*"What did your Children Eat today?"*

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Duck drumsticks casseroled with wine, apple juice, bottoms of two bottles of carrot juice, ( the sludgy bit we don't tend to like drinking! ), herb salt, leek tops and celery leaves, big fat carrots in chunks, with big pieces of celery, and baby mushrooms added later. Served with mound of brown rice.

It was totally scrumptious. He ate heaps. Am happy about that.

Yesterday he was sick, probably as result of eating too many dried pineapple rings preserved in sulphur,( keeps them a pretty colour but is a real intestinal and stomach irritant), the previous evening, and he exploded both ends yesterday morning, so only ate a few rice cakes near end of day with mushroom veg pate and slices of cucumber, and then a couple with honey and banana slices.

But he's been bouncy again since noon yesterday, so nothing serious.

We are still in the 'trying' phase for my son's diet -- we got rid of most of the refined sugar he was eating and that helped alot. Next is going to be GFCF, but we are still trying to find many Gluten-Free products in this small, backwards town of ours. (and I am WAY too cheap to spend 12 bucks on a bag of flour via the internet :/)

Breakfast was: 2 small GF muffins with carob chips in them. (The family LOVES them, and it is presently the only GF mix we can find at our local grocer.) Also he had a small cup of SF apple/cherry juice. (His favourite breakfast is soft-boiled eggs with toast, he asks for this at least 3x a week.)

Lunch: Grilled chicken sandwich with lettuce, tomatoes, and pickles on top and a Diet Cola that he shared with his 4-year old brother.

Dinner: Since he was helpful yesterday and followed the rules, he gets to pick dinner. (we "pay" with favourite meals, snacks, and game/movie time instead of giving allowance). He picked "Mom's French Bread Pizza". I just make a long loaf of French Bread (it's easier on my hands than making a bunch of pizza flats.) And put a bit of tomato sauce, cheese and each kid gets to pick their toppings. (Devon prefers pepperoni, green and black olives and garlic -- oh yeah he is DEFINITELY my boy LOL)

We don't do this often (the pizza I mean), and I really have no clue what I am going to do when we remove Gluten and Casein from his diet. His exact words were, I can do without breads and wheats mom, but please do I have to go without cheese!?

Always have been a picky eater, but am cautious also because of PKU.

I'm a 15-year-old kid BTW. :p

Try taking them out separately, wheat/gluten first, for at least 6-8 weeks, to see what effect exclusion of each one on its own has. He might not necessarily have a reaction to their food opioid element in which case it may be an individual sensitivity to one of them. You may find it makes no difference at all. But unfortunately the one he loves the most, or has driven relationship with, is the most likely one.

Eggs are worth investigating too; they are in the top six/seven most common food allergies.

Good luck with that. Congrats on excluding sugar. We still haven't managed that, though our consumption of it is fairly restricted. But supper often includes it; for instance last night it was several rice cakes with chocolate spread which he adores!

My 7 year old AS son ate for breakfast this morning, 4 slices of toast with vegemite, (I'm in Australia), and a bowl of GF cornflakes in rice milk and I mix a vitamin pill in with it.
Then for a recess snack at school today, he had a packet of rice crackers, for lunch he had 2 sandwiches with vegemite, some apple slices and grapes and a small packet of pizza shapes bikkies. After school I gave him a chocolate mini muffin and he had the rest of the apple and grapes.
For dinner he had stir-fried beef, brocolli, a sugar pea and half a green bean, (he eats veges in trace amounts, but at least it's something!). For an after-dinner snack he's having crackers (GF) with dairy-free margarine, (it's really nice), and vegemite and a tub of apricots.

He DOES eat a lot of vegemite - must be all the salt in it.

On weekends he likes to have cheese and ham on crusty rolls, (instead of vegemite, yay).

One of his favourite dishes is when my partner pan-fries whole Garfish (yuck!).

He likes spag bol but hates noodles and rice and he doesn't like food that is all mixed together, like lasagna or stews. But he likes to mix his veges together and crams the mixture in his mouth, so he can get rid of them faster .

Cheers,
Temma

Temma, is your son gluten free ( you refer to GF cornflakes, and crackers), aswell as casein free ( you mention rice milk, but also cheese )? The bread/sandwiches/toast all gf bread? That's a really impressive substitution rate. We get by on rice cakes, corn chips, and potato. No bread replacements at all; the gf varieties just seem too expensive, and I'm not much of a baker.

ref: vegemite: I can't remember if that's the one which contains "hydrolised vegetable protein" or not. If it is then you need to check if that is gluten, because it often is. I seem to remember discovering that I couldn't eat it in a gf diet.

There are some great gf yeast extract spreads available now tho, which aren't as intense or salty as marmite. And some delicious veg pates, but more expensive unfortunately.

So far today...he has eaten...

cheese, and more cheese. To be precise ... roquefort, goats cheese camembert, gouda with cumin, and a sliver of french "cheddar".

and that's it, apart from some grape juice.

after reading this over my shoulder he has decided to eat an apple compote/puree.

Vegemite --- I still say this is why Australians are so strong and healthy.

Not too sure about eggs - before we moved we hardly ever ate them, nor did we eat anything that really had eggs in them. (I have issues with store-bought raw type foods. I.e. dairy, meat, eggs, fresh veggies. etc.) But now that we have moved back out to the ranch (and we have chickens) we eat eggs more often and he has seemed to get a bit better about certain things since we moved as well. However, if the GF and then the CF doesn't seem to make much of a difference, then we will try eggs.


