Meatloaf, carob cupcakes, ice cream, sauerkraut…this has been a delicious week! Saia has taken his lunches to work lately, and he says that his coworkers are always jealous…until they find out what he is actually eating. Ha ha! He brought meatloaf a couple of times this week, and everyone was salivating over it until he let …
I dreamed of piles of waffles last night. Warm, fluffy, lightly browned waffles glistening with syrup. Oh yum. If you are not on a restrictive diet, I plead with you to go eat a waffle for me. It seems that my pancake cravings have subsided, and have been replaced by yearning for waffles instead. I never …
If it wasn’t for the homemade peach-rhubarb pie… It has now been four weeks since we started the Autoimme Paleo Protocol (read why we started here). I cringe as I type out this fourth update, but I might as well make the confession: we both ate pie. Non-AIP pie. Very delicious pie. My family got together …
The Toughest Week So Far I was hungry our first week, cautiously optimistic our second week, and then there was this week. Our first two weeks on AIP were busy, challenging, but fruitful. I felt like every day I was learning how to navigate life without our old beloved recipes. I was researching, growing in …
As I type out this blog post, with my jaw swelling three times its size (thank you wisdom teeth), I can’t help but breathe a huge sigh of relief that this week is winding to a close. This past week was crazy between my starting a second job (as an adjunct instructor at a local …
Last week I announced that we would be starting the Autoimmune Protocol. AIP is a stricter version of paleo. We have eliminated dairy, grains, soy, nightshade veggies, processed foods, nuts and alcohol. This was our first full week adhering to the AIP way of eating: no dairy, soy, nuts, grains, alcohol or processed foods. The first couple …
All I wanted was a pancake. Ever since we started the Autoimmune protocol I have dreamt of pancakes: fluffy stacks of pancakes, specifically. Pancakes filled with all the no-nos that our diet requires: flour, sugar, baking powder, and lots of yum. Why oh why did I ever take pancakes for granted? Think of all those …
Yesterday morning I drank my coffee (sweetened with cream and sugar), and munched on my toast with peanut butter, and reflected on the fact that it was the last time I would be eating all of these things for a few months. After thinking seriously about this I might have drunk a second cup of coffee for …
