Real food hoo ha

So, apparently Abby's metabolism will run much slower than Bella and Lucy's.  When Abby was born I spent a pretty penny on books of all sorts about Down Syndrome.  It is how I educate and research.  I was raised in the time before the inter webs and when I had a question my mom told me to look it up in a book.  How old fashioned!  So one of the books was a text book on nutrition for people with Down Syndrome.  Flippin boring.  But I was up at all times of the night with her trying to nurse her so I had plenty of time to read.  Plus, the pumping sessions afterwards weren't as tedious when I had something to occupy my mind.  Long story short, too late, I learned that Abby will have to be very careful about food choices.  Even if she perfectly proportioned her food and ate everything she should, she would not get the proper nutrition.  We will have to carefully dose out vitamins and be very careful about treats.

Well, I want her to be healthy, so I have decided now is the time to change the family food plan.  We don't eat very badly, I make most of our food and we don't eat much fast food.  We have pizza about once a month, In and Out once a month, but Miguel Jr.s once a week.  I don't use a lot of packaged foods and I make most foods from scratch.  But I had a rude awakening when I found the 100 days of Real Food blog.  Wow.  We eat like Shit!  I had no idea of the hidden yuckies in our food.  So, after the research was done I made a few goals and rules.

• We will buy organic as much as we can.
• I will make everything I can from scratch.
• I will buy boxed or packaged food with 5 or fewer ingredients.
• I will institute Friday as a fast food meal kinda night with a dessert.
• I will not require others to prepare food for us this strict.
• If we go out to dinner we can get what we want.

So as I tried my hardest to pump and figure out Abilene's allergies to my breast milk, I came to the realization that I can not keep up my supply when I don't eat enough calories.  Well, when you eliminate as many things as I did, your milk disappears.  So, much to my dislike, I had to change Abby to formula.  Since I had made the above rules for our family, I chose an organic formula for her as well.  Luckily Earth's Best makes a Soy formula.  Problem is the people who use it get to the stores on delivery day and buy it all up!  Rude!  Luckily it is on Amazon subscribe so score!

So, if you try to get ahold of me, I am currently trying out tons of Real food recipes.  If you have any good ones, please let me know!