Halloween fight

Yay! Halloween is here! Here is the video of my friends,cousin,and brother fighting over my candy.

 

I had an awesome time! GUESS WHAT!  But I still really wanted to do this.

It was....AWESOME! 

It was a good Halloween and hopefully next year I can say the same.

I know this is not much but I think you'll  have fun reading this anyway.

Warning! Don't drop your popcorn on the floor at the movies because...

I'm SOOOOOOOOO sorry I haven't written for what seems like forever.  I have been really busy after my school's fall break.

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But ANYWAY, It has been super hard for me lately. Especially this past Saturday. (10/24/2015).
Mom was out of town so it was just my brother and me with dad for the day! Fun!! Except...

First we went to the Scout-O-Rama at the fairgrounds.


I was really hungry because all I had eaten for breakfast was grapes and cottage cheese. The only food to eat at the Scout-O-Rama was sausage, popcorn, candy, ice-cream and cotton candy. Fortunately I can have (MAYBE) cotton candy so my dad let me have it. I actually think I can't because I got a big stomach ache after eating it. But it was really hard to not eat all the things that were there. I could smell everything from a mile away. All the prizes for winning a game or something were candy! So I played the games and received candy but then I just threw it away or gave it to someone else.

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Then after the Scout thing, we went to a movie. Horrible. Not the movie! It was awesome! But the experience...not awesome. My dad got me some treats that I can eat but trust me they were absolutely positively DISGUSTING! So I just watched Ben and my Dad eat popcorn and I starved.

I have a confession to make...my mom and dad don't even know this yet, but my mom will when she edits everything. So...at the movie I said I was going to the bathroom but really I was standing at the popcorn toppings area trying to find whatever piece of popcorn I could find. Sorry mom.

Yeah.

 I know.

Disgusting.

But I was so desperate. When I got back to the movie I tried to sneak a handful of popcorn from the bag but my dad stopped me each time.

I guess it has just been really hard lately. Hopefully it will get better. It actually is getting a little better. My mom found bread I can have! Yay! Plus meat and mustard I can have as well! Yay! I finally had a nice yummy sandwich! Yay!

I love the quote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot it's not going to get better it's not." -Dr.Seuss. I love that quote because it tells me that If I just mope around and be grumpy about my food allergies it will make it worse. SO if I am happy and still care for others and their conditions or emotions it probably will get better. So be happy and loving and maybe something will turn up.

Sincerely,
Lizzy

Lizzy Lou's Dad Here

Hi everyone,  I am posting on my daughter's page to let her know just how much I love her and how amazing she is.

Today,  We are making macaroni salad.  The problem is that most macaroni salads call for pickles. As Lizzy's mother has discovered through her research, unless it is sea salt, there is not guarantee that the salt used to make pickles does not have some corn additive included. The other problem with pickles it that distilled white vinegar is made from corn.  So unless we make our own pickles, we run into not knowing what kind of vinegar was used or what kind of salt.    Maybe making pickles will be another experiment.

One of the things that is happening at our house is learning how to adjust recipes to meet Lizzy's dietary restrictions.  And so we are making up our own macaroni salad recipe.    Lizzy will have to tell you if it takes good.

First we took some Rice-based macaroni noodles and prepared them according to the directions.

 Then in a separate bowl we added our homemade Mayonnaise.

 We added some red wine vinegar

 We added some dry mustard

 And some Dill

 We added some Brown Sugar

 Added Salt and Pepper

 We roasted some red peppers and diced them.

 We also diced up celery

 Our Finished Product...

Recipe
In a small bowl mix the following:
3/4 C Homemade Mayo
1 T Red Wine Vinegar
2 t Dry Mustard
3 T Dill
4 t brown sugar
1/2 t salt - we added more salt in the end to taste.
1/4 t pepper.

Let sit for 30 min at least.

In a larger bowl add cooled macaroni along with:
3 diced roasted peppers (we only had one on hand)
3 celery stalks - diced
3 whole green onions, diced (we didn't have any so we used dried chives)... hey, it worked.

We don't like olives... well, take that back.... Lizzy's dad does not like olives, so I refuse to put them in anything. But if you like olives.... then, put 'em in.

Then add the dressing and stir.  Chill until ready to serve.



By the way... Lizzy said it was good.

Things Are Looking Up...this week anyway

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A week ago, my mom emailed my teacher about my blog. 

My teacher pulled me aside.
I thought I was getting in trouble but instead he told me that he LOVED my blog.

He told me that he wanted me to teach my class about blogging!
I still have much to learn but my mom has already taught me some, just enough that I could teach the class! Phew! It felt good to be able to teach other people about this.

I read my class my first post, which is all about my food allergies, and so now all of them know about it. At lunch, they all kept saying, "I feel so bad for you!', or "Can you have this or that?" They ask me if I can eat some of their food.  I am grateful for their interest, But I DON'T CHEAT ANYMORE!

Some of my best friends, not in school, try to hand me gum or candy. But I am getting better at politely telling them I can't have it. So now a lot of people know my allergies and I am grateful for that. They wouldn't have known that if I hadn't started a blog because I don't really want to talk about this any other way. My teacher wouldn't have asked me to teach the class, then I wouldn't be able to read them my post! 

