Day 11 of sugar free month

Breakfast: pear, natural yogurt and honey
Apple and mango juice

Lunch: 'picky plate' made up of sunflower seeds, ryvita, slices of cheese, lettuce, cucumber, carrot sticks, pear, plain crisps

Dinner: meal made from two left over dinners! Pasta bolognase topped with cheesy mash, served with broccoli and red peppers
chocolate chip cookies (sweetened with xylitol)

Day 10 of sugar free month

Oh dear! DD went out for the day with Grandparents and has just got in; let's just say she's a little crampy with her stomach...

Breakfast (at home)
Apple and natural yogurt with some honey
fruit tea

Snack: millionaires shortbread with marshmallows and pack of cola bottle sweets (sigh)

lunch: sausage, chips and baked beans and chocolate milk shake

Dinner: toast and marmite, shortbread biscuits, prawn cocktail crisps, capri sun

What a crap day. There are still some leftovers she's bought home with her. She has a party to go to on Sunday so can keep the rest of sugary stuff until then or eat it tonight. I personally feel it's better to eat a lot at once then stop eating it, rather than a little every day...

Day 9

Breakfast: apple, grapes and strawberries with natural yogurt

snack: carrot cake, dried bananas and mango

Lunch (at friends house) ham sandwiches

Dinner: left over lasagne, jacket potato and watercress
apple and mango juice

Day 8

Breakfast:
Chicken mayo on toast

Lunch:
vegetable soup (carrot, onion, potato, celery, barley) with bread
Apple and mango juice

Dinner:
lasagne: left over bolognase sauce with lasagne and cheese sauce
carrot cake

Day 7

Easter Day. DD was given sugary Easter eggs and started the day with them instead of breakfast
The arrangement was that during this holiday she would eat sugar free at home but if she went to friend's houses (there are two birthday parties and one sleepover already planned) or was given stuff it was ok to eat it:

breakfast: Easter eggs and boy did it show - within an hour she was complaining of pains in her stomach and being really hyper.

lunch: chicken, roast potatoes, yorkshire pudding, carrots, broccoli, green beans, sprouts, peas and gravy
pudding: carrot cake made with agave and cream

dinner: chicken in white sauce, mashed potato, broccoli and sprouts

Day 6

Not so good on the nutrition front. I haven't been feeling well so didn't get up until 11:45 and DD hadn't eaten breakfast. I didn't have much energy so here's what she had:

brunch: cheese and ham toastie

snack: apple and banana

Dinner: pasta bolognase: onion, garlic, mixed herbs, tin tomatoes, tomato puree, minced beef with pasta shapes

Hot chocolate sweetened with xylitol and a couple of sugar-free marshmallows

Day 5

Moods are improving, blood sugar stabilising. DD is quite tired, but in pretty good spirits! Today's menu hasn't been the healthiest and has featured an awful lot of bread! She had a friend here who is quite limited in food choices, so I had to do something that met DD's needs and also filled up the friend with food she likes:

Breakfast:
Mashed salmon and mayo on toast

Lunch:
ham and lettuce sandwiches, carrot sticks and pack of salt 'n' snake crisps
Cranberry and apple juice

Dinner:
3 pieces of toast - one with feta and sugar free baked beans, one with just beans and one with egg
Strawberries, cream and yogurt with oats and sweet freedom and a piece of sugar free chocolate grated on top

Day 4 of sugar free diet

Breakfast:
porrage with dried bananas and vanilla served with natural yogurt with some prune and pear spread mixed into it

Lunch:
ham, lettuce and cucumber sandwiches with pack of cheesy oat bakes
Smoothie made from melon, orange, lemon, peaches, apple and banana

Dinner:
Casserole made from chicken, roast potatoes, carrots served with dumplings
Carrot cake (made with agave) and cream

Day 3

Things are going well, although DD is grumpy and complaining of being 'bored'...

Breakfast:
Drop scones with mashed banana and natural yogurt and strawberries

Lunch:
Left over pasta from yesterday with watercress, lettuce and cucumber

Dinner:
Jacket potato, salmon and sugar free baked beans

Snacks:
blackcurrant dried fruit bars, toast and marmite, oatbakes

Day 2

Day 2 didn't start so well. DD had an unexpected sleepover at a friend's last night. She was brilliant at taking her own food for the midnight feast but this morning, when she asked for 'ham' on her toast, her friend thought she said 'jam'! SO she ended up starting the day with a sugar fix.

Never mind, you can always choose to start your day again at any point, right?

Here is the rest of her meals for the day:

snack:
dried mango and pineapple

Lunch:
hard boiled egg and grated cheese with watercress, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber and carrot sticks

snack:
chocolate porrage (oats, cocoa powder, cocoa nibs, sweetened with chopped dates) and a couple of slices of carrot cake

Dinner:
pasta with chicken, tomatoes, french beans, broccoli and carrots with a bit of cream mixed into the sauce

Bless her, she's really craving sweet things today and has been tearful and emotional; hence the chocolate porrage snack. Strong stuff this sugar, eh?

Day one of the sugar cleanse!

DD is now 11, so I give her more freedom with the foods she chooses to buy and eat. Unfortunately she came to me this week saying she felt she was getting addicted to sugar. What self awareness!

We agreed that she would go on a sugar free diet, starting today, so I thought I'd keep a record of what she eats.

Breakfast:

Pink grapefruit, some grapes and some millet and rice sugar free cereal.

Snack:

salt 'n' shake crisps and dried mango

Lunch:

chicken in white sauce with potatoes, carrots, broccoli, green beans, peas and sprouts ( all vegetables left over from Sunday lunch)

Dinner:

She's having a sleep over at a friends so will be eating sandwiches. In the oven is a carrot cake made with agave syrup for her midnight feast ;)