I eat a strange diet. Not only has my diet been totally gluten free for the past 8 years, but in the past 3 years, I have also included it to be food combining.
Food combining is where you never mix your carbohydrates with your proteins. All meals are eaten 3 hours apart, to give your body time to completely process the food, before adding another one on top of it. And, it seems to work wonders for my body. Yeah !!!
Some people follow this diet very strictly, and there are so many different rules and charts about what to eat with what, that for me, I found it important to follow these loosely and listen to what my body was telling me. That is most important with any diet you follow. Not what the expert is telling you, but what your body is telling you.
I found that my body can take pumpkin, which is meant to be a carbohydrate, and beans. This has been a life saver for me. Curry with pumpkin, not rice. Stew with pumpkin, not rice. Pumpkin chips, etc etc. So much so, that my husband wishes that he never sees another pumpkin in his life again. Of course, I think the real reason is because he has to chop them up as he is scared I will chop my fingers off !!!
My next frustration was crackers, bread, and pizza base. I couldn’t eat bread or crackers with cheese or ham. And a pizza without cheese or salami ? I mean, what is the point of living ??? So began my quest for the perfect bread and cracker using almond meal. Because, almonds are protein.
I now use almond meal almost exclusively for all my baking, including this Xmas’s gingerbread house, my cakes, muffins, crumpets.
I will post the recipes on another post so that it is easier to find .
Cheerio
