Thank you for all of your helpful and supportive comments yesterday. I appreciate every single word. Many of you had ideas that I’ve never considered about what might be causing my antibody levels to remain high. So thank you for brainstorming this issue with me! As I mentioned, Jeff and I will be doing a whole food challenge in September. Basically, this means that we won’t be eating anything that…
With crazy summer schedules, and Joe starting kindergarten in July thanks to a year-round school schedule, I haven’t been cooking many large meals. We’ve been eating lots of snack plates, tons of fresh produce, and of course breakfast for dinner. Plus, the kids have decided that cutting paper is their new favorite hobby. Which means my kitchen table is completely covered in paper scraps at all times. And I haven’t…
I ate a lot of meat in Ethiopia. A lot. Many times it was my only safe gluten-free option. As tasty as it was, I was more than ready for some fresh fruits and vegetables when I got home. This week I’ve been devouring bell peppers, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, strawberries, apples, and grapes. When I started to think about what I would do for this month’s Recipe ReDux challenge (a…
I stopped buying conventional poultry at the grocery store quite a few years ago because frankly, it just started to gross me out. I vowed to go all organic and free range until the day I die, but HELLO that stuff is expensive. To compensate, I learned how to cook more vegetarian meals so that when we do eat meat, we can afford to buy organic. One way that our…
When you first go gluten-free, you are tempted to try out all of the gluten-free substitutes for the foods you know and love. Bread, pasta, cookies, cereal. Just give me the gluten-free version! But then you realize that #1. It just doesn’t taste as good or #2. Even if it tastes good, it costs 2-3 times as much as the regular version. While I have found a few items that…
Last week, the California Walnut people asked me if I would like a bag of their walnuts. Free walnuts? Yes please! A few days later, I had a big bag of fresh walnuts, hand-packed and tied up in a cute little burlap bag. For breakfast, I tossed together some vanilla So Delicious coconut yogurt with fresh strawberries and walnuts. It was a delicious way to start the day, and the…
Guess whose hip held up for a 20-minute run today?? This girl’s! A 20-minute run might not sound like much to you fitness fanatics, but it was huge for me! After hurting my hip last fall, then my back, then my hip again, I wasn’t sure when or if I would ever run again. On Tuesday, I was finishing up my workout when the Eminem song “‘Till I Collapse” came…