An anxious feeling is very common when you are the one preparing a meal for another that could literally die if you do not get the ingredients right. So let us take a deep breath and go back to basics. I am going to try and help with some meal ideas.
In this photo from left to right is boiled chicken, stewed cabbage, boiled carrots and cooked white rice.
Breakfast
Stewed apples
Lunch
Hamburger wrapped with lettuce, home cooked fries and cucumber strips
Dinner
Chicken and rice, boiled carrots
Snack
Banana
Let us do another one
Breakfast
White rice with chicken broth saute peppers and onions.
Lunch
Turkey lettuce wrap with mustard, carrot sticks
Dinner
Pate Chinois and salad, olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing.
Pate is a dish with ground beef, potatoes and creamed corn. Pate Chinois recipe is listed in cooking from scratch section. To make mashed potatoes without dairy save the water that you boil your potatoes and add back some when you mash your potatoes.
Snack
Orange or Satsuma
Breakfast
Cooked rice cereal with raisins
Lunch
Chicken sandwich cucumber slices
Dinner
Broiled pork chops, broccoli and sweet potatoes
Snack
Strawberries
Now here is a good country style meal
Salisbury steak, boiled carrots, turnip greens, mashed potatoes and gravy. Gravy is made with meat drippings, oil, flour and water. If you cannot tolerate gluten then a gluten free flour may be used.
There are more vegetable options such as cooked spinach, Swiss chard, Cabbage, Brussels sprouts to name a few. Don't leave out bell peppers, onions and garlic to make the food tasty.
As you get more comfortable cooking homemade meals you will learn ways to make dishes using substitutes but until you get past the overwhelming stage of figuring all of this out stay with non processed foods.
Most important remember to stay with basic real foods. Meat, vegetables and fruit.
These are collards int this pot. Collard greens, turnip greens, mustard greens are just a few of the good healthy greens.
You can make a good soup or stew with these simple ingredients, potatoes, celery, carrots.
At times I like to sit down and eat a quick simple food. This is boiled mashed sweet potatoes and often I have them for breakfast.
I have pondered on putting up this page on multiple food allergies quite a bit and I know there are many that come here with different allergies but hopefully this will help to put things in perspective.
We are a family with food allergies, even our dog has food allergies. I truly understand how overwhelming it can be but I may never understand why so many people that do not have food allergies feel they must bully or make you feel bad because you are now different in some way. The most shocking to me are family members that just do not get it and feel an allergy mom or dad is being over protective and those people will never understand cross contamination so you have no choice but to stay away from them. Sweep that away and let God deal with them. Focus on the task because there is a lot of planning and reading labels so you must have a calm clear head. This means not letting others try and sway you in doing what is right no matter what.
There are a lot of people out there that are coming up with new recipes using products that are for people with food allergies. I try to only use a few "processed" products but some are found to be good. These pancakes are made with Bloomfield farms gluten free flour. They have a variety of products and are made in a peanut free facility. I am not connected in any way to them, I just know a good product when I see it and after trying several brands I feel more comfortable using their product.
Sweet potato fries are very delicious and all you do is cut them up and put some olive oil (I use light or medium olive oil when frying something) in the skillet and cook over medium heat until done. Toss them around often. I add salt and pepper at at the very end of cooking I add chopped garlic and cook it just a bit. Garlic will burn easily and turn bitter and is why you add it after the potatoes are tender.
If you or your child is not allergic to fish this is baked fish, white rice and steamed zucchini. If you have multiple food allergies make sure you or your child has been tested for fish allergy before feeding them fish or seafood.
To cook fish I drizzle lemon over the fish, drizzle olive oil, salt and pepper and any spices that I like that are safe. I bake it in the oven. If you have multiple food allergies then you must learn to eat the foods that you are not allergic to keep your body healthy. In my coffee cup is hot water over a lemon. I like drinking this off and on during the day.
Another meal idea:
Steak, baked potatoes and salad ummmmm.
With leftover steak you can slice strips for lunch the next day or even have it for breakfast.
I am working on getting more recipes up in the cooking from scratch section. Please check back often and if you have a special need just send me an email.
I hope this helps you along your journey to preparing meals for your loved one. Grandma Donna
