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Allergy Friendly Toddler Snack – Apples w/Sweet Yogurt Dip
We’ve been slowly expanding the girls’ diet, including more Full GAPS foods. We are still pretty restricted in terms of allergy foods, so it can be tricky to come up with tasty treats. However, I’ve had some real successes lately – including a no added sugar, nut-free, egg-free, dairy-free, grain-free cookie recipe that is a hit with the girls!! I’ll share it another time. I’m experimenting with coconut yogurt to try to make a “cream cheese” type frosting for Lily’s birthday. To achieve a thicker consistency, I doubled the gelatin I normally use in the coconut yogurt recipe that I make each week. It turned out much like a panna…
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Quick Weekday Lunch for Kids – Salmon Salad
Some days I just don’t feel motivated to make lunch. While I might be able to skip lunch, that’s not the case for my kids. On these days I usually open my fridge and stare into it for several minutes while completely drawing a blank on what to feed my kids. Pre-GAPS it was pretty easy. I could take out some allergy-friendly chicken nuggets or fish sticks, bake them in the oven, stick them on a plate with some ketchup and something easy on the side. Pre-food intolerance days it was even easier! But there’s no sense dwelling on that. Instead, let’s get back to reality. GAPS. Lunch. Hungry kids.…
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Cauliflower Leek Soup
For some reason I was thinking about potato leek soup recently. My husband, son, and I could eat potato leek soup, but potatoes are too high-starch for our girls on the GAPS diet. So, I started looking for a recipe to recreate it without the potatoes. Crazy, I know! After tweaking a few that I found, I came up with the recipe below. I thought about being clever and calling it Fauxtato Leek Soup, but decided I’d just go with the obvious and call it what it is. And what it is, is pretty yummy, if I do say so myself, and I don’t even miss the potatoes! This recipe…
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Taco Tuesday – GAPS Style
Taco Tuesday has always been a regular part of our weekly meal plan. (Seems a little funny to share our Tuesday dinner on a “What they Eat Wednesday” post! lol) Obviously, the girls can’t have tortillas or taco shells, but the beauty of tacos for dinner is that you can make the components and everyone can customize their meal according to taste or dietary restrictions. I also love this meal because it’s quick and easy to put together. I cook the ground beef in advance in my slow cooker, and then package it up for my freezer. When I have a recipe that calls for browning ground beef, that step…
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Green Fries – Quick and Easy GAPS Snack
Before we started our toddlers on the GAPS diet, they looooooved french fries. Since potatoes are off-limits due to the high starch content, I’ve had to get creative. I personally think that just about any vegetable tastes better roasted, and green beans are no exception. One day I roasted some green beans for the girls and told them they were “green bean french fries”. You know, sometimes it’s all in how you sell it 😉 They gobbled them up, and now they often ask for “green fries”. They are so healthy and easy to make that I’m happy to give them as a snack anytime. Seems too simple to call…
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Toddler GAPS Lunch… To-Go!
Yesterday I felt like getting out of the house, yet it was nearing lunchtime. I called my mom, who agreed to meet for shopping and lunch. One of the toughest parts about GAPS is that most of the meals aren’t super portable, nor are there restaurants that serve GAPS-friendly meals. Sure, we could go to a restaurant and order plain meat and veggies, but that wouldn’t be very tasty, and most kids wouldn’t be happy watching everyone else chow down on burgers and fries while they eat their flavorless meat and vegetables! GAPS food need not be flavorless, but the only safe options in a restaurant would be pretty boring.…
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GAPS Toddler Lunch – What They Eat Wednesday
I thought it would be fun to start a “what they eat” series. Ideally I’ll share every Wednesday, but as I’m a busy mom I’m not gonna commit to that! A lot of people wonder what people eat while on the GAPS diet, and in particular, what kids eat. My girls are technically on Stage 6 of Intro (the stage just before Full GAPS – woo hoo!), though we’ve had to modify it quite a bit due to food intolerances. Today for lunch, they started with a simple salad of romaine lettuce tossed with extra virgin olive oil and topped with ginger beet kraut (yep, I buy it.) Next they…
