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I do our weekly meal planning on the weekends and shop on Mondays. When I got pregnant and so sick I fell off of our elimination diet. I'd love to see to ideas to help me brainstorm what to put on our meal plan for next week.
Thanks!
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pmerv
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I decided to respond to a post that had zero responses.
I don't know what an "elimination diet" is, but I have always been nutrition conscious. My rule was to have a green vegetable every dinner, even if we had an orange vegetable as well. Also we ate in season veg only, since we grew most of what we ate.
I rarely planned a meal a day ahead, let alone a week, but a few hrs before dinner would decide what to have based on what I had in the garden or refrigerator. I could make a meal out of "nothing." Good ones, too.
Another basic rule when I had little kids was to start thinking about dinner in the morning. If I got dinner on the table, dirty house, dirty laundry, all else was forgiven. Get dinner on the table. Start early if you have to.
The corollary is if you have a good dessert, a mediocre dinner is forgiven. I learned that when my 5 year old who is now a chef insisted on cooking, and I let her make dessert. No matter what we had for dinner, dessert was a hit.
Just have lots of basic ingredients on hand and play it by ear.
I hope this helps.
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I feel your pain!
My kids are starting to eat frozen blueberries and raspberries with a little cool whip on top. (not sure that the cool whip is !00% best, but we are slowly decreasing)
Baked potatoes, backed sweet potatoes.
We just figured out how to make good chicken nuggests. Very thin sliced chicken breast dipped in whatever is allowed: beaten eggs, rice milk, whatever. Then roll in corn flake crumbs with a little rice flour and spice. Then fry in a little oil in pan. If you can't have corn; there are a variety of non-wheat flours.
Have you found rice and nut crackers? They are lifesavers for making little sandwiches with turkey pepperoni, peanut butter, turkey, etc.
My kids are real picky, but thank goodness are well enough that they are experimenting themselves with help.
I plop out plain fruit and veggie with each meal.
I hard a real hard time cooking till I am better recently.
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Thanks to Char and Lymetutu for your replies. Phyllis - that's great that you are able to garden. Unfortunately I live in the city, so a weekly trip to the grocery store / farmer's market is a necessity. And with 3 small kids, planning ahead is also a necessity, but planning and list making are my favorite things. LOL.
Also - an elimination diet is what I was on for the sake of my nursling ds who has food allergies. I was eating without wheat, oat, barley, rye, corn, dairy, eggs, avocado, banana, peanut, treenut, strawberry, pumpkin, papaya for about 18 months. Whooosh. Scary, but I'll be going back on that diet beginning around the middle of September just incase this baby also has food allergies. Since my gut is much, much healthier now, I really think/hope we won't have to deal with any new allergies and I can quickly wean off of the diet.
Here is what I came up with for this week. Not the healthiest, but a step in the right direction compared to the previous few weeks.
Vegetable-Peanut stir fry served over brown rice. I'm going to try Bragg Liquid Amino's in place of the soy sauce and I think I'll add just a little bit of organic chicken to bump up the protein a bit.
Homemade Cream Corn with a BIG green salad topped with ground flax, lemon juice, grape tomatoes, and dried cranberries.
Black Bean Corn Salad with organic steak fajitas and avocados on Cinco de Mayo - DD's birthday.
And for lunches we will do an assortment of:
Sunbutter and apple butter (or ham and swiss) sandwiches on sprouted grain bread
Hummus and ground flax on sprouted pita bread
And vegetarian sloppy joes on either sprouted grain bread or brown rice.
For ds (food allergies so his diet is normally pristinely healthy) we are going to trial some grapes this week - and I also have blueberries, peaches, brown rice and lentils, lamb-burgers with rice patties, spinach, broccoli, and tons of applesauce.
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I love to cook but I have never followed a Lyme diet excepting when on Mepron we ate high fat all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ACTUALLY, when I think about it I *do* have my own kinda Lyme diet- which is the hearty addition of fresh herbs to almost every meal nightly- sage and rosemary, which are very beneficial to the brain and body...
