When I tell people that we haven't altered our cooking to accommodate our food allergic child, they are often a bit surprised. We have good reason for this, and here it is:
On Saturday I purchased some egg replacer for the first time. A powdery substance which you mix with water to produce the baking equivalent of one egg. Jerry decided to make cakies (cookies from a cake mix). What a nice chocolate treat for our baked-goods-deprived child. First off, it took Jerry more than a normal amount of stiring and scraping to get that water and powder mixed. Then, incorporating that into the cake mix was no small task. 4 Tbsp of water is just not as sticky as 2 eggs. Add some no-milk chocolate chips and you have some really crumbly stuff. So Jerry mixed and mixed and mixed and squeezed and pushed the dry batter into cookie shapes.
The cookies actually came out looking real nice and tasted great. We presented Levi with the chocolatey offering and he took one bite and was done. He could not be coaxed into eating more. "Just take one more bite of this cookie, pleeeease".
Well that worked out nicely.
Maybe avoiding all the baked sweets has given Levi an Asian palate. Try some gummy candies soaked in cherry juice with some corn and see how he feels about that.
ReplyDeletehow do you explain to a kid that pez candy is not food?
ReplyDeleteIt's not? There goes my 6th food group. What will we serve with breakfast from now on?
ReplyDeletebut pez soaked in cherry juice w/ corn... now you have something!
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