filled up on the intro diet foods - I'm nervous about eggs for

him so I just prepared the gelatin, chicken soup with the broth I

had made and carrot pennies, and hamburger in beef broth I had

made. He was constantly demanding more food all day long and after

initial acceptance of the gelatin, decided he didn't like it and

wouldn't touch it - well to be more precise, would break it into

little tiny pieces and thow it on the floor then mash it with his

feet like he does with other foods. So I gave him green beans

thinking he'd maybe eat one or two, but he ate his share, then stole

them from both my daughters plates and my own. Finally I let him

have a very ripe banana which he scarfed down like it was nothing

and then he stood at the pantry crying and pointing and would not be

distracted by offers of the other things, so I let him have a fruit

leather which he also scarfed down. By the end of the day he had

eaten an enormous amount of food (which is extremely wierd) In

addition to more bowls of chicken soup than I could keep track of

and a bowl of beef broth with hamburger, he also had 3 prunes, about

a 1/2 cup cooked pineapple, 2 fruit leathers, 1 and 1/2 lara bars

(dates, almonds, and cherries), and almost 16 ounces of diluted

grape juice!!! His stools as of last night were still formed, but

mucosy and had a diarrhea-like smell, but he didn't seem to be

bothered by them.

Now, here is my problem, that is a huge amount of food he ate and I

do not know how I am going to be able to start over on the intro

diet and keep him filled up on only those few foods. Oh, and he

greatly dislikes the sauces - apple and pear sauce. He won't touch

them, wont' even throw them on the floor. How do I keep this

voracious new appetite happy on the intro diet? I am guessing that

the almonds and dried fruits are most definitely out at this stage.

What can I do?

Thank you,

SCD 3 days

2 yo PDD