~*~*MSPI Moms Weekly Check-In*~*~

shotzie

 ~*~*MSPI Moms Weekly Check-In*~*~

Welcome! This is a check-in for moms who are/were on a dairy free and/or soy free diet due to their LO's intolerance. The check-ins will be posted every Monday morning on the Breastfeeding board and XP'd to the Food Allergy board. I will RP a link to the check-in on the Breastfeeding board on Monday evenings for the nighttime posters, if the check-in isn't on the first page of posts. If you'd like to join the group, just post an intro here and dive in!

To check out the archive of our previous check-ins, please see the MSPI Moms Blog.

QOTW:How did everyone's Thanksgiving go? Was Thanksgiving easier/harder than you anticipated? (Or how was your weekend, for our Canadian gals).

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It went great! MIL made a huge effort to have food for me to eat and I didn't go hungry. I just ignored what was on everyone else's plates and kept a positive attitude. And I ended up with Wed off so I made myself a pumpkin pie.
I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving!

shotzie

Thanksgiving went better than I expected. I had turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, biscuits, veggies, rice, and blueberry pie. My mom was awesome about making as much stuff MSPI friendly as she could. I did miss the green bean casserole though!

Here's the blueberry pie my mom made:

https://www.frealfitness.com/healthy-recipes/desserts/blueberry-pie/

This isn't Thanksgiving related, but my mom also found an AWESOME MSPI friendly cake/cupcake recipe. They are super easy and are sooo good:

https://familynature.ca/orange-cake-vegan-or-not-youll-love-this/

Icing:

https://familynature.ca/vegan-or-not-vanilla-icing/ (Instead of coconut milk, I used orange juice) The cupcakes taste even better the next day and they're really good right out of the fridge!

I'm going to make the cupcakes for DD2's 1st bday party in January and again for DD1's 3rd bday in February!

 

aylafsu88

It went great and much better than I thought! My mom/MIL were awesome and made food that I could eat by using rice milk and earths balance butter in most of the dishes they made.They had fun doing it and could not even tell the difference between the dishes made with dairy and those made with rice milk! It really made me appreciate my family!

CLLDLL

Mine started out a little rough.  We're only on week 3 of being dairy free, so I was a little bitter/jealous of everyone else getting to eat all that yummy food.  But it was a good excuse not to eat all the fatty foods that I shouldn't be eating anyway.  I had ham, mashed potatos that I made, broccoli salad, roasted sweet potatoes, and Oreos for dessert. 

Dessert was the hardest because MIL made Eggnog pie, Pumpkin pie, apple pie, and cheesecake with chocolate mousse on top.  Ugh.

LaylaPartDeux

Ours went pretty good, but I brought 75% of the food that I ate, so...

My MIL tried...she really did.  But I'm positive she used something on the no-no list when she made the turkey, because DS2 had some yucky, mucusy, green diapers for 3 days afterwards & that's the only "questionable" food I ate.

I'm really used to this diet now (it's been 11 weeks today), but it still sucks sometimes because I have to be so super careful about what I eat.

mylittlesunshine

It went really well. The only thing I didn't have was the boxed stuffing...yuck! We substituted almond milk for most everything that needed milk and just used Blue Bonnet Light for the butter. I even made a pumpkin pie using almond milk and it was a hit! Oh, and DH even made an awesome peach pie...I ate that with rice dream ice cream...yum!