Well, due to having everything premade I haven't had much to write about.

I've been working on trying to get people to join the FDA corn petition group on facebook. 25 of my friends have joined! YAY! Maybe if enough people get the word we can really make a difference.

Learned some dissapointing info about syrup. You know that 100% pure maple syrup? Yea most of them still use a defoamer that is made from either corn or seasame oil. Sad part is that I buy mine from a farmers market, you know the guy who MAKES it! And he didn't even know what his defoamer was. Luckily it's absolute miniscule trace amounts but still those add up.

So here's my allergy rant for the day. Yesterday we went to the grocery store and Gabe and Link wanted to ride in the stupid carts with a car attached to the front. So we are wandering the store, and suddenly Gabe pulls out 4 peanut M&Ms!!!!! Jesus can you imagine what would have a happened if he had eated them? Or if he was anaphalaxis to peanuts?!?!! It's just a scary thought. You know if Gabe was anaphalaxis to his allergies I don't know if I would ever be able to leave the house. I mean seriously something as simple as going to the grocery store is like walking a landmine! I don't know how parents do that.

I worry that he will get to that point since his allergies have just kept getting so much worse at each exposure. Especially soy and peanuts.

Anyways that's about it here. No new allergy news. :)

Oh well

I realized I never followed up wiht my last post! We got lucky and other than a little redness that night the soy reaction was nothing to worry about! YAY!

Also I think that the unknown, might have just been the smore going back through his body. He seems fine now. So we are gonna keep an eye on him, but damn! It's crazy that something he ate a WEEK ago can continue to go through his body and effect him. :(

But that is the update. :)

Rookie screw up.

Today we went to the park. Gabe got to feed the ducks. I didn't even think about it til he started itching his face. Bread = soy. Soy is his worst allergy and he is touch sensitive. :( Luckily we washed his hands right away, but he was getting red more and more before bed so he got benadryl. We will see how bad it will be in the am.

Soooo either he's getting a new allergy or I'm missing something. He's got allergy shiners, and complaining about his belly a lot lately. Sigh. But no rashes, so I dunno. He had a slip up last week so I'm hoping it's just a really delayed reaction to that and that once it's out of his system he will go back to ok.

Tweaked again.

I made yogurt again and have tweaked the timing 1 more time!

pour 1/2 gallon into crock pot on low for 3.5 hours. Turn off pot. Let sit for 2.5 hours. Mix in 1/2 half cup starter yogurt. I then turned it back onto low for about 5 min. mixed well and then covered with a blanket for about 11 hours. Perfect texture! A tiny amount of skin in it, but not much and it's easily picked out when you are putting it in containers.

Mmmm.

Oh and I made vanilla milk! OMG sooo good! Half a gallon 5 ts vanilla extract (I used imitation cause I'm cheap) 10 tlbs sugar. Mmmmmmm And surprisingly not grainy at all! I was expecting it to be a little but it wasn't. The boys have drank it all already! (I may have helped)

The trash?

Well with 1 lick, Gabe has red spots all over his face. :( The other day after the boys went to bed, I decided to indulge in a nice preggo treat. I made smores. I made too many and couldn't finish them all and threw the last one in the trash. (right on top, think the seinfeild episode where George eats the pastry out of the trash) Didn't even think about it. :( Well the next morning while I was grabbing something Gabe saw the smore and grabbed it and licked the chocolate off it. Sigh.

He told me right after he did it, which is good that I'm not going nuts trying to figure out what caused it, but seriously dude, the trash?!?!! We learned our lesson with leaving food on plates in the kitchen, but we never thought we'd have to worry about the trash. Ewwwww.

It's been over 24 hours and he still has a bunch of red spots by his eye and mouth and a few on his chest. All from a few licks of smore. He seriously didn't even take a full bite! Makes me kinda scared. (okay REALLY scared) It's been several months since he started having reactions and we took out all his allergens. I am now really scared to think of what would happen if he had more than a small slip up. Something tells me I'll be keeping the epipens handy. It seems like it's soy that causes the bad reactions. He gets a few spots with the corn and egg and such, but with the soy it's his whole face from just 1 bite. :( Scary. Makes me curious about how bad his allergy has gotten. If he were a lucky person he would get RAST results so that we could see, but he isn't and RAST testing does nothing for us. And the last SPT sent us to the ER soooo I don't see me offering him up for that experience again anytime soon.

Oh well. Maybe some day he will out grow it.

Homemade namaste bread, boars head white american cheese and butter...

Can you guess what I made? grilled cheese. OH YEA! It smelled sooooooooooo good! Reminds me a little on panera bread sandwiches. The boys ate them up!

So it's been 1 week of the freezer meals and it's AMAZING! Life is soooo much easier! Plus we can go and just take off and have food ready!

Nothing really interesting though. I found a great treat for the boys! Horizon organic vanilla milk. MMMMmmm! Expensive though! Soooo I found a recipe online! (it's me what else would I do!) LOL! for ever 12oz 1 ts vanilla and 1-2 tbls sugar. Tomorrow I'm gonna make a batch of yogurt and make the other half of the gallon for vanilla milk. :) Did you know 1 gallon of milk has 128oz? Yup so half a gallon will be 5-5.5 servings of vanilla milk!

hrm.

Not much to post right now. I survived the mass batch cooking and have been living the life of luxury! I just pull stuff out of the freezer and tada nuke it and am done! :)

I also picked up stuff to make donuts for the boys again soon. I'll have to do that soon so that I can tell you if I manage to make them even better this time.

Things have been going pretty well for us with the allergies lately. He had a reaction to something for a few days, but we are unsure what caused it. :( But it has gone away and since then nothing so we are thinking it was either something he got into that I didn't catch him at, or maybe just a freak thing? Who knows.

Sharon Rosen

Just found a cool site for (I'm pretty sure) the woman who created the add corn to FDA labeling laws petition!

http://www.livecornfree.com/2010/05/typical-american-daywith-corn.html

She has some WONDERFUL links to corn info! It's a great site! Check it out! Remember the more people who sign this the better chance we have of actually getting people to pay attention to it!

Umph.

Well it's been 2 days and I have gone shopping for and cooked almost everything for the next 3 months! :O roughly 1100 for everything! (go me!) for 4 people! Everything for the boys is Gabe ok! and that includes things like cat food and tp and paper towels too. So hopefully I won't have to go to the store at all except for milk!

I have made
12 shepards pies (for us)
12 meatloaves (for us)
12 pizzas
4 qt chicken veggie soup
glazed carrots
baked beans
7 dz muffins
6 loaves of bread
1 blueberry jam
2 apple jelly
and probably other stuff that I can't remember at this point because my brain is fried! LMAO!

But I have survived!!! And now all food for the boys is done for the next 3 months. If I get put on bedrest they will be ok! I was really freaking out about it. I mean if I got put on bedrest it would be crazy difficult, but now I know Gabe would be able to eat!

On a side note I think Gabe may have gotten to the shepards pie or something because he's had a really bad rash for 2 days now. :( His poor face is covered. I don't really know what is causing it. I'm guessing the corn but he really didn't get ANYWHERE near it. :( I dunno.