This is corn free, no nut warnings, AND wheat free! I was practically dancing in the aisle in the store. I can never find corn free granola! I don’t know about the other flavors/types of cereals with this brand. Only this particular one. Yay!
*Sidenote – Maltodextrin is made from corn. I don’t avoid it because I don’t seem to react to it but I know some people do.
If you know me, love me or if you know or love (or are even just acquaintances with!) that has a chronic physical condition/illness that they deal with every single day…
If you know anyone like that…
Read this. The Spoon Theory.
I’d repost the whole thing here but it requests at the bottom that I not repost it without permission so you have to follow the link.
Thanks
PS I just used up most of my spoons going to the grocery store. I think I’ll just sit here now. Whew!
4 eggs, separated
1 Tbsp sugar
1/4 cup butter, melted and cooled
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup rice flour
1 cup tapioca flour/starch
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tarter
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp xanthan gum
1. Beat egg whites until stiff
2. Cream together egg yolks and sugar in a separate bowl until light.
3. Add cooled, melted butter, milk and vanilla extract.
4. In separate bowl, mix together the flours, baking soda, cream of tarter, salt and xanthan gum.
5. Add dry ingredients to the egg yolk mixture and mix thoroughly.
6. Fold in egg whites.
I added a little bit of milk at the end. Perhaps a tablespoon or two. To thin the batter a little bit. I think next time I’ll add slightly more. Maybe in the beginning to 1 1/4 cup milk.
But these were delicious and lovely!
I had pure maple syrup on mine and the girls had pure fruit jam on theirs. Nom!
I adapted this from this recipe: http://www.allglutenfreerecipes.com/index.php/gluten-free/detailed_recipe/belgian_waffles/ – It had baking powder in it – which has cornstarch.
If you ever need to know:
1 tsp of baking powder = 1/2 tsp cream of tarter, 1/4 tsp baking soda, 1/4 tsp cornstarch.
I emptied my old cooking blog – which has been unused for awhile anyway. http://cookinginwyoming.blogspot.com/ – Now it’s a place where I’ll be storing things I find or try or use – that are corn free, wheat free, peanut free ways to feed my family.
I can’t imagine it will ever be of a ton of use to anyone else but there it is. It will be helpful to me. haha.
I’ve whined on here about my health before. I just have something to add.
I have fibromyalgia.
I went to the doctor. He tested me for lots of things (that’s the blood tests I mentioned in Leah’s allergy post). I do not have lupus, or rheumatoid arthritis or any of the other things he tested for. Whew.
Fibromyalgia has no test. It’s a diagnosis of elimination.
My mother has it. I have it.
So I hurt a lot. Just about all the time. I have only so much energy to go around. So my girls have been getting it all. Some goes to cleaning my house if I have it left.
Some days I’m fine, some days I can’t do the simplest things – like shut my garage door. That was really annoying. There’s a lot of muscle weakness.
The are lots of other symptoms but we’ll just say it’s been impeding my daily life for awhile.
I’m just over here doing the best I can… but just about everything is going to the way side except caring for my children.
That’s all.
Leah on wheat…
Leah off wheat…
I really can’t believe how swollen her eyes used to be. Holy. Moley.
And yes. The 2nd picture is with my phone. The first one with my camera. If I wasn’t lazy, I’d go charge the camera battery and do a better comparison. But you get the idea, eh?
Generally I make my own spaghetti sauce but we were in a hurry tonight. I sent my husband to the store for something else and called him while he was still there and asked him to see if any jarred sauces would fit our little family here.
It turns out the Prego is corn free, peanut free, and wheat free. Yay for that! A lot of prepared sauces have high fructose corn syrup in them.
We had ground turkey in it. The turkey was seasoned with salt, pepper, onion powder, and an Italian seasonings mixture. Then the jarred sauce, salt, pepper, basil. Then left to simmer for about 20 minutes.
During that time we cooked this pasta:
Which was FABULOUS. I'd eat this over regular pasta any day! I had no idea brown rice pasta was that good or I’d have been eating it a long time ago. Amazing.
I feel like I just typed a post just like this.
Oh wait… I did: Hannah’s Allergies
At Hannah’s appointment when he was asking me allergy questions about her I kept thinking – that sounds a lot more like Leah than it does Hannah…
When Leah was about 11 months old she had her first allergy attack. Her eyes would not stop running for a day or so. Just constantly streaming. That was the first time I gave her Benadryl (which is only recommended for 1 year and up. I went online I researched and found a “by weight” chart for dosages). It instantly dried up her eyes but holy moly. She went BIZERK. She was very literally bouncing off the walls. As in she was running AT the walls and bouncing off of them.
Leah was allergic to red dye.
Thank heaven they make dye free Benadryl. That always worked.
In later years as Leah would have accidental exposure to red dye (it’s freaking everywhere). She would have night terrors that night. It was hideous.
Most children out grow dye allergies and Leah can now have all the red dye she wants with no reaction. Whew.
However.
She was still congested a lot. Still sick a lot. Still with the runny eyes. I tried Claritin for children – no luck. I tried Zyrtec – yay! That worked. In the winter… In the summer it just takes the edge off. She would be fine and then go outside to play, then come in and her eyes would be all swollen.
