Week 2 - Day 4

(Apr. 20, 2011)

I took my daughter shopping today to celebrate her birthday.  She had the standard breakfast; cinnamon/truiva toast.  Because we were headed to the mall, I knew she wasn't going to be able to eat anything there, so I had to pack her some food.  I brought her 2 rice cakes with soy nut butter, and unsweetened applesauce.  I got some chinese food hoping that they'd have some brown rice, which they didn't.  Mall chinese food is just disgusting.  The rice was the only thing that was edible.  Although it was white rice, I still gave some to her.  She was starving.

I was on a mission today to find a air popcorn popper.  Because she can't eat the microwave kind and organic popcorn is supposed to be okay, I wanted a decent popcorn popper.  The other 2 poppers we bought were a bust.  After our shopping, I took her bowling.  While we were there, she was getting hungry.  Unfortunately, there is completely nothing at a bowling alley that she can eat.  All the food there is fried and definitely unhealthy.  It really makes it challenging to take her out to go do things where food is involved.  I have to really plan ahead and pack extra snacks and food to cover her hunger pains.  For a child that is normally used to eating every couple of hours, where she ate crackers, goldfish, and junk, she really doesn't have much to pick from now.

I know the kids weren't excited about it, but they had leftover chicken nuggets for dinner.  I read that she isn't supposed to eat regular ketchup, so my husband made her a homemade version.

Homemade Ketchup:
Tomato paste, garlic powder, onion powder, salt/pepper and some lemon juice.
Just mix to a smooth consistency.

It was a little thick.  She didn't seem to mind too much.  She was able to stir the nuggets around in the ketchup and got a little taste.  I think at this point she was just so hungry she would eat anything.  I made her the carob smoothie to go with it.  I included almond milk, scoop of carob powder, scoop of coconut milk ice cream, and all her supplements (ambrotrose, iodine, vitamin A/B and probiotic) with some crushed ice.  It's the closest thing I've found to a chocolate smoothie I can come up with.