Monday, July 18, 2011

Menu Plan Monday - holiday edition - and Allergy tests

My poor little munchkin - she scored dustmites too this time...
We had Miss 2's allergy testing 2 weeks ago - it had been a year since her last one and I didn't hold much hope for any changes. The big surprise then was that she didn't react to the wheat skin prick test! I could hardly believe it! Egg had also gone down and that indicates she might be ready for a baked egg challenge in hospital in 6 months time (baked egg meaning baked foods that have egg in them like a cake/muffin etc). So we followed the Doctor's advice and gave her part of a water cracker (nice and plain wheat, no complications) and 20mins later, a bit more and so on. It seemed ok. So for the rest of the week we tried bits and pieces of wheat in meals but soon found that she was getting spots around her mouth and on her body and her eczema was returning. So I rang the Doctor and they told me to let it clear and start again. So we are almost ready to do that - Miss 2 is very sick at the moment (unrelated to allergies) so we think we will wait until she is in full health to start challenging her immune system again. Fun fun.

We were on holidays over the last 10 days at a house near the beach. It was fabulous. Here's the menu - a reasonably easy holiday menu. Note that some of the meals weren't wheat free but could easily be made so. The best thing I did was travel both ways with frozen bolognaise in a container which meant all I had to do was to cook pasta when we got there/home and heat up the bolognaise.


Wednesday - Spaghetti Bolognaise
Thursday - Pizza (using store bought bases)
Friday - Chicken and Vegie stirfry (using store bought honey, garlic & soy sauce) on rice
Saturday - Soft Tacos with mince and vegies
Sunday - Fish and Chips (from the takeaway shop - grilled fish for Miss 2)
Monday - Pasta with Bacon, Mushroom & Spinach - I substituted spinach for peas in this recipe
Tuesday - Spaghetti Bolognaise (cooked enough to freeze for Saturday night)
Wednesday - Chicken Stir Fry (to use up the rest of the sauce)
Thursday -Sausages, mash potato and vegies.
Friday - Roast Chicken and Vegies

I think I might put my spag bol recipe up soon. I just realised I don't think I've put one up.

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