My favorite southern style Vegan Gluten Free Mac n Cheese!

Ingredients
-vegan casein free, whey free Daiya cheese, mozzerala and chedder
-Use your favorite non dairy milk substitute I used coconut milk-vegan casein and whey free, So Delicious unsweetened
-gluten free brown rice noodles by tinkyada fusilli style
-1tsp oil
-1tsp basil minced
-1tsp parsley minced
-1tsp emerils essence or favorite seasoning
-stuff it with broccoli or your favorite veggies, peppers even!

-How To:
In a pan cook the fusilli for 10 minutes. Then remove from heat and let sit for another 5-10 with a lid on it. Then drain and set aside in a strainer or bowl. In the same cooking pot you used add 1/2 cup or more of each cheese and 1cup of coconut milk or more and a tsp of coconut oil or whatever you like to use. Stir with a wisk on medium heat. Add seasonings and spices. When its slightly gooey consistency add half the pasta and mix it up add a little bit more milk then add the rest of the pasta to the pan and stir with wisk. It should be all creamy now. If not add a bit more milk. Serve it nice and hot so it doesn't get cold the cheese gets gooey if cold. :) enjoy!
Takes about 15-20minutes and its great right out the fridge to the microwave for later too.

You can search on the Daiya website to find out where this awesome cheese substitute is found and it lasts quite a bit longer because you don't really need much! The tinkyada I have always found for cheap at Wal-Mart in the gluten free section ours is located by the cookies and crap food but I'm sure if you ask someone they could show you. The bag of pasta is like $3 pretty cheap  :D
SO GOOD!!

What do you do when he has a reaction??

Depends on the reaction.

If he wakes up in the middle of the night inconsolable screaming I give him gripe water sometimes I let him drink the whole thing to soothe his stomach.

If he has an ataxia or food reaction about 30 minutes after the culprit food then I give him a.kingbio homeopathic spray called food chemical allergy relief I think its what its called. 2sprays seems to do the trick just fine and it curbs it from reacting to his gut. If he seems fussy in two hours I give him some more spray. There are no side effects to the spray so its better than any sort of medicine. It also works super fast like 5-10minutes.

If its an.FPIES reaction to dairy I usually try to detox.him with an emergency green smoothie or juice with some ginger and other cleansing and soothing veggies. If he won't.drink the juice I make a smoothie to hide the juice with some frozen fruit. Also mashed potatoes seems to help his tummy and he will always eat some potatoes!

If he gets a diaper rash or bad acid burns which is a food reaction I usually make some colloidal oatmeal. You take some oatmeal blend it in a blender add some water til you have a thick paste and paint it on him. Then he takes a hot steamy shower with the water spraying up super high so by the time it reaches him its not so hot. We've done this since he was a baby and it really heals it. He can't have gluten but oats have never bothered his skin and you can.use GF oats. We also use coconut oil to heal and bag balm works wonders too. If they are really big I use a blister patch bandaid on them in his diaper so they don't get wet. They soak off in the bath tub pretty easy.

Why don't you just feed him "normal" food?? The reactions he gets.

People say why don't you just feed your kid "real food" or let him have it. Well if I "let" him have something he can not tolerate he is miserable and then I am miserable trying to console him from all the pain he endures.

         First he reacts mentally. He gets weird, insane in the membrane. They call this ataxia. He will get angry, his eyes seem to get dilated, he does this weird underbite with his mouth, he starts biting his tongue and blowing bubbles, and starts head butting things as if he cannot feel his head or pain. This usually happens between 30minutes to 1hr after.

      Secondly he gets restless when it comes to bedtime. You have to understand his normal self before you can understand the reactions. He normally is perfect at bedtime. He has always been an excellent deep sleeper. He usually nurses right to sleep. If he is upset he will just nurse forever and not wear out or tire down because he is so irritated and can't hold still, and picks at everything on me and drives me nuts. In fact tonight is one of those nights where 30minute bed time turns into 4hours. Naptime was like that too.

Third. He wakes.up in the middle of the night with his eyes closed screaming bloody murder and inconsolable. His tummy is tight and he won't move his legs. He turns into a stiff doll basically.

That is all usually besides the diaper rash. When he eats something with corn or gluten he gets holes on his skin. He gets deep circular open sores.

Fun stuff. Not!

