New recipe from Meal Makeover Mom's cookbook

I got the Meal Makeover Mom's cookbook and was ready to try a bunch of recipes.  I figured if I'm going to reintroduce foods back into her diet, I want them to at least be the healthy variety.  The first recipe we tried was the homemade mac and cheese.  I'm not much on homemade mac and cheese.  Sadly, I enjoy the box/powdered version.  Alas, we are turning over a new leaf.  We had baked beans and hot dogs as well.  Jeannette said she liked the mac and cheese...sort of.  My son didn't like it at all.  Then again, they didn't like the baked beans either.  They both did eat a hot dog!! Well whoop-de-do!!!

We also made homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, Broccoli Tortellini al pesto, and Fudgy Black Bean Brownies.  I will post these recipes as they were all decent.  I had to tweek all of them to accommodate for Jeannette, but they still turned out fine.

Back to dairy and yeast

Now that we're back to our routine, I've packed a few different things for snacks and lunches.  I'm still giving her the multi-vitamin followed by water with the u-tract and iodine mixed in.  I just have to suck it up on the multi-vitmain and give her these supplements how and where I can.

For lunches, she's now having soy nut butter and jelly sandwiches on the smart white bread.  For snacks, I pack cheerios and mini club crackers.  These two items are on the lower end of the carbohydrate spectrum, although they do contain yeast and minimal amounts of sugar.  I haven't found much that doesn't have yeast or sugar, so I'm trying to stay under a certain level.  For carbs, I try to stay under 20g of carbs.  For sugar, I try to stay under 10g, but that's extremely difficult.  If I reach 15g, I'm not going to go crazy, but I just limit the amount of sugar throughout the day.  I've gotten more lenient on the yeast, and dairy.  I still try  to be cautious of the sugar and gluten products.  I definitely don't want her getting back into the old habit of sugar, sugar, sugar, but I'm 50/50 on the gluten free products.

The past couple of days, Jeannette has had an upset stomach.  I'm wondering if it's from the dairy.  She's been putting milk back in her cereal and I have to wonder if it's from that.  I expressed to her my concern and that we needed to pay close attention to that.

Tonight for dinner, I was in the process of making Jeannette her shake when I spilled the whole dang thing on the counter.  I had just finished putting all the supplements in and that's when I knocked it over all over the counter.  I was so upset with myself.  It's like a $20 shake that I just wasted with all those supplements spewed out on the counter.  There was no salvaging it either.  I had to mop it all up and start all over.  Ugh!!!  I was trying to hurry and look where it got me.  

Taco recipe

I don't know if I posted this before, but if not, this is a great recipe for tacos that Jeannette can eat.  You can substitute the beef for turkey if you want to be even more health conscious.

Taco's
1 lb. ground beef (grass fed)
1/2 C chopped onion
1 8oz can organic tomato sauce
1 t chili powder
1/2 t salt
1/2 t garlic powder

Brown beef and drain excess fat.  Stir in remaining ingredients.  Cover & simmer for 10 mins.

Serves: 10 tacos

Instead of taco shells, we use Archer Farms organic tostidos chips from Target.