GAPS Food Journal: Day Thirteen
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Pretty boring day as far as food goes — I was so busy I barely had time to eat. Still no sneezing. I seem to be doing just fine with the ghee — yay!
I’ll try reintroducing the Biokult tomorrow — just a tiny bit!
I need to try to drink more broth. I’m still burned out on soup from the Intro Diet. Need to make some reduction sauce — or perhaps some baked beans.
Breakfast:
2 cups organic half-caf coffee, black
Lunch:
3 small pieces of coconut flour bread made with Pure Indian Foods ghee, pastured eggs, coconut flour, and sea salt
3 TBS Revolution Foods unsweetened organic peanut butter (organic peanuts, palm oil)
Dinner:
4 ounces Rocky Canyon humanely-raised pork sausage (free of antibiotics, nitrates, and MSG, not fed soy) scrambled in ghee with 4 pastured eggs
1 piece of coconut flour bread with 1 TBS organic peanut butter
1 large handful raw almonds, soaked and dried
1 glass Trader Joe’s sauvignon blanc
A wee bit of Lagavulin Scotch whisky that Seth brought home (if it isn’t Scottish, it’s crap!)
Iodoral, adrenal gland, cod liver oil and other supplements
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25/11/2008 at 3:28 pm Permalink
The coconut flour bread sounds great! I must try that sometime.
25/11/2008 at 3:33 pm Permalink
I know what you mean about the broth, i went heavy on it for a few days and got so sick of it but now i’m back at it, just not so much, I try to down a glass for breakfast or lunch with coconut oil. I can’t wait to see the recipe for the coconut flour bread, it sounds fantastic!
I feel like i had some detox going on yesterday- i did the infrared sauna and sweated like crazy and then i felt really nauseous for about 30mins after that, must of gotten the toxins moving around. I took one clove of crushed garlic the past two days, i’m not doing it today, i think i need a break. Oh, i also tried a biokult suppository, totally weird, never done something like that before but i’m hoping it helps! I took a few days off from the kefir grains (they needed time to grow) I just ate the ones that were in my coconut cream kefir, those don’t seem to cause alot of detox symptoms for me so i think i’ll stick to that.
25/11/2008 at 7:39 pm Permalink
Hmmm. I’m surprised you don’t find broth more satisfying. I sip it all day long and love it. It was the thing that convinced me that the GAPS diet is for me. After drinking about a quart of it all my bloating and reflux went away!
Have you tried adding things to it? These are some of the variations I use:
-raw egg yolk
-poach an egg in the broth, use a fork to break up the white as it cooks and take it off the heat when the yoke is just starting to set so it’s still runny on the inside
-liquid from fermented vegetables (I love this)
-smashed avocado (avocado, eggs, fermented veggies and leftover cooked veggies/sausage has become my favorite breakfast)
-coconut oil (I know you’ve been doing that)
-minced raw garlic
I also love to make pureed soups. Just add any vegetables to your chicken broth. I always add onions or leeks to whatever else I have on hand. Cook. When everything’s soft blend it all together with an immersion blender (easier than putting it in a stand blender, but that works too.) I never get tired of this!
25/11/2008 at 8:24 pm Permalink
Be a bit cautious with the peanuts and monitor how you do on them. They’re a legume, and legumes can inhibit thyroid function as well as be contamination with mycotoxins.
I’m another one who can’t get enough bone broth, but I don’t drink it plain. I add meat and veg and seasonings (salt, black pepper, and sometimes fresh lemon and garlic) and have soup, often 1-2/day.
I’m definitely going to try J’s suggestion of mixing some with fermented veg juice — I just made a big batch of beet kvass and love it. I think some mixed with broth and dill, maybe with some of the beets in, would be fabu.
I add a pat of butter sometimes as well.
25/11/2008 at 9:32 pm Permalink
I have my broth with meat and fermented vegetables.Good stuff!
I have been reacting to something. I think I have narrowed it down to the fermented cod liver oil. I was looking at the ingredients, the licorice lips flavor has irish moss as an ingredient.DUH! That is totally illegal in gaps.
02/12/2008 at 1:37 pm Permalink
Let me get this straight, you had coffee for breakfast and that’s all? This is me on a bad day. Was this a bad day, or is this something to the black coffee for breakfast>
02/12/2008 at 1:50 pm Permalink
I’m not the kind of person who likes to at breakfast normally. I like to drink coffee with a lot of raw milk. Sometimes I’ll have eggs or yogurt if I’m hungry — but I’m usually not hungry in the morning.