Desmund's Food Story

It all started when we moved to America when he was 15months old. Before that he had some slight issues, stringy weird poops, slight allergies to citric acid, a bad reaction to dairy he accidentally got at 10months. No big deal. So no dairy or citric acid. Then he started getting crabby about 30minutes after he ate. I notice everything usually. So we did an elimination diet and just started skimming things down to see what he reacts to.

First thing was gluten. We tried going from bleached flour/unbleached flour down to only whole grain/whole wheat flour. Then just doing rice for a week and reintroducing wheat. It was most definitely the wheat. He would react in the middle of the night almost 12 hours exactly from whatever he had eaten that caused an upset. His stomach was hard as a rock and cramping he would just nurse to console the pain I'm guessing. This wasn't always the problem he had always been a really good sleeper and hadn't nursed at night for quite some time. So no more gluten. We tried to get into an allergist but we were moving again. So I just kept paying attention to his food. He seemed to be doing just fine no dairy, citric acid, or gluten.

The first reaction of his life was to chemicals in disposable diapers he had crazy burns from the diapers and they were very deep. So we switched to cloth right away it took about 3weeks for them to heal. His skin was super sensitive we thought it was just because he was a 35 week preemie. If he touched you and you had not safe detergent on his skin would turn all red and get bumps exactly where he touched you or laid up against you. So we switched to Charlie's soap. Apparently that is from a corn allergy we later discovered was our biggest offender, it was in diapers and cleaners of every kind. No excema or skin reactions after we switched.

His very first food reaction was around 10 months to citric acid in baby food. He would get red acid burn on his bum an upset tummy and weird poop. So no more baby food. We did Baby Led Weaning for the most part anyway but the doctors kept pressuring us to do baby food because he wasnt gaining weight like he should. Maybe they should have done a blood test??? Dum dee dum.

TMI
The next upset was to baby food Gerber 2nd foods it had "traces" of dairy unmarked on the label of course. But at this point we didn't know. He was under a year so he shouldn't have been given dairy to begin with. I don't remember the circumstance of him eating the baby food but I do remember my husband fed it to him! Lol. That night he had blood dripping from his bum. It wasn't in his poop it was coming out his bum about a teaspoon full. So we rushed to the Urgent Care on the army base. We should have gone to the Koreans instead. Real Doctors. The army doc tried to tell us he had fissures from the poop, he even went as far as copying the page from his book and sending us home with that. So a googling I went to find out there was milk in the baby food and that he probably had a severe food reaction to it. So no more of that ever again. Later we found out from our Allergist this is an FPIES reaction so he has FPIES to casein for sure and cannot have any form of it.

I'm not sure how the other ones developed he just seems to be fine and then one day gets upset and can no longer tolerate that kind of food anymore. Of course I always double check by taking it out of his diet for a month then reintroducing it for 3 days the doctors all recommend this method. I keep a food diary on my phone and record what he eats and what time. I also keep one for me since I'm still breastfeeding.

CORNTAMINATED
The problem with opposing foods is things are hidden in our foods for instance if they aren't organic they have chemicals in them. Organic foods also have chemicals on them as well. If they are meat its been sprayed down with lactid acid, or bleach. Who knows what they were fed as well. He could be reacting to anything the meat came in contact with. Most meats unless locally have been sprayed with lactic acid even organic so its totally ruined. So I found a local farmer at our awesome farmers market and tried some safe meat on him. No such luck he reacted for 7days!! Meat is a super bad one for him.

Vegetables and fruit. If they are in the store they have all been sprayed with a chemical to not cause fungus and to keep the bugs away. Apple's are polished with wax among other things so they look pretty. So now he was reacting to vegetables at the store. Most chemicals we found out have corn in them not normal corn genitically modified corn so its unnatural. If its unnatural your body has a problem.breaking it down and absorbing nutrients from it. So farmers market there are only 3 local farmers that don't use any kind of spray and it comes straight to us the day its picked. All the others use the spray the USDA recommends which is the anti fungal spray with all the bad chemicals in it so totally ruins those nice organic veggies.

He has had thrush off and on since he was born the reason it doesn't go away is because all.medicines over the counter or not have citric acid aka another corn GMO PRODUCT in them to preserve them. So they make his body fight them off because its bad to him. Who would have known! He is almost 2 and we are just now figuring out everything around him was making him sick.

What does Desmund eat?

He apparently doesn't like crusts so I took some paleo bread made with coconut flour I bought a whole months supply from Julian's bakery, I toasted them in the oven & I cut them into stars and made it with natural freshly mooshed creamy peanut butter and homemade blackberry jam sandwiches! He ate them all! The baby ate the crunchy crusts. Win win!

