The call from my pediatrician.
I had already found out my daughter is allergic to my dogs. (I have two Labradors that she adores). I found out she is also allergic to dairy, soy, peanuts, eggs, wheat and cod fish.
My jaw dropped to the floor and stayed there for a few minutes. Little did I know that Sunday night (yes, just last night), after a trip to the ER in an ambulance, we would find she is also allergic to children's Zyrtec (suggested by her doctors). I was thinking what else!?
But then I said to myself you know what? This could have been a call about some horrible childhood disease. My hobby is nutrition and fitness. I can do this. I can figure it out. This will just give me the opportunity to learn to cook in new ways.
So now, the challenge.
My first trip was to Whole Foods to find some products that might make things a bit easier in the beginning. Here is some of what I got.
What I'm grateful for? That I even have this challenge to face because I have my daughter.
Tell me, what are you grateful for?
p.s. Is there anyone else out there with this challenge? If so any children friendly and portable meal ideas would be much appreciated!
3 comments:
Good outlook to have, it will be tougher to cookfor sure and the fears of what she eat away from home wil be the worst, but I bet there are a lot of good resources out there. Good luck!
Indeed, the allergies added a new level of stress to my life as a mom. Its overwhelming in the beginning but gets better with time. Hopefully, your daughter will outgrow some of those allergies as she grows older and will not have any life-threatening allergies.
For "portable" meal ideas, veggies, chicken, etc. filled into corn tortillas, homemade chickpea flour crepes or Vietnamese rice paper wraps, steamed sticky rice balls with ground chicken/meat inside, rice crackers with sunbutter, to name a few. I blogged about a few of those at millerkitchen.blogspot.com but many of the allergy-free foods I used to make for my kids may not be considered kid-friendly in the non-allergic community.
There are many allergy-free cookbooks and blogs, even ones that avoid multiple food allergies.
I will check out that blog spot. Thank you so much for the ideas!
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