He's fine with well cooked eggs when they're baked into things like quiche or cake but scrambled eggs are a big no.
I gave them to him once and he got a little red around the mouth and then the second time he had a stronger reaction, eyes puffed up and were obviously itchy and a nasty red rash all over his face, very scary and we very nearly rushed him to the hospital (which is fortunately right next door), we hung in there and it faded after about an hour.
Thankfully google came to the rescue...
"Some of the allergenic parts of the egg are changed by cooking and become non reactive. This is why some people react to egg that is raw but not to cooked egg." Presumably scrambled eggs is just not cooked enough!
Apparently two thirds of children with a mild egg allergy will grow out of it by five years of age.
Fingers crossed for the little man.
Tuesday 29 June 2010
Saturday 26 June 2010
Our own bread
As a follow on from the salt thing we bought a bread machine, if I'm trying to control the amount of salt The Boy eats one of the easiest ways is to make as many things as I can from scratch.
It's so easy and really nice to know exactly what is going into our food (about two teaspoons of salt per loaf, so not to worried if he has a couple of slices!). At the moment we've stuck with a fairly unadventurous wholemeal loaf recipe but I'm planning to branch out into french bread and other exciting flavours soon.
Mmmm, there's nothing quite like freshly baked bread!
It's so easy and really nice to know exactly what is going into our food (about two teaspoons of salt per loaf, so not to worried if he has a couple of slices!). At the moment we've stuck with a fairly unadventurous wholemeal loaf recipe but I'm planning to branch out into french bread and other exciting flavours soon.
Mmmm, there's nothing quite like freshly baked bread!
Sunday 20 June 2010
Not food
With the enthusiasm that The Boy shows now with eating every new food we give him it was actually quite a relief that he is able to identify that some things are just not food.
Green poster paint f'rinstance.
Friday 18 June 2010
Salt
To begin with, in the first month or so of blw I was super concious about salt then, when I thought through how much goes into our home-cooked food vs. how much he was actually eating, I relaxed again, the reality was that the volume of food he was eating was so small there was only so much he could actually be ingesting.
Now, as The Boy's consumption of 'real people food' increases and he's more and more able to eat exactly what we eat I'm becoming more concious of the salt content of what he's eating again.
I have to be realistic, food has salt in it, you can't make bread or cheese without it and The Boy likes both very much. I also can't control how much salt he has when we eat out, I try to make good choices for him from the menu but who knows how much salt really went into that pasta sauce or those sweetcorn fritters.
I have to concentrate on what I can control which is the food he gets at home. We make a point of not adding pure salt to anything while we're cooking it so all the salt he gets comes from cheese, stock cubes or ham etc.. that are cooked into the recipe.
I also bought two new cookbooks the BBC Good Food; 101 More Low Fat Feasts and Healthy Eats in the same series. Not that I'm sponsored by the BBC or anything but I have found them really good, they are all tested recipes and they really do turn out like the pictures (!) and the have some very tasty ways of adding flavour without adding salt.
As a saltaholic honestly, I sometimes miss the salt but I like that we have 'the salt thing' under control and I guess I like that The Boy is forcing us to be a bit more healthy!
Now, as The Boy's consumption of 'real people food' increases and he's more and more able to eat exactly what we eat I'm becoming more concious of the salt content of what he's eating again.
I have to be realistic, food has salt in it, you can't make bread or cheese without it and The Boy likes both very much. I also can't control how much salt he has when we eat out, I try to make good choices for him from the menu but who knows how much salt really went into that pasta sauce or those sweetcorn fritters.
I have to concentrate on what I can control which is the food he gets at home. We make a point of not adding pure salt to anything while we're cooking it so all the salt he gets comes from cheese, stock cubes or ham etc.. that are cooked into the recipe.
I also bought two new cookbooks the BBC Good Food; 101 More Low Fat Feasts and Healthy Eats in the same series. Not that I'm sponsored by the BBC or anything but I have found them really good, they are all tested recipes and they really do turn out like the pictures (!) and the have some very tasty ways of adding flavour without adding salt.
As a saltaholic honestly, I sometimes miss the salt but I like that we have 'the salt thing' under control and I guess I like that The Boy is forcing us to be a bit more healthy!
Thursday 17 June 2010
Monday 7 June 2010
FIGS!!!
A few of my fellow blw'ers have extolled the virtues of dried fruit, usually prunes and apricots soaked overnight to make them soft.
It's something I believed but never really got around to trying until last week when in a rare trip to the supermarket I walked past a display of 'Crazy Jack' brand organic stuff.
