I have been distracted of late, by motherhood. If you read the entry on my son’s parent-teacher conference, you’d know my poor boy is a little on the stinky side. So we are conducting an experiment. Given that I am lactose intolerant, and our oldest child was slightly lactose intolerant when she was younger…she doesn’t really eat dairy foods so I am not suer if she has grown out of it, it simply doesn’t eat enough of it to make a blip on the radar these days…..I figure, let’s try cutting out dairy.
I am amazed by how much dairy we actually consume. But the boy has gotten to like milk and cheese products from goat and sheep rather quickly. (He despises soy with a passion and frankly I don’t blame him)
So I came up with a dairy free quiche tonight just for my boy. (The husband wasn’t home so it was safe to cook one….cause real men don’t eat quiche so the boys will actually eat it if Dad isn’t home)
Instead of using cream I mashed up a slab of feta made form goat’s milk and added some goats milk to the mashed up feta to give it the consistency of cream. Threw in some eggs, some sundried tomatoes and some of those herb sachets since my garden is too new to harvest yet and the local supermarket herbs look like the lettuce you find all runny in the bottom of your brother’s fridge. Guess what? There’s freakin milk in the herbs! All I can do was shrug and let him eat it anyway….he’s intolerant not allergic, it on’t kill him, it’ll just make him smelly and uncomfortable. Which made me think about all those poor parents who do have to contend with allergies.
Most primary schools and daycare centres these days are peanut free. Long gone are the days when you can bake 24 cupcakes for your kids birthday and send them in to school, now you need to consider the kids with allergies and send them in with an ingredient list. And as huge a pain in the ass it is that I can’t let my kid have his favourite sandwich of peanut butter and honey at school, I would much rather listen to him whine about it than be the cause of a kid going into anaphalactic shock.
Which is why I now have to march my youngest off to the doctor to get his immunisations up to date. With there being two kids with Luekemia at the school, things like chicken pox can be fatal.
So this is why I am not here at present. I have been busy and writing and reading and have relatives arriving next week for a week. And as much as I love my in-laws, I need to brace myself as we come from two very different worlds.
