First Play and What We Are Eating!

Clara's 1st play today at Shake Rag.  She was the snow fairy and was so excited about her part and to be on the stage.  A year ago she was not interested at all in being in a play, and this year she asked to do it, practiced her lines at home all the time, and couldn't wait to perform it. 

Meanwhile, here's a peek into what we are eating these days for those who keep asking me what a typical day of food is in our house.  So, here goes... 

Candida Diet (Day 24) & Gluten-Free, Egg-Free, Dairy-Free, Soy-Free Diet

Breakfast:  Gluten-Free Oats (rolled or steel-cut) with almond or rice milk and blueberries & raspberries

Snack:  Carrots & homemade Hummus

Lunch:  leftover beans & rice with salsa & guacamole; potato salad with winter squash, peppers and green beans; leftover kale salad; leftover lamb and sweet potato fries; rice cakes with almond butter...everybody had something different today to finish up our leftovers; almond or rice milk or water to drink

Snack:  Apple slices with almond butter and pear slices

Supper:  Gluten-free Multi-Grain Pasta (DeBoles--good brand!) that is made from rice, amaranth & quinoa with a sauce of olive oil, onion, garlic, red peppers, broccoli, and great northern beans (we actually aren't supposed to have white beans on the Candida Diet right now, but I did it any way...hopefully it is OK); almond or rice milk to drink (yes, the kids did eat this...mostly...it was good by the way!)

No bedtime snack tonight because we were out late riding horses and bottle-feeding calves -didn't eat supper until after 7:00

This is a typical food day for us except that we usually have a little bit bigger supper.  That sounds pretty normal and tasty, doesn't it?  You would never know that we aren't eating wheat, gluten, eggs, soy, dairy, peanuts, walnuts, yeast, vinegar, sugar, honey, maple syrup (or any other sweetener), fruit (except for apples, pears, and berries), potatoes (actually Todd and I are), meat (except for rabbit, lamb, fish, and the chickens we are raising), processed foods, foods from restaurants, anything that isn't organic, and probably other things that I don't even think about eating anymore and have forgotten they exist.  (It was kind of fun to write all of that.)  None of us are going hungry.  Everyone is happy for the most part (I do miss dairy, though, and Ruthie still misses everything but only when she sees it).  The folks with food sensitivities appear to be healing.  We feel the healthiest we have ever felt.  We'll see where it goes from here...