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Pastimes : FOOD POLICE: What did you eat in the last 24 hours? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kid Rock who wrote (10)	7/12/2007 10:55:57 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 429

We love veggies. Remember, I can't eat corn or corn products- unless they are organic. I get really really really sick. I mean really really really sick. So all our meals pretty much have to be home made. There are a few restaurants I can eat at, but usually there are only one or two things on the menu I can have, or I can ask for chicken grilled plain, with plain veggies- whoooppeee- I'd rather eat at home. Almost everything you would buy premade at the store, whether it's sweets, or marinades, or frozen food, and anything you would get in fast food places, has corn starch or modified food starch, or some other product containing corn protein. So partly our good eating has been forced upon us. There's nothing like having a gun to your head, or in this case, my guts. I buy a few things for the kids that have cornstarch or corn products in them- like the big bags of corn chips at Costco? I buy those- to make the kids nachos, which they love (corn chips, cheddar cheese, organic beef or buffalo meat, green onion, guacamole, and organic sour cream). I can eat nachos too if I remember to buy organic chips, but I frequently forget to do that. We ate fairly well before I found out about my allergy, but now, well, we've been forced to eat really cleanly- and guess what? My kids love it. I remember the first time the kids had heirloom tomatoes- I bought them about 7 different kinds at the SF farmer's market, and we had a tomato tasting. It was a blast, and the my son, who never liked tomatoes, said "I'd eat tomatoes if they tasted like THIS". So I think if you try the high quality produce and fruit, you won't feel like you're being punished. That regular stuff sucks- those run of the mill tomatoes in the store have no taste, if I had to eat those, I wouldn't. I take vitamin D, Fish oil, Butcher's Broom, Burdock root, oregano oil capsules if I have any kind of infection, cinnamon, and turmeric (but just about 1 tsp a day now- I mix it in water and I've come to like the taste).