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?