What's In Your Sandwich?

Since I have been concentrating more on dairy free dinners to accomodate my lactose intolerant son, we have been eating rather well. Living in a cheese loving family, Alex has had very limited options through the years. Our favorites include such things as grilled cheese and tomato soup, broccoli and cheese soup, chips and cheese, quesadillas with cheese, cheese and crackers, cheese box, poppy seed chicken (made with lots of sour cream), etc. Poor kid....like he was born into the wrong family.

This past month has been spent catering to his nutritional needs first, and it has gone better than expected. We have found lots of good things to eat, increased our fresh fruits and veggies, and after the first week, we all seemed to have survived cheese detox. Trips to the grocery store have actually been fewer, and dinners have often been composed from seemingly nothing into something very interesting and yummy. But sometimes we have cheated at lunch...afterall, Alex is at school, so we can then have whatever we would like.

Today was one of those bad eating, lazy lunch days. We stopped at McDonald's after picking Michael up from band. This is something that we do not do often....ever since seeing "Supersize Me" a few years ago, a compelling documentary-type DVD that will open your eyes to how entirely horrible fast food is for you, if you are not yet convinced. For some odd reason, I ordered a fish sandwich. As it was sitting in it's box on the table, Crispy was reading it saying, "Zero Fish! Zero Fish!" While I corrected him, instructing him that it actually read "Filet-o-Fish", I stopped myself and realized that his interpretation was probably much more accurate. This kid is wise beyond his fast food loving years.

To make up for the horrible lunch, I made a gourmet dinner....eggplant parmesan, fettucine alfredo, and asiago cheese bread with oil dipping sauce. It was wonderful. So sorry for Alex.....a little bit laden with dairy products....I hope his plain bread was tasty.