Questions?

[Tammy]

Now that I feel like I'm monopolizing this board, Does anyone have any questions about any of these recipes? Has anyone tried any, or come up with any ideas to improve them?
Do you have any requests for any dish you might like to try to "adapt"? Is anybody still out there? lol.

[Kelly]

Hi Tammy!

The recipes that you posted look great!

I'm going to make broccoli supreme, beef and potato casserole, cheeseburger pie, stuffed peppers and porcupine balls this week. I'll let you know how it goes as I'm cooking.

I did find hotdogs that the babies could have, and gave them hotdogs and pierogies for their lunch today. They were not crazy about any of it. I'm going to try again during their lunch tomorrow with their regular lunch and see how it goes.

They will also sample all of your dishes too this week.

Does your family eat what your daughter eats at dinner? Or do you cook for her separately?

I cook separately for the babies, and it's so much work. I was wondering how you handled all of this.

Thanks for all of your information. My husband and I would not know what we've done if we hadn't "met" you!!!

Kelly

[Tammy]

I'm glad these help. It's really not as bad a diet as it seems at first glance. The hardest part for me is the "no fruit" as I love fruit. But I have given my daughter some artificial flavored things and she really doesn't care for them so I guess she doesn't mind.

We all eat the same things, although hers is quite often different. Example, When I make meatloaf for us, I have 2 dishes sitting side side. Hers in one and ours in the other. I always do hers first so I don't get the "ketchupy" spoon in hers. If we have spag, so does she, I just don't mix the sauce on it. We scoop spag, scoop sauce. She scoops spag, and adds margarine and cheese. If I make stuffed green peppers, I put hers, just like the recipe says, in one dish and put ours in another dish and pour tomato or spag sauce over ours. Tomato sauce is also good on the porcupine balls. Most of the rest of the dishes I've posted we all eat just as they are.

If we go to someones house for a picnic, I just take my own hotdogs for her. I put a toothpick in each end to mark them and throw them on the grill with the rest.

On my grill at home, one side is always her side. We always eat the same meat, but her side is plain and I may put bar-b-que sauce on the other. And then I have 2 forks to flip them with, and 2 separate plates to put them on.

On the grill, I like to cut up potatoes and wrap them in a piece of foil and throw them on the grill. I lay 2 peices out, cut all the potatoes, cut some green peppers up, add a little butter, then fold hers up. Then I add a little onion to ours. It's like easy fried potatoes.

The place I've had the most trouble is at weddings. Only half of the people there know she is on a special diet. And all the old people want to give the pretty little girl a bite of cake. Before she was big enough to know better, I would pin a little sign on her stating that she was on a very strick diet and please do not feed her. I've answered a lot of questions from it, but no one ever gave her anything that way. Then she could move about and I didn't have to worry.

I know some of these recipes may be a bit off in the future for your babies, but I also remember a little 5 yr old boy out there somewhere, so maybe they can use some of them now.

I'm sure I probably have more, but I'm not sure what kinds of food you're really interested in. Most things I just "adapt" how I usually make them. Her Lasagne is just the noodles, meat, cheese, with a little milk and flour so it isn't dry, in her pan right beside ours.

Even though hers is somtimes different, she is always fine with it because she is still eating basically what we eat. And this makes it much easier and less time consuming for me.

Let me know what worked well, AND what you didn't like!
Tammy

[Nicholas]

Hi Tammy,

Thanks for all the receipes you have been posting. I am the one with the 5 yr. old boy and I have really struggled with menu planning. I have two older children and they complain we are always eating the same thing, we also eat the same as Nicholas only alter them once in a while. Nicholas is so cautious about everything he puts in his mouth and very hesitant about anything new. I am doing my shopping list for this week so I will be trying out your receipes and will let you no how they go. My girls are actually looking forward to somthing different, other then chicken, pasta and rice.

I would love to have any receipes you have. Up until you started butting your receipes in I have had very little assistance with receipes and menu planning. My nutrionist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario has limited recommendations for me; really of little help when it comes to receipes. What kind of vitamins does your daughter take? Does she take any iron supplements? Nicholas does take iron once a day.

