Re: Question about Meals/Snacks

February 28, 2004

Satnam, I know Im very new at this diet but because Im new Ive just learned some

of things and they are fresh in my mind. As far as I know, Austins dietician

told us that we cannot combine meals. For instance, we cannot save snack and

put it with his meal for a little extra. Each meal/snack has to be eaten pretty

much on a schedule and if he doesnt eat something within a 20 minute period, it

has to be thrown out and not saved. So, I would assume that combining her

snacks would be a no-no. I may be wrong because like I said, I am a newbie at

this, but just thought I would try to be of help. I hope I made some sense to

you also!..........Tammy

February 28, 2004

Thanks Tammy, I think maybe you are right. I thought I had read that

somewhere, but I wasn't sure. Sometimes getting Kristan to eat her

snack is a battle and it's not enjoyable for her. She recently

started solids and we are going slow, and there are days where she

just won't want to eat.

Satnam

> Satnam, I know Im very new at this diet but because Im new Ive just

learned some of things and they are fresh in my mind. As far as I

know, Austins dietician told us that we cannot combine meals. For

instance, we cannot save snack and put it with his meal for a little

extra. Each meal/snack has to be eaten pretty much on a schedule and

if he doesnt eat something within a 20 minute period, it has to be

thrown out and not saved. So, I would assume that combining her

snacks would be a no-no. I may be wrong because like I said, I am a

newbie at this, but just thought I would try to be of help. I hope I

made some sense to you also!..........Tammy

>

February 28, 2004

Satnam,

I would run your idea by your dietician. Ours started us on 4 meals,

no snacks. We had one week to be on the diet, after initiating,

before school started. The 4 meals worked fine at home but at school

she got headaches in the late morning. I was sending jello (free

food for us) for morning snack time, but since it has no calories, it

didn't provide any energy. For three days in a row, I picked her up

at school about 11:00. Since she was home, she ate lunch an hour

earlier than she would have eaten at school. Then she was fine for

the rest of the day. I asked the dietician if we could split a meal

and let her have a morning snack. She said to give it a try... it

worked!! So her routine is... meal, snack (1/2 meal), meal, snack,

meal. She finishes dinner about 30-60 min before going to bed. She

eats breakfast within a half hour of getting up.

So... I don't think it would be bad to combine two snacks. I can see

why combining a meal and a snack would not be wise, because that

might be too many calories at one time. If you did combine her

snacks, you would be doing 4 meals per day, 3 at 150 cals and one at

100 cals. I think you are right about feeding the smaller meal in

the afternoon. If you wanted to be perfectly consistent, you could

even give her 5 meals at 110 cals. each and spread them out equally

throughout the day.

Like I said, ask your dietician first. They all seem to have a few

different ideas. I'm quite sure mine would say o.k.

Good Luck...

Cammie

> Hi everyone, Kristan is to have 3 meals/bottle plus two snacks per

> day. She is on a 4:1 ratio, 550 Kcal, 10.74 g protein, 55.6 g fat,

> and 31.5 g carb and we are to aim for 900 ml of fluid per day.

Meals

> are at 150 calories and snacks are at 50 calories. Her meals can be

a

> solid or a bottle of Ketocal. Breakfast is always a bottle, a

snack

> at 10:30-11:00 am, a bottle at 1:00-1:30 pm, a snack at 4:00-4:30

pm

> and a bottle at 8:30 pm (before bed). The dietitian says ideally

it

> should be breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, supper, evening snack

> (before bed). Because Kristan gets very sleepy in the evenings she

> won't take a snack before bed, so I give her a bottle when she is

> sleepy. The snack at 4:00-4:30 fills her up until she gets her

bottle

> at 8:30pm. I was thinking of combining her two snacks and just

> giving them to her at the 4:00 pm snack time? Would combining her

> snacks affect her ketosis?

>

> I hope I haven't confused anyone.

>

> Satnam, mom to Kristan, 14 months

> Keto kid since August 2003

February 28, 2004