Re: Any experience with Sara's diet and other diets, too?...

[Guest guest]

sangeeta

i'm intrigued by your story. how old is your son now, and can you tell me

what he does typically eat in an average day? thanks, paula h.

[Guest guest]

a,

My son is 7.2 years old now. He eats the following:

Breakfast - Rice w/ yellow split pea soup or lentils (soaked

overnight, drained and cooked until just tender w/ salt & spices)

Lunch - rice or lentil pasta w/ summer squash and/or beans. I make

many different kinds of beans found at Indian stores to add variety.

Dinner - rice & blackgram crepes w/ some kind of white gourds (again

found at Indian stores) or potato & onion curry.

He used to eat chicken and pork but we are currently trying a diet

with no saturated fats (which means no meat) and are seeing some good

results. The only fat he consumes is safflower oil. He starts

stutterring and becomes very spacey/rapidly regresses with any other

oils. It's very scary!

We have recently reintroduced some blueberries with no illeffects. He

couldn't tolerate these before. I offer some watermelon/cantiloupe

for birthday parties (instead of cake). " Pizzas " are made from rice &

bean crepes as the base, " mock cheese " sauce made from cooked white

bean/yellow split pea paste, toppings are sautead onions and steamed

slices of yellow squash. A sprinkle of salt and pepper or dried basil

and he is a happy camper!

For snacks he eats rice cake or blackgram dumplings, vegetable

(onion / potato / summer squash fried with garbanzo bean batter)

fritters, and more recently blueberries! Water is the only beverage

he drinks.

Sounds pretty restrictive but this diet has really worked for us.

Sangeeta

> sangeeta

> i'm intrigued by your story. how old is your son now, and can you

tell me

> what he does typically eat in an average day? thanks, paula h.

>

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[Guest guest]

Sangeeta,

Thanks for the input on your son's diet. Everything sounds delicious. My

son can''t eat rice or rice products, lentils, or spices, even pepper. It would

be heavenly if he could.

a H.

[Guest guest]

Sangeeta,

I forgot to ask in previous post-- what is blackgram?

Thanks, a H.