Coconut Milk Ice Cream (store-bought)

Monday Dessert

we LOVE 'purely decadent' (by 'so delicious')coconut milk ice cream, available at whole foods. be sure you don't accidentally grab the soymilk based one, packaging is very similar. currently, the only flavor that eliminates all of our allergens is 'passionate mango', but we all adore it. i have since learned to make my own coconut milk ice cream at home and will be sharing that recipe, as well - but after a hard day of being chained to the stove, it's lovely to be able to sit down and eat ice cream out of a carton and know it's not going to hurt my baby ! and he needs the fat, so he's right there beside me, with his mouth open like a baby bird.

Quick/Convenient Breakfast Ideas

mondays are back to school after the wknd, all hustle and bustle, no time for cooking a big breakfast.

many days during the week, we stick to cereal. the only brand we've found that is free of all our allergens is 'erewhon' brand 'rice twice' crispy rice cereal. we use 'tempt' brand original hemp milk on it for the baby and i - the other kids are fine w/ vanilla soy milk. we cut up strawberries and banana to put in it, as well. often the baby wants 'eden organic' strawberry applesauce or 'just apples' brand applesauce. if we're out, i will throw some apples and cherries or blueberries into our blender and make our own applesauce.

often for breakfast, we are very happy to have leftovers from the previous night's dinner, as well - there are not a lot of convenient breakfast foods made that accommodate all of our restrictions. a favorite are leftover muffins from the 'goulash & cinnamon muffins' recipe i posted - made w/ jelly centers and some fresh fruit. we call these 'nuffin muffins' because there is 'nuffin' in them that we are allergic to!

i will also heat up some 'jones dairy farm' sausage patties if everyone is hungry enough, but generally speaking, breakfast is not a big meal for us during the week. there are some brands of rice bread that we've tried, but nothing the kids ended up liking enough to eat more than once - tho softening rice bread in the microwave and then eating with toasted sesame tahini spread (a great peanut butter sub if you can't do sunbutter b/c of the corn or almond or macadamia nut butters b/c of the nuts) with some fruit spread is pretty good !

Convenient/Quick Lunch Snacks

Saturday Lunch

the pancakes are so filling and we eat late on saturdays because the kids all have morning swim class, so we're often not hungry on saturdays for lunch, so we just forage for convenient items like:

leftovers,

honey crisp apples,

mandarin oranges,

grapes,

avocados w/ lemon juice and dash of real salt

whole foods 365 brand original vegetable chips (check labels carefully, there are a lot of these out there but very few w/out corn or wheat - the costco brand has wheat and the veggie straws at whole foods also have corn or wheat) dipped in

organic refried pinto beans

'lundberg' apple cinnamon or brown rice rice cakes (these are the only 2 safe flavors currently)

'applegate farms' uncured turkey bologna or some brown rice w/ olive oil & salt w/ some peas and sliced grapes.