There's a mouthful for a name, hey?
Today I made these muffins and my kids will not stop begging me for them. I made 18 of them so that my big boys could take them to school as snacks and my little ones could snack on them at home. Well, I'm not sure there will be anymore left for tomorrow.
I made 18 small muffins from the recipe, omitted the coconut and used almond milk in place of skim milk, so each muffin contains about 4 grams of fibre.
Try them out and tell me what you think!
Click to see the recipe! Morning Glory Muffins
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tip: Almond Milk
I posted before that Almond Milk contains 1 gram of fibre per cup, but if you can find the Enriched Almond Milk, you'll get even more - it contains 3 grams of fibre per cup, and can be used anywhere you'd use milk - in baking, cooking (mac and cheese!), and smoothies. :D
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Tip: Red Split Lentils
We have discovered Red Split Lentils here. They are marvelous!
They are tiny and have gone undetected in homemade cheeseburgers and in taco meat here. In fact, I am wondering if they might have an addictive effect because with these babies in the taco meat, my kids ate WAY more dinner than they usually do (which is, actually, pretty much nothing...my kids aren't dinner eaters).
In 1/3 cup or 61 grams of Red Split Lentils, you will find nine grams of fibre, and as a bonus...15 grams of protein and 25% of the Daily Recommended Value of iron. A Red Split Lentil is like a little meal in itself! LOL
If you need more fibre, try adding some Red Split Lentils to a recipe. They hide easily if you need that feature, they are inexpensive and great for you!
Leave me some comments and tell me what you've used Red Split Lentils in! :)
They are tiny and have gone undetected in homemade cheeseburgers and in taco meat here. In fact, I am wondering if they might have an addictive effect because with these babies in the taco meat, my kids ate WAY more dinner than they usually do (which is, actually, pretty much nothing...my kids aren't dinner eaters).
In 1/3 cup or 61 grams of Red Split Lentils, you will find nine grams of fibre, and as a bonus...15 grams of protein and 25% of the Daily Recommended Value of iron. A Red Split Lentil is like a little meal in itself! LOL
If you need more fibre, try adding some Red Split Lentils to a recipe. They hide easily if you need that feature, they are inexpensive and great for you!
Leave me some comments and tell me what you've used Red Split Lentils in! :)
Friday, December 3, 2010
Six-week Follow Up
Today LM and I went in for the six-week follow up to his original appointment. He was scared. He cried before we left the house, he fell asleep in the van on the way to the hospital. He hid behind me when we saw the doctor, and when he saw the nurse who administered his first enema.
They told him that this was a talking appointment and that there would be no touching or looking at of his bum. He still chose to sit in the chair furthest away from the doctor, across the room from the nurse. LOL
We were able to convince him to lay down on the table and the doctor felt his tummy. She said it felt great!
The doctor asked about LM's bowel movements - she was impressed with his once every 1-2 day regularity, and the nurse liked the sound of the quality of those bowel movements. They told me that they were really happy with this progress; they said that I am doing fantastically, and told LM that he is doing a great job.
They told me that his recovery is happening so quickly - that normally it takes 6-12 months for this kind of improvement!! Wow!
There were no x-rays taken, which I'm kind of bummed about; I'd like to see the difference, but I guess if they were necessary, the dr. would have ordered them. She is going to write a letter to my dr. asking if she will take on LM as a patient and follow up with him on this issue. I have recently decided to stop taking LM and his siblings to the dr. they've been seeing since LM was born because that dr. moved to a building downtown and cut his hours back to only one day per week. He is older and reaching retirement age...maybe past that age, but I can't make my life fit into that timeslot. So I'm trying to get my kids in with my doctor. I can't do that, though, until they have an issue that requires me to take them in as a walk-in. The problem with this is that my kids are generally healthy and I am not a "rush to the dr." sort of person. So...they might not have another checkup for a long long time. The perfectionist in me is very stressed by this. One of my children has missed his yearly check up and that is so hard for me to deal with. Gah.
Anyway, the doctor said to the nurse that it would be such a great idea to have a website all about constipation, with ideas to get more fibre into a child's diet, etc. and I said, "I did that! I started a blog about this whole process and our path."
I'm not sure they heard me. LOL
The appointment was good, we won't see them again, I don't think. It's too bad because they are wonderful and caring. It's good though, because now we know how to fix this, in all of our children. :)
They told him that this was a talking appointment and that there would be no touching or looking at of his bum. He still chose to sit in the chair furthest away from the doctor, across the room from the nurse. LOL
We were able to convince him to lay down on the table and the doctor felt his tummy. She said it felt great!
The doctor asked about LM's bowel movements - she was impressed with his once every 1-2 day regularity, and the nurse liked the sound of the quality of those bowel movements. They told me that they were really happy with this progress; they said that I am doing fantastically, and told LM that he is doing a great job.
They told me that his recovery is happening so quickly - that normally it takes 6-12 months for this kind of improvement!! Wow!
There were no x-rays taken, which I'm kind of bummed about; I'd like to see the difference, but I guess if they were necessary, the dr. would have ordered them. She is going to write a letter to my dr. asking if she will take on LM as a patient and follow up with him on this issue. I have recently decided to stop taking LM and his siblings to the dr. they've been seeing since LM was born because that dr. moved to a building downtown and cut his hours back to only one day per week. He is older and reaching retirement age...maybe past that age, but I can't make my life fit into that timeslot. So I'm trying to get my kids in with my doctor. I can't do that, though, until they have an issue that requires me to take them in as a walk-in. The problem with this is that my kids are generally healthy and I am not a "rush to the dr." sort of person. So...they might not have another checkup for a long long time. The perfectionist in me is very stressed by this. One of my children has missed his yearly check up and that is so hard for me to deal with. Gah.
