Tips on eating on Thanksgiving

[Anonymous]

Hi does anyone have any tips on how to eat Thanksgiving dinner over someones house and not consume any dairy.

My family are already pressuring me to go to formula so I just want to slip under the radar with eating Thanksgiving dinner. I would rather not go but not an option. I’m sure everything they are making will have butter in it.

Should I bring my own food?

[hellbennt]

I would bring your own food…if anyone says anything, maybe laugh at yourself and shrug it off by saying “yeah, I’m a crazy mama, but I find that my baby is very sensitive to some of the foods I had been eating & then I changed my diet a bit and it helped her/him so I brought my own food- don’t want to jinx it!!” something like that. you probably don’t want to even go into the whole reflux/GERD thing bcse chances are you’re only going to hear about COLIC, so just shrug/laugh and say something like “eh, call it what you will, we happen to have noticed a difference w/ me avoiding some foods, so like I said, ‘whatever’ it is, it’s working & I don’t want to jinx it!”

Thanksgiving should be ‘easy’ to have your own free-range turkey & sweet potatoes…even bring a batch of the rice crispie treats!
if I recall, you’re trying to ‘just’ avoid milk & soy proteins, so you could even find something to make w/ canned pumpkin filling (making sure it has no soy or milk hiding in it)…

I *think* that there are recipe sites where you can type in ingredients and put a minus (-) sign in front of words to not have that ingredient?

here’s 2 recipes I found:
Apple Sauce Icebox Cake

Apple sauce
MSPI-friendly graham crackers

Spoon
a layer of apple sauce in the bottom of a square or rectangular
casserole dish or baking pan. Follow with a single layer of graham
crackers. Cover graham crackers with a layer of apple sauce and repeat
to top of pan, ending with a layer of apple sauce.

Cover and place pan in refrigerator for several hours.

and Harvest Snack Cakes
(wonder if you could put pumpkin in there rather than carrots? either way, sounds Thanksgivingish, lol)
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Harvest-Snack-Cake?pmcode=IJCDL02S&_mid=37500&_rid=37500.33700.94178

hellbennt2009-11-22 18:48:28

[Anonymous]

wow thanks Laura you are the best!!!!! You even gave me the words to say to them….. I will have to print it out to bring with me so have it ready to go… thanks for your help in all of this.

[Anonymous]

I would bring your own food… I just posted on your other thread a bunch of food ideas – let me know if you need some more ideas!

Hang in there & ignore your family (& any other non-supportive people). They *think* they’re trying to help (b/c they think it will make your life easier) but don’t realize you’ve made a decision, have a plan & want to stick w/ it. What I always did was refer back to our peds (general ped & ped GI) & tell ppl that they (the drs) want us to continue bf’ing on the restricted diet (& follow-up w/ that you want to continue as well)… it usually shuts them up for another day or so ;).

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