Various Ingredients

[rachael]

My son who has HFI will soon start a preschool where they cook together... needless to say I'm a little anxious! They have a set snack list each week. Can y'all help me figure out whether any of this can be modified or if we should just send him in with a giant box of cheezits or bag of pirate booty to torment the other kids with?

Monday: Grain: Rice

Short Grain Organic Brown Rice, served with Tamari, Nutritional
Yeast and toasted Sunflower Seeds

I know that some people avoid brown rice, do others do okay with it?

Tuesday: Grain- Barley, but we do Oats:

Organic Steel Cut Oatmeal, served with Maple Syrup, Raisins, and
toasted Sunflower Seeds

I'll check the ingredients on the oats, but what do you all think of sunflower seeds? I looked at some old posts and it seems like some can tolerate and others can't. What other toppings would you put in it, butter and cinnamon?

Wednesday: Grain- Millet

Organic Millet with potatoes and carrots, prepared in olive oil and
 bouillon, served with gomasio


We'll have to do a substitute at home, but I'm having trouble finding out if Millet is safe, does anyone know?

Thursday: Grain- Rye

Organic Rolls, served with Butter or Sunflower Butter, dried
cranberries and toasted sunflower seeds

I'll find out the ingredients for the rolls but do folks generally do well with rye? 

Friday: Grain- Oats, but we do (optional) Barley

Vegetable Soup made with vegetables brought from YOUR home!!!
 Rooster Sauce and Croutons served on top
Another one that we'll have to do at home but do folks generally do well with Barley? Maybe chicken and barley soup? Other ideas?


For Birthdays:

Carob Wacky Cake
(made with whole wheat flour, oat flour, carob, baking soda, maple
syrup, vinegar and water)

We'll make muffins at home that we can leave in the freezer at school for him. I'd love to hear your favorite recipes!

[colormist]

Brown rice - A few years back I started swapping out white rice for brown. I did okay the first couple times, but by the third and fourth time I started feeling apprehensive toward the dish and noticing it was making me sick.

Sunflower seeds - I really want to say these are okay to eat because they're delicious, but I'm almost positive they will make him sick if it's anything close to a portion size. I've never actually looked up the fructose content of sunflower seeds, but given that they're a seed, I would expect them to have fructose.

I don't know about millet. It's not a grain I'm familiar with.

I seem to do okay with rye bread so long as the rest of the ingredients in the bread are safe.

I used to love barley growing up, but I haven't had it since I was diagnosed. Hopefully someone can chime in with their experiences.

[rysmom14]

That's a cool concept that they cook together! I know my son loves to cook, bake and help in the kitchen. He doesn't seem to be bothered that when it comes to the tasting or eating the stuff we make that he has something else. I would stay with what you know and what is working.

-so if its brown rice day maybe send white rice.
-on roll day you can send one from home I had good luck with the English muffin bread that someone posted. maybe make it as a roll and he could have with butter and even cinnamon
-Oatmeal- send the regular kind and also some butter and cinnamon.
- soup day- homemade chicken soup. ( I boil some water and safe chicken to make a broth with salt, pepper and parm cheese, then I cook other chicken and add in. and add in small noodles. If he eats parsley you could sprinkle on top for color.
-potato day- you would send mashed potatoes from the big ole potatoes ( if he tolerates) with butter.

and this wont fit in any of the planned days, but I am so in love with the Martha stewart pancake recipe. I just leave out the sugar and vanilla.
recipe:
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons of baking power
couple pinches of salt.
1 cup milk
1 egg
2 tablespoons of melted butter.

mix dry ingredients then add the wet. sometimes we add some cinnamon to the batter then I make pancakes and I use the same mix and put it in a waffle maker and then add butter and cinnamon after. I make mickey mouse pancakes, waffle sticks ( there I cut the waffle in strips) and then waffle squares ( you guessed it! the same waffle cut into the little squares!)

the batter is good for 2-3 days in the fridge so if just my son is eating it, the batter is usually gone in 2 days. But I use the same recipe for the whole family now. For my girls they like choc chips in their pancakes.

