After a few months on the diet we slowly started introducing "big people food". We started simple with finely chopped all beef, no nitrites hot dog in place of the baby food beef, chicken, etc. We would just do one meal a day with something she had to chew like the hot dog. She also started really liking the taste and texture of applesauce over baby food apples from the first time she had it on day 1 of the diet! Her first really chewable meal was actually tried when she was at Cook Children's Hospital starting the diet - she had egg salad with cream and applesauce on the side. She did so amazing with that then and it really gave us the courage to start introducing new foods.
Now she eats deli meats, hot dogs and egg in place of baby food proteins! She also eats tuna salad and loves it! Of course, it's not the same tuna salad we eat because of the diet but that's the whole thing, playing with new foods but making them for her in a way that we're not used to. A lot of these new foods you can't really make a few days ahead like we could with the baby food so we're in the kitchen making keto meals every night for the next day but we've gotten into a really good routine with it!
She's tried so many new things over the last month or 2 and her appetite is really evolving! She likes things like tuna salad, egg salad, scrambled egg with cheese (made with cream instead of milk), cauliflower, and she loves fresh fruits like bananas, strawberries and pears! Going to try fresh plum today, I'm sure she'll love it!
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| Clockwise: Steamed cauliflower, butter with almond butter, cream with deli ham |
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| Clockwise: Whipped up cream, applesauce, scrambled eggs with cheese |
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| Bug trying cauliflower with cheese for the first time
So, yeah, we do spend more time in the kitchen making these meals but so far it has been well worth it! With baby food, you just open a jar, weigh it and put it in the fridge; with "big people food" you have to weigh all the ingredients, then mix them, then cook it, then weigh out the amount she can have per meal.
My next big feat: keto birthday cake!!!
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Purple Day is quick approaching!! Start picking out your purple outfit now! Purple Day is National Epilepsy Awareness Day, March 26th! March 26th is also Bug's birthday!!!!!!
Wear purple in honor of Bug and all others with epilepsy on March 26th to bring awareness to this disease that is burdening my baby girl and so many others!
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I've been following your blog recently and find it very informative! My 16 month old son will be starting the keto diet next month. He's been on most of the meds Rayleigh was on, and a few she wasn't. He currently takes 5 anti-epileptic meds a day, and continues to have anywhere between 30-100 seizures a day. We have quite a bit in common. Levi also has CVI and I have an Etsy store. I would love to "chat" with you sometime. It helps to talk to people who understand. You can friend me on facebook if you like (Lynn Henderson McDonald), write to me on my blog (www.prayforlevi.blogspot.com), or convo me on etsy (Sharon Lynn Creations). Thank you so much for sharing your information about the ketogenic diet! It's made me feel a lot better. Have a nice day :)
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