The weekend was pretty uneventful, but really nice and relaxing because I spent it at home for the holiday. Saturday was just hanging out, and Sunday my mom and I did some shopping in Eastchester. My favorite!
I decided to get back on the wheat-free train for Saturday and Sunday. That meant passing up more babka on Saturday night as well as blueberry chocolate chip pancakes on Sunday morning. Very sad. I think I could actually be pretty good at taking something out of my diet if I knew I really had to. Right now, since I'm just experimenting with theories, it's really tempting to just eat the challah or the cake because I don't really know what bothers me. I'm just taking educated guesses. I can't even tell you how many times I've decided I'm lactose intolerance and then 3 hours later decided I'm not because I really want pizza or Pinkberry. Hopefully I will have an actual answer soon and a real rule to follow.
Other than those few temptations, eating wheat-free isn't horrible. Of course, I think warm bread is probably the best food ever, but I could learn to live without it. Grudgingly.
I thought this lunch on Saturday was pretty creative:
My mom made curried chicken salad (chicken, cranberries, walnuts, apple, celery, mayo, curry powder), and instead of putting it on bread, I spread it on top of a plate of tortilla chips! It was actually really good. These chips are incredible, really authentic-tasting, and about 10 times healthier than any other tortilla chip I've ever encountered. They're apparently really hard to track down, so let me know if you see them anywhere.
On Saturday my mom and I also made watermelon blueberry ice pops! Watermelon, sugar, and lime juice in the food processor, and then add blueberries to each ice pop mold. We had some trouble following instructions at first (we were over-zealous), but they came out really well!
Things that have wheat that shouldn't: soy sauce, veggie burgers, pre-packaged sushi at Trader Joe's. But I bet I could find some wheat free veggie burgers, no problem.
I realize that this isn't like formal writing or anything, but I am loving this blog for giving me the chance to write, even if it's just knowing that my 5 Followers are reading it. So thanks for being an audience! I really do love to write.
I leave you with some adorable sibling love. Let's see how long it takes for Eric to find this and demand that I take it down...
Juuuuuuust precious.
aww you guys are so cute!
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