| Re: Lone Vegetarian
Weatherlight: He doesn't have food intolerances. He has an immune issue with the proteins in all foods. He was taken off all foods by mouth this past October for an entire month. He was fed a special formula through a tube in his nose.
The ONLY foods he "eats" is chicken, rice, grapes, watermelon. We are now trialing corn. For the rest of his nutrition he is on an elemental formula fed through the tube that has been inserted in his stomach. It gives him about 95% of his calories for the day. We can't just give him food to eat, we have to make sure he passes the trial. It has nothing to do with encouraging him. He wants to eat everything, but most things will make him sick.
As for the rest of the family, I recently tried a put your own dinner together. It went over quite well. We did a pasta, veggie, veggie crumble dish with tomato sauce. It was really good.
Thank you everyone for your ideas. It will be slowing going, but worth the effort. |