First, I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has given me words of encouragement as I begin this journey for my little guy. Also a huge thanks to anyone who has had to do this, or something like this before or presently and is willing to share wisdom and recipes with me. I will take you up on that!!
Yesterday lunch was my first meal without everything I cannot eat. What did I have? Nothing. Yes, that's right, nothing. I had some cooked chicken in the fridge that I was going to eat, but when I pulled it out, it had mold on it. Awesome. There literally was nothing in my house that I could eat and both boys were asleep so there was no way to make a grocery store run.
Dinner on the other hand, was delicious! This is what I made...
Grilled chicken with Mango Salsa
(amount of ingredients depends on how much you want to make)
Mango, chopped small
Cilantro
Red Onion
Lime Juice
Pepper, to taste
Chicken fresh off the grill
After the little boys were asleep I got to go grocery shopping. This was a much harder tast that one might imagine. I was looking for very specific items of which I have never looked for before. It was kind of like a treasure hunt, just less fun. Some of the staple items I got were Dream Rice Milk, Organic Rice Puff Cereal (it's just brown rice, puffed... yum... can be used as cereal or bonding agent for turkey-loaf), chicken, ground turkey (3lbs which I left out on the counter overnight and had to throw away, grr!), avocados, and gluten free bread.
After an hour and a half (to my defense I did try a new grocery store in hopes for a greater selection of what I could purchase) and almost $100 later I was set... and depressed. I knew that this endeavor would be more expensive, and I did have to buy some things that I won't have to get every time (like rice flour, yum!) but until I was standing at the checkout watching my total rocket that it all sunk in.
But today is a new day! I got to start off with my new cereal, Crunchy Maple Sunrise, which is gluten free, and rice milk. I also managed to put rice milk in my coffee. Not too sure I'll be doing that again, but it was worth a shot. I thought my Tinker Bell mug would have helped, guess not. Maybe I have to learn to drink it black... or die of exhaustion.
That's all I've got so far... until tomorrow (or the next day...)!
Well dinner looked good! I think you will find that with a little creativity, you will still be eating delicious meals! And maybe by the end you will have discovered a plethora of new recipes and things you hadn't tried before! Here's a website where you might find some good recipes. It's all vegan. She even has a special diet recipe section with allergy free recipes. Check it out! http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/chocolate-covered-recipes/special-diet-recipes/
ReplyDeleteThanks! I will definitely be checking out that website!
DeleteOh and as for coffee, maybe give oat milk a try? I haven't put in in coffee myself, but I've had it and it is much thicker than rice milk which I know doesn't really work in coffee cuz it's too watery. Oat milk might give you the creaminess you're looking for. It goes pretty well in cereal too.
DeleteI've never even heard of oat milk, thanks for the tip! I'll look in to that too. :)
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