Chickpeas are a go!

One of the hardest parts of Cooper's allergies is when you are crammed on time with fitting in food for scopes.

You may not see the allergist by the time you need to start the new foods so you can fit enough trial foods into the time frame before the scope.

For example,

This time, we won't see the allergist for over a month from when his scope was preformed.

At that point he should already be starting on his 3rd food for the trial in the scope.

The problem is, you have to have these foods approved, and depending on the situation, have him allergy tested by blood test before you give him the foods.

Instead of being able to discuss what the allergist thinks we should add, it is then on us to figure out what we want or think.

Then it comes down to calling and asking if these foods are ok and if we need testing, or if we can just add them before we see him and go from there.

We called before Cooper's scope and asked if we could add strawberry and grapes before we see the allergist and he ok'd it, but we realized that we needed one more food to fit in this trial and by the time we saw him, we wouldn't have enough time to add it if we didn't add the third before the appointment.

So we called and played phone tag yet again with the office that is TERRIBLE at getting back to you.

But this time we were called back in the 48 hour window (WHAT?!? That can actually happen??) and we were given the ok for chickpeas!

We will discuss the final food when we see him at the end of the month, which we plan on it being whole psyllium husk.

That and chickpeas are supposed to be staples in vegan, gluten free, rice free, corn free, nut free, soy free (WHEW!) baking.

Which is exactly what we have to do for baking.

That is why it is so. freaking. hard. to make him anything other than raw foods and why I have asked  for help so many times!

I am praying that these foods will help me be able to make breads, cupcakes/cakes (Hello actual cake for his 3rd birthday!!!!!!!!!!) and muffins with all his other safe foods to be able to give different textures!

Here's to hoping this works!

And probably lots and lots of Pinterest fails.

xoxo