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Food Sensitivity Check In
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This check in is for mamas who have had to restrict their diet due to food sensitivities in their LOs or themselves.
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theme for this week is time saving tips. Avoiding allergens often means cooking from scratch. How do you save time?
Any random tips, vents, etc. are also welcome.
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Re: Food Sensitivity Check In
We cook a lot of vegetarian meals in big batches so we can eat 2-3 dinners & 2-3 lunches out of one batch. Then we just alternate nights. We also make up big batches of things like chickpeas (we save $$ buying in the bulk section instead of canned, plus no BPA from can leachings) and spaghetti sauce & freeze it in Ball canning jars.
DH or I will often do small amounts of prep throughout the day too. Like chop some veggies while Ari is playing with his kitchen, etc.
We meal plan, there is never a breakfast, lunch, snack, or dinner that is not planned in advance. All heck breaks loose when we don't or when we mess up. We use our crock pot twice a week on average. I have chicken breasts in the crock right now. During the week we won't make a meal that only lasts for one night.
I think that for the most part we would do all of this even if allergies were not an issue. We both work FT now and trying to cram making a meal from scratch, eat it, give a bath, have some fun, andget DD to bed on time is just too hard. However what we choose to make is much healthier and we don't have the luxury of ordering a pizza or picking up food to go if we are in a time crunch.
I have a question:
I BF, and quit milk when DD was 7 weeks, things got better in a couple weeks, then an old frozen milk confirmed my thoughts...
Any way, here is my question. She is now 6 months and I have started eating butter (in cookies, eating out etc.) and everything seems okay with DD. Do you think she is over the milk sensitivity?
And for a tip:
I buy a lot of meat, fish, vegetables, rice and tofu. I cook large batches so that there is at least lunch and another dinner there. I have also learned to love hemp milk, and cultured coconut milk.
It is definitely possible she is less sensitive than she used to be. The only way to find out is to try. I made a rash decision while shaky-hungry and feeling stuck and had a piece of coffee cake at Starbucks and that definitely has butter and eggs in it. DS was fine. I got excited and tried a cheeseburger next (with cheddar cheese, so less protein), and he got sick.
He still didn't get as sick as he used to get, so I'm hopeful that in time it will get better. I still try to be 100% dairy/egg/fish/pineapple free because I don't want little bits here and there to add up to be a problem.
That cheeseburger was pretty much the best thing I ever tasted, though!