Re: She s the diet-all the food!

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Hannah was 5.5 yrs. old when she started the diet. We had to take

away just about all her favorite foods and that was so hard. She was

fortunate in the fact that I could keep her in large ketosis and not

have to strictly follow the measured amounts on the diet. I read and

re-read Atkins book and integrated some of his recipes with her diet

and was able to come up with some yummy recipes for her and keep her

from getting to the diet. She remained on it for 2.5 yrs. and

is now seizure free, med free and diet free!! She has been off for a

year now. Praise the Lord!! She maintained good ketones all

throughout her years on the diet even with me not sticking 100% to

the Keto Diet. But PLEASE, check with your keto team before making

any changes. We went through Cleveland Clinic and they knew that I

was altering Hannah's diet and we kept in close contact with them

and had no problems.

Here are some of her favorites:

FUDGESICLES (Got the following ones on-line. There are tons of low-

carb recipes on the net)

1 package sugar free-fat free instant pudding – chocolate (Jello

brand has less carbs than Royal)

1/4 cup Splenda (You can now get Splenda granular at WalMart, do

not the packets, there is a difference.)

1 ½ cup heavy whipping cream

½ cup water

Put all in mixer and whip on high till thickened. Pour into popcycle

trays and freeze. (This really splatters so I put a towel over my

mixer while mixing!) You can use any flavor pudding your child

likes. Sometimes I use vanilla and put some 0-carb chocolate chips

(speciality order through www. netrition.com) in with it and she

loves that. I am able to make this recipe into 10 popcycles for her

they contain 2.5 carbs each. (I got perfect popcycle trays at my

local dollar store, but I know that they are seasonal. Don't order

Tupperware ones, they are $15 a tray!)

Chocolate Peanut Butter Mousse

2 cups heavy cream

1 pkg. chocolate instant/sugar free Jello

**2 Tablespoons peanut butter natural, unsweetened (I get Smuckers

NATURAL at my grocery store)

(**When you first buy a jar, you must dump it all into a large bowl

and stir the oil and peanut butter together , then put back into the

jar and keep it in the frige.)

Simply put all ingredients in a blender and mix for about 30

seconds. Makes about 4 servings and each serving has a little less

than 5 carbs!! Tastes GREAT! Tip: put peanut butter in the micro for

a few seconds before blending so it's not too thick for the blender

to mix. I make my servings smaller so she has less carbs.

Deep Fried Mozzarella Cheese Sticks (REALLY GOOD)

1 lb. chunk of Mozzarella Cheese

3 eggs

Spices (garlic, oregano, pepper, salt)

Grated parmesean cheese

Make sure cheese is refrigerated, very cold. Cut cheese into sticks,

about 3/4 inch thick. Dip sticks of

cheese into egg, then coat in a parmesean & spices mixture. Make

sure the sticks are well coated. Chill in freezer for 15 minutes.

Deep fry in oil for 3-4 minutes. Salt, and serve. Very good snack,

even non-dieters love them! Option: Freeze extra sticks for

snacking convenience

CHICKEN TENDERS (EVEN BETTER!!)

Using the above cheese stick recipe I make chicken tenders for

Hannah. I have found that broiling boneless chicken breast works

best. After broiled and cooled cut into small sticks. Dip in egg,

then in parmesean cheese mixed with the spices. Place on a lined

cookie sheet and freeze. I deep fry three of these as a meal for her

and give her about 1 Tbl. Ragu pizza quick sauce to dip them in or I

read that Heinz is coming out with a 1-carb ketchup, that might be

good!

Peanut Clusters

1 oz. unsweetened bakers chocolate

2 Tbsp. butter

2 Tbsp. heavy cream

1/2 tsp. vanilla

5 pkgs. Equal (I use Splenda that I get from WalMart - and I just

saw some at Sam's Club)

2 oz. peanuts (about 80)

Melt chocolate and butter together in a double boiler do not

overheat. Stir in cream, vanilla and sweetener. Mix well until

smooth. Stir in peanuts. Drop by spoonfuls onto a plate and chill.

Store in refrigerator. Total carbohydrates: 28 carbs 9 servings at

3g each

CHOCOLATE COCONUT GLOBS

1 oz. unsweetened baker's chocolate

2 Tbsp. butter

2 tbsp. heavy cream

1/2 tsp. vanilla

5 pkgs. Splenda

1/3 cup shredded coconut - UNSWEETENED

1 oz. Almonds

Melt butter and chocolate together, mix well. Add in vanilla, heavy

cream, and sugar substitute, mix until smooth. Add in coconut and

once again, mix well. Drop by spoonfuls onto a plate. Put almonds on

a plate, spaced evenly. Pour a spoonful of chocolate mixture on each

almond. Chill for at least an hour before eating so you can pick

them up.

" Ziploc " Vanilla Ice Cream

1 tablespoon sugar substitute

1/2 teaspoon vanilla imitation

1/2 cup heavy cream

6 tablespoons salt

3 cups ice

1 quart sized Ziploc bag 1 gallon sized Ziploc bag

In quart-sized Ziploc combine the sugar substitute, vanilla, and

heavy cream. Seal the bag and shake slightly to mix ingredients. In

the gallon -sized Ziploc bag, add 3 cups of ice (or fill half the

bag with ice) and add 6 tablespoons of table salt. Place the sealed

quart- sized bag into the gallon bag and seal the gallon bag. Shake

the entire contents for at least 4 minutes (longer for harder ice

cream). Once desired hardness has been achieved remove smaller bag

and rinse thoroughly with cold water (if you miss this step you may

wind up with salty ice cream) This recipe makes about 1/2 cup of ice

cream with a total of 5 grams carbohydrates. This is fun and Hannah

loves shaking it up!!

