Food stuff

After returning from Virginia last week, I used my new Vitamix blender Nannie gave me (I love it!!!) to start making hemp milk. It's really easy (though I have to figure out the best routine) and has made perfect results. Levi is drinking the milk regularly, and I'm also adding it to some other things, like Nate's pancakes he eats every morning.

We started Levi on the GFCFSF (gluten-free, casein-free, soy-free) diet a few days ago, and so far it's going well. He surely can't tell the difference--a nice benefit of starting the diet so young. :) I don't think we'll see any positive effects from him being on the diet (if there will be any) for at least a week or two.

Tonight, I made a GFCFSF dinner for everyone: these roasted carrots (so good!) and some surprisingly good chicken nuggets (coat cut-up chicken breasts in egg-hemp milk mixture, then dredge in gluten-free all-purpose baking mix, salt, and pepper, and fry in olive oil). Having not one but two children on this special diet is spurring me (finally--it has been over 2 years) to try more full meals that are diet-friendly. It also helps that Levi is still mostly a not-picky eater, whereas that isn't the case with Nate. I'm also planning on making taco soup this week. I haven't made it in a long time, but it is so good, so easy, and coincidentally GFCFSF.