Wow, it's almost been two weeks...it's hard to believe! After the first initial 7 days things really smoothed out...the worst of the detox was over, I started getting into a routine, and because we moved into stage three there's a slight bit more of variety to eat so that is extremely helpful too. Things are still a bit chaotic, we still have detox systems occasionally, and I'm not sure I'll ever adjust to feeding us as frequently as I have been and keeping up with the dishes...but I do have to say that the food is really starting to taste much better to me. I actually craved a bowl of soup between breakfast and lunch yesterday...weird.
We seem to be stuck in stage 3 at the moment. We all reacted to almond butter when I tried to add it, and I can't seem to tolerate the sauerkraut super well yet...though I still think it tastes good. We decided to wait a couple days before we tried to change anything up again.
Update on Vienna & eggs. She seems to be able to handle them now! We added them on Monday (day 11) and she had no reaction. I'm not positive if her eczema flare-up/rash reaction last time was due to the egg whites or if it was die-off reaction, it was weird that it happened both the times she had the egg whites, but regardless, she tolerated them well on Monday and has had them since then and has been just fine! Yay. :)
Monday was her birthday--and boy did I wrestle with feeling guilty about not giving her the standard birthday cake, especially since she has talked about her birthday cake since November. She clearly has a gluten-intolerance and so I am glad that I didn't load her up on gluten and sugar, however, I had hoped to be a little further progressed at this point and could've made her a baked treat of some kind...but I knew it would be a bad decision and we'd all regret it. So I had to get creative. Vienna loves squash, and I mean...l.o.v.e.s. it, has ever since she was a baby. So I decided to whip up some baked squash, an egg and a bit grass-fed butter, pour it into a couple ramekins and bake it in the oven. A cute little orange cake. :) For frosting I looked up online and found a super yummy meringue frosting made out of egg whites and honey...we all had a taste and oh my goodness, the frosting was so delicious. So...ta-da...a GAPS birthday cake! :)
She LOVED it, and was so excited about "my happy birthday cake"! She didn't know any different. :)
It was a great day, she even got to have her favorite--pancakes--for breakfast! :)
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