Allergy detective work...
At least for part of the past weekend I've eaten healthy - i.e simply and from scratch to eliminate (at least temporarily) my allergies.
On Friday, K and I had gone to Taco Bell and I had a bunch of volcano tacos (3) and (1) blackjack. That threw my sinuses into a tailspin. The next day we hit Starbucks drive-through and I got a half Cinnamon Dolce and half pumpkin spice Latte. That threw it even deeper into a tailspin.
So Saturday night, I made a batch of jasmine rice with some scallions, and for a meal I'd take some cooked chicken breast (previously roasted plain in the oven) meat and a little butter and safflower oil and some of the rice and fry it up. My sinuses cleared late the next day.
I've been thinking it would be a good think to go ahead and give the super strict elimination diet a real try: This is an allergy avoidance diet that I found on the following websites that I'm reviewing:
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=diet&dbid=7
I'll probably use this to create a baseline diet.
Monday night I made a batch of chocolate pudding from scratch, with no resulting chocolate headache. This leads me to believe that there must be some other item in the storebought chocolate items I've eaten in the past that caused my headaches.
The only thing that goes into my chocolate pudding is cocoa (dutched and undutched) unsweetened chocolate, milk, sugar, a tad of salt, and corn starch and salted butter. (I do not add vanilla.)
The common ingredients for this diet are:
lamb, pears, apples, rice, most vegetables, most beans and legumes (except peanuts) and the non-gluten grains (for example, millet, quinoa, and amaranth), sweetners are maple syrup or brown rice syrup. Drinks are: rice milk, pear nectar, chamomile tea, and sparkling water (without anything added) . It's interesting that Lamb is the only meat? I wonder why that is...is it an older food?)
I'd like to get a blender, so I can puree pears which is on the elimination diet list of safe foods. Pear juice is tasty.
On Friday, K and I had gone to Taco Bell and I had a bunch of volcano tacos (3) and (1) blackjack. That threw my sinuses into a tailspin. The next day we hit Starbucks drive-through and I got a half Cinnamon Dolce and half pumpkin spice Latte. That threw it even deeper into a tailspin.
So Saturday night, I made a batch of jasmine rice with some scallions, and for a meal I'd take some cooked chicken breast (previously roasted plain in the oven) meat and a little butter and safflower oil and some of the rice and fry it up. My sinuses cleared late the next day.
I've been thinking it would be a good think to go ahead and give the super strict elimination diet a real try: This is an allergy avoidance diet that I found on the following websites that I'm reviewing:
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=diet&dbid=7
I'll probably use this to create a baseline diet.
Monday night I made a batch of chocolate pudding from scratch, with no resulting chocolate headache. This leads me to believe that there must be some other item in the storebought chocolate items I've eaten in the past that caused my headaches.
The only thing that goes into my chocolate pudding is cocoa (dutched and undutched) unsweetened chocolate, milk, sugar, a tad of salt, and corn starch and salted butter. (I do not add vanilla.)
The common ingredients for this diet are:
lamb, pears, apples, rice, most vegetables, most beans and legumes (except peanuts) and the non-gluten grains (for example, millet, quinoa, and amaranth), sweetners are maple syrup or brown rice syrup. Drinks are: rice milk, pear nectar, chamomile tea, and sparkling water (without anything added) . It's interesting that Lamb is the only meat? I wonder why that is...is it an older food?)
I'd like to get a blender, so I can puree pears which is on the elimination diet list of safe foods. Pear juice is tasty.