Archive for February, 2010
Gluten Free Casein Free Recipes
To give you an idea of what a gluten free casein free life is like I wanted to give you an idea of what my kiddos eat in a day, or at least what I offer. Wether Tristan eats it or not is another post!
The Gluten Free Casein Free Diet
Many people ask me how difficult it was to cut out the gluten and casein from Tristan’s diet. It really wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. And judging from Maya’s gigantic smile in the picture its yummy too! The first month is difficult because you have to get used to reading the label on everything and finding alternatives. But once you get over the learning curve its pretty easy. We try really hard to eat a clean diet: no processed foods, no artificial flavors or colours, organic when we can and not a lot of sugar so that definitely made the transition easier. Luckily I stay home with the kids and I have the time to make almost everything for them from scratch. Odum and I still eat gluten and dairy as its a bit expensive right now for us to all eat this way.
Our Autism Treatment Plan
I’ve never actually sat down and made a post about Tristan’s treatment plan, and I thought it may be a useful post. In terms of a treatment for autism I believe that treatment needs to be multi-pronged. I don’t think one treatment type is sufficient to help kids with autism. Tristan receives speech therapy to help his speech along, occupational therapy in an effort to help with sensory processing and the cadillac of therapies for autism: intensive behavioral intervention (IBI) also known as applied behavioral analysis. We also have Tristan under the care of a naturopath to address his physical problems, to heal his gastrointestinal system.
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