Cinnamon rolls

This is not dairy free and does have some corn it it. Not enough to mess with my system but is 100% gluten free. 

One package of PILLSBURY gluten free pizza dough. 

3T butter (melted)

Sugar and cinnamon to coat

Preheat oven to 400. 

Roll out the dough(it is sticky) -I had to use oat flour to help with the stickiness

Spread the butter all over (you want the whole top covered)

Add sugar and cinnamon want it to be even (sound turn into a paste) press into dough gently.

Roll up the dough-remember it is sticky

Cut up into pieces 

Place on cookie sheet

Bake for 10 minutes

Now you have an option 

1) you can glaze with powdered sugar milk mixture (I have never ever liked this)

2) cream cheese frosting (it melts just like it is suppose to)-YUM

Two yummy allergen friendly meals. 

I made carmalized asparagus, beef and rice.

Basically asparagus and beef cooked in butter and raw sugar, over rice.

Really yummy!

Other one. I really wanted hummus. But I can't have normal chips or corn tortillas. I got white bean chips. Yummy! 

I also forgot to take a picture but I had really yummy roasted veggies. Sweet potato and Brussel sprouts. Yes I like Brussel sprouts. 

More Exploring

This week I was able to drive to Idaho Falls and go to a natural food grocery store. So cool! Majority of stuff there I could eat. Normally I walk around a grocery store and just avoid most aisles.

Today I found gluten free and mostly corn free orange sauce. My favorite food of all time is Orange beef. It is an Asian dish with breaded beef in a spicy orange sauce. I haven't had this for obvious reasons for 2 years. Today though I found that sauce and was so excited!


So I made this yummy noodle, pork, and mushroom dish.

I also found some pretty good tasting animal crackers. Gluten free stuff can be a hit and miss. Somethings don't taste bad others are awful. Trying to find a corn free cookie made it so much harder though. The main ingredient in a lot of gluten free foods is a corn based product. They have some corn in them but it is not one of the main ingredients.


I also found chips that are a bean product. Most chips are made out of corn (corn chips) or are fried/seasoned in stuff that contains corn. So I was excited to find these chips, haven't tried them yet though.

At my local Walmart I was pretty happy with my findings there too!

I was able to find a gluten and corn free fruit snack. I love fruit snacks but they are just another processed thing packed full of preservatives aka corn....


I also tried these peanut-butter and jelly sandwich things. They are actually quite good.


I love juice. It is bad... I can only drink 100% juices though. Once again if they aren't 100% normally they have corn syrup (poison to me.) I found a 100% juice smoothie. It was actually something I drank periodically in high school. Yummy mango flavored one.


Here is a picture of what I got at the Natural Food Store. :)

More exploring

This week I ate more sweet potatoes. Who knew they would become my best friend?!? I have found one thing in particular I like about them. They fill me up. A lot of food I eat and then an hour later I am hungry again. I think it is because I can't really have any grains.... 

This week I found three really cool things. I found these root vegetable chips. Now that sounds nasty, but they really aren't. The have sweet potatoes, parsnips, taro, and other root veggies. But they are corn,gluten, and dairy free so I am not complaining.

I also  was able to find an almond based "ice cream." It is defiantly different. I don't eat that much at once. But it is nice to have something cold and chocolately like ice cream. 

Finally I was able to find corn free juice. That sounds funny I know... But most of them have corn syrup or lots of preservatives. This one is a natural juice. So it is water, juice, and beet sugar. :)

Sweet Potato

This week I was reminded how much I love sweet potato. I didn't get it much as a kid because my dad didn't like it. But now that I am at college why not?!?

I have found I like it two ways:

Sweet:

Cook the sweet potato takes about an hour at 350

I peel the skin off afterwards(it comes off super easy)

T butter

T honey

t cinnamon 

Savory:

I make this one like it is a normal potato

Cook the sweet potato takes about an hour at 350

I peel the skin off 

Butter,cheese, and sour cream to your liking :)

I am not THAT intolerant.....

Sometimes I test myself. I am not really THAT intolerant am I?!? Um yes Becca you are. 

Last weekend for whatever reason I decided to try some milk. I knew what happened if I drank milk but did it anyways. Yep of course within 20 minutes I reacted to it. This is why I drink lactose free milk... Ugh. 

This week I wanted Hot and Sour soup so bad. I guess it is a form of comfort food for me. So I went to a restraunt and got gluten free Hot and Sour soup. Yeah that doesn't work either. It had too much corn. I don't know what exactly was in it probably corn starch. I woke up the next morning SO sick. Well I am officially still intolerante to corn and milk oh well. 

Peanut Butter Rice

Another one of my favorite foods is peanut butter rice. 

1/2 cup rice cooked

1/4 cup peanut butter 

1 T honey

1 T soy sauce

Dash of ginger

In the microwave heat up 1/4 cup peanut butter, 1 T honey, 1 T soy sauce, and a dash of ginger powder. I let those warm/melt. Sometimes you have to add a little bit of water. It took me about 1 1/2 minutes. I mix the rice into the peanut butter sauce. Yum! :)

Mexican soda

This week I was able to find Mexican Soda! Happy days are here again. I can't drink normal soda due to the amount of corn that they contain. However I can drink Mexican soda. They use real sugar instead of corn syrup. It has some corn in it yes, but not enough to upset my GI tract. :)

Fried Rice

Today was a fried rice kind of day.

