I know “they” say it takes 21 days to break a habit but here I am on day 20 and I can honestly say my 8 pm dessert tooth is in check at the moment. I no longer “need” it the way I used to. Nice side benefit to this whole fix-my-gut protocol, I suppose. Hopefully my gut is actually being healed though, because that would be exponentially more exciting. In any event, I will hopefully continue to maintain a healthy relationship with chocolate following this 30 day diet.
I baked this on the late night the night before because it’s too hot any other time of day to mess with the oven.
I tried to make the same zucchini bake I made last week and I think I got pretty dang close. I used a bit of coconut flour this time, thereby decreasing the amount of almond flour I used and I may prefer it with more almond flour. Either way, it’s delicious and even better when heaped with cashew butter on top!
I am slightly embarrassed to admit I ate 1/3 of this pan for breakfast, but that’s the truth. I was hungry!
For lunch I made a very non-candida bagel sando. I am consciously increasing my (GF) carbs to see what happens. Also, I was looking forward to this bagel big time ever since I got it (from Mariposa, naturally). It’s there version of an everything bagel, only it’s every SEED as opposed to every THING, which is a very big deal for a fodmaper because it means no onion or garlic. Woo hoo!
I toasted it, added a ton of avo, and then loaded on the lox.
It was heavenly. And, as you can imagine, very filling.
I know I just posted the day before about how I want to keep my portions in check because feeling full around the clock is annoying, but I may have spoken too soon. This was so crazy good though, I couldn’t eat half of it!
Mmmmmmm.
But, like I suspected, I was full for the rest of the day, and hardly wanted dinner. Why do I keep doing this?!?! It looks like I had a good thing going with my kale lunches of yore. I gotta meal plan asap. I haven’t had kale (or any other leafy greens) in the house for over a week now and that’s a pretty disturbing picture for this hippie.
Speaking of hippie…I made hippie bowls for the kiddos for dinner. Kyle was gone so it was just the three of us, and like I said, I still hadn’t been grocery shopping. I’m trying to see if I can make it all the way to the weekend on the fumes we have in the freezer/pantry at the moment. I like a challenge, especially when it involves saving money. 😉
The nasoya pre-marinated tofu was a treat for them since they usually eat it plain or lightly coasted in tamari.
I had this salad from urban remedy for lunch. If I commuted through the Ferry Building every day I would be so screwed, buying all their salads and raw treats…
I picked out all the green onions and added more avocado to it, as well as tamari roasted almonds.
How fun does that kelp granule mixture look! It’s what sold me on the bowl. That and the umeboshi dressing. It sounded so unique. Because buying salads is always iffy for me since I think I make a pretty bada$$ salad myself.
The dressing was more tangy (vinegar-y) than I was expecting, but thanks to the extra almonds and avo it was balanced out.
TA-DA!
Wouldn’t it be great if I could just leave something as is without tweaking the heck out of it?! Well, that’s just not me, my friends, and I have this beautiful bowl of yum as a result. The sad part about this is…it totally made my gut upset!! This is the first time since starting the SIBO diet nearly three weeks ago that I have felt real GI symptoms similar to my old IBS ones. What a bummer. I was bloated and gassy all night. Big time. What the heck could have caused this?!!? In examining the ingredients of the salad, nothing jumps out at me that would provoke such a reaction. Anyone else want to take a stab at it?? Cumulative effect of having grains earlier in the day?? Seaweed [it’s not SCD but I’ve never had issues before]???
Anyway, this kombucha helped settle things down so I went to bed feeling much better.
How much cabbage have you been eating cumulatively in the last few weeks (and of both purple and green varieties)? Maybe it was the combo of cruciferous veggies on top of the diet deviations recently?
Hmm maybe the chickpea miso? Or it could have just been the raw cabbage in the salad – too much of that that could give anyone IBS-like symptoms…
Aside, I do commute through the Ferry Building and stop at Urban Remedy almost daily. Fortunately my work pays for whatever lunch I choose, otherwise my wallet would be majorly hurting! Next time try the chopped salad – it sounds boring but the vegan mozz is tdf.
Noted. PS Lucky you w your work paid lunch!!!
could it have been the coconut flour?? I normally don’t have any gut issues,but I recently made my usual no recipe throw it in the mixing bowl cookies and decided to try them with oat flour. oats never bothered me before.about 6 hrs later my stomach was noisy and in MAJOR distress. the only thing different was the oat flour. I ate soup and crackers all week then got brave enough to try 2 more cookies,same extreme reaction. I thought maybe it’s in a too refined state. also had no trouble with Just Mayo with pea protein,but when I tried trader joes new version had similar reaction as the oat flour. I have coconut flour in the cupboard but am afraid to try it!! If you’ve never had the umeboshi can be strong and salty, maybe it was that. You’ve been doing so well I hope you figure it out.
could it have been the coconut flour?? I normally don’t have any gut issues,but I recently made my usual no recipe throw it in the mixing bowl cookies and decided to try them with oat flour. oats never bothered me before.about 6 hrs later my stomach was noisy and in MAJOR distress. the only thing different was the oat flour. I ate soup and crackers all week then got brave enough to try 2 more cookies,same extreme reaction. I thought maybe it’s in a too refined state. also had no trouble with Just Mayo with pea protein,but when I tried trader joes new version had similar reaction as the oat flour. I have coconut flour in the cupboard but am afraid to try it!! If you’ve never had the umeboshi can be strong and salty, maybe it was that. You’ve been doing so well I hope you figure it out.
coconut flour has always been super gentle and easy on my gut so i realllllly dont think thats it. perhaps the umeboshi but i may have just had cumulatively too much cabbage over the past few days? im still not sure. since then i’ve been good again so im not inclined to try that salad again anytime soon. so for you was the issue oat flour or coconut flour? i was confused by your comment on if your recipe was changed in adding coconut flour or if the oat flour was the new part. i dont think ive ever had an issue with oats.
my issue was the oat flour,since the reaction was so severe I was reluctant to try coconut flour. thanks for your info on the coconut flour.