GFCF?????

We've started Carter on a gluten and casein free (GFCF) diet a/o last Thursday. Some children with an ASD show great improvement when these things are removed from their diet. Ryan and I think we may be seeing a slight change in his behavior (it may just be our imaginations) and we have most definitely seen a change in his "number 2". Before he would struggle several times a day and only manage to get a little out at a time. The past three days he has had one poopy each day. A great improvement. The main struggle is finding things for him to eat that are healthy and contain all the nutrients his little body needs oh and that he likes. I have been giving him supplements for some time now, but when reading the labels last night most contain milk (casein) or gluten. I'm headed back over to native sun tonight to see if I can find other supplements that fit within his new diet.

The other day I found some bread that I thought fit, but once I got home, spent an hour baking it (I'm no baker by-the-way) I found, in very small print on the package, "contains milk". WHAT!?!? How could I have missed that? UGH! So I just wasted an hour making bread that didn't get done in middle (see, I can't bake) AND wasn't even the right kind to begin with. Phew this is hard.

I did make chocolate chip cookies that taste terrible, but Carter likes them so that's all that matters. I also made mini pizza crust because he loves pizza. I just need to find dairy free shredded cheese. Wonder how that's going to taste? YUCK! oh wait I mean YUMMMMM!