Sorbet Calories and “Houston, We Have a Hot Dog"

So, we have thoroughly enjoyed the sorbet that we made out of our few ingredients from my last post.  The great thing about the sorbets that we made is that you can even have them for breakfast.  My oldest son, Gabriel, is taking the STAAR test at school today (Go Gabriel!), and they told the children to make sure they ate a good breakfast.  So I made him eggs with just a touch of non-dairy margarine and then gave him a small bowl of our “ice cream” so that he could have some fruit with his breakfast.  He was in hog heaven.  I made sure to ask him, “How many of your friends do you think get to have ice cream for breakfast?”  His reply was, of course, none.  But that’s one of the awesome things about making your own foods, is that you know what goes into them and can judge for yourself whether or not to let your kids have a “super treat” at an odd time of day.

I did a rough calorie estimation for the banana ice cream this morning.  Assuming that each banana was 75 calories and a 1/2 cup of honey was 515 and there are eight servings total in the mix, it comes out to right at 130 calories PER CUP of our homemade sorbet.  Dieters, start your engines, this is a food for you.  OMG, I think I just did math.  In fact, it’s even worse, it’s one of those stupid word math questions like, “if person A you don’t give a crap about left Baltimore on a train going X miles per hour...” AAAHHHH!

Okay, let’s be done with math.  (shudders)


Hot Doggit

Last night, we decided that we wanted to have hot dogs, you know, the food of champions?  Well, the great news is, we can still have them.  So we bought some kosher hot dog links, which means there can be no milk ingredients in them, some non-dairy wheat buns and turkey chili.  Then, we put our favorite new “cheese” product on top, Daiya.  They were FANTASTIC.  Putting that cheese on there is SO much like going to a James Coney Island and having one of their dogs with the American cheese on top.  MMM, missed it so much until yesterday.  Sorry, James, your day in the sun is over, now we’re on to Hebrew National.  Not the healthiest dinner ever, but at least we had vegetables and fruit with dinner.

We continue to have good luck with almond, soy and coconut milks for dinner with the children, which is a positive, so they continue to get their vitamins that way.

Last, But Not Least...
We’re slowly, but surely, making our way up to having most of the kinds of foods that we had before we were thrown into non-dairy-land, level 1-1.  We do seem to see a gaping hole in the non-dairy recipe market for normal, everyday recipes that kids will actually want to eat.  Maybe there’s a cookbook in our future?