Quinoa Sneaky Fishies

1st. I make my quinoa weekly in the rice cooker, add a good stock for some flavor and some "FRESH" herbs these are very good for your health so I add whatever I have fresh that week from the farmers market. Then store it in the fridge for easy access during the week in a glad container or whatever you have. You can make alot with it. It's full of protein so I try to shove it in everything. You can even make amazing cookies with it!

2nd. I usually make these ahead of time and then keep them in the fridge for lunches. Think of it as your easy microwavable bad foods replacements like corn dogs, easy mac, hot dogs, chicken nuggets. =They freeze wonderfully! Especially in the ziploc individual vacuum bags!

3rd. The recipe. 

In a bowl I prefer metal so it doesn't stick. I combine Quinoa with a veggie puree of whatever I have on hand or left over. It all depends on how much veggies you have for this but I do a 1/3 veggie to quinoa ratio. This is what I use instead of eggs since we are vegan + shoves more veggies in there for amazing flavor! Blend them up with a little chicken stock or some whatever that's it! Sorry my measurements are really not there. I just use whatever I have on hand so sometimes I add more quinoa more pureed it just needs to be the consistency to roll them into a ball pretty much without being wet feeling. 

2 cups Quinoa

1/2 cup pureed veggies or mashed potatoes-

1/8 cup of minced onions or scallions or leeks

1 tsp of fresh garlic minced 

This is my basic recipe now to make it good! 

FLAVORS- 

Pizza bites-

-basil

-oregano

-some mozzarella cheese or some daiya-mozzarella(vegan)-

-meat just like you would a pizza if you aren't vegan so you could use bacon bites or pepperoni left over sausage or hamburger

Veggie's Minced

-mushrooms

-olives

-peppers

Some emeril's essence spice just a dash! 

Dip in some marinara

Mediterranean Yumminess

-chopped spinach 

-minced mushrooms 

-artichoke hearts 

-oregano-thyme-marjoram-basil-sea salt

If you want to get fancy add some ground lamb precooked of course.

I love adding a hint of emeril's essence. 

Dip in some Tzakiki sauce- I love making my own vegan style Yum! 

Jambalaya

3/4 cup black beans-drained and cleaned-I precook mine but if you use canned you don't have to

1/2 cup for the pureed veggies I use celery, carrots, tomatoes. 

-minced green peppers

Meat-1/4 cup add whatever you like if your not vegan-Vegan leave it out.

-baby shrimps

-kielbasa sausage-chopped into teeny pieces 

-chicken-chopped or shredded works 

-parsley-thyme-old bay seasoning or whatever cajun style seasoning you like I just used some chipotle chili powder

-Instead of Quinoa you can use rice here as well just make it healthy by using brown rice, not the minute, rice real rice it's nutritional! :D

Sweet Potato/no pureed veggies for this one

1/2 cup grated or mashed sweet potatoes

Potatoes/broccoli and cheese

1/2 cup mashed potatoes

1/4 cup broccoli bits cut the tips off no stems

1/4 cup shredded cheese or daiya chedder

-no pureed veggies for this one

dip in vegan sour cream or normal

These are just the ones I've made regularly. Feel free to make your own! 

*If your vegan you can add Tempeh or tofu or Seitan to these and they would be delicious!

Now after your done mixing them all up into a bowl take out a cooking pan and spray it with oil and turn your broiler on high.

You can roll them into balls and stick them into a muffin pan or you can make shapes for kids. 

Starting from a corner put a cookie cutter down make sure you spray that so that it will come up easy and then take a spoonful and smash the mix in the cookie cutter until it's flat on the top then take the cookie cutter away. You can also make like a big ball and then take the cookie cutter and put that over it and smash it down. Depends on the kind of cookie cutter and size you have. Just wipe the excess away and leave them about an inch apart. 

When your done you spray them with oil or brush them with butter whichever you want to do. 

Add Ons-

+Add some cracker crumbs so they turn out crunchy by patting them down with some crunched up crackers. I use like a pretzel crumb to get that crunchiness my son likes.

+Add some Parmesan cheese crumbles too just sprinkle it over and pat them in with a spatula. 

Broil

I put mine in the middle rack so they don't burn if they aren't crispy put them up higher. 

With my oven I do 10 minutes on one side them flip them over with a spatula and crumble on the rest the same way or cheese and oil or butter them. Put them in for another 10. They should be like a hashbrown texture when done.