What are some learned tricks of the trade for head hunger? I do really well all day until the family sits down for dinner. Then the head hunger goes crazy!! All day long I am fine but come dinner time I would love to cheat and dig into a piece of chicken ( not there yet) Please help I don't want to just avoid dinner time all together- that is one of the few times everyone is all together.( I have two teenage children who stay on the move!)

What are some learned tricks of the trade for head hunger? I do really well all day until the family sits down for dinner. Then the head hunger goes crazy!! All day long I am fine but come dinner time I would love to cheat and dig into a piece of chicken ( not there yet) Please help I don't want to just avoid dinner time all together- that is one of the few times everyone is all together.( I have two teenage children who stay on the move!)

AttitudeFree:

One suggestion would be to prepare yourself some home made chicken broth Soup and have that as your meal while you socialize with your family. Here's the recipe I use which I got from Gaby at Dr Aceves's office. ( I added a few spices of my own).

Cut up a chicken, boil for about 2 hours. Then add 1 cup of chopped carrots, 1 cup of chopped onions, 1 cup of chopped celery, 1 cup of chopped tomatoes, 1/2 cup of finely chopped cilantro, 1 tsp of ground cumin, 1 tsp of red curry powder (not hot kind), sea salt to taste. Simmer for 1 hour. Let cool, then strain the liquid out with a very fine strainer to remove all particles. Refrigerate this broth overnight then skim all the fat off after it has solidified on top. Voila, great broth. You can freeze it in ice cube trays or other containers. If you leave fat in it you may have diarrhea.

Debone the chicken completely once it is cooled, and place the meat and all the cooked veggies in a blender. Add a small amount of the broth and you can make a delicious, high Protein Mushy (or soupy) meal, depending on how much liquid you add.

Be sure you remove ALL of the tiny bones...I used gloves to remove all the bones I could feel by mushing it up in my hands, and then used a larger hole strainer to be double sure there were no bones to get caught in my new sleeve. Freeze it if you are not ready for mushies yet.

I did what Cajun suggested, and prepared my soup or whatever I was eating for dinner and ate at the same time as the rest of the family. I made it more about the social time with my hubby and kids, and less about the food.

Its not long till you can join them in eating chicken so just hang on in there