It's Monday and lets complain a little. Its another gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, egg-free, sesame-free day. I must have two meals for the day completed by 7:30 a.m. because it is a school day. I am lucky enough to have a wonderful eater for a daughter. She loves food and likes a wide variety of things. I am unlucky enough to have a wonderful eater for a daughter. She loves food an likes a wide variety of things. So she won't eat the same old thing everyday. The mothers of the fussy eaters are jealous of me. They watch my child snack on everything from sardines to watercress salad to scorpions (yep, I have pictures of that). But I am also a little jealous of them at times. They can throw together the same old thing because it is all their kids will eat and they are done. At our home, things get a little desperate. Once she has eaten something often enough, she does not care to see it show up on her plate for awhile. I am sure she would get tired of scorpions if I could serve them up regularly (She thought they tasted like a cross between chicken and popcorn. We have to take her word for it because I did not try them). She is tired of most of the breakfast foods that I can conjure up quickly. Coconut milk yogurt with allergen free granola - don't even suggest it. Not even with our own blueberry sauce - doesn't want to see that for awhile. 1-2-3-Gluten-Free pancakes???? with bananas for egg replacer - Nope, been there, done that. Gluten-free oatmeal with fruit and coconut cream??? SO over it. Turkey bacon??? That was good for awhile due to this being a vegetarian household prior to "the diet," but no, we have had our fill of that. Apples with nut butter??? Over that on the third day. Hash browns stirred up with broccoli, bell peppers and onions (throw in some chicken sausage, really expensive Applegate Farms sausage)???? That worked for the last month, but is losing its glow.
If I serve something that has lost its edge, she picks at it and does not eat much. It's a grumpy morning with me harassing her to hurry up and eat and her trying to eat something she now finds downright unappealing. Then, on that happy note, we race out the door for school and work.
Sunday has become begging day. I beg her to think of things that might be appealing come Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Breakfast AND lunch options. This week she agreed to hash browns again with the addition of tilapia on the side. People might think I am spoiling her, but really, she's a good eater and I have to embrace that. She has invented a rub for tilapia that she likes, so she has some motivation to handle breakfast cooking while I handle lunch.
This morning, she had hash browns, tilapia and left-over butternut squash soup. For lunch, she was to have grilled chicken with a watercress parsley salad, cucumber slices, carrot sticks and munchies. Munchies are some sort of allergen free cereal or crunchy snack (just nothing sweet, she is not that big on sweets) with some almonds or non-peanut nut thrown in. I have found that without some sort of carbohydrate, she will get in the car starving at the end of the long school day. I need the nuts for a protein boost. She is sick of sunflower seeds.
Chicken cooks much better if you turn the oven on. (Remember, this is Monday). As the carpool ride to school pulled up, I was desperately emptying plain salmon into a container for some sort of lunch protein. I squeezed a little lime and some seasoned salt on it and ran it out to the car. Better luck tomorrow, the chicken should be cooked by then.
I am off to work now, thinking, "Ok, what's for dinner?" Can't be tilapia, its my breakfast savior this week.
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