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| My Mom and I May 12, 2012 |
I am thankful that my mom is in great health and
able to travel. I was hoping to go home for the weekend, but sadly was unable
to. For the past 2 weeks I've been dealing with either low or plummeting blood
sugar. Which in turn leaves me feeling sick for hours on end. After an
analysis of the days I've felt sick we've figured out the main cause and remedy
is just lack of food. I've been on a strict diet since Nov 2012 when I
was diagnosed with Celiac Disease and other food intolerances. After almost 7
months of sticking to this strict diet I've gotten tired of eating the same
foods and have lost interest in eating. After a return visit to the nutritionist
this past Friday I'm happy to report that we're going to began to try
reintroducing some foods back into my diet. First on the list is rice.
Not that I have a love for eating plain white rice, but as I have lived
on this strict diet I have come to realize that rice, or a derivative of it is
in many foods. Especially in gluten free foods. It would be safe to
guess that 99% of gluten free products on the market today has rice/rice flour,
etc in it. The plan is to try a food for a day and then return to my
normal diet for 3 days to see if I have a reaction. The reaction I'm looking
for is does it affect my moods. Am I depressed, anxious, tired, etc. And if so
then we'll keep those foods out of my diet. If there is no reaction after
3 days I will try another food. Then after I have tested all of the foods I
will add back in those that I didn't have a negative reaction to. She has also suggested that I try licorice
root extract to assist with my blood sugar. In addition she said to make sure
that with every meal or snack to make sure I have protein and Carbohydrates. The Carbohydrates have been hard for me to do
as after several boxes from Costco of Sweet Potatoes I just can’t eat another
one. I’m not a big fan of beans or lentils as a snack and there just isn’t
enough carbohydrates in the fruits and veggies I eat. The other option has been
to bake my own breads, but due to feeling sick so much mostly due to allergy
shots I haven’t done a whole lot of cooking.
Now that I’m off of the weekly allergy shots I’ve had more time and
energy to cook. Over the past weekend
I’ve tried several recipes and am happy to report a couple really good ones.
Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies. These are really
good. They taste and look just like a Peanut Butter Cookie.
These cookies came out of: Gluten Free Cookies by
Luane Kohnke. I couldn’t find the recipe on her site so here is a link to her
Cashew Butter Cookies. It’s the same recipe with the exception of the Peanut
Butter Cookies use Organic Peanut butter. I used Kirkland brand and it only
uses ¼ Cup Sugar. It calls for unsalted peanuts but, I only had salted so I
used them and didn’t salt the tops of the cookies
The following recipes came from Elana’s Pantry. http://www.elanaspantry.com/
Many of the recipes I’ve made call for Stevia. I
just use regular white sugar.
The below 3 recipe call for Almond Flour. I use Almond Meal as it’s in my budget. Almond
Meal is much coarser then Almond flour and that may be the reason that the
following recipes have a unique texture. But until I have a larger budget I
will be happy with what I have, a few more items to add to my diet.
Paleo Pumpkin Bread. I double the recipe and use 4
mini loaf pans. I tried using just 2, but they overflowed. This bread freezes really well. I use canned
pumpkin. Make sure if you buy it in a can you read the label to ensure it’s
100% pumpkin. This is so good I eat it almost daily in the morning with my
smoothie.
Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies. These are great. I
also use Almond Meal. Maybe if you used Almond Flour the texture would be more
like a traditional Cookie, but the cost difference at this time is worth if for
me to have things taste and feel a little interesting. I’m not a big cookie
fan, but when you are on a limited diet anything new that I can eat is
exciting. I use all white chocolate
chips. This recipe also calls for Palm oil. I use butter.
Coconut
Bars. These are good. At the same time for the price of Coconut Flour I’d say
it’s not that good if you are on a strict budget. But, if you can splurge it’s
worth a try. For me it was worth a try. They are moist. It’s not very sweet. You
need to store them in the fridge. The coconut oil sinks to the bottom and
leaves if with an interesting texture that I like. I eat it in the morning with
my smoothie as a starch.
Paleo Breakfast Bread. This is a weird recipe in
the sense is it doesn’t call for any flour or meal. I tried this today and was shocked at how
good it turned out. It’s moist and spongy just like a cake. Thus it doesn’t
have the interesting texture like the above 2 recipes.
Thank you for a memorable Saturday. Hope you find a good balance in your diet. Hopefully you will be able to add soy to your diet since it is on so many foods. Stay healthy. Love you so much sweetheart.
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