Monday, October 12, 2009
Tummy Troubles
My daughter's been having what we refer to as "tummy troubles" for some time now. We've tried eliminating various foods with little success. We've supplemented her diet with acidophilus powder from our naturopath, even cut off eating by a certain time each night to avoid the common bedtime refrain, 'my tummy hurts.' This past summer, however, the tummy troubles culminated into fits of bloating, stomach pain and tears. We shelled out several hundred dollars to have her blood work sent to the US for testing and have just recently been given the results. We figured wheat was a problem, but we never anticipated the long list of foods to which she was highly sensitive. No more soy, gluten, eggs, dairy... not even lentils or navy beans for our little Stellbell. This on top of eating neither fish nor fowl (nor beef). What follows is my (somewhat daunting) adventure in soyless, wheatless, vegan cooking and baking. Here goes 'nothin!
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