So, I've found that the weekends are definitely the hardest time to deal with all this. Before my allergy, my weekend menu would look something like this: dinner out with wife on Friday night, usually some variety of cooked animal, followed by ice cream or some other dessert while we're out and about town. Saturday morning would be cereal or breakfast of some kind, lunch would be hamburgers or hot dogs, or ham sandwiches, with a dinner of some mexican cheesy dish. Sunday I'd grab doughnuts for breakfast on the way to church, then fried chicken or the Golden Corral all you can eat buffet for dinner.
I literaly can't have any of those things in their old form anymore. So, what do I do for weekends now? Well, dinner last night was a chicken sandwich on whole wheat bread with lettuce and tomato from a new deli in town, breakfast this morning was two pieces of toast with homemade strawberry jam, and lunch will probably be something similar to dinner last night. The only meal I'm stressing about this weekend is dinner tonight; my aunt and uncle, who live on a farm in SC, are coming up to visit, and my parents are taking all of us out. We are going to a mom and pop restaurant in a small town up here, where everything is cooked together and fried. So, I expect wierd looks when I order the garden salad. But, at the end of the day, I'll take wierd looks over a hospital visit.
wish me luck!
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You're right about family... they can be one of the tougher challenges with radically changing your diet.
ReplyDeleteI got some of these: http://www.bilinski.com/productsANC.cfm (the Cajun Andouille flavor) from Earth Fare... but haven't cooked them yet since the "food-cop" in my house wants to talk to customer-service at Bilinski about their manufacturing processes. These looked good since the casing is not pork.
She recommends you do the same (investgate mfg-practices) for your processed meats unless you're certain the company doesn't process pork/beef/bison/etc. in the same facility.
thanks for that! checked it out, looks great. Sausage is definitely one of the great sadnesses of life right now for me, this looks like a great alternative! until I get solid leads on things like this, I've had to generally avoid processed meat completely.
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