The sugar was actually easier than I thought it was going to be. But between public school (back when he was still attending PS anyway), grandparents, other relatives, etc. He was consuming a lot of sugar...well a lot by my standards anyway. We told him that we thought that sugar was the reason that he was having problems concentrating, and that we were going to try to remove it from his diet and we also told him that if there was no difference whatsoever, that he could have sugar back. Within two days, HE was telling US how much better his brain felt. About a week later he started working on projects around the house that we never thought he could have taken on. After well over 2 years without sugars, we slowly give him a little bit here and there, just for a treat. At birthdays he can have a small piece of cake and at holidays I will let him have a treat or two, so he isn't totally deprived lol. (Especially considering the large amount of birthdays we have around here LOL)

My son eats the same thing EVERYDAY.

Breakfast: Waffles (lightly toasted) with ketchup, Peanut butter on a spoon and cotton candy yogurt.

Lunch: Peanut Butter Crackers, cheese popcorn, choc chip cookies, apple juice (only Motts brand in a box)

Dinner: Scrapple, ketchup, Chips (pringles only) Milk.

Its a wonder he doesnt starve to death!

Ashlie (Mom of Toby)

My 9 year old Aspie eats in a standard day:
- Cereal + milk for breakfast
- Morning tea: fruit + crackers
- Luch: sandwich + fruit
- Afternoon tea: museli bar (not the healthiest snack but it's a treat)
- Dinner: Broccoli, Cauliflower + Carrot every meal (the only vegetables my fussy kids will eat) + meat/fish + past/potato
- Dessert - jelly + fruit or a couple of lollies or icecream or 25g bag crisps

My 8 year old Aspie is incredibly fussy with textures + has allergies (red, puffy eyes, chronic swelling sinuses + crease at the top of his nose from constantly rubbing his nose). He has just undergone extensive allergy testing.

We tried a gluten/dairy free diet last year which made no difference to him. I was not prepared to continue a restrictive diet without objective evidence + we really needed to find the cause of his allergies so we could help him best.

The testing showed he is allergic to egg, dust-mites and all the grasses tested. His allergy tests showed no allergy to animal hair/dander, wheat or dairy.

Anyway, my 8 year old ate yesterday:
- toast + custard for breakfast
- watermelon (only fruit he will eat) + crackers for lunch
- chicken curry pasta for lunch
- more crackers for afternoon tea + museli bar
- Dinner: Broccoli, Cauliflower + Carrot every meal (the only vegetables my fussy kids will eat) + meat/fish + past/potato. I check the ingredients on past packets to make sure there is no egg.
- Dessert - couple of lollies or icecream or 25g bag crisps or iceblock (the one's made from fruit juice)

Helen

amazingashlie: I ate the same thing every day (with maybe an annual changeup) for years. I still do it for breakfast and lunch, but I now have a three-week rotation of dinners for the family.

OK today my child ate/will eat:
Breakfast: Cheerios & milk
Snack: cream cheese, bagel, water
Lunch: chicken & rice
snack: crackers & juice
Dinner: pizza, lettuce, water (same every Friday)

Today my son ate a vast bowl of :

banana slices, raisins, cornflakes, sunflower seeds, coco-pops, almond flakes, and organic milk, with three pieces of apple.

and a fruit compote/puree with some french blue-cheese and "cheddar" for supper.

He also scoffed some salted crisps in the middle somewhere!!

Yesterday was a big bowl of my tuna salad with everything in, and a yoghurt with fruit jam in the evening.

today he had a boiled egg with 2 slices of toast, tuna and mayo sandwich and crisps for lunc and will be roast chicken for dinner, is that bad?

My son, on a typical day, eats something like the following (he's two):

Breakfast:
Orange juice
Cheerios with skim milk
1/2 banana

Lunch:
Healthy Choice hot dog sliced
Cottage cheese
Fruit
Skim Milk

Dinner:
Whatever we have, which can be anything but is always healthy. Unless we do a pizza night, which we do once every couple of months.

My daughter eats relatively the same things, though sometimes she prefers toast in the morning or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (her absolute favorite) cut into dinosaur shapes for lunch She also eats a LOT of fresh vegetables, she loves them.

wow, i'm loving the replies on this thread. Why am I so fascinated by what people eat? !

Anyway, today my eight year old son ate:

Lentil curry with brown rice, and hot lime pickle and a plain yoghurt to mop up the spice!!

This evening he is eating, while watching Princess Mononoke for the third time in his life, and as an exception while watching TV, a plate of mixed cheeses, ( blue, goats, gouda with cumin, and some scrumptious thing called a "tomme"), with fresh apple segments, raisins, hazelnuts, a few almond flakes scattered about, a tiny "pot" of cherry jam to go wuth the goats cheese, and the last two strawberries from Sunday.

Yesterday was a mixed vegetable soup ( every single vegetable left in the house! ), with bacon bits. Twice. Plus some chocolates in the middle somewhere.

well as an adult i will post what i have for meals.

breakfast: yogurt and or a bagel with butter.

lunch: soup or bagel with butter.

dinner: veggies,(main dish: /pasta with meat, fish, chicken, etc) ,rice or side dish,small bowl of soup or salad.

If i had my choice!! and money... lol

breakfast: burger king
lunch: taco bell
Dinner: probably pizza or something from my grocery's deli.