I went grocery shopping

[Gretchen]

::)Well after $150 I feel like I got nothing!! We live in a small town so the choices of grocery stores is limited. The only bread I could find is called Goldminers california sourdough. The ingredients are: unbleached enriched flour(wheat flour,Malted barley,Niacin,Iron,Thiamin,mononitrate,riboflavin,folic acid)water,salt,yeast,farina, and or rice flour and or cornmeal. Does that sound ok or is there something in there I missed. I also bought pacjage of potato bread mix. You add yeast and oil. The ingredients are enriched flour(wheat,malted barley,Niacin, iron,riboflavin and folic acid)buttermilk powder, turbinado sugar(any thoguths?) potato flakes, gluten and dry yeast. All the french bread I looked at had high fructose corn syrup. What about cereal's? I thought for sure Rice Krispies would be ok, but nope FHCS is listed right there. Our doc did say he could have cereal like that, but then his snacks have to have no fructose. I would just as soon stay away from all of it. Any other cereal thought? Well I'm still not feeling the greatest so I'm going to sneak in a nap while the kids are still at school.

Gretchen

[lisa]

The sourdough you bought looks fine. You'll find that most contain HFCS, so be glad there's at least one off the shelf. We buy Francisco brand extra sourdough. It is very soft and has a good taste. Not sure whether they've got that in your area. Also, a lot of times, if your grocery store has a fresh bakery, the French Bread or Sourdough baguettes will be made without sugar. Turbinado sugar is a no, but the rest of the ingredients look OK. I've also found that Casitas and some other uncooked tortilla brands are made without sugar. This is great for quesadillas. Throw a little chicken and sour cream in there and you've got a pretty good dinner item.

For cereals, look for Shredded Wheat (you'll probably only be able to serve it a couple of times a week), plain oatmeal, farina, puffed brown rice, and puffed millet. I never offer that more than 3 times a week. Most other days it is yogurt and toast or eggs and toast.

Similar to crunchies that Kristen has made for her cookies, I have taken both millet and brown rice cereal (1 cup of one or the other) and mixed them with peanut butter (a good heavy mounded tablespoon) and barley malt syrup (1 tablespoon). Sprinkle in a bit of dextrose and cinnamon to taste, spread out on a cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray and bake for 12 minutes at 350 deg F. After they cool, you've got a great crunchy snack. You probably could break it up smaller and pour milk over it for cereal as well.

Where are you at and what grocery type stores are in your area?

[Gretchen]

I'm in Austin,MN. It's about 45minutes from Rochester or about 2 hours from Minneapolis,St. Paul. The only grocery store's we have are an Hy-vee and Cashwise. Aldi's will be coming shortly as is Walmart sometime soon. I'm thinking about going to Rochester tomorrow so one of their larger health food stores. I bought some Old El Paso flour tortilla's, but see now that they have cornsyrup solids in them. What's the differnce? Today for lunch I took 2 pieces of thin turkey and rolled them around 2 pieces of cheese. He thought it was cool for today, but at 6 his attention span doesn't last long. What about pita pockets? Any brands of them ok? I'm sorry for all the questions, more and more keep popping into my head. I did order some Dextrose online so I'm excited to get that. Any good "sweets' recipes would be appriciated. WHat about the baking Splenda. Anyone use that with good results? With those of you in school, have the school's been good in helping out with this stuff? I saw the recipie yesterday for taking the pretzel dough and filling it with cheese. I just was thinking if anyone at school would heat it up for him. His teacher is AWESOME so she might help. Thanks again for putting up with me.

Gretchen

[Gretchen]

Oh, I see you mention yogert Lisa. What kind do you use? I bought some plain old home today, but I know he won't eat it plain. I thought someone mentioned putting SF jello or pudding crystals in and I'll try that , but if you have any better thoughts I'm all for it. When my Dextrose comes I'll make up a batch of the rhubard spread and try that too.

Gretchen

[nancyrandall]

Gretchen,

I use dextrose and vanilla (check your label many have HFCS) to flavor plain yogurt. I also use pixie sticks and fun dip to give it some color and flavor. Not sure why we don't have a sugar chart on this site but, if you e-mail me I can send you one. I have one with me all the time.

Nancy

[lisa]

I know this hasn't been the popular choice of sweeteners here, but Nathan eats his yogurt sweetened with Stevia. He will generally not eat more than a couple of bites if I sweeten it with anything else. If I sweeten with the stevia he polishes off the bowl and asks for more. For add ins I use vanilla, cinnamon and sometimes the rhubarb jam (mostly vanilla is the favorite). Cocoa might be a good add in for you if he likes chocolate things - Nate can't tolerate cocoa, but if you're looking for healthier snack options he will actually eat it may be worth a try.

I usually buy Mountain Home plain yogurt and make sure to buy the whole milk version rather than lowfat or nonfat. It has a good, thick consistency. I also buy the Creamline plain yogurt from Trader Joes. It is more runny, but if you stick it in the freezer for 30-45 minutes before serving, it makes it thicker and tastier.

I personally like the NOW brand stevia in the packets as I don't have to measure to get it to taste right. You can get these online or in most any healthfood store. 6 - 8 oz. yogurt with one packet is perfect and carries no weird aftertaste. Careful, there are other brands out there in the packets that add fruit fiber and you don't want to chance that.

Recently I also bought some powdered stevia extract from Trader Joes which is mixed with lactose. I also purchased an ice cream maker since it is starting to get hot here. I didn't have enough dextrose to make a full batch of ice cream and so substituted stevia for 1/3 the "sugar" required. It turned out great! ;D

Anyway, I've never seen a reaction that I can attribute to ingestion of stevia for Nate. He is somewhat less sensitive than some people posting here, so I understand the concern over trying new things. Been using it for approx. 6 months now.

[Tracy]

:)I have found that Aldi's brand cereals do not contain HFCS like the name brands do.

[sarahk]

I found that generally, the generic store brands of many products do not have sugar, while the name brands do