Jun. 12, 2008 - Changing eating habits
Wow, this journey into the land of extreme diets is crazy!! If you read my last post you know I've been having seizures and have a yeast overgrowth. Part of the plan to eleminate the seizures and the yeast is to change my eating habits. Now I've never been a total health nut and I'm definately not a vegetarian, however, I thought my diet was pretty healthy for the most part. I didn't drink soda's at all, limited my coffee to 2 cups per day and rarely ate sweets. My weakness was chips, sour cream & onion to be exact. However, since my first seizure I have switched to plain. I ate whole wheat bread, and tried to make most things from scratch. Apparently for me, and as I'm learning many others like me, that's not quite good enough.
So what can I eat? Well it's kinda divided up. As part of the yeast cleanse I can't have any sugar, or carbos. Potatoes in moderation, however I don't think that includes chip:0( Fruits are limited to green apples, berries (which thankfully are in season right now), and citrus (except I'm allergic to oranges). I can eat meat: beef, chicken, turkey, fish (which I had already cut out of my diet due to the amount of mercury in fish) but it has to be plain, no sauces or breading etc. And of course there is always vegetables. My taste for them is expanding, I'm learning to enjoy them and cook them in a variety of ways. It's really all a matter of what your used to and I just need to get used to different stuff!
Then along comes the matter of glutamte and aspartate. Now aspartate has never been a part of my diet but the glutamate well....... What is glutamate you might ask? It's basically foods or additives that can overstimulate the neurons in your brain if you are sensitive to it, which it appears I am. Read the book Excitotoxins the taste that kills by Russell Blaylock especially if you have any kind of neurological problem or kids with ADHD, autism or learning disablities. It's pretty technical but has alot of great info.
So although I fix alot of things from scratch, now I have to go extreme and cook everything from scratch, which is ultimately better for the whole family but hard to do when you can't cheat AT ALL. Try the Dr. Feinglod site and diet if your interested or www.truthinlabeling.org for lots of information on this topic. MSG is in everything and often labeled as something else. Today at the store I had to buy tomato paste instead of tomato sauce because every brand of sauce had something extra on the label. Tomato sauce, come on why do they need to flavor tomato sauce? This a good example of how someone may think they are fixing healthy food for their family when in reality they are not. I was thinking of making spanish rice for tomorrow nights dinner and maybe experimenting with some homemade spaghetti sauce. Well good thing I checked the labels or I would have been putting additives into my food just like the packaged stuff does.
Well I think that's enough for tonight, tomorrow I will try to write about the G.A.R.D diet and celiac disease and sulfate sensitivities. Besides here I am talking about diets and I should be writing about the fact that it's my 26th wedding anniversary. Since this diet makes going out to dinner nearly impossible we are going to settle for a movie at home once the kids are in bed! Night all and God bless.
Terri
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Sep. 15, 2008 - ~homemade spaghetti sauce
Posted by Eunice
Big can cheap Tomato sauce, big can crushed tomatoes, italian spices (and a little extra sweet basil if you have it), lots of garlic powder (or fresh) and about 1-2 TB sugar.
The sugar will take the bite from the sauce and most true italians would not dare to tell you that's their secret ingredient - lol.
I'm not sure if you can have the sugar or not, but hopefully that small amount over such a large quantity will be alright.? If not...... you can do w/o.
Blessings!
