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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 240679" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Funny about the bread - difficult child 3 eats it plain as well. We keep the sliced loaf in the freezer then get out however many slices we need. While on the Elimination Diet, we were told (because we'd already kept him off bread for a while and found no change) that we could keep bread in the diet because for us, we were using a bread machine with Laucke's Crusty White, which has no preservatives or anything else nasty. Of course it DOES have wheat and yeast, but no preservatives at all. From what I recall, it was the only bread mix permitted on the diet because it has only the basics. It costs a bit more but still comes down to about 80c a loaf and tastes fabulous.</p><p></p><p>So if he loves bread, and bread itself is OK just not preservatives, then maybe consider getting yourselves a bread machine? We've had some discussion on these at times in Watercooler. It's laso helping me get difficult child 3 doing more cooking, he can load the bread machine himself now. I actually add an egg to each loaf to boost the protein, but that's just us.</p><p></p><p>From the sounds of things, you need to look at preservatives. Sausages are notorious, but you might be able to find a local butcher who can make up a preservative-free batch if enough people ask for it. Or you can make your own sausages, if you have one of those bench-top mincers. You can use natural casings or synthetic. "Grass Roots" magazine has had articles on collecting your own sausage casings, washing them and filling them. But I think you'd have to be the ultimate earth mother plus a fanatic. (Mind you, I'm a person who makes her own pasta, so I shouldn't get too rude about it). I'd be nervous about using chickens as a source, and I'm not sure of the legality of butchering your own if it's much larger. But you can buy in natural casings from the butcher (again, I think you can order them frozen, preservative-free).</p><p>Sorry if the topic is a bit gross - I'm farm-raised (as is husband - ag high graduate) and in my day we did butcher our own meat, which is why I was mostly vegetarian as a kid.</p><p></p><p>In trying to keep our kids preservative-free, colouring/flavouring-free, I've resorted to preparing a lot of meals from scratch, where possible growing my own ingredients. It's not perfect, I just do the best I can. We use what info we have ie caffeinated drinks are a disaster for us, making the boys far worse (easy child 2/difficult child 2 used to be a shocker as well) but the decaf variety are OK (for us). So we have decaf coffee beans (and instant coffee) as well as caffeine-free cola drinks as a treat. The kids have grown up knowing we will try to let them have treats, as long as they don't abuse it and have what they shouldn't, because their behaviour WILL tell us!</p><p></p><p>The yogurt - what sort? Flavoured? Or plain? Often kids with a dairy problem can still have plain yogurt. Some brands are better than others ie some are loaded with additives, and some aren't. I've made my own yogurt, even my own fruit yogurt (I make my own strawberry syrup which is just strawberries and sugar, gram for gram, which flavours a plain yogurt to make a wonderful strawberry yogurt). I also have recipes which use plain yogurt to great effect.</p><p></p><p>But in this, we could be heading for Healthful Living territory. I recently placed a lot of these recipes over there if you want some.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 240679, member: 1991"] Funny about the bread - difficult child 3 eats it plain as well. We keep the sliced loaf in the freezer then get out however many slices we need. While on the Elimination Diet, we were told (because we'd already kept him off bread for a while and found no change) that we could keep bread in the diet because for us, we were using a bread machine with Laucke's Crusty White, which has no preservatives or anything else nasty. Of course it DOES have wheat and yeast, but no preservatives at all. From what I recall, it was the only bread mix permitted on the diet because it has only the basics. It costs a bit more but still comes down to about 80c a loaf and tastes fabulous. So if he loves bread, and bread itself is OK just not preservatives, then maybe consider getting yourselves a bread machine? We've had some discussion on these at times in Watercooler. It's laso helping me get difficult child 3 doing more cooking, he can load the bread machine himself now. I actually add an egg to each loaf to boost the protein, but that's just us. From the sounds of things, you need to look at preservatives. Sausages are notorious, but you might be able to find a local butcher who can make up a preservative-free batch if enough people ask for it. Or you can make your own sausages, if you have one of those bench-top mincers. You can use natural casings or synthetic. "Grass Roots" magazine has had articles on collecting your own sausage casings, washing them and filling them. But I think you'd have to be the ultimate earth mother plus a fanatic. (Mind you, I'm a person who makes her own pasta, so I shouldn't get too rude about it). I'd be nervous about using chickens as a source, and I'm not sure of the legality of butchering your own if it's much larger. But you can buy in natural casings from the butcher (again, I think you can order them frozen, preservative-free). Sorry if the topic is a bit gross - I'm farm-raised (as is husband - ag high graduate) and in my day we did butcher our own meat, which is why I was mostly vegetarian as a kid. In trying to keep our kids preservative-free, colouring/flavouring-free, I've resorted to preparing a lot of meals from scratch, where possible growing my own ingredients. It's not perfect, I just do the best I can. We use what info we have ie caffeinated drinks are a disaster for us, making the boys far worse (easy child 2/difficult child 2 used to be a shocker as well) but the decaf variety are OK (for us). So we have decaf coffee beans (and instant coffee) as well as caffeine-free cola drinks as a treat. The kids have grown up knowing we will try to let them have treats, as long as they don't abuse it and have what they shouldn't, because their behaviour WILL tell us! The yogurt - what sort? Flavoured? Or plain? Often kids with a dairy problem can still have plain yogurt. Some brands are better than others ie some are loaded with additives, and some aren't. I've made my own yogurt, even my own fruit yogurt (I make my own strawberry syrup which is just strawberries and sugar, gram for gram, which flavours a plain yogurt to make a wonderful strawberry yogurt). I also have recipes which use plain yogurt to great effect. But in this, we could be heading for Healthful Living territory. I recently placed a lot of these recipes over there if you want some. Marg [/QUOTE]
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