Anyway, the doctor said to the nurse that it would be such a great idea to have a website all about constipation, with ideas to get more fibre into a child's diet, etc. and I said, "I did that! I started a blog about this whole process and our path."
I'm not sure they heard me. LOL
The appointment was good, we won't see them again, I don't think. It's too bad because they are wonderful and caring. It's good though, because now we know how to fix this, in all of our children. :)
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Sweat Test
Today LM went in for a sweat test. A sweat test is used to rule out diseases like Cystic Fibrosis, of which constipation is a common ailment.
My DH took LM to the lab at the hospital for the test. The staff there were fantastic as usual and the test went smoothly and quickly. It wasn't scary or invasive. They had recommended that LM bring some toys/snacks/books to pass the time while he did the sweat test but he and DH barely had time to put together the puzzle they had brought before the machine had collected enough sweat for the test. Perfect. :)
My DH took LM to the lab at the hospital for the test. The staff there were fantastic as usual and the test went smoothly and quickly. It wasn't scary or invasive. They had recommended that LM bring some toys/snacks/books to pass the time while he did the sweat test but he and DH barely had time to put together the puzzle they had brought before the machine had collected enough sweat for the test. Perfect. :)
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Two Week Update
Things are going well!
LM is having regular DAILY bowel movements without pain or blood. He is not running to me crying when he has to go anymore; instead he comes and tells me. Soon he'll be going all on his own!
We have made 2:45pm our time to go and have him sit on the toilet if he hasn't had a BM yet by that point in the day. I have him sit there for 10 minutes, and usually something will happen then. I am so glad!
We have switched fully over to whole wheat pasta - the Great Value brand (Walmart) tastes great! I've started putting whole wheat flour into our baking (biscuits last night) and fibre is always at the forefront of our thoughts about food. I kept track of every gram of fibre that first week and it was very easy to slip into it becoming a habit and to just know when we'd gotten enough fibre into the day.
All snacks are now fibre filled, and that is where we get the bulk (haha) of our fibre as the kids don't really eat much at mealtimes.
I am now working on the kids to start drinking more again; LM loves cups with straws and our 2 year old drinks much better from sippy cups than open-topped cups, so we've had to go back to those kinds of cups. This is kind of a big thing for me because I don't like sippy cups, and at age 1 we start giving our kids normal cups to drink from. However, this is a medical situation that I don't want to struggle with anymore, so sippy cups it is, for as long as the kids want them. At least the sippy manufacturers are making some cups to look more like travel mugs than sippies - I really really appreciate that. Our kids each have one in their own colour - even our 8 year old and 7 year old each have one. We bought them for a road trip last summer, and now they are being used on a daily basis by the younger kids. And I am going to stop making a big deal about cups right NOW. :D
Anyway, things are going well on our quest for more fibre. LM is down to just the Lax-A-Day once per day, and we have not had to increase the dose at all, which is something that the nurse said might happen.
YAY! :D
LM is having regular DAILY bowel movements without pain or blood. He is not running to me crying when he has to go anymore; instead he comes and tells me. Soon he'll be going all on his own!
We have made 2:45pm our time to go and have him sit on the toilet if he hasn't had a BM yet by that point in the day. I have him sit there for 10 minutes, and usually something will happen then. I am so glad!
We have switched fully over to whole wheat pasta - the Great Value brand (Walmart) tastes great! I've started putting whole wheat flour into our baking (biscuits last night) and fibre is always at the forefront of our thoughts about food. I kept track of every gram of fibre that first week and it was very easy to slip into it becoming a habit and to just know when we'd gotten enough fibre into the day.
All snacks are now fibre filled, and that is where we get the bulk (haha) of our fibre as the kids don't really eat much at mealtimes.
I am now working on the kids to start drinking more again; LM loves cups with straws and our 2 year old drinks much better from sippy cups than open-topped cups, so we've had to go back to those kinds of cups. This is kind of a big thing for me because I don't like sippy cups, and at age 1 we start giving our kids normal cups to drink from. However, this is a medical situation that I don't want to struggle with anymore, so sippy cups it is, for as long as the kids want them. At least the sippy manufacturers are making some cups to look more like travel mugs than sippies - I really really appreciate that. Our kids each have one in their own colour - even our 8 year old and 7 year old each have one. We bought them for a road trip last summer, and now they are being used on a daily basis by the younger kids. And I am going to stop making a big deal about cups right NOW. :D
Anyway, things are going well on our quest for more fibre. LM is down to just the Lax-A-Day once per day, and we have not had to increase the dose at all, which is something that the nurse said might happen.
YAY! :D
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Apple Fibre Cookies
Apple Fibre Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 egg whites
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup margarine
- 1 1/4 cup All-Bran cereal
- 1 1/4 cup apple juice
- 1 apple, cut up
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 TBSP baking powder
- 1 TBSP cinnamon
Directions
Mix until wet. Drop on cookie sheet (about 16 cookies.)
Bake at 350 for 15 - 20 minutes.
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Thanks so much to Heather for emailing me this recipe - all SIX of us like it, and that in itself is AMAZING. :D
These cookies are FANTASTIC - moist and delicious. I made them exactly as written here, but next time I may try putting in some dried cranberries in place of the raisins, just to see how they taste.
Also, I'll likely make them into smaller cookies; I made 19 and they were pretty big; a little too big for the kids to handle, I think.
I've misplaced my paper that I used to calculate the fibre content, so I will update this post when I find it. I believe that I made 19 cookies and each cookie contained 3 g of fibre.
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