Re: New member. What to feed my kids??

Posted March 11, 2004 · March 11, 2004

How did you determine you were a non-secretor in your biology class?

I would be interested in knowing how it was done.

Do you like olive oil? I think veggies are a lot better with plenty

of olive oil along with some salt and fresh ground pepper.

I have searched the Internet many times to find out how to cook new

items, like veggies I had never tried before.

I have 2 sons, ages 11 and 13, and all three of us are type O Rh-

secretors. When I transitioned to this diet they transitioned too at

least from the stand point that they do not eat any avoid foods when

they are at home with me. They couldn't since there aren't any in

the house. They eat some of all the veggies I fix and actually like

some of them. For instance my older son really likes collard

greens. However, they do eat more grains then I do and I can't get

them to eat as much protein as I would like. And they haven't tried

eating dinner for breafast as I do every morning now.

Change the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to almond butter and

blueberry or black cherry jelly on spelt bread and you have a OK

transition meal. Other transition ideas include finding OK cereals

and using rye crisps instead of crackers. Just remember that this is

just a transition approach and the you need to move them away from

grains. For instance my sons love to eat my homemade ground beef

jerky for a snack now. They wouldn't eat it at first.

Try transitioning your husband from pure orange juice to one of the

blends that are available. I think Dole makes one with orange juice,

pineapple, and banana. Maybe over time he will accept just drinking

pure pineapple juice instead. Feed him more protein when he has a

sweet craving.

Don

> Hi, I have been lurking here for about a month now and thought I

> would introduce myself. I am a stay at home mom of two kids ages 2

> and 5. Everyone in the family is an O but I don't know secretor

> status except for myself from a forensic biology class I took in

> college. I am a non-secretor. I have been trying to follow the

> diet and am about 60% compliant right now. The problem is that I

> hate veggies! I am getting better and will eat broccoli, spinach

> and asparagus. I have no clue how to cook most veggies and my 2

> year old will only eat corn and carrots. I figure if I keep

feeding

> the good stuff, eventually they might eat it but I don't know.

> Their main favorites are all the bad stuff - mac and cheese, peanut

> butter and jelly sandwiches, lentils and couscous, crackers,

> waffles, cereal, you get the idea. What kinds of things should I

> feed them for meals, esp. breakfast when everything they associate

> with breakfast is wheat based?

> When I first told my husband about this way of eating he seemed

> pretty interested until I told him about no oranges or orange

> juice. Well now it must be a crock! Although I think he still

> wants to try, that may have to be his non compliant thing. Our

> other problem is that we are sugar junkies. I know that if we can

> avoid those things, eventually we wont want them anymore but I

think

> that is the hardest thing. My husband can eat a whole bag of

> valentine candy hearts or candy corn in a day! Luckily neither of

> us is overweight (don't know how) but I do worry about diabetes and

> stuff like that.

> Thanks for reading my ramblings. I will keep reading the posts and

> get informed and hopefully try some new veggies!

>

> Holly

Posted March 12, 2004 · March 12, 2004

> When I first told my husband about this way of eating he seemed

> pretty interested until I told him about no oranges or orange

> juice. Well now it must be a crock!

I lived for that morning glass of oj, but I switched cold turkey to

Organic Pineapple juice and within a week, the oj didn't even look

edible to me. Now I also drink black cherry mixed 1/2 and 1/2 with

seltzer. I am currently only 50% compliant, partly because I am a

longtime vegetarian in a mixed A/O household and mostly because I'm

wimp who is resistant to change.

As for the two little ones not eating their veggies, I'm inclined to

say it's a phase they will grow out of so just keep offering and

don't force them to eat anything. A survey of my friends seems to

indicate that those of us who were forced to sit in front of a cold

plate of icky vegetables grew up with an unhealthy attitude towards

food and those who were never pressured were all eating well by thier

early teens. This seems to be true of my friends' children as well.

One 13yo who lived off of mac & cheese, icecream and peanutbutter when

he was 3yo now prefers salads, steaks and has even been known to eat

sushi.

-Robin

Posted March 12, 2004 · March 12, 2004

Breakfast:

There are breakfast cereals that are without wheat and corn. Lately I have been

heating a little soy milk in the microwave, to pour over flax seed meal. It

thickens up pretty quick and make a tiny dish of hot cereal!Eggs. Pineapple. You

don't have to insist that they eat what's on the plate, but if there's nothing

else *to* eat, they will be more likely to try new things. I didn't give my five

children choices of junk food, and they all learned to eat everything. Four of

the five became salad freaks very young! I admit it is hard if the father is

eating junk all the time; that is my grandchildren's problem, and they have a

hard time liking anything green.

You can slice bananas and spread each little disc with almond butter. These

are cute, too! Have they tried roasted pumpkin seeds? I have a jar of prunes on

my kitchen counter and it has become a tradition for the grandboys to ask for

one when they come over.

Even the picky grandchildren eat salad and raw veggies when they can use a

dressing or dip they like, so if you can find one without dairy that would be a

possibility...How about making an almond butter-based dressing, or just using

straight almond butter to dip raw veggies in? (I realize the two-year old

probably can't handle the raw foods too well, yet.) The kids might be willing to

forego the grains if they could have a slice of dried pineapple--a real treat!

You could also slice sweet potatoes and bake them in the oven in pineapple

juice, to add sweetness and flavor. Most children like sweet potatoes if they

aren't mushed up too much.

It's all the rage these days to wrap lunchmeat in lettuce leaves....

Those are some ideas--but they key is, as one list member wrote about his

childhood, not to have junk in the house. Hunger is the best appetizer!

Good luck!

Gretchen

New member. What to feed my kids??

Hi, I have been lurking here for about a month now and thought I

would introduce myself. I am a stay at home mom of two kids ages 2

and 5. Everyone in the family is an O but I don't know secretor

status except for myself from a forensic biology class I took in

college. I am a non-secretor. I have been trying to follow the

diet and am about 60% compliant right now. The problem is that I

hate veggies! I am getting better and will eat broccoli, spinach

and asparagus. I have no clue how to cook most veggies and my 2

year old will only eat corn and carrots. I figure if I keep feeding

the good stuff, eventually they might eat it but I don't know.

Their main favorites are all the bad stuff - mac and cheese, peanut

butter and jelly sandwiches, lentils and couscous, crackers,

waffles, cereal, you get the idea. What kinds of things should I

feed them for meals, esp. breakfast when everything they associate

with breakfast is wheat based?

When I first told my husband about this way of eating he seemed

pretty interested until I told him about no oranges or orange

juice. Well now it must be a crock! Although I think he still

wants to try, that may have to be his non compliant thing. Our

other problem is that we are sugar junkies. I know that if we can

avoid those things, eventually we wont want them anymore but I think

that is the hardest thing. My husband can eat a whole bag of

valentine candy hearts or candy corn in a day! Luckily neither of

us is overweight (don't know how) but I do worry about diabetes and

stuff like that.

Thanks for reading my ramblings. I will keep reading the posts and

get informed and hopefully try some new veggies!