[antonia]

This sounds great. He will have fun cooking with the other kids even if he can’t eat the finished product. Plus it’s great practice given all these kids will have to cook for themselves some day.

We also use waffles for just about everything it seems. I freeze finished waffles with parchment in between, then take them directly from the freezer to the toaster to defrost and crisp them up. Spread with cream cheese for a waffle sandwich. Or whip the cream cheese and stir in cooked chopped bacon, spinach, safe herbs and spices for a flavored spread. For dessert, add a dollop of whipped cream or sugar free ice cream on top.

Popovers are a good replacement for rolls when you don’t have the time for yeast bread.

Orzo pasta could be a replacement for barley.

We make sugar free, oatmeal cookies which are great because they’re packable and are awesome little energy bombs for active days.



Maybe beef stroganoff would be a good replacement for veggie beef soup? We make beef korma which is like a curry stroganoff with sour cream yogurt sauce that my daughter just loves. Instead of adding all the spices directly, I make my own curry infused olive oil in the dish and it’s very flavorful.

I make chicken and noodles in place of chicken soup which has a thickened broth so it doesn’t seem so sparse like soups do without any veggies to bulk them up.

[ukbill]

Great Idea! Love it I wish all schools included cooking as a key subject to teach life skills.
Going down the list. I am assuming you live in the USA?

Monday:-

Rice, Brown or white? both need seriously washing for some time (a soak is best) to remove the sugar coating that holds the "fortification" vitamins on the outside of the grain (added by law in the USA).
Brown Rice is lovely stuff but has a lot of digestible fibre in it (this id converted to sucrose int he intestine) and it is likely to take longer to wash out the sugar coating that holds the added vitamins to the rice.
Tamari sauce is very likely to be too sweet, not found one that is safe even Kirkoman who seem to be the only company making genuine Soy Sauce without added sugar, add sugar to their Tamiari sauce. Substitute Kirkoman Soy
for Tamari.

Tuesday.

A few toasted Sunflower seeds will do no harm and taste nice. maple syrup and raisins ore of course a BIG no-no. I would guess the rasins are cooked in with the oatmeal.. so just removing them will not remove the Fructose they have put into the oatmeal. His version needs cooking separately if that's the case.

Wednesday

Mmm nothing really safe there Millet is quite high in Fructose (as a grain) Olive oil is fine but might mask any sweet flavours he will naturally avoid (if he is being allowed to learn to dislike sweet flavours.. (I.e not drinking "diet" coke and the like).

Maybe if the Millet is boiled in a LOT of plain boiling water?? but potatoes are usually a no-go so are the rest of the ingredients. I would suggest something completely different.Maybe Mac and cheese made with Macaroni cream and grated cheese?

Thursday

Cranberries are out of course. Rye is very high in digestible fibre.. it even tastes a bit sweet to me. Are these bread rolls as in Rye flour rolls? Likely to be very sweet if they are.

Friday

Homemade chicken soup (chicken, herbs, maybe noodles or mushrooms salt and pepper) Croutons are fried bred cubes so depends on if the bread was safe in the 1st place really. the frying oil will disguise any sweet flavours of course.

Birthdays

You can make your own 100% safe trifels for him and "normal" versions for everyone else.

Blancmange (if you can get it) in dried form that is sugar free? if not then start with (powdered) custard, whipped cream, a plain white sauce (as you would use to make brandy sauce for xmas excluding the brandy and sugar) then colour it with artificial food dyes and flavours, Raspberry, banana etc. the artificial flavours are not very sweet flavoured (if at all) and are added in only a few small drops so any contamination is tiny.
poppy seeds, toasted sesame and sunflower seeds replace 100& and 10000's as a tasty topping. Artificial vanilla flavouring might be safe in small amounts too, I think the 100% genuine stuff all has added sugar.

I hope this helps?

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