Hospital Trip

Yesterday was our son's trip to the hospital. P was born with a heart defect and had open heart surgery at 7 weeks old. After that he also had 2 stents put in. Every few years until his heart is adult size, he will have to have the stents ballooned out. It has been 3 years since the last time. 


I'm sure you've heard how bad hospital food is! Not only does it not taste good, its not nourishing or healing for you! They offered kool-aid to P, right after waking up from the anesthesia!! Really, really?! Kool-aid!? C'mon! Thankfully P doesn't even know what kool-aid is, so he just asked for water. I decided to make some food to take with us, because I really didn't want him eating food with HFCS, artificial colors, preservatives  hydrogenated oils, soy...the list goes on! 


First I made soup for our lunch the day before, with enough for leftovers to take with us. This is based on Comfy Belly's recipe. I make this soup a lot, the kids love it and I knew P would eat it in the hospital.

While the soup was cooking I cut up some veggies to take with us. P's favorite are carrots and peppers! Don't throw away those organic veggie peelings, I freeze them, then throw them in my homemade stock, the last few hours of cooking. I also made homemade veggie dip with sour cream. 

Next I made homemade jello with organic juice. P really enjoyed this, even though I didn't add enough gelatin and it didn't gel like I wanted!

Then I made fruit salad, a good mix of vitamin-c fruits (I didn't have oranges, darn!), to help with healing.

Last I made chocolate chip cookies based on Elana's Pantry recipe. I add an egg to these and used maple syrup instead of the agave nectar and use butter instead of the grapeseed oil. Yes, I know these aren't that nourishing, but P loves them and they are grain free, so not all bad!

Here is my trooper! The only time he cried was when we took the band-aids off!