I am wheat's and sugar's bitch.

Apr 12, 2011 22:33

My definition of difficult: trying to stick to a stone-age style diet during the month where every other family member has a birthday, and both the mother and I enjoy baking cakes. Although I feel like something of a drug dealer nowadays when I make stuff with flour and then proceed to only eat the smallest slice ( Read more... )

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my_fair_kadie April 13 2011, 03:12:30 UTC
I cut wheat and sugar too. It was TERRIBLE at first (I might have cried.) but after that I evaluated my relationship with wheat and carbs and thought about why I felt so bad for being deprived of them. I figured a few things out and havent looked back since!

I cut out dairy and red meat too, and thats been HOLY HELL HARD. I miss cheese so much. I will not evaluate that one so much. Cheese is AMAZING!

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dizietsma April 13 2011, 12:39:56 UTC
Red meat and dairy are in for me, dairy in reasonable quantities as long as I'm not intolerant (which thankfully I don't appear to be). I couldn't deal with a diet where they weren't in. I think the jury's still out on whether lowering cholesterol actually has any positive effect on the heart. The stator drugs they keep pushing (Lipitor and chums) certainly don't help women at all, and men only 2%.

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Food Bitch ankhorite April 13 2011, 03:17:21 UTC
My mother is theoretically on a diet which a) accommodates diabetes and b) accommodates kidney failure.

Basically, she's allowed to drink water and eat air.

Me? The Frito-Lay company owns my soul. Always has.

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dizietsma April 13 2011, 12:47:29 UTC
At least I've stopped pausing in front of the office snack machine looking for acceptable morsels now. I think of it as recovering from a drug addiction, heh.

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Snack Machines ankhorite April 13 2011, 20:54:13 UTC
I slink past such vendors of corruption with my face averted and my hand shielding my eyes from the temptation of the sideways glance.

Seriously. If I don't see them, I don't buy them.

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ohgeezlouise April 13 2011, 07:29:39 UTC
Umm, "eldest son"? As in there's a younger son? Have you been away from LJ that long?

In my last class at school, someone made an olive oil cake. Sounds weird, but it was ridiculously delicious. Perfect amount of sweetness to balance the olive oil flavor, moist, and not too heavy for a dessert. It was topped with an orange blossom whipped cream. I'm gonna make it for my sister's birthday in a couple of weeks, but I want to experiment with a basil whipped cream.

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dizietsma April 13 2011, 12:31:45 UTC
Nah, still just the one son, but he's the eldest child :)

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dizietsma April 13 2011, 14:42:16 UTC
Talking of olive oil recipes, I saw a "good primal" recipe for mayonnaise recently that I'm going to have to try. Normally if you use olive oil in mayo the flavour is too strong, but they balance it with ghee. And I've just worked out how to make my own ghee, so I'm all set.

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Kitchen Skilz, I Has Them . . . NOT ankhorite April 13 2011, 20:55:31 UTC
Good gravy.

I don't even fry my own bacon.

With Savant in Ohio, my life is nearly bacon-less.

I do not consider this a good thing.

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