Friday, September 28, 2012

We call these rice cakes :)

I took an old family recipe which was my favorite and turned it into amazingness allergy free for my son to enjoy!
Recipe:
I used about 2cups of leftover brown rice 3/4 cup of liquid- I used coconut milk from the can
I used 2tsp of chia seed pudding leftovers or you could use 2 eggs or an egg replacer
1cup of pancake mix
+you could add a tsp of sweetner as well we don't

This made about half of a medium sized mixing bowl. Then I put them into my cake pop maker and smashed them and they took about 4minutes on each side. They look like little hashbrowns. I used some frozen blueberries with some water in the bullet mixer and then poured some on top it soaks then right up and they taste good with a little maple syrup poured on top for some sweetness.
This recipe makes a ton!
These will freeze really good because the pancakes do!

::If you don't have a cake pop maker::
You could use a normal muffin tin fill them only about and inch full. Bake for maybe 10-15 minutes on 350* I'm not sure I would just watch them closely. I usually bake my pancakes German style and it takes about 20minutes.
The smaller the better if you are using gluten free pancake mix because they tend to not rise and you don't want a gooey center.






Thursday, September 27, 2012

We are Paleo Vegan

When finding recipes which I recently made a fabulous pancake recipe and forgot to write it down and then turned those into goldfish shaped pb&j's they were so delicious! Anyway we bake paleo meaning no grains and then for our protien source we use quinoa mostly and sometimes brown rice but I don't like to use anything but quinoa. My son doesn't really do good with lentils or rice for digesting. He has FPIES to casein so no dairy falls into the paleo and has big issues with gluten and corn so also falls into the grain free lifestyle of paleo. He does absolutely terrible with eggs and turkey and pork. It takes him 7days to recover from them for sure after an upset. So that is where the vegan lifestyle began. Vegans tend to use alot of grains though. Which he doesn't do well with so I bake mostly using Paleo recipes. Which is absolutely fabulous and has great flavor. If your going to do this though you need to order in bulk! :) I love the vegetable recipes that paleo diets consist of and seasoning. We were juicing daily for vitamin intake and making sure he was getting the right amount of vitamins in his diet but Summer is ending soon and the greens we usually use are all gone locally anyway which is pretty much all he can tolerate the freshest of the fresh. He cannot eat stuff from the store because there sprayed with fungicide. Most of the organic usda approved stuff is as well so we can only go to about 3 booths at the farmers market. I have never like tomatoes and they have the most fabulous tomatoes! I also believe in full term breastfeeding like the paleo lifestyle follows as well. This way he will be healthier for the rest of his life if I just donate my time to him for the something like 1% of his life that requires it! :) If my husband goes hunting this season my son will be allowed to eat Deer but that's only because it's fresh caught and not processed or sprayed with anything and we can butcher it and package it ourselves :)

Organic & Breastfeeding

When I was doing the elimination diet and following my son's reactions he was reacting to me not eating the slightest bit of chemically covered vegetables.  By this I mean not organic of course. He wasn't reacting right away it took about 2-3 days for my food intake to get to my milk to him.  He wasn't reacting to things like salt and pepper and spices, since he became allergic to cinnamon I could eat cinnamon just fine it's weird how kids react differently. If chemicals passed through breastmilk then why do they always tell you what you eat is fine. I suppose if your child has a strong gut then it wouldn't trigger a reaction but it will still effect him. As I think further on this the chances of him getting a cold or something from me not pumping up my breastmilk with more awesome immune boosting foods is increased when I don't eat healthy. He is currently doing really well minus the fact that my husband has come home and the house is filled with bad food he keeps getting his little fingers on. I have found that activated charcoal relieves his belly pains within 15 minutes. He loves it and thinks it is chocolate milk which he has never had before lol. I'm so glad the last 6 months of hell have paid off well and he is finally doing well! As the naturopath said as long as he gets a well rounded diet weekly not daily like an adult then he will be just fine! :) So having a whole broccoli for lunch and eating a whole bowl of peas for a snack is ok!