Good and bad news about my SMILE!

This is the kind of thing I have been eating lately (homemade chicken broth with pureed veggies).  WHY is that, you might ask?  Well, the answer would be that I just had 4 teeth pulled all at once!  Thankfully I didn’t think about the ramifications of this before I had it done, or I would [...]

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Menu Plan Monday on a Tuesday! (week of 5/12)

I guess Mother’s Day weekend has made me a little lazy this week!  I just finished menu planning this morning… at least I did it!  We have a ton of lettuce in the garden, so we will most likely be eating lettuce every day (I have gotten hooked on tossing in fresh herbs that are [...]

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Homemade Hummus (an approximation)

Here is the hummus man!!!  Daniel has always loved hummus (this picture is from Fall ‘07).  I have had a few people ask how I make my hummus, so here is a GENERAL rundown.  I started out with a recipe but eventually threw it out and improvised.  Hummus is something we pretty much always have [...]

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Menu Plan Monday (week of 5/4)

Monday
Turkey roll-ups, raspberries, rice crackers.   Glendamom’s salmon, sauteed spinach, platanos fritos. 

This is a “turkey roll up” that I invented for Daniel.  He wasn’t too hip on eating the turkey plain, so I put mayo inside of it (homemade is best, of course), and roll it up.  He loves it!  Here is the finished product:

Tuesday- MIKE’S [...]

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DAN! Cookies

This is a super easy recipe that I used out of the book: Special Diets for Special Kids 2.  It is a gluten and casein free cookbook mainly geared toward kids on the autistic spectrum.  Check out the ingredients…

That’s all there is to it!  I used sucanat instead of white sugar, and I think this [...]

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