There have been people asking
what I'm actually eating these days so I thought I'd post quickly about that.
Breakfast is 1/2 cup instant oatmeal with 1 cup vanilla rice milk. I also add some stevia sweetner for flavour and I've started adding 1 tsp of ground flax for fiber and omega's. I also take my prenatal vit, vit D and calcium citrate.
Lunch is often rice (2:1 ratio of brown to white) with chicken and peas mixed together with some chicken bullion concentrate for flavour. Sometimes I have a biscuit (recipe below) with some turkey slices, carrots and cellery. Sometimes left-over rice pasta with beef and a salad. I've been meaning to get back to salad with chick peas in it but I haven't been motivated yet. I used to eat that with a creamy dressing - which I can't have now.
Dinner varies more. Last night I had the rice-noodles with beef and a salad. Tonight I'm having pork chops, applesauce and sweet potato. A few nights ago I had shredded, fried potatoes and a huge salad.
For snacks I often have unsweetened apple sauce, apple, plain rice cakes, a biscuit, raisins, sunflower seeds or carrots & cellery. I'm drinking mostly water but I'll have black tea, sometimes with honey, or welches grape juice with seltzer (my new 'pop') as a treat. I have been eating way too many plain potato chips - they're so yummy - but I'm going to cut down.
Here is the biscuit recipe. Finally got it right and quite enjoy it.
Whisk together 1 TBS ground flax and 3 TBS warm water. Set aside.
In a large bowl, mix together:
1 cup flour
1 TBS guar gum if using gluten-free flour
1 cup rolled oats
1/2 tsp salt
3 tsp baking powder
(1/2 tsp nutmeg and 3 tsp cinnamon - can be omitted - Cinnamon gives W gas)
1 tsp liquid Stevia.
In a medium bowl, mix together:
1/2 cup oil
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/2 cup vanilla rice milk
Flax/water mixture
Add the wet ingredients into the dry and mix. Spoon into greased muffin tins. Bake 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
I think the next time I make them I may try adding 1/2 cup of honey instead of the stevia. I may also use flavoured unsweetened applesauce for a different taste.
Patrick took a tumble Monday after playgroup in the playground. Poor guy tripped on his own feet and smacked his head off the asphalt. He also scraped his hands and knees right thru his jeans. 
Kathryn says this is our family. Everyone gets 1 eye. I guess we're all standing sideways? The eye that is mine has glue on it (my glasses) and the smallest eye is William. Isn't that adorable?!
Ready to run out the door!
She had a GREAT time. There are 2 other little cuties in her class. When she got home she showed us all the steps she remembered. Next week can't come fast enough for our little dancer!
Shaun's buddies had no idea when they bought this sleeper that Shaun's nick name as a child was BUCK! So fitting!!
Such a happy smile here!
At the Orchard! MmMmmmm Pie.... We picked 6 apples and toured the store. It was pretty rainy and icky so we didn't stay long.
Here is one from a few days ago. William still doesn't have the neck control to be in the bumbo for very long, but he seems to like it when he is in briefly!
And this one is for Anna. She asked how I get 3 kiddos into 1 cart at the grocery store!
William wasn't to happy being on the bottom shelf... and K and P complained about having to share the middle leg-space. About half way thru the trip I took Patrick out and put William on the top (sideways) and that worked well too. Patrick is excellent at walking in a store now - he stays close and -mostly- does what we ask.
