Category: Whatever Wednesdays
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Making Bacon, Squared (i.e. two versions)
Bacon. It’s bacon, how do you live without bacon? Unfortunately, commercial bacon has dextrose, sodium erythorbate, ascorbates, and other corn ingredients. At the beginning of my corn-free life, I would cheat a bit, but then I would get a blister on my foot a couple days later, and I eventually decided that it had to…
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WW: DIY Dishwasher Detergent if Allergic to Coconut
So I’ve been ignoring the coconut allergy with respect to my dishwasher detergent because it all rinses off right? Except that it really doesn’t, as shown by how soapy the water left on some of my dishes that feels when I’m cleaning it off after opening the dishwasher. And it’s probably not a good thing,…
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WW: Living with Food Allergies – Getting Sick while Getting Well
One of the surprising things about having food allergies is the fear of getting sick and whether the process of getting well will make you sicker. It’s much more complicated than you might imagine. In January, I managed to get either bronchitis or pneumonia, which affected my asthma to the point that my nurse practitioner…
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Roasted Vegetable Stock
I know. It’s spring. Or, rather, “spring.” The thing is? It’s still pretty cold here, and on top of that, damp. So, basically, it’s still soup weather, and rather than being cranky about it, let’s just make some good veggie stock to cook up some of the vegetables that might, in a perfect world, soon…
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WW: Living with Food Allergies — Diagnosis
How were your food allergies diagnosed? Denise and I have both posted our diagnosis stories in our blog bios. The medical tests recommended for each of us were different — her allergist recommended skin scratch tests, and my doctor had referred me to a naturopathic doctor because she couldn’t help, and my naturopath was the…
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WW: Daiya Cheese Pizza Review — dairy-free, gluten-free, and vegan!
OMG PIZZA! Click the link to go to the product page. I am not sure I’ve ever bought a frozen pizza before. I know that sounds crazy. Growing up, we mostly made pizza at home. Going out for pizza with friends was a social event in high school and college (and Trackside Pizza in Decatur…
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WW: Living with Food Allergies — Identity
“You are what you eat.” Right. So what are you when you can’t eat half the foods that you used to love? Or any of the family recipes you grew up with? Or your favorite dish of your best friends, or the perfect brownie recipe you spent two years perfecting? What are you? Lost and…
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WW: Living with Food Allergies — Socializing
We’ve touched on this topic in a peripheral way in our posts on Relationships and Food Free Entertainment, but we wanted to give this topic its own post because of the prevalence of food with socializing in our society, and the complications that can cause if you have food allergies. When you develop a food…