"He who eats sage will live forever." was an old Roman saying- and "Rosemary for remembrance." is because it aids the memory to stay keen!!!!!!!!!
I was a strict vegetarian for 6 years and then... nope!!! Now I eat everything!!! I have a huge cookbook collection, over 350 cookbooks, a whole bookcase just for them (my whole house is covered with books books BOOKS!).
I got Lyme from this house and I got this house because when we were in it with the old owners (kids of the old owners anyway) and they were thinking of taking it off the market and developing it- the one daughter said, "Oh, they're still there-" when she opened up udnerneath the windowseat and there were stacks of her mothers Gourmet magazine!
I said, "OHMYGOD GOURMET!" joyously!
and she said, "This house is meant for you. We were thinking about taking it off the market but you BELONG here."
I reminded the kids of their deceased mom!! One of the sons told me that too!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is true, I belong here, and I love leafing through recipe books and trying and changing old recipes- my older daughter who is in full remission used to want to be a chef, Phyllis- (then an opera singer for a couple of years) but now she wants to be- a food inventor!!!!!!!!
She is SCARY in the kitchen!!! Last time she was in there she made chocolate pudding!!!
"Honey!" I said in alarm, "WHAT did you put in this?"
"I just wanted to try SPICY chocolate pudding, Mama!"
It was GROSS!!! YUCK!!! Cayenne pepper and cinnamon!!! She swore she loved hers but I noticed she dumped most of it in the trash when she thought I wasn't paying attentioN!!!!!
At 4 she could roll out pie dough like a genius- now- yikes!!!!!
But every night I always cook up a big dinner. Our family favorites:
BBQ Ribs & Artichokes
Pot Roast with Sage Stuffing, Asparagus
Lamb Samosas with fresh Mint Chutney
Chicken Artichoke & Buttery Pilaf
Chicken Curry "n Rice*)!
Steak (Marinated in brown sugar & soy sauce)
Homemade Potato Latkes w/ Sour Cream & Applesauce (that is actually great at dinnertime!!!!!)
Chicken & Broccoli Cheese Crepes
Mexican food- Tacos, Burritos, Pozole!!!!!!!!!! Fresh Rhubarb pie with Vanilla ice Cream Fresh tart Applie Pie with Vanilla ice cream Chocolate mousse or pudding my special dark chocolate cake!
Anyway, hard to believe that when I was sick there was a time when I was 24/7 nauseous and could not eat well- I love eating now!!!!!
For Lyme- rosemary & sage*)!*)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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easy & good for you is pan fried anything drenched with coconut milk:
Take fish for example:
Brown in olive oil & cook over med-high heat for 4 min each side...depends on how thick the fish is.
When done pour over coconut milk & simmer for another 2 minuets.
Yum and so good for ya. You can do this with chicken breast as well.
Makes a real nice creamy sauce. _________________________________________________
Another fav is sauteed artichoke hearts. Artichokes are really good for the liver.
If you are too tired to cook fresh~Take one can drained art.Cut the art. hearst in 1/4 's. Put hearts in pan with olive oil & garlic. Cook on high for only 30 seconds _________________________________________________Also good for your liver health are beets. Again If you are too tired use canned beets sliced . Pour olive oil, garlic & lemon juice to make a marinate. Toss. Let in fridge for a day or so.
You can also make a 3 bean slald or cucumber salald....just add sliced onions & marinate. _________________________________________________ My all time fav dessert is mock choclate moose:
Melt one block of sugar free unsweetened abking chocolate in micro ( if you don't do micro melt on stove top. Add alot of coconut milk & 1 tesp of butter(optional) Add suagr substuite. Chill or eat warm. It tastes like a chocolate/pudding mounds bar.
Ps: if you want just the melted DK chocolate don't add the coconut milk. You can pour it over anything. You can use this to dip almonds or strawberries or other dipping things in it . I don't do this very often & when I do I limit my fruit to like 2-3 whole strawberrys at a time.
Enjoy Dana
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