there’s something about a kitchen right? it’s a place of comfort, of stories, of meeting. A place where we touch base and decompress, and also somewhere to make yourself well and healthy. So when Dustin turned two and we realised that there was something up with what he was eating and that we had to start changing what we put into his little body, it came as a bit of a shock. I mean yeah I’m a woman so have constantly been trying to either curb, add to or eliminate from my diet my adult whole life, but to find a food group was actually harming my little boy was a bit of a shock.
dairy was the major for him, and was the first thing we took away. Dairy in his system makes him itchy, and by that I mean he scratches the shit out of his skin until it’s bleeding and raw. We have had a few accidental ingestion incidents over the years and it can take up to five weeks for the dairy to process through his system and the skin to begin to heal.
when Riley began to show signs of tummy upsets, my first thought was dairy. the kids were getting the milk in schools program at their school, so i asked him to stop drinking it, simple fix, and it seamed to help. then in the middle of last year he started to complain again of tummy upsets, so we got rid of all the dairy. it helped a little but carried on to some extent. he made the decision himself to eliminate gluten, since we had taken Dustin off it as well. it’s that moment when a week later he says, “i haven’t had a sore tummy since I stopped the gluten Mum” that you go, well shit, maybe I should have stopped it ages ago.
this has not been an easy process at all, but the more recipes we try the more ingredients we find, the easier it get knowing what will work and what won’t.
the recipes we make have to be easy. we live in a caravan at the moment while waiting for our build so they either have to be stove top, very small gas oven or BBQ. they have to be quick. i have two businesses to run, we have after school activities, i’m on the preschool board. they have to be affordable. we are not made of money, and while there are brands we prefer we need to be careful of our budget too.
but mostly they need to pass the three boys test, filling and delicious. the constant i’m hungry that floats around our house grates on my nerves, but i hope if they are getting a filling meal we can stop that for five or six minutes!!
join us on our journey, or don’t lol hopefully you will find something here you like, if you have suggestions send them through we would love to give them a go!!
three boys kitchen 