Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

breakfast: eggs with Taylor ham

snack: rice crackers

lunch: tuna on GF bread for mom & dad; hot dogs and canned organic green beans for Matthew (and water for all)

snack: organic banana (mom had an organic white peach)

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

early breakfast: organic blueberries (the 2nd half)

breakfast: eggs with taylor ham plus coffee for mom and dad followed by a FruitaBu fruit roll for Matthew

snack: organic apple

lunch: Burger King: hamburger with tomato and pickle for Matthew with safe apple juice and apple fries (we always take the packet of caramel away). Mike and I had fish sandwiches and split a fry. We had water

snack: rice crackers

dinner: chicken breast with canned organic green beans again. I'm pretty sure that was "it".

Monday, June 8, 2009

Monday, June 8, 2009

early breakfast: half of the organic blueberries we rec'd on Saturday

breakfast: scrambled eggs with Taylor ham and coffee for mom & dad

snack: organic banana

lunch: hamburger patty with tomato wedges and a pickle

snack: organic apple and a few rice crackers

dinner: chicken breast (non-organic) grilled with some spices plus canned organic green beans, "salad" (lettuce with salt, EVOO and white vinegar) plus more tomato wedges (since Matthew doesn't do lettuce)

Matthew and I went to the movies and had some plain popcorn and another Jello pudding that we smuggled in... plus water.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Sunday, June 7, 2009

early breakfast: cereal bar

breakfast: eggs scrambled with canned organic peas plus coffee for mom & dad

snack: rice crackers

lunch: at Wendy's--and they'll serve a burger without a bun, btw. So Matthew had a hamburger (with bun) with pickle and tomato but no ketchup. Side of mandarin oranges and bottled water to drink. Mike and I had grilled chicken sandwiches with fries and bottled water. Matthew ate 4-5 of our fries.

snack: fruit cup from Quik Chek (we were on the road). It had melon, red grapes and pineapple pieces. Non-organic. Mike and I had apple wedges (they give you caramel to dip it in--BLECH! Tasted horrible) and I also had some diced peaches that were surprisingly packed in pear concentrate syrup--not corn syrup! Go, Quik Chek!!!

dinner: well, you'll see from my food shopping post that we bought a ribeye steak (just under 1 lb.) and split it among the 3 of us. We also used some of the organic lettuce from the coop delivery for salad. I should note that salad in Mike's family equals: lettuce, olive oil, salt and white vineghttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifar. I never manage to get the combination correct--but I'm getting there. Matthew and I also had organic tomato wedges. We all snacked on some cooked shrimp with homemade cocktail sauce (impossible to find without corn or soy). It's just ketchup and horseradish (which I DID find "safe" in the ethnic section of my regular grocery).

And we had corn on the cob. :O I caught wind of a post on a message board about allergenic foods noting that many people could have "whole" corn, but had SERIOUS problems with corn derivatives. We're wondering if this is Matthew's issue because he HAS ingested some popcorn (plain) with no problem, but CLEARLY has a problem with corn that is in something else--especially corn syrup.

I'm going to look at a website I've actually never seen before: Kids With Food Allergies

For dessert, we had some Jello Pudding in cups. It contains dairy (and soy lecithin--which is presumably safe for people with soy protein allergy). Mistake on our part: we allowed multiple questionable items in a single day and therefore any reactions can't be tied to ONE of them. Shame on us.

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Post script on Monday, June 8, 2009 @ 10:47am

No obvious intestinal backlash from the milk. Matthew had a "sad" episode this morning, but they've become SO common that I seriously can't tie them to food anymore (although they may be). I'm finally ready to see a therapist about this. That being said, it was absolutely not the worst morning we've ever had with him.

He had almost an hour of school testing (for special ed services) and really did well--he was even pretty focused. Vewwwwwy intewesting. ;)

Coop delivery

We got a delivery yesterday. From now on, we only have a Saturday group--which means food every 2 weeks. It's not enough for us so I'm investigating the CSA we used to belong to. It was cheaper than most because you had to go get your food every week and they weren't certified organic. It was a student-run organic farm for a local agriculture program. It's a little cheaper than the others, but more family-like. :)

So today we got a veggie and a fruit share:



This picture is entirely the veggie share minus some of the fruit. We got:

2 large eggplants (one was in the "take some--extra" box and I live here so I get first dibs :) )
about 8 large carrots
1 head of celery (nice sized!)
4 ears of corn
5 medium yellow squash
1 head of green leaf lettuce (all the way to the left-top of the photo)
1 bunch of VERY large, beautiful radishes (that I generally don't eat)
2 bunches of spinach
1 pint of blueberries
1 large bunch of cilantro (this with the carrots might make a nice summer soup)
2 heads of baby lettuce (you can see one to the right of the celery and eggplants)
2 relatively large tomatoes


Also in the veggie share but in the photo below were:

8 pink lady apples
1 large bunch of bananas
4 white peaches




The rest of the photo above is from the fruit share:

4 lb. bag of Valencia oranges (so about 7 really big ones)
1 pineapple
bag of red Bartlett pears (about 8 of them--medium/large sized)
1 honeydew melon (small/medium sized)


The veggie share costs my members $49 and the fruit shares cost them $17.

To be honest, cost aside--you can't generally find this broad a range and variety of organic produce where I live. And currently, the cost is as good or better than non-organic produce. :)


Right now, we also have on board some potato chips, hummus, lots of eggs from the ladies, some rice crackers and some rice pasta. I think we also have maybe 2 boxes of bread mix for the bread machine. There's about 2 cans of tuna left, plenty of homemade grape jelly and maybe 1-2 jars of peanut butter (not positive).

We're seriously out of meat. There are some leftover potatoes, carrots (in green bags), a few apples and oranges, 4 kiwis--in addition to what we just got. And onions. Plenty of onions.

I think that's the bulk of what we have on hand.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

early breakfast: crispy rice bar--chocolate. huge mistake. Not nearly enough protein.

breakfast: plain scrambled eggs (well, there's some spices in there, but nothing else) and coffee for mom & dad

snack: skipped due to swim class

lunch: PB&J on GF bread that came out AWESOME. 365 brand from Whole Foods made in the bread maker with nobody home--so it rose really well. Honest-to-God, the best GF bread I have ever tasted.



snack: will be peeled baby carrots

dinner: will be meatballs with rice pasta

Monday, June 1, 2009

Monday, June 1, 2009

early breakfast: rice bar (Koala Kids--chocolate I think)

breakfast: eggs--scrambled, plus coffee for mom and dad

snack: banana

lunch: Burger King... no ketchup--tomato and pickle with apple fries and apple juice (for Matthew). We were wicked on the run.

snack: rice crackers

dinner: hamburgers (no buns) with canned string beans and sliced tomatoes