Another Clean Food success story. Since I was working on the 25th, Kyle made me Christmas dinner, which included Terry Walters’ skillet cornbread recipe. He made it in a casserole dish instead, with a few changes, indicated below. Clean Food Cornbread 1/2 cup corn flour 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal 1 cup unbleached all purpose flour … Continue reading
I miss apples. During my elimination phase of fodmaps, I realized that certain snacks in certain combinations have been hard on my digestive system. It’s hard for someone who doesn’t have GI issues to understand, but I’ve been trying to figure it out, bite by bite, and even though I’m still thrown off every once … Continue reading
Being veg*n and monitoring fodmaps is a bit tricky. Without animal meat (or the galactans category, aka beans/legumes), there isn’t much left to provide adequate protein…or so I thought. Here’s the loop-hole: Seitan. “But that’s made with vital wheat gluten!?!” you say. “You can’t have wheat because it has FODMAPS!” First of all, well done, … Continue reading
As I’ve mentioned before, I have been reading up on the low FODMAPS approach to managing IBS symptoms. Just in the past few weeks I’ve already started to notice relief – and that’s without doing the full fledged elimination phase. Which is what I wanted to discuss today. Reminder: FODMAPS are Fermentable Oligo-, Di-, and … Continue reading
Soooo, I’m back on night shifts for the week. In an effort to get my sleep schedule as off whack as possible, I stayed up ‘til 1 am on Monday night and slept in ‘til 9 am on Tuesday. I had big plans to watch the US Open all day long, but the NYC weather … Continue reading
I mentioned last month that I was trying to wean myself off stevia, and so many people had questions about why. So I thought maybe I’d share in more detail. **However, in the time it took me to actually write the post about this decision, so much has already changed and my choice to switch … Continue reading
