Refined sugar gave me a headache. And what a surprise..not. I've always heard it's bad for you. 48 hours after I ate it, I had the first real headache of the whole experiment. It wasn't a migraine, but it convinced me that I did not have to try sugar a second time that week.
The good news is I have an amazing recipe for you all. This is a pie (in which I will now use unrefined sugar) that is ridiculously easy to make. Crust and all: easy as pie.
Easy Schmeasy Pie
Make this right in the plate – no rolling!
Source: http://www.buildyourownhouse.ca/Pie%20Crust.htm
Crust:
1 ½ cups flour or barley flour
2 tbsp. Sugar
Quick Dash of Salt
½ cup Vegetable Oil
2 tbsp. Milk or soy milk
Filling:
Frozen or fresh fruit
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
Preheat oven to 350
1- Mix the Dry Ingredients directly in the Pie Plate. Draw a little circle in the middle with your finger.
2- Pour the oil and milk into a jar and put the lid on tightly. Give it a good shake.
Pour this mixture into the circle and mix it gently with a fork until completely blended.
3- Press the pastry against the sides of the pie plate first, then fill in the bottom.
4- Mix any fresh or frozen fruit with 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup sugar
5- Bake for about 45 minutes
WHEAT
During wheat reintroduction week, I made the mistake of reintroducing a food while menstruating. So, when I felt like crap, I didn't know if it was because of my period or wheat. Lesson learned, I will not reintroduce anything else while menstruating.
EGG YOLKS
Egg yolks hurt my stomach. I tried eating them twice, 5 days apart, just to make sure, and each time the symptoms were the same. My stomach hurt within a few hours.
So, the bad news is that egg yolks hurt my stomach. The good news is that there are many kinds of eggs! I have been eating duck eggs, which I get at the farmers' market. They are bigger and richer than chicken eggs, and they don't hurt my stomach. I have used them in baking, too, and I can't tell the difference. Soon I hope to make challah with duck eggs. I'll let you know how that turns out, assuming I can eventually eat all the other ingredients in challah.
So, the bad news is that egg yolks hurt my stomach. The good news is that there are many kinds of eggs! I have been eating duck eggs, which I get at the farmers' market. They are bigger and richer than chicken eggs, and they don't hurt my stomach. I have used them in baking, too, and I can't tell the difference. Soon I hope to make challah with duck eggs. I'll let you know how that turns out, assuming I can eventually eat all the other ingredients in challah.
How to Eat While Camping
At first this "diet" (diet and experiment don't really describe this...anyone have a better word?) seems very limiting. But instead of focusing on all the things I cannot eat, I have had a great time discovering things I can eat, and things that I didn't know I would love to eat...like barley flour and duck eggs.
Anyway, the question of the hour is "How can you go camping with such a limited diet?"
And the answer is...
Justin and I left for a beautiful secluded campsite after lunch and brought the following:
Snacks for hiking: rice cakes, fruit, nuts and dried fruit trail mix
Dinner: We made this amazing soup. I now make it at home all the time. At the campsite, no fires were allowed so we used a small stove. The recipe is below.
Breakfast: oatmeal with chopped apples and nuts, raisins, cinnamon
Eagle Creek Soup
By Justin
Put the following ingredients into a pot in this order:
olive oil
(wait until it's hot)
onions and garlic
(wait until the onions are translucent)
chopped carrots and potatoes
curry powder and black pepper to taste
chopped broccoli or kale or whatever green you like
enough water to cover the top of all the veggies
1/2 cup red lentils and 1/2 cup quinoa
salt to taste
That's it. No measurements required, really. Just bring it to a boil and let it simmer until the lentils are all nice and mushy and it's stew like and you'd want to eat it.
This is a picture of the soup when I made it at home (not camping). I topped it with fresh parsley which was awesome.
So, there's something amazing and comfort-food like that I can eat. And it's so easy that you can bring it camping.
Anyway, the question of the hour is "How can you go camping with such a limited diet?"
And the answer is...
Justin and I left for a beautiful secluded campsite after lunch and brought the following:
Snacks for hiking: rice cakes, fruit, nuts and dried fruit trail mix
Dinner: We made this amazing soup. I now make it at home all the time. At the campsite, no fires were allowed so we used a small stove. The recipe is below.
Breakfast: oatmeal with chopped apples and nuts, raisins, cinnamon
Eagle Creek Soup
By Justin
Put the following ingredients into a pot in this order:
olive oil
(wait until it's hot)
onions and garlic
(wait until the onions are translucent)
chopped carrots and potatoes
curry powder and black pepper to taste
chopped broccoli or kale or whatever green you like
enough water to cover the top of all the veggies
1/2 cup red lentils and 1/2 cup quinoa
salt to taste
That's it. No measurements required, really. Just bring it to a boil and let it simmer until the lentils are all nice and mushy and it's stew like and you'd want to eat it.
This is a picture of the soup when I made it at home (not camping). I topped it with fresh parsley which was awesome.
So, there's something amazing and comfort-food like that I can eat. And it's so easy that you can bring it camping.
CORN
Corn week is here, and thank Earth because corn is very hard to avoid!
I don't think I have explained the reintroduction process yet. I'll use corn as my example since that's the food of the week.
On day 1 I eat a normal serving of corn.
On day 2-4 I pay attention to any symptoms.
If there is an obvious symptom, I don't need to reintroduce corn again on day 5 because I have already seen its negative effects. I can choose to never eat corn, or I can choose to try again in 6 weeks.
If there are no obvious symptoms, then I eat another normal serving of corn on day 5.
I pay attention to any symptoms on days 6 and 7, and I assess how I feel at the end of the week.
This is what I will do every week with each new food. I have also read about the possibility of overcoming a sensitivity by avoiding it for a while (like 6 months). So if I reintroduce corn and it makes me sick, I don't have to assume I will never eat it again in my life. And there's the bright side we've all been waiting for.
For my first corn adventure, we went out to a Mexican restaurant where I ate way too many corn tortillas. The next day I had no energy and I felt generally crappy.
On day 5 I ate 2 corn-on-the-cobs, which tasted amazing, by the way. I cut the corn off the cob and ate it with a salmon salad. Yum. The next couple days I felt fine.
So then I was confused about corn. Any advice? I think I will try again in 6 weeks because these results seem a bit inconclusive to me. Anyone know how corn tortillas are processed...did that have something to do with it?
I don't think I have explained the reintroduction process yet. I'll use corn as my example since that's the food of the week.
On day 1 I eat a normal serving of corn.
On day 2-4 I pay attention to any symptoms.
If there is an obvious symptom, I don't need to reintroduce corn again on day 5 because I have already seen its negative effects. I can choose to never eat corn, or I can choose to try again in 6 weeks.
If there are no obvious symptoms, then I eat another normal serving of corn on day 5.
I pay attention to any symptoms on days 6 and 7, and I assess how I feel at the end of the week.
This is what I will do every week with each new food. I have also read about the possibility of overcoming a sensitivity by avoiding it for a while (like 6 months). So if I reintroduce corn and it makes me sick, I don't have to assume I will never eat it again in my life. And there's the bright side we've all been waiting for.
For my first corn adventure, we went out to a Mexican restaurant where I ate way too many corn tortillas. The next day I had no energy and I felt generally crappy.
On day 5 I ate 2 corn-on-the-cobs, which tasted amazing, by the way. I cut the corn off the cob and ate it with a salmon salad. Yum. The next couple days I felt fine.
So then I was confused about corn. Any advice? I think I will try again in 6 weeks because these results seem a bit inconclusive to me. Anyone know how corn tortillas are processed...did that have something to do with it?
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