I picked up some figs and some apricots (found an interesting fact about dried apricots, which I'll come to later) soaked'em in some water and gave them to The Boy and now they're a staple of his diet. He thinks they're great, especially the figs and always finishes them and they're good for him too.
Win, win, win.
Now my interesting factoid about dried apricots
Apparently, they're not supposed to be orange, they're naturally brown when they dry but they add some sort of chemical to make them orange so we'll eat them. My tip of the day: buy the organic brown ones!
It's something I believed but never really got around to trying until last week when in a rare trip to the supermarket I walked past a display of 'Crazy Jack' brand organic stuff.
I picked up some figs and some apricots (found an interesting fact about dried apricots, which I'll come to later) soaked'em in some water and gave them to The Boy and now they're a staple of his diet. He thinks they're great, especially the figs and always finishes them and they're good for him too.
Win, win, win.
Now my interesting factoid about dried apricots
Apparently, they're not supposed to be orange, they're naturally brown when they dry but they add some sort of chemical to make them orange so we'll eat them. My tip of the day: buy the organic brown ones!
Speaking of Fish
DH doesn't like tinned tuna. So when he goes on a business trip I (a bit tragically, I know) look forward to a baked potato with a bit of tuna mayo and when I'm feeling exotic I throw some spring onion and sweetcorn into the mix. Oh yeah, I am just so rock'n'roll!
So DH went on a business trip a few weeks back and I made us both baked potatoes with the aforementioned rock'n'roll mix, and The Boy loved, loved, loved it. I thought the spring onions would be a step too far but he was scooping up handfuls with both hands and cramming them in his mouth just as fast as he could.
So the boy seems to like fish in all it's forms and if people could stop chucking mercury into the ocean we would have the basis of a very healthy diet here, as it is he can only have it about once a week.
So DH went on a business trip a few weeks back and I made us both baked potatoes with the aforementioned rock'n'roll mix, and The Boy loved, loved, loved it. I thought the spring onions would be a step too far but he was scooping up handfuls with both hands and cramming them in his mouth just as fast as he could.
So the boy seems to like fish in all it's forms and if people could stop chucking mercury into the ocean we would have the basis of a very healthy diet here, as it is he can only have it about once a week.
Tinned sardines
Loves 'em. Who'd 'a thought it!
Recipe
Take the sardines out of the tin.
Mash.
Spread on toast.
Watch the boy lick it off the toast.
He'll also grab handfuls of mashed sardines out of the bowl and eat those if you let him.
My Boy is rich in Omega-3!
Recipe
Take the sardines out of the tin.
Mash.
Spread on toast.
Watch the boy lick it off the toast.
He'll also grab handfuls of mashed sardines out of the bowl and eat those if you let him.
My Boy is rich in Omega-3!
Wednesday 2 June 2010
Fruit Cake
We recently moved house and got a new oven - joy!!
Our previous gas oven was designed for cooking Chinese style duck with the rotisserie attachment and very little else - it had a fierce set of burners at the top and bottom and a completely arbitrary 'temperature' scale on the front. In reality it only had two temperatures very hot and cold.
My previous attempts at lovingly baking things for the family resulted everything being crispy on the outside and raw in the middle which is not an ideal state for any sort of baked goods.
Very, very excited by the new oven I dug out my mum's 1974 Dairy Cookbook and made a (if I may say it myself) fantastic fruitcake. I dropped the nuts from the recipe because of the choking hazard they present and once it had cooled I couldn't wait to offer the boy a slice.
I'm happy to report it can be added to his list of likes, he rarely drops any and mmmmm's and laughs as he works his way through his portion.
He probably doesn't neeeeeed cake at this age but it's so much fun to watch him enjoy it and much better a homemade one than something storebought, I reckon.
Our previous gas oven was designed for cooking Chinese style duck with the rotisserie attachment and very little else - it had a fierce set of burners at the top and bottom and a completely arbitrary 'temperature' scale on the front. In reality it only had two temperatures very hot and cold.
My previous attempts at lovingly baking things for the family resulted everything being crispy on the outside and raw in the middle which is not an ideal state for any sort of baked goods.
Very, very excited by the new oven I dug out my mum's 1974 Dairy Cookbook and made a (if I may say it myself) fantastic fruitcake. I dropped the nuts from the recipe because of the choking hazard they present and once it had cooled I couldn't wait to offer the boy a slice.
I'm happy to report it can be added to his list of likes, he rarely drops any and mmmmm's and laughs as he works his way through his portion.
He probably doesn't neeeeeed cake at this age but it's so much fun to watch him enjoy it and much better a homemade one than something storebought, I reckon.
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