Meats

[ktfrlnd]

Looking for help regarding safe proteins. My son ( 16 months old) will eat grass fed beef but that's it. Is it safe for him to eat chicken that has been fed corn and a soy diet? Does the feed the animals eat carry over to human consumption? i.e. would the sugar from the corn feed affect him? Thanks! Love any other protein suggestions too.

[colormist]

As far as I know, it doesn't matter what the animal ate. What does matter is how the meat is prepared. Lots of places are adding brine, broth, or natural flavors to the meat so they can charge a higher price for less product (and supposedly make it taste better). Problem is, all those additives have not-safe ingredients.

You'll want to look for chicken or turkey without additives. It should say on the packaging "less than 1% retained water" or "additive-free/no additives". Same goes for beef and pork.

[charlie]

Meg likes pork and I find unsmoked bacon seems ok for her as do plain pork sausages from the butchers but you do always have to double check they haven't slipped anything else in them. Even safer are gluten free ones but they often overspice them for Megans liking.

[ktfrlnd]

Thanks ladies! Now I can feed him chicken and such without worrying.

[claudiarivas]

Hello Ladies, now that you are talking about what to feed babies, I have a question and would love some feedback
I havent gave carlitos any solids yet, but now he just turn 8 months and his HIF is confirm.
I tried to feed him white rice with milk ( home made) and two hours later he threw up about 4 times. it is the second time I have tried this, and both times he had the same reaction. I am scared to tried it again, because is obv he doesnt do good with rice, eventhough I thought rice was ok.
So now I would tried meat..
any input?

[charlie]

Claudia, it is was white rice then that should be ok if HFI, have you decided he is ok with milk or was it that?

Have you got a food blender, if so, he should be fine on well cooked meats now so maybe get some good quality chicken and cook it and blend it and see how he is on that, or some mince (I think you guys call it ground) beef or pork and try that.

If rice is an issue it may not be HFI but another enzyme deficiency which is something we are looking into for Meg as even on a low fructose diet she still has issues and that is sucrase isomaltase deficiency, with this they can't tolerate sucrose but also starches which obviously rice is high in. have a look at that website too: www.csidinfo.com/

[claudiarivas]

Thank you , I will take a look at this... hope he has no more deficiencies...
yes he does very good with milk...
thanks again

[charlie]

If it is CSID its actually easier as you can replace the enzyme missing with a drink................ fructose intolerance is often misdiagnosis as sucrose is in alot of fruit and veg too as well as obviously you are cutting out sucrose with HFI diet too so naturally they improve as you are half way to eliminating it on a fructose free diet.

[ukbill]

Make sure he gets some liver in his diet somewhere even if its disguised somehow.

Liver is full of important vitamins like Vitamin A and all the B vitamins as well along with a good dose of Iron too.

If you cannot get him to eat liver itself then just cook some in water and give him the liquor from it perhaps slightly thickened to make a soup. Then later if he will take that start blending in a little of the liver to the "soup" to make it more nutritious.

Adding cream or unsalted butter to the stock will take out any strong flavours and smooth it down a lot, if it tastes a little harsh.

[ukbill]

Dumplings cooked in a meat stew (no veg) would be an excellent way to get extra carbs into a growing child and vitamins as well.

Dumplings are the very easiest of foods to make and cook.. although getting them perfect can take years

I find Flour and veg suet pinch of salt and a teaspoon full of Bicarb of soda generally makes them wonderful!

You can add things to them also.. like cheese powder (or finely grated cheese) and of course herbs.

I have not tried it yet but I think it might be possible to replace / part replace the water in the dumping mix with beef / meat stock, so long as its ice cold when mixed.

If you have a pressure cooker then you are almost guaranteed a perfect dumpling.. as the pressure is released they puff up with the trapped gas inside them.

You can make them as a pudding too by cooking them in milk and replacing the water with cold milk.

Enjoy.
They are really Really GOOD!

"edit" But very fattening for us adults.. ;( boo hoo "end of edit"