BASIC ICE CREAM CUSTARD (The following recipes come from my Atkins

recipe book)

2 cups heavy cream

4 egg yolks

½ tsp. imitation vanilla (real vanilla has corn syrup in it)

4 - 8 packets sugar substitute (I use Splenda packets that I buy at

Walmart, these are not granular)

Heat cream in a heavy sauce pan over a LOW (it will curdle if you

rush it). Whisk in one egg yolk at a time. Add vanilla and whisk

until custard begins to thicken. (I think it takes 15 - 20 min.)

Remove from heat and cool. Beat one packet of sweetner in at a time

to cooled custard. At this point the custard is ready to add recipe

ingredients to make it ice cream or you can just refrigerate this

and eat as a custard. This makes 6 - ½ cup servings at 3.5 carbs per

serving but I give her smaller portions.

FOR CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

1 recipe Basic Ice Cream Custard (above)

½ cup unsweetened cocoa

2 pkts. Sugar substitute

2 Tbl. No-cal chocolate syrup (I use Atkins brand from General

Nutrition Store - could probably leave out)

2 Tbl. Sugar-free Jello Chocolate Instant Pudding powder

Whisk cocoa into the cooled custard till smooth. Whisk in remaining

ingred. Cool to room temperature. Place ice cream into ice cream

maker. Churn according to manufacturers directions. This contains

7.4 carbs per ½ cup serving. I usually make these into suckers for

Hannah with molds from Walmart. She will eat one sucker as a snack

and they are very small so I would guess that it contains 1 carb per

sucker. You must keep these in the freezer though!!

FOR VANILLA ICE CREAM

1 basic custard recipe

1 Tbl. imitation vanilla

2 Tbl. Sugar-free Jello Vanilla Instant Pudding Powder

Prepare custard and while it is cooling whisk in vanilla and pudding

powder. Cool to room temp and place ice cream into ice cream maker.

Churn according to manufacturers directions. This contains 5.4

carbs per ½ cup serving and I also make these into suckers for her.

Freeze.

JUST A NOTE - IF YOU DO USE THIS AS ICE CREAM IT WILL BE ROCK HARD

SO YOU HAVE TO LET IT SET OUT BEFORE SERVING. I READ THAT THE

HARDNESS IS DUE TO USING ARTIFICIAL SWEETNERS.

CHOCOLATE FUDGE

1 Pkg. Sugar-free Jello chocolate instant pudding

2 - 4 pkts. Sugar substitute

½ cup heavy whipping cream

1 Tbl. No-cal chocolate syrup

3 heaping tablespoons chunky style, sugar-free natural peanut butter

Mix all ingredients together except the peanut butter. Place over

low heat and add peanut butter. Heat until p.b. melts. Stir until

well blended.

Spray a small baking pan with Pam. Spoon mixture into pan.

Refrigerate until firm. Slice into at least 15 squares. This

contains 3.8 carbs per square.

HOT CHOCOLATE

1/3 cup heavy whipping cream

2/3 cups water

1 tsp. unsweetened cocoa

1 pkt. sugar substitute

½ tsp. imitation vanilla

Place all ingredients in saucepan. Heat, stirring constantly. I make

this into two servings for her. Contains 2.5 carbs in each portion.

Hannah drank this at EVERY meal. She s mayo, butter, etc. and

she was willing to have all her fat added to this drink (I used

Canola oil) and she would stir it as she drank it and called it

her " stirring cocoa " ! We tried all sorts of ways to incorporate her

fats and she wanted it this way so she could get it over with and

enjoy the rest of her meal.

Cookies - I just got this recipe on-line the other day and made it.

Hannah loved it. I poured mine into a 9 " round cake pan. Next time I

will make them into mini muffins because they are more cake like

than cookie like. Also, gave her some zero-carb sugar free Twist

chocolate spread to use for icing!!

3 eggs

4 T. veg. oil

1/4 c. butter

3/4 c. splenda

1 t. baking powder

1/8 t. salt

3/4 t. almond extract

3/4 c. almond flour

1 t. vanilla extract

Preheat oven 450 degrees. Mix all ingred. Spray 11x15

cookie sheet. Pour mixture into pan, bake 10 min.

Cut into squares.

This made 15 cookies less than 2 carbs/cookie.

I buy in large orders from www.netrition.com because they sell low-

carb products. I recently ordered Atkins peanutbutter cups from

there and she just loves them. I use many of his products because

she is able to tolerate cheating on her diet. I use the pancake mix,

zero-carb choc. Chips, and Atkins syrup. So she will have one choc.

Chip pancake for breakfast and a piece of apple and her cream.

Atkins Advantage bars are good. Buy only one at a time till you find

one he likes. She will only eat choc. Coconut!! I cut them into ¼'s

so they go further.

I would also, buy her a 's Jr. cheeseburger on a tray with

pickles and mustard only, and no bun! This was a special treat for

her.

For pizza we would just separate the cheese and toppings from the

crust and she would eat one slice of crustless pizza.

I'd be happy to give you more ideas. Let me know Gail

> The little I care for started the diet in July. Her

seizures

> have been reduced, but we are having to force feed her every

meal.

> She s the butter and the cream. Does anyone have any ideas to

> help us? When she initially started the diet she ate great, and

her

> seizures were drastically reduced. She was able to walk

indpendently

> for virtually the first time in about a year. Her quality of life

> seemed to be improving, but this only lasted about 2 weeks. Her

> seizures are still improved from the past (she's having 20-30 a

day

> now), but her quality of life is no better than before the diet.

She

> is lethargic, she is not sleeping well and meal times are a

> disaster. Can anyone help?

> Thanks and God Bless,

>