For me since I only need one serving I made 1/3 cup of rice.

2/3 cup cooked rice
1 T of sesame oil
1/4 t onion powder
1/4 t garlic powder
1/4 t ginger
1 t soy sauce
1/2 fish sauce
1 t sugar
1 beaten egg

What I do is make my rice. When it is done, I put the sesame oil in the pan over medium heat and let it warm for about a minute. This is when I add all the rice. I let the rice cook for about a minute or two then flip it to the other side. You are literally frying the rice. Then I add my spices, sauces, and sugar. I mix those in thoroughly, and then finally add the egg. I mix the egg in the rice. I personally don't like egg that much, but mixed in it isn't too bad. I make sure that all the egg gets cooked. (you don't want it to look wet)

Now you have yummy Chinese Fried Rice. This recipe doesn't take long once you have the rice cooked and is really yummy if you like Asian food.

Sugar

Normal white sugar contains corn. Crazy right? So when I use sugar I use raw sugar. This helps me avoid unwanted and unneeded corn. I have found though that you can substitute many things in the place of sugar. Honey works very well in many things. Thai curry with honey is amazing. Baked goods though on the other hand need sugar. This is when the raw sugar comes in. I also put raw sugar on pancakes instead of syrup. I don't even want to try to find corn free syrup. When I want something sweet though I normally turn to apples, bananas, or baby carrots. They all have a fairly high natural sugar content. Sometimes I will also go get a larabar. These have eight or less ingredients and are mainly sweetened with dates. I have heard this before but when you eliminate most sugar you stop craving it. Strange right? But it is so true. Honestly you start to find sugary things fairly nasty. They are almost too artificial tasting. It is strange how fast your life changes. Two years ago I would never have imagined living without normal refined sugar. Now it is normal. Now it is normal to not be able to buy much at the grocery store. Sometimes when I am with my siblings and we are walking through the grocery store I say "can't have that or that or that" then there is a squeal with excitement when we finally pass something I can eat! :)

Roasted Vegetables

This is another snack/side I really like. I love to shave vegetables like carrots and zucchini. Then i take a little bit of olive oil and salt. I but them in the oven at 350 and then watch them like a hock. They are raw, raw, raw, and then burnt. Due to shaving them they are different thicknesses so you have to really watch them. The thinner ones will be done a couple minutes before the thicker ones. 

I also like to do this with potatoes. Potatoes however you have to cut with a knife, at least with all the cooking instruments I have. I cook them the same way as the others but after about 10 minutes I broil them. This gives them a nice crunchy skin on the out side.

These are nice for when I want something salty and crunchy. I basically can't have much that is processed. So this is now my chips. 

Banana Bread Pancakes

Very yummy banana bread pancakes. This is why I wanted a kitchen so bad!

1/2 cup Gf baking mix

1/2 cup Milk

1 Egg White

1T Oil

1Banana

= 4 pancakes of yumminess

I haven't had banana bread in over two years. I had a banana that was too brown to eat so I threw it in my pancake mix. It is so yummy! It seriously taste like banana bread. They would be amazing with chocolate chips too. 

So what do I eat????

People often wonder what in the world I eat.
I am basically intolerant to 90% of food. I can have small amounts of gluten, basically cross contamination (crumbs or very tiny particles that might happen to get into my food somehow or other). Milk I can't drink straight and I have to limit my intake of it. I can do small amounts though. Finally comes corn. This one I am still figuring out. I am experimenting to see how intolerant to this I really am. After this week though I have come to the conclusion it is more like my gluten intolerance. I can't have much of any of it. Corn is hard to completely eliminate though. Corn is in EVERYTHING. 80% of food has corn in it. But I wasn't always this way. 2 years ago I found out about my gluten intolerance. The last semester of my senior year in high school I started to react with corn and milk. I finally was able to eliminate milk and corn this semester once I finally moved off campus. I have heard that this is very common. You figure out one intolerance and then once you eliminate that you realize that you have more.

Another lovely fact about food allergies and intolerances is that once you eliminate your problem you become more intolerant/allergic to it. You react much more easily. This week I tried to drink Sprite. Hahahaha very funny Becca! I knew this had corn syrup and lots of other corn based products in it, but it didn't have any actual pieces of corn. Yeah not so much apparently the 3 weeks I have really watched my corn was enough.

So what do I eat? I can eat meat, fruits, vegetables, and rice. I can't really handle any grains besides rice.

So common things on my menu include rice chex, lactose free milk, chocolate almond milk, Thai curries, fried rice, roasted vegetables, rice pancakes, and raw fruit.

We you are intolerant to as much as I am you get to read food labels. Lots and lots and lots of food labels. You also live on a mostly whole food diet.

Some things I have found that I really like include:

La Croix this is my replacement of soda, because soda has so much corn in it (corn syrup.) They have a lot of different flavors I currently have the grapefruit one.

Larabars are fun little snacks I can eat. They have a really yummy brownie flavored one. Cherry Pie is also pretty good.

Van's Crackers I decided to just give these a try. They are actually corn free and gluten free. The cheese flavored ones are not dairy free, but have little enough that they didn't bother me. I loved them. They reminded me of what I remember Cheeseitz and Whales tasting like.