TTC Pink Food Thread for October

[carmella_marie]

Hooray! My son's skin test for the egg allergy was negative!!! Next we move on to the oral challenge. If we get good results, my family can once again eat: brownies, tortellini, french toast, cheesecake. Woohoo! We're so excited!
I've been able to replace egg in most of my cooking and baking, but some things didn't have replacements. Hopefully we'll be eating them again soon

I have to do this test soon. My DS might be allergic to eggs. He breaks out in hives anytime he comes into contact with anything with egg

[carmella_marie]

Here is what I ate today:

Breakfast: decaf coffee with skim milk and equal
Lunch: low sodium bread, philly low fat cream cheese and cucumber sandwhich, diet coke
Dinner: 1/2 cup penne and 1/8 cup alfredo sauce, 4 red vines
Dessert: chocolate milk!

And yesterday:
Breakfast: decaf coffee and milk with equal
Lunch: egg over easy on low sodium bread with diet coke and yoplait light
Dinner: 1/2 cup white rice, steamed mushrooms and green beans, glass of milk
Dessert: swedish fish and skittles

[carmella_marie]

I had a really hard time starting this diet and have been trying to get a running list of things to eat. I find I stick to the diet better if I have my whole day's meals planned out before I start. I would love to hear your ideas! Other menu ideas I have come up with:

"waldorf" salad--green grapes, craisins, apples, a tiny bit of celery and a little low fat mayo

Baked apple (without the skin) with a sprinkling of cinnamon

Low sodium bread and sugar free strawberry jam

Strawberry smoothie--strawberries with low fat yogurt and cranberry juice

Rice pudding--rive cooked with splenda, milk, vanilla, and nutmeg

hard boiled eggs or egg salad with low sodium bread and low fat mayo

Low sodium tuna and low fat mayo on matzo crackers--add a little swiss and make it a tuna melt

French toast with low sodium bread and strawberries

pasta with low sodim alfredo sauce

milk with sugar free choc syrup or steamed with torani sugar free syrups

Cottage cheese with fresh strawberries and raspberries

[rainbowflower]

some nice ideas on that list! you're eating a few things I havent thought of (and how you only manage to eat half a cup of rice/pasta amazes me - that's a tiny portion)

here's what I eat:


Lunches: pitta bread with low sodium cheese, pitta bread pizza, cream crackers + cheese + apple, (some have low sodium bread with a cheese sandwich, but I don't like the WW white danish bread which is the lowest in sodium), or rice


Tea: risotto, pasta with home made tomato+veg sauce, tomato soup, philidelphia pasta with roasted veg, some of the low sodium Tesco light choices ready meals, egg fried rice with veg, some of the frozen savoury rice dishes such as Sainsburys or Birds Eye (low sodium ones), I'm having chicken twice a week - as a treat in a korma, or with a low sodium stir fry sauce such as Blue Dragon Peking Lemon ones with rice, egg+vegetable fried rice

snacks: meringue nest with cream + strawberries, cake (providing it doesn't exceed the nutrient limits), some rice crackers, fruit such as peeled apple/pear/berries/green grapes, WW choc slice bar with cream + berries (feels like a luxury!)

[Mochagirl]

I pretty much ate the same thing for lunch every day - rice mixed with plain yogurt. For supper I almost always had pasta - either with some sauteed veggies, creme fraiche and parmesan, or sometimes mixed with pureed roasted butternut squash and parmesan. I also experimented with girl friendly versions of typical family meals: pizza on homemade no-sodium crust with low sodium sauce and very little cheese, cannelloni stuffed with ricotta and spinach, vegetarian tacos/quesadillas on no-sodium corn tortillas. There are lots of options - they just take time because you have to make everything from scratch and I also weighed all the ingredients to make sure I wasn't exceeding my limits.

[squamgirl]

I have to do this test soon. My DS might be allergic to eggs. He breaks out in hives anytime he comes into contact with anything with egg

carmella- I hope you get the answers you need from the tests. Our lives changed for the better when we removed our sons allergens from our home. If your son is allergic, please let me know and I'll send you my tips and recipes that I've learned over the years.
Best of luck to you!

[rainbowflower]

yesterday

lunch: 1.5 choc twist
tea: (by which time I was starving!) noodles, low sodium chow mein sauce, stir fry veg inc beansprouts, mushrooms, etc.
supper: 2 WW choc slices, cream, strawberries

[squamgirl]

So on Saturday I had my major cheat... we went out to eat and I had two breadsticks, two bowls of salad and two pieces of pizza. Then at home we had cake and ice cream and I had a piece of triple chocolate cake with hazelnut frosting along with chocolate ice cream. Since I've been on this diet for weeks, this all felt like way too much food. I wanted to vomit. And yet, at 10 pm, I ate another piece of pizza.
Then on Sunday I finished my pizza and had three more breadsticks. Oh, and my mother-in-law brought Halloween candy so I had a few pieces of that too. And I felt soooo hungry! I think once my body felt the wonderful feeling of food, it just craved more and more. The next couple days will probably be rough emotionally as I try to get back on course. But when I'm hungry, I just try to think of my baby girl hoping that thinking of her will help me be strong.

[rainbowflower]

lol squam don't feel bad - even though you ate all that (probably delicious) pizza there still wouldn't have been that many nutrients in it...

[squamgirl]

Thanks rainbow.... I also figure that our attempt is far enough away that it will be ok.
Now it's just hard re-training my body to not crave food all the time. I seriously LOVE TO EAT!!!