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  1. ackerman
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    Hello Elana,

    Have you ever tried your recipes using a bread maker? My husband and I both competitive curl so we're on the road a fair bit. This option would help with our time management. Any suggestions?

    Thanks
    Colleen

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. lisastafford
    Member

    Wow, Colleen. Curling is an intense sport. One suggestion is to bake when you're home and freeze what you will take on the road. Keep it in an ice chest or hotel room freezer. You probably will run out of baked goods before you get home.

    What diet do you follow? Are you able to find the foods you need at grocery stores, health food stores or restaurants when you're on the road? Do you eat dried fruit and nuts? They travel well.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. ackerman
    Member

    Right now, we follow a gluten, yeast and sugar/processed food free diet. I have an allergy to dairy so we drink almond milk and raw cheese. As for red meat...only Bison in our house. No beef or pork. I will be going for a biopsy shortly for celiac. Right now, if I run astray from the diet, I begin to have problems again.

    I do a lot of pre-cooking and freezing. All our soups are made from scrach and I freeze them. We have been buying our bread (Ezekiel and Manna) but they contrain a small amount of gluten. Depending on the results from my test, this may have to change. I also prebake all our snacks for the curling season. I do this about 4 times a year and freeze them as well. I was hoping that the bread situation would be a place that I could cut some corners. :) Nuts, dried fruit and home made trail mix is one of our staples.

    I am pretty fortunate, other than the soup, I can pretty well find everything I need at a few of the organic and health food store in our city. I live in Saskatchewan, Canada. For the size of city that I live in, we have about 4 organic and health food stores that carry a great selection.

    How about yourself? What diet do you follow?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. lisastafford
    Member

    The celiac biopsy is a waste of time if you are on a gluten free diet. They say that you have to eat gluten (and probably feel miserable) for 6 months before the biopsy. With my daughter, her allergy test showed gluten, wheat, and basically all grains, so we didn't go to the medical doctor or have the biopsy.

    My husband has Crohn's. The diet that I found for both conditions is called The Specific Carbohydrate Diet. We have been following it for over 2 weeks now, but lean towards The Paleo Diet (which is even more strict). We consume a very small amount of cheese and butter, and are transitioning to almond butter, from peanut butter. We use honey as our only sweetener, but I let the two children have maple syrup.

    We use coconut milk to make smoothies and homemade ice cream. We use lots of eggs, free range and local when I can get them. I made the Almond Bread one time, but it's gone and we really don't miss it. We have adapted to a life without bread. Your homemade soups sound great. YUM.

    Have you ever looked at The paleo diet? A lot of athletes follow it. Have you heard of CrossFit? A friend of ours owns a gym and teaches it. He is big on the Paleo way of eating. We do programs from Beach body in our home gym.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  5. ackerman
    Member

    That's interesting....my doctor never mentioned that. I will have to ask, I'm not interested in going back to how I felt when I was eating gluten.

    Thanks so much for the suggestions. There is an ice cream product at our organic store that is made with coconut milk and they use agave nectar as a sweetener. So far, that hasn't caused any problems and tastes delicious. We only use agave nectar and honey in our house as well. My father in law has stage 4 colon cancer and is currently going through treatments. Along with a Naturopath, we changed his diet to help with his situation. It's been remarkable, after 6 months of chemo he hasn't been sick once and the cancer has shrunk 50%. Part of that diet change was to go gluten free. If it wasn't for my father in law's situation and diet change, I don't know if my doctor and I would have figured anything out.

    I will have a peek at those diet options, thank you!

    Posted 2 years ago #

  6. lisastafford
    Member

    Thanks for the reminder about bison. I will buy some for our family soon. I am glad that your father in law is showing improvement. Dietary change can be hard, but so powerful. Food is our fuel.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  7. jaylu
    Member

    Hi, we are on SCD, all is going well. I haven't found any shortcuts with making bread but I have a shortcut with soup - make the stock in a slow-cooker overnight set on low or you can put it on in the morning and the stock is ready in the evening. Makes heaps of stock so I freeze it in 1 cup packets. Slow-cookers are also good for stews and some veg dishes like Ratatouille - eggplant, tomato and onion stew.
    Jayne

    Posted 2 years ago #

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