Any suggestions for a birthday cake. Nicholas is turning 5 on April 6 and I am struggling on what to do!

Thanks again Tammy,

Janine and Nicholas

[Janine Palma]

Hi Tammy,

Thanks for all the receipes you have been posting. I am the one with the 5 yr. old boy and I have really struggled with menu planning. I have two older children and they complain we are always eating the same thing, we also eat the same as Nicholas only alter them once in a while. Nicholas is so cautious about everything he puts in his mouth and very hesitant about anything new. I am doing my shopping list for this week so I will be trying out your receipes and will let you no how they go. My girls are actually looking forward to somthing different, other then chicken, pasta and rice.

I would love to have any receipes you have. Up until you started butting your receipes in I have had very little assistance with receipes and menu planning. My nutrionist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario has limited recommendations for me; really of little help when it comes to receipes. What kind of vitamins does your daughter take? Does she take any iron supplements? Nicholas does take iron once a day.

Any suggestions for a birthday cake. Nicholas is turning 5 on April 6 and I am struggling on what to do!

Thanks again Tammy,

Janine and Nicholas

[Janine]

Hi Tammy,

Thanks for all the receipes you have been posting. I am the one with the 5 yr. old boy and I have really struggled with menu planning. I have two older children and they complain we are always eating the same thing, we also eat the same as Nicholas only alter them once in a while. Nicholas is so cautious about everything he puts in his mouth and very hesitant about anything new. I am doing my shopping list for this week so I will be trying out your receipes and will let you no how they go. My girls are actually looking forward to somthing different, other then chicken, pasta and rice.

I would love to have any receipes you have. Up until you started butting your receipes in I have had very little assistance with receipes and menu planning. My nutrionist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario has limited recommendations for me; really of little help when it comes to receipes. What kind of vitamins does your daughter take? Does she take any iron supplements? Nicholas does take iron once a day.

Any suggestions for a birthday cake. Nicholas is turning 5 on April 6 and I am struggling on what to do!

Thanks again Tammy,

Janine and Nicholas

[Janine Palma]

;D Sorry about all the posts below. I am a little confused about posting these messages. I should get it right one of these days.

Janine

[Tammy]

Janine,
I have been doing this diet for my daughter for 20 years now. It is refreshing to talk to others about it finally. I sure am glad I can help.

What does Nicholas like? Cars? I've posted a cake recipe that stays nice and moist. (I hate dry cake) Try decorating it by making a "road" out of Triscuits or saltine crackers. Then you can put a little Matchbox car on it. Or build a "fort" out of crackers and put army men on it. Just put a big pile of pudding (Make it thicker by not using as much milk) in a spot and use that to hold the crackers in place. Or it makes a good dog house or barn for little plastic animals.

You can also spell out words with either pretzels (check the ingredients) if you use vanilla pudding, or cream cheese if you use chocolate. Just add a little milk to the cream cheese to make it softer to work with.

If you don't have time to make the ice cream, try freezing the pudding. I put it in a form, add a popsicle stick, and you got pudding pops. Or just freeze and eat with a spoon.

The cake recipe works well for cupcakes, too. And Kelly says she has another recipe for cupcakes. I used to send cupcakes into school on Regina's birthday so all the other kids could see how she ate them.

I'm sure as I'm letting it roll around inside my brain, I'll remember some other things I've done already, too. I'll let you know if I do.
Tammy

[Tammy]

I just re-read your post, and I forgot about the vitamins. Actually, this is a very hard one. We are just now looking for some kind of mulit-vitamin again for her. We have never found one that works for her. She isn't good at swallowing large pills, and I have never found one she could chew. But, surprisingly, she very, very, seldom gets sick. Even when she was still at school she didn't bring home what the other kids have. So I guess her body does fine without the extra vitamins that we think she should need. And her blood work always shows that she is fine.

I have just recently been given a place to check out some vitamins from a friend. If they turn out to be ok, I'll let you know.
Tammy

[Cati]

There is Multibionta. You can buy it in England. Unfortunately these are tablets.

In Germany you can buy Multibionta as drops. They are recommended by "self-help group HFI" in Germany. But I don't know if you want to buy anything in Germany in German.

Cati