For the second weekend in a row we traveled. I had a trial run on the first weekend, so this wasn't so bad figuring out what to pack. Jeannette ate her brown rice cereal with milk for breakfast and today she had brown rice with non-dairy butter, raspberries and chocolate coconut milk for lunch. On the car ride, she had some popcorn for a snack. I brought alone one single serving size bag of M&M's for her to eat. Won't kill her..right? She gets bored easily and when that happens, she eats. I always have to be prepared for her hungry cravings.
When we got there, we went out to dinner at a local Greek/Italian restaurant. I wasn't sure what she was going to have. I ended up ordering a grilled chicken sandwich and splitting that with her. I took half and cut up the chicken into bite size pieces. She seemed to be okay with that, but was still hungry. I allowed her to have 2 bites of Jarod's pasta (that happened to be saturated in butter. I hate that. Half the time I have to drain the bowl onto a plate b/c there is so much melted butter).
For breakfasts I brought her brown rice cereal, so she had that. While she was eating that, my friend walked in the kitchen with a bag of fresh bagels. Jeannette just gave me that "look". It was the pitiful puppy dog, lower lip sticking out, look. I said that she could have a small bit. She had 1/4 of 1/2 of a bagel with a little cream cheese. I explained again that she can't have too much of it because we wouldn't know how her body would react. She said she understood.
For lunch she had her standard rice cakes with soy nut butter and carob chips. I also gave her a chocolate brownie (her special brownies that we made at home). For dinner Jeannette had her special spaghetti sauce with brown rice pasta. After reviewing the day, there was a lot of brown rice foods going into that girls stomach.
On Sunday I made Jeannette pancakes. Again, like last weekend I didn't bring syrup, so I used their Log Cabin. It's interesting to find that a lot of homes prefer the processed, fake syrup over the pure maple syrup. I know I did for the longest time. The one thing I don't understand is why she can have pure maple syrup. The carb and sugar count are sky high. I read that it could be reintroduced in the 3rd phase, but I don't understand why and I still haven't found that answer.
Tonight for dinner, our friends ordered crab legs. I know that she's only supposed to eat crab on an average of once a month, but these were "special" occasions. It's not like we eat crab all the time at home. It just seems like we do because of the past couple of months. She ate a few crabs, but didn't overdo it. I melted some of her non-dairy butter to use.
We headed home on Monday and I wasn't really sure what we were going to do about Jeannette for lunch. We ended up stopping at a Chick fil-A. I knew McDonald's was out as well as Wendy's and Burger King (we never eat there anyway). I ordered her one chicken strip meal which came with fries and lemonade to drink. I didn't want her to have their chocolate milk and she doesn't drink soda. I could have done water, but I didn't. I don't know why I didn't. I knew that this meal was bad enough, but I just let it happen. I took the chicken and picked the breading off as best as I could. Prior to her eating the chicken, I made her eat a rice cake with soy nut butter first as I preferred her to fill up on that then the chicken. When we got home, after we unpacked, it was time for dinner. She ended up eating brown rice pasta with butter. I gave her some coconut ice cream for dessert.
All-in-all it wasn't a horrible weekend. Again, traveling can be tough and I thought we did pretty well considering. It was hard to also keep our supplements and food contained, but we did the best we could without intruding.
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