Milk and Tomato's

So I took my husband with me to Wal-Mart with me yesterday to pick up a few groceries, primarily for our 15 month old., and boy was it interesting.

Our 15 month old has a sensitivity to cows milk so therefore he drinks soy formula, and soy milk, and I have yet to try to introduce him to anything that is milk based. So because of this there are quite a few things that a normal 1 year old eats that my son can’t have yet.

So while we were at Wal-Mart we decided to come up with things he could have that we could mix together to put into storage containers as pre-made meals instead of spending the extra money to do the Gerber meals which are not enough food to fill him up. We had already had mashed potato’s that I make with soy milk as our base for the meals and my hubby was wanting to find some veggies and meats to add to it. Veggies were the easy part cause my little man will eat just quite a few of them, but when it came to finding him some meats that he could handle that’s when the issues with my hubby started.

Hubby decided to go down the soup isle looking for a mix of stuff for the baby and kept picking out stuff like beef stew, and Progresso chunky soups….after about ½ a dozen flavors that I had to say no to my hubby started to show his frustration right there in the middle of the isle. Try explaining to my hubby that not only can our son not have any soups that are milk based (such as cream of chicken) but because his only 1 his digestive system is not ready for foods that have a tomato base due to the acidic level. My 1 year old is also not ready for anything with spices yet either….Hello!! He is only 1.

My hubby got so frustrated that he was about ready to give up and leave. After a bit of arguing and explaining I finally convinced my hubby to be satisfied with the food limitations until the Pediatrician says we are clear to start trying other foods.

These are the moments that really test my patients level and that chuckling at the situation is not because I’m laughing at my hubby but because the comical side of me is what helps keep my sanity in these situation. I tell my hubby that this is why I usually don’t take him grocery shopping with me but he reminded me that he does need to learn how to shop for our 1 year old and be able to know what he can and can’t have.

So what's a girl to do, at least my husband is interested in wanting to know what our son can have.