I guess there is something good that can come out of hard things. (You mean my mom was right?)

Sincerely,
Lizzy

P.S. There isn't anything on that school lunch tray that I can eat. Well, I could eat the salad without store bought salad dressing. I could eat the potatoes if there isn't anything that has corn starch or wheat in it. I guess I could eat any of that food if my mom made it all from scratch using special ingredients. But at school, I can't eat any of it. 

I Scream for Ice Cream!

 
       
                            

                                     Häagen-Dazs. 

                                     love it.

                                     I can have it!

                                   

 I can only have the chocolate and strawberry flavors, but they are delicious!

Sometimes I get it out of the freezer and eat it right after I get ready for bed. 

One scoop after another I stare at each drippy, yummy, spoonful of cold ice cream and feel so much love.

 A lot of people (like my little brother!) say stuff like, "Aww! No fair! I want that!" But if he thinks I am being rude because I won't give it to him, well, than he got it wrong. It is the ONLY ice cream I can have that I like. So I am very grateful for Häagen-Dazs. Thank you Häagen-Dazs people!!

 Today I messed up pretty bad. Apparently the people at my school lunch table do NOT know about my allergies. So one of my friends handed me a taco she didn't want. I took it. I knew that I shouldn't but it looked so yummy! (Thank you my friend. I am not being sarcastic.)

So my mom, who works at my school, told them about my allergies. I know they need to know but luckily I had devoured the taco before she could snatch it from me.

Today I learned my lesson, Do not let people give you food if they don't know what you cannot eat. 

       

Sincerely, 

Lizzy

 
          

Trick or treat!

 Halloween is soon. Yay!

No yay.

I cannot have ANY candy.
All of it has corn starch or corn syrup, or wheat or peanuts or other ingredients I cannot have.
 But I never really liked candy so that won't be much of a problem. Except that I have always loved candy corn, but that literally has the word CORN in the name plus corn in the ingredients so that's out.
 I really am fine about not eating those foods. All I want is to be in an awesome costume and look absolutely fabtastic! lol.

I  picture the moment, dumping all my candy out of my bag onto the floor with my cousins and brother diving in all at once fighting over the candy.

Their tummies will hurt.

Mine won't! Ya!

They will be crazy because they're on a sugar high.  I will just step out of the room because I will be wierded out. LOL! I can't wait to see them go crazy. I will finally see what I have acted like on Halloween.

My mom says we will find a treat we can make. Yahoo! So I think this year will be nice Halloween. NO STOMACH ACHES!

Sincerely,
Lizzy





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The Golden Nugget

                              Hi. Lizzy again.
OK so lets get started.

Last night my cousins got to eat chicken nuggets. YUM!
Yea, I can't have chicken nuggets (at least the ones they were eating I couldn't have.)
I watched them take one bite after another into the soft chicken nugget.

I had my own dinner.

But I did not feel like eating.

I went over to sit by my cousin Lincoln sitting in his high chair.
He handed me a little piece of a chicken nugget.
So I ate it.
Yup, I cheated.
But then I stopped myself.
But it was delicious.
I love chicken nuggets.
So again, I went back to watching my cousins dip their dinner in soft, creamy ranch dressing (also something I cannot have until my mom gets around to making our own) and taking one awesome bite after another.


                             

Every morning, my brother or my dad eats one of these Halloween cereals. 

But who cares.
They're just fake.
Literally.
 Just full of fake ingredients.
Gross!
I do not want to eat that.
I really love food but I know I have to give a lot of it up.
I am grateful for my parents. They try to find recipes for me and I love them for it. I hope that things will get better.

Sincerely,
Lizzy
 

Wait...What?

  


It was 3 weeks ago. It was the end of the school day and BAM! out of nowhere came words out of my mom's mouth that I will always remember. "Lizzy, the test results came back with something we didn't expect...you have food allergies."

Ya at first I thought "Ok. That's fine. I can do this."

But its really NOT ok!

I am allergic to 

WHEAT

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CORN

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 SESAME SEEDS

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and PEANUTS

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At first I didn't know that those things are in EVERYTHING!

But seriously they are.

ESPECIALLY the corn.

Why? Because it is such a cheap crop, and corn syrup tastes so good to people.
Who would have guessed?
I take lunches to school everyday. I get bored of them sometimes. Sometimes I really get discouraged with it all. IT IS SUPER DUPER hard when it comes to things other people can eat but I can't. Sometimes I cheat and my friend gives me some of her school lunch. But that just makes it worse because then I don't feel good!

Did you know the government decided that if a food has sesame seeds in it, that doesn't need to be on the ingredients? Stupid! Right? So you have to literally CALL the company to know if they used sesame seeds! Seriously!

JUST wow. Sometimes I feel like I can't have anything!

So if you want to hear about how this keeps going for me then just keep on reading. Find out about what happened in my day. How hard it is with the food allergies and how I am learning to eat different foods. I am even eating food that I swore I would never eat. But hey, if I can eat it, I'm gonna eat it.

I promise you if you read this, you will see that something needs to change with food. You will love reading it. I promise!

Sincerely, Lizzy :)