The most balanced diet in my house

I just found out that a friend of mine has to go Gluten Free, because of medical issues.  I’m hoping that if I write about what Kevin eats it will help her with her own changes that she has to make to her diet.  Kevin probably has the most balanced diet in my house.  In the morning he’ll generally have fruit (banana, apple or orange) along with toast or waffles if I’m not fixing a big breakfast.  I try to get blueberries or strawberries when they’re on sale for his waffles just to make them more fun for him.  The boy loves his fruit.  Everything here is gluten free and I found that the gluten free bread has more protein than the old white bread I use to give him.  If I fix a big breakfast its eggs, pancakes (Gluten free again) and bacon or link sausage.   I was so happy when I found out he’d started eating eggs at his Dad’s house.  It makes it easier when we go to breakfast.  I just make sure he doesn’t get any toast when we’re out for breakfast.  When lunch time rolls around it’s about 11:00am in my house that’s if I don’t make a big breakfast and it’s usually sandwiches or hot dogs with chips or French fries.  The reason for the early lunch is because of the boys lunch hours at school.  Kevin’s has been around 11:00am for as long as I can remember.   Now, I have to say that Kevin doesn’t eat large meals.  It’s more like he eats small meals throughout the day.  Around 3:00pm it’s snack time.  That can be more fruit, Greek yogurt, ice cream or popcorn, which I make on the stove top.  I made it that way once for him and now it’s the only way he wants me to make popcorn for him.  I start dinner about 5:00pm and just before I start I’ll make Kevin and myself a salad.  Lately our salads have been with lettuce, tomatoes, carrot chips and sunflower seeds.  One night I added strawberries.  Talk about a salad that was good.  Dinners have become a lot easier now that Kevin eats beef.  Growing up it was always chicken.  I introduced pork one night.  Just sat back and waited to see if he’d eat it.  Ha!  He did without even blinking.  Then one night I found out he’d had steak while visiting his father.  Thank you! He still won’t eat hamburgers, but that’s ok.  At least he’ll eat roast beefs or London broil.  For the longest time he’d gag looking at cooked green beans, but a few weeks ago I put them on his plate without saying anything to him.  After dinner I realized they weren’t on his plate, so I tried it again a few days later.  He ate them.  Dinner’s use to be the hardest time for me trying to figure out what to give him.  Kevin did not like any cooked vegetables at all.  Corn was it!  Fresh green beans out of the garden were fine, so long as they were not cooked.  And because of the fact that he wouldn’t eat cooked vegetables I’d try my best to come up with something good for him to eat with his dinner like grapes.  But you can eat just so many grapes.  I’m so thankful his taste buds are changing and I think they’ll change even more with this diet.  After dinner no more snacks and no caffeine drinks for Kevin at all.  They will keep him up at night.  I don’t even buy any drinks with caffeine in them for the boys anymore.  I like my sleep and if Kevin isn’t asleep I can’t sleep.   No, hard fast rules here other than the caffeine and no gluten.  Just lots of fruit and vegetables and one more thing no multi-vitamins.  Several have gluten in them from my understanding.  Watch out for gravies, soy sauces and malt vinegars.  Good Luck!