Weekend!

Have I mentioned I have to eat gluten free? Sticker shock! It is in everything. I can't just eat a hot dog sans bun. I have to source out one that contains no gluten and preferably one that is not potentially cross contaminated by being made in the same factory as something that contains gluten. That's a minor example. It can be in every single thing that does not come out of the ground naturally gluten free or off an animal before it is tampered with. I actually had a mini breakdown when I realized how life changing this would be. It's not a matter of simply avoiding breads, pasta, cereal, ect... It's checking everything.

I don't think I'm going to go the substitute everything route. I want to eat closer to how God wants us to eat, minus the bread part. I also don't plan to heavily rely on potatoes, rice and other starchy things (although I won't totally avoid them as if I were low carbing). I think this is my chance to finally break free of this prison of obesity because I have to. Doctor's orders this time. I cannot think of having pizza or whatever as a cheat; I have to think of it as causing permanent damage to my body that even a bite can make me ill for weeks. It's that serious.

I am going to go more the Traditional Foods route. I have the book ordered through ILL, if they will let me have it (I am bad about picking up my books and sometimes bringing them back). I have been reading a lot online through the Weston A. Price site, MDC and a number of blogs. I have always been drawn to it but feared it for some reason. I can see now the benefit it could be to me if I ate a more nourishing diet.

It is the weekend and the house is a mess. I have had no energy, no get up and go at all. My head always feels like a bowling ball perched on my shoulders and I have been sick off and on, more on than off. Detoxing. I do have house plans for the next week if I have the energy and if I can get Mark to help. The basement is disgusting. The kids play down there and there are toys everywhere. Then we can't get to shelves to put things away. Oh and I discovered an exploded can of pineapple. Lest you think it was sitting in our storage forever, it was only there since May so it could of possibly been in the store when it exploded, but they probably would of discovered it sooner than I did. Now I'm scared of my canned fruit.

I have been spending too much money lately. When I am not feeling well and generally down, I tend to spend. I did get a couple of turkeys for $10 so I can stop looking. Every time I'm prompted to go into a store, I find a good buy. Like when I got 8 packs of 1-lbs turkey breast meat for about $1 each. Or when I got a 5lbs bag of carrots for 99 cents, or all our organic greens which I get half off, ect... It's hard to catch the good deals when you only shop once a week, but overall I know we'd spend less if we do. I need to ice my cards so I'm not tempted to use them.

Ah, two items of good news financially. They found the problem with the car and AFAIK, it should be fixed and not in the thousands of dollars. Second is the kids lost one of their DS's about a month ago. I worried and looked but when I prayed about it, I asked to either know where it was or to not worry about it. I didn't worry about it. I thought about it, since they're expensive and all, but wasn't a biggie. Then yesterday it was on the coffee table. Apparently Shaylee put it in a toy purse for safe keeping, lol! I was relived! I hate it when they lose expensive things.

Well, I need to get the house in order for the Sabbath. I will leave with a recipe. The family loves garlic fingers. I love them too so it was hard making them for the family last night and not having any. When I have more time and energy, I can make cauliflower or zucchini crust ones (much better than it sounds!). But I finally figured out how I made the donair sauce without store bought sweetened condensed milk. I kept tasting it because it was so good:

In a blender, mix 2/3 cup of powdered milk, 1.5 cups of sugar, a couple tablespoons of butter, garlic to taste and 1/3 cup of vinegar. Start blending and slowly pour in very hot/almost boiling water until it reaches the consistency desired (we like ours thick! but it will thicken a bit when it's done so make sure to add enough to dissolve all the ingredients).

If you have sweetened condensed milk, simply add vinegar and garlic to taste. Some places say equal parts as it thickens when it is refrigerated but we like ours really thick!