Showing posts with label VEGAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VEGAN. Show all posts

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Single Serve Salad that lasts up to a week! Really Works! #diet # vegan ...

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Day 1: Plant Based and A Good Day

Day One 1: Went off without a hitch. As you can see from the chart, there are alot of ways he could go with his day, but for a Monday, this is stellar. Usually it takes William until Tuesday or Wednesday to get back into the swing of things at school. He is usually still wired and fired up from the weekend and it takes him a day or two to cool it down to focus in school. It is great that he didn't get marked for any thing but a good day. Usually his marks include not following directions or not listening (which I feel is common for a kid diagnosed with both Autism and ADHD, but what do I know). The fact that neither of these was checked on a Monday is clearly saying something. Lunch was served with a salad with extra virgin olive oil dressing, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, chia seeds and walnuts. He didn't eat the walnuts, but he ate everything else, including the pineapple and gluten free popcorn. He always drinks water, and nothing but water so he was happy.

Tomorrow's another day, so we shall see how he does with my next creation (gluten-free vegan pizza!) I hope by the end of this experiment to compile kid friendly lunch box recipes to share with everyone. Seems like that is really missing in the GFV world. Most recipes aren't kid tested first and don't look that appealing in my opinion. This will be a stapler when I can't find anything else to do.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Trying out the Vegan lifestyle

In order to try to decrease some of my son's behaviors, we are in the process of going vegetarian and switching to vegan. I used to be a vegetarian before I got married and pregnant, but as I began the pregnancy, my OB stressed that I needed meat to sustain energy and protein. Now that I look back, I think the only thing I was doing was eating lots of starches and not enough sustainable protein. At any rate, I've been eating meat ever since and my weight has ballooned tremendously. In researching the Gluten free Casein free diet, I see that most of the vegan lifestyle is very similar. Right now I'm strictly trying this for my autistic son. I've replaced chicken nuggets with the "not meat" nuggets and replaced lunch meat with the veggie deli meats (just for lunch time at school). He already loves lots of fruits, but I am working on the hiding of the vegetables in his overall meals. He only drinks water - to reduce his sugar intake. He gets no dairy - cause dairy makes him extra hyper, and very little bread - cause he likes bread toooo much. I'd like to know if anyone has tried to switch their ASD child to vegan, and has it made a difference in their behavior and/ or well-being?