Oy.
So, I took Leah to get tested. I answered a lot, lot, lot of questions.
And then the took us to another room with a bed for her to lay on her tummy. She had been so brave up to this point and finally the fearful anticipation got the better of her and she wrapped herself around me and just cried. I finally coaxed her onto her stomach and we started the test. She realized quickly the poking was not a big deal but as you’ll see with the pictures she started to itch and be uncomfortable right away.
She cried. I was sitting by her head and we were forehead to forehead, nose to nose and she had her arms wrapped around my neck. We just stayed like that until the poking was over and she could relax a little bit. She was still uncomfortable but not anticipating the poking anymore. (62 pokes in all. Poor baby.)
ONE minute in (this stuff is supposed to stay on for 15 minutes. The nurse stood back and said: oh man.)…
3 minutes:
5 minutes:
10 minutes:
At the 10 minute mark the nurse had, had enough. She started wiping each and writing down the results. She didn’t want Leah to have to wait 5 more minutes.
All wiped off and waiting for some cream:
At this point the nurse left to go talk to the doctor again. He wanted her to have 6 more tests. Each of which involved a shot into her arm to put a little of the allergen under her skin and see how she reacted.
This… was not fun. The also wanted to draw blood. I looked at the nurse kind of horrified and she said – we can put that one off. You can refuse to do it this time.
Excellent because Leah was going through quite enough for one day!
A minute or two after the shots:
10ish minutes after:
That’s cat, dog, mold, a couple of tree ones and the bottom right is grasses. She is wicked allergic to everything (except the mold. That’s not so bad. Seriously? So what! She’s gonna rub her face in mold? LOL!) but the grasses was the worst reaction of them all. That one kept swelling through the day. I gave her some Benadryl before we started the 120 mile drive home and it stopped swelling but it’s still swollen some today.
So. She’s allergic to most kinds of trees, grasses, weeds, pollens, cats, dogs. She also has a mild allergy to wheat (no that is not celiac or gluten intolerance. Wheat allergy is a histamine response to wheat. Celiac is a gut issue.)
And she has a mild allergy to peanuts. Oh and house dust/dust mites. Both more mild than Hannah’s but still there.
The peanut thing is relatively “easy” since we’ve already prepared for that for Hannah. Hannah can’t have things that say “processed in the same facility or same equipment” but Leah can. She just is not going to have straight peanuts, peanut butter, etc.
The wheat is another issue – it’s mild and she’s not going to have an anaphylactic reaction ever but I want to get her where she feels really great and then introduce things and see where her threshold is, etc.
So for now we go wheat free.
Clearly I can not do everything for all of us. We can’t all be corn free, peanut free, wheat free, diabetic friendly eaters. There will have to be some double prep going on some things but I’ll do as much common food as I can. Wheat free (and/or gluten free) foods are much more expensive so I don’t want to feed all 4 of us wheat free all the time.
I will, however, do everything in my power to make sure my 6 year old foodie in the making still enjoys her food. She has some wheat free toaster waffles today and we both decided they taste better than the ones she normally eats. So that was a happy find for her! (If only they weren’t 4 bucks for a box of 6… I’m going to make some from other flours and freeze them because GEEZ. She eats 3 in a sitting.)
Congrats to you if you made it to the bottom of this post. Sorry about my long windedness. It helps me process all this to write it down.
I was feeling very crazy and helpless until I went to the store. I know about allergy shopping from myself. I can do this for her. I have the cooking know-how so I’m not freaking about that. I just need the supplies and some time and I can make it all fantastic for her.
We’re gonna make pizza tonight or tomorrow with some wheat free dough! She’s really excited about that.
Whew!
I should write another blog post about my own health but I’m waiting for some test results. It can wait. And frankly, my brain can only take so much!
http://chezbeeperbebe.blogspot.com/2010/03/tutorial-and-pattern-recycled-mooshy.html
I read the idea for making these bunnies at the above link. I decided to use some shirts that Leah & I had tie dyed a couple of years ago. And this is the cute result…
PS I’ve never made any kind of stuffed animal before. This was a trial run for me. lol
At least the girls love them!
If you read the tutorial they came from you’ll see I did the tail differently. I cut a circle of fabric, did a really loose stitch around the outside of the circle and gathered it in. Then I stuffed it, hand sewed it closed and stitched it onto the body. Since it was fairly lose I also decided to hot glue them closer to the body. I didn’t want the girls (or Hannah really… lol) to rip the tail off.
And for the 2nd one I pinned the ears inside the body so that I didn’t have to sew them to the outside… because I happen to kind of hate hand sewing. It turned out cute still. I think I might pinch them at the bottom of the ear and put a stitch in each to make them more folded like the first bunny but eh. Maybe if I make more.
My hope is to find a few patterns and make Hannah a few stuffed animals specifically. Her dust allergy means she shouldn’t have a lot of fuzzy things sleeping in her bed with her. It seems like it would be better if they were cloth and things I can throw in the washer.
The girls have been carrying these around and sleeping with them. That gives me warm fuzzies!
And pardon the crappy pictures from my phone… I’m lazy.
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