What We Eat ~ Grain-Free Living!

One of my friends keeps asking me what we eat.  One of her children may need to go on a similar diet to ours, and she wonders whether they will starve to death.  I must admit that I worried about this a year ago, too!  Just to recap,  our son can't eat grains (wheat, rice, corn, barley, rye, oats and any others I missed), all nuts, soy, olives, shellfish, and yeast.  He can only have small amounts of chocolate and eggs baked into food. He can have dairy, but the cheese has to be fresh, such as mozzarella, rather than aged.  In addition, we eat as much organic as we can.  I do this for health reasons and also to reduce chemicals in our diet.  We do our best to eat grass-fed beef and cage-free chickens.  Our son is so sensitive to corn that even eating caged chickens who have eaten a corn diet affects him.  We are completely organic with dairy, potatoes and meat.  We are 75% organic with fruit and 50% organic with vegetables.  We generally drink tea for breakfast and water for lunch, snacks and dinner.  Sometimes we have milk for dinner, if I feel like our calorie intake for the day has been low.  We have juice one time a week (usually for our Friday field trip).


Here is what we ate last week: 

BREAKFAST 

Tom Sawyer:
(I use Red Mills All Purpose Gluten-Free Flour to make the bread and Against the Grain bagels. We use Stonyfield organic yogurt.)


Sun -- Grain-free banana bread, two cuties (small tangerines), and cup of milk.
Mon -- Same as above.
Tues -- Organic strawberry yogurt, banana, homemade sausage, black tea.
Wed -- Homemade sausage, bagel, cutie, black tea.
Thur -- Against the grain bagel, two cuties, strawberry yogurt, milk.
Fri -- Against the grain bagel, banana, frozen organic raspberries, milk.
Sat -- Organic hot dog, frozen organic blackberries, bagel, milk.

The rest of the family: 


Sun -- Same as Tom Sawyer.
Mon -- Same as Tom Sawyer.
Tues -- Same as Tom Sawyer.
Wed -- Homemade sausage,  Natures Own bagel, banana, tea.
Thur -- Same as Tom Sawyer (but the bagel was Natures Own, less expensive).
Fri -- Organic Peanut Butter Bumpers cereal, milk, banana.
Sat -- Yogurt, eggs, and hash browns (homemade).

LUNCH

Tom Sawyer:

Sun -- Hamburger with cheese, carrots, water.

Mon -- Miracle noodles with Earth Fare spaghetti sauce and meat balls.

Tues -- Ground turkey burger on a against the grain bagel, salad (no dressing).

Wed -- Same as Wednesday but with cucumbers rather than salad.

Thur -- Grain-free banana bread, Hormel ham slices, cheese and apple slices.

Fri -- Potato chips, cheese slices, apples and carrots.

Sat -- Potato chips, hot dogs, Annie's organic gummy bunnies, pears, and organic grape soda.

The rest of the family:


Sun -- Same as Tom Sawyer.
Mon -- Same as Tom Sawyer.
Tues -- Same as Tom Sawyer except we used rice.
Wed -- Same as Tom Sawyer except we used Natures Own bread.
Thur -- Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Fri -- Same as Tom Sawyer.
Sat -- Same as Tom Sawyer.

DINNER

We all had the same thing, except that when rice or tortillas are mentioned, Tom Sawyer would have had Miracle Noodles or fried potatoes.


Sun -- Fish fry (fish dipped in Quinoa flour and fried in oil other than olive as Tom Sawyer is allergic to olives), green beans and organic french fries.
Mon -- Ham dinner with organic ham, pineapple, grain-free banana bread, green beans and homemade cranberry sauce.
Tues -- Quinoa macaroni, ham and cheese casserole (see photo) with apple slices and cucumbers.
Wed -- Taco night with tortillas or fried potatoes, ground beef spiced with homemade taco seasoning, cheese, salsa, tomatoes and lettuce.
Thur -- Turkey meatloaf made of organic ground turkey with crushed potato chips, ketchup and Italian seasoning and salad.
Fri -- Chef salad bar ~ lettuce, ham, turkey, cheese, tomatoes, carrots, celery, sunflower seeds and raisins.
Sat -- Organic hot dogs, organic fries, and fruit salad (cuties, apples and blackberries).

DESSERTS AND SNACKS

For dessert, the kids had Breyer's natural ice cream, Annie's Gummy Bunnies or homemade hot chocolate.  For snack, they had cheese, raisins, sunflower seeds, popcorn (everyone except Tom Sawyer) or potato chips.


Blessings, Dawn