Jan 5, 2013

Breakfast: plain yogurt, stevia, homemade granola
Snack: cashews and fresh fruit
Lunch: tuna with mayo and capers, 10 corn tortilla chips, green salad
Snack: homemade peanut butter cookies (from the specific carbohydrate diet book)
Dinner: quiche Lorraine with sautéed kale and garlic

Jan 4, 2013

Breakfast: poached egg on Linda's gluten free cheese bread, piece of white cheddar, one Walker's oatcake with peanut butter and honey on it.
Snack: fruit smoothie containing banana, raspberries, orange juice, lactose-free milk, frozen blueberries and kale
Lunch: Schneider's natural gluten-free ham, 10 plantain chips and green salad with mango vinaigrette
Snack:  two squares 85% chocolate, three slices fresh pineapple
Dinner: gluten-free chicken sausage and homemade butternut squash soup
Snack: Smart Food popcorn

Happy New Year 2013

Took me four tries to type that year correctly, and not type 2012. Why is change so difficult? Human nature, perhaps? I know many people who would like very much to change their eating habits for the better, and yet they have a very hard time achieving this change. Particularly with food, we have a very deep and ingrained routine that is extremely difficult to change. As adults, we have all been eating in a certain way for years. We have developed certain tastes (favourite foods, serious dislikes) and routines (eating past feeling full, eating while bored), not to mention some seriously emotional ties to what we put in our mouths.

This time of year is when people often try to instigate a new routine. If you are looking to eat food that will make make your tummy happy, will not play havoc with your blood sugar levels and will ensure you get all your daily requirements of nutrients, you have come to the right place! I eat - and post - about foods that are gluten-free, low in carbohydrates and good for celiac diets because that is what works for me. Experience has shown me that this can also work nicely for many of us. Please browse the previous posts or search for a food by its name using the search tool located just under the raspberries.

I'll endeavor to report regularly on various ways to quickly and easily feed yourself healthy nutrients: fish, nuts, lean meats, vegetables and fruits of all colours. All you have to do is give it a try. Try eating this way for a month and I think you will find it is easy and makes you feel healthy and happy. And that's is how new patterns are begun: one day at a time, repeated day after day. Sustainable change starts slowly, and changes eventually take hold over time when they become the new norm.

Good luck to you and your plans for a Happy Healthy 2013!

Easter Sunday 2012

Breakfast: one toast with cheese, one with pb and honey.
Snack: strawberries and fresh pineapple
Lunch: gorgeous carrot soup as pictured, salmon salad, sautéed rapini
Dinner: Homemade honey ham, green beans, sautéed Brussels sprouts.

April 6, 2012

Breakfast: scrambled eggs and bacon. Side of sautéed cherry tomatoes.
Lunch: smoked salmon and creamed cheese on a Food for Life gluten free English muffin.
Dinner: cheese fondue with giant green salad. We dipped the following in the cheese: asparagus, cauliflower, pears, apples, prosciutto-wrapped potatoes.
Dessert: flourless chocolate cake

April 7, 2012

Breakfast: oatcake with pb and j, 1/2 banana, strawberries.
Lunch: tuna melt on homemade GF bread, green salad
Snack: berry smoothies and Lundberg's brown rice chips
Dinner: Food for Life brown rice tortilla to make quesadillas with bell pepper, black beans, chicken, salsa cheese and sour cream and avocado on the side

Mar 31 2012

Breakfast: half banana plus PB, toast with cheddar on one half and PB and sugar-free jam on the other half. Raspberries.
Lunch: vegan brunch at Aux Vivres. Tofu scram, salad, fresh fruit and seitan "bacon"
Snack: vegan food doesn't fill me up for long! Bag of salted cashews and an orange
Dinner: this lovely meat bolognese sauce with cauliflower "pasta" and green salad