We are still working on getting Grace to eat. We had some successes lately with some new recipies.
Thank you to Melinda and Mike for the KetoCal Pancake recipe. It worked like a charm! She wasn't letting go of the plate until she ate up every last crumb. We are saving that to make again on Wednesday for her lunch when the other kids get pizza. Hopefully something as enticing as the pancakes will get her to eat her lunch that day!
Tom tried some egg souflees - a few different ways. However, Grace was willing to try each one out and generally ate a good bit of it each time. He tried egg white patties. Grace called them crackers and ate them without question.
Tom is also getting very inventive with the soups. We start with heavy cream and butter and go from there. Sometimes we add cheese, seafood, bacon, chicken broth, chicken. Basically, anything we can find that we think she might eat. The soups are great because they mask the heavy cream for her.
One of the big winners of late is what Grace calls 'Pizza cheese'. We take her serving of protein as mozzarella cheese and add a dab of marinara sauce and melt. We take the cheese apart and make little balls. They harden back up rather quickly. Grace picks them up and pops them in her mouth. She usually gets a plateful of them this way. She had that for three meals over the weekend!! It doesn't do anything for the heavy cream so that is the only drawback.
Since little cheese balls were a big hit, Tom made her little meatballs one night. He ground everything up in the chopper and fried up the smallest meatballs I've ever seen. Grace got a lot of them that way.
We are also having success with french fries - eggplant sliced up like shoestring french fries and fried up and salted. Grace has accespted these as french fries and she is happy to get them. We cut up the eggplant and frooze them in little single serve portions. It is easier to take a pre-measured bag out of the freezer and cook them up.
Thank you for the prayers and the encouragement!
Marie, Tom, Rita and Gracie
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Marie and Tom,
ReplyDeleteWe are so glad to hear that your creativity in the kitchen is having an effect. Pizza balls sound pretty good. You can probably sell that receipe to Dominos as a "low carb" menu option! Seriously, some day you may want to consider putting together an informal recipe book for other families going through this challenge.
As for your previous post -- first, I love the picture of Grace's smile and 60+ days seizure free must feel like no less than a miracle! As for being annoyed with your doctor/nutritionist, I don't blame you. I would suggest that you talk with them about it. You all need to be a team for a long time to come and so I would suggest that you let them know how you are feeling. That is my experience -- since Chris and I have also had to work closely with a medical team over the past couple of years. You can probably even just email them.
Thank you for providing the updates and letting us all follow along on the "keto journey". Give Gracie a big hug and kiss from all of love.
Love,
Karen, Chris & Charlotte