Food Trial Frustrations

After having gone through these food trials before with two other kids, you would think i would remember how it always goes. It's so frustrating! I need to stop putting goals up on how many new foods i am wanting to add and when that will happen. I always end up disappointed.

Halle does have a decent amount of safe foods now. Almost everything that i'm eating. But we haven't been able to add anything new for the past 2 months. Once she was eating the same as me the aim was to start trials with her which she would hopefully pass and then i could start eating them too. But we got as far as trialing cauliflower which was a BIG FAT fail. That took her awhile to get over, then she had another FPIES reaction to an accidental exposure to egg and after that she got really sick with high fevers for a whole week. She is better now but sleep still hasn't been great and her poo is still very mucousy. So we need to keep on waiting until these get better before we can even think of trying a new food.

How slow the process is, is what i find the hardest. I really need to learn some more patience. I just hope we get to find a new safe food soon. There could be a whole range out there we have no idea about because we haven't tried them yet. If only we could just try the right ones first so we don't get so many set backs all the time!!

On a positive note i have been getting a bit more creative with the safe foods we do have. I make my own cashew milk at home that i can use in COFFEE!! I have missed coffee so much. I don't make it every day as it uses a lot of cashews which aren't the cheapest food out there, but i love my treat a few times a week. I have also made cashew cheesecake and cashew yogurt. Amazing what you can do with such a simple little nut! I also invented some safe biscuits and a slice we can eat. It's very nice having a bit more variety.

She loves her real food. 

Roast veggies and Cleavers hotdogs
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