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The goal is to work up to a highly healing diet. Then there is the real world,

the reality of being married to a man. Or not, being alone as a single mom. A

child at home, a child at school....multiple situations to consider.

There is NO right way. The best way is to keep taking steps towards progress.

When the child can eat a healthy diet without all of moms special tricks, you

will have a happier home, and the symptoms of autism will improve. It's

related. This doesn't happen overnight. It took me 6 years of daily hard

work.

So don't try to get this together by Friday. Say to yourself....ok this may

take a few years. But EVERY single week we will make progress.

I viewed it this way.

Stage one: GFCFSoyfree (plenty available these days)

Stage two: start teaching REAL healthy foods like kale, garlic, parsely,

cultured vegetables, green smoothies, ocean vegetables, grassfed beef, steamed

carrots, coconut oil etc..... You will do this by step by step offering the

DESIRED food only when one tiny new bite is taken. Next day expect two bites.

You have to establish that you believe in your child and that you will stay the

course. The child needs to see the family or at least you doing the same. The

key is that they don't get that GF waffle by screaming. Otherwise you've just

taught them that screaming is really effective. When they are calm and have

tried the new food they can try their fav food.

Stage three: Once you have many new foods on board that are healing, you can

require your child to eat these first and then have a GF treat.

Stage four: a very strict period lasting from 2 weeks-3 years. Every kid is

different. We needed many years.

While you are working to get a team of help, or devise a plan. Don't panic.

Just do the best GFCFSF diet you can.

A perfect breakfast would be:

local eggs, cooked in coconut oil and topped with celtic salt...sauteed onions

and arame. A side of green smoothie and cultured vegetables.

A perfect snack would be some young coconut soon meat fermented and topped with

blueberries.

A perfect lunch would be some organic chicken soup, with kale, ghee, celtic

salt, carrots, onions, and some wakame for more minerals.

A perfect snack would be some dulse warmed in coconut oil paired with a shot of

green smoothie with plant based protein.

A perfect dinner would be 20% grassfed beef and 80% sauteed onions/kale in ghee,

and cultured vegetables.

A perfect nightcap would be an herbal tea with stevia

The above is how my kids ate for almost 4 years. But it took me at least 9

months of work to get to this point. So let's talk about a healthy GFCFSF diet

as a starting point.

A healthy GFCFSF breakfast might be some fruit sweentened corn flakes with a

sprinkle of chia and flax seeds and almond unsweetened milk.

A healthy GFCFSF snack might be apple slices with almond butter spread on each

slice. Or some GFCFSF organic tortilla chips with avacado/celtic salt on each

chip.

A healthy GFCFSF lunch might be some organic br rice, and mixed organic veggies

topped with ghee and celtic salt. Or some GFCFSF turkey bologna with carrots

dipped in Grapeseed veganaise with fresh dill as a dip paired with some 1/4 cup

of GFCFSF pretzels.

A healthy GFCFSF snack might a hard boiled egg, or a slice of GFCFSF bread with

almond butter spread.

A healthy GFCFSF dinner might be a GF pasta, tossed in olive oil and a " pesto "

that you make by pureeing parsely, almonds, garlic, lemon, olive oil, spinach.

Or a Shelton's turkey hot dog paired with some mixed organic steamed veggies

topped with coconut oil/celtic salt.

A healthy nightcap might be some berries or unsweetened applesauce.

When I was trying to figure out how to run my home program (Son-Rise), I put my

kid in our autism public school option. I couldn't get it all organized with

him with me and care for my baby girl. SO I did the best I could at the time

while I figured it all out.

When I was trying to figure out what the heck QUINOA was or FLORA was....I kept

the best GF cookies I could find around and slowly taught my kids how to try new

foods.

The point is....to keep going. I always knew we would make it. But I swear

it's crazy to look back and think that I started in a mess and ended up here.

And it's all because I believed it was possible and kept raising the bar.

You know autism is here. We can't go back. Though it's hard to do this work,

we only get to live once and we can be joyful while doing so. Our kids are

only kids once. This is our life, our path, and I had to stop being pissed and

start finding joy. Our kids can feel our anger, fear, frustration. They

aren't dumb. We all know it's better to function in joy. So celebrate

yourself and dump the guilt. We're all doing the best we can.