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Thank you for taking the time to check out my blog. I feel like it is important for you to understand my motivation to be healthy while enjoying life. I have lived for so long concentrating on the glass being half empty rather than half full. This is my public commitment to change that way of thinking and just be happy.

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Monday, February 15, 2010

Valentine's Day Brownies!

Its Valentine’s Day which means I need chocolate so I am giving Emeril’sBrownies a shot. They were different but very satisfying and good. http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/emerils-brownies.html The recipe made me a little nervous because there were not any "different ingredients" that you normally see with gluten and dairy free recipes (with the exception of brown rice flour) and they turned out great. I added a little gluten and dairy free vanilla ice cream and they were perfect!

This weekend was great. I made it through without complete awkwardness with my very good friends and am so happy that I can entertain with food, without it being too weird. I guess it would be harder to go to someone’s house as a guest.

I see the doctor this week as a follow up on my progress. If I get to introduce anything, guess what it is……Yeast! I think she will be surprised I actually cut everything on my list out of my diet. Come to think about it I am fairly surprised myself.

Menu:

Breakfast – Steel Cut Oats with Almond Milk and Vanilla

Lunch – Nachos with black beans and guacamole.

Snack - Edamame

Dinner – Turkey Burgers – Coconut aminos, fresh ginger, green onions, salt pepper, olive oil, and cayenne pepper .

Dessert : Brownies with coconut bliss vanilla ice cream J

Happy Thoughts: Found some gluten and dairy free crackers that are low fat and good. (Crunch Master baked rice crackers sesame. They are scrumptious! (or they are just good because I have not had any real good stuff in a while). I see how you can be converted. Anything close to what you remember is good is amazing…even brown rice crackers!

Special Stuff: Emeril naturally makes a lot of gluten free and dairy free foods so check out his recipes on food network and his cookbooks!

Other Notables: Check out author Jean Duane. She has recipes for baking gluten and dairy free!

2 comments:

  1. Hi there! Great blog! We recently found out that my husband has a mild wheat intolerance, so we're trying to cut down the amount of wheat products we eat. We tried those Crunchmaster rice crackers. Boy, are they crunchy! We like them with spicy hummus from Trader Joe's.

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  2. Thanks for the props! I am still trying to figure this whole blog thing out and am definitely a rookie.
    I love the crunch master cookies and made some hummus from the beginning to avoid the garlic. You should try black bean hummus...mmmmmmmmmm :)
    Great to hear from you!

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