Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Food is good when food is good.

Unfortunately, food can hurt. My poor little baby (2 years now) has multiple food allergies, which make life a bit of a living hell on earth some days. Other days, it's not so bad. One has to have a lot of motivation to not regress to the terrible twos when the only items allowed on the menu for two weeks are turkey, quinoa, zucchini, coconut oil and sweet potato.

This is two weeks after I realised that Chipmunk here isn't just crying all the time because babies cry, and I cut out dairy, eggs, soy and got a happy baby. For a few days. Unfortunately, that wasn't quite enough.  Had to further eliminate wheat, barley, rye, oats, kamut, spelt, millet, black tea, sage, tree nuts, peanuts, legumes, potato, eggplant, paprikas, chill, cocoa (sniff), carrot, celery, green beans, endives, avocado, banana, citrus fruits, plums, melons, grapes, blueberries (wtf), pear, rose hip, pineapple, potassium sorbate... and a few more that I've since forgotten. Nobody likes having a baby that cries all day because it's stomach is hurting, regurgitating with nasty acid reflux, and having pus leaking out of it's severe eczema. Diet keeps symptoms in check, so it's all good. 

Be advised, my elimination diet was carried out in collaboration with a doctor.

Chipmunk is now two, happily munching on more than just allergen-free-boobmilk. We've re-introduced soy and a few other things, but we've still got about 40-50 items on our NO-list. We can even bake together now! Yay! 

Edit (December '14): The NO-list is now back up to 62 items and rising after our spectacular failure with testing egg, which resulted in a complete loss of any equilibrium we used to have in her diet. Slowly but surely, we're figuring things out again. It's much easier now that we know what symptoms to look for before it gets too bad, and because she's now old enough to tell us when she's getting reflux or a stomach ache or is itching in her mouth.

The hubs takes rubbish pics.

So, because I'm incapable of keeping things short, the point was that I'm trying to save some good recipes that I've found or tweaked so they're good for our weirdo diet.