Food allergies!

So... I learned last week that I'm allergic to some foods. Based on some blood testing, it seems I am rather allergic to the following: milk (cow), casein (protein found in cow's milk), gluten, eggs, peanuts, soy, and beef (surprise!).

Well, the beef is easy to leave out of my diet, as I had never included it to begin with! The others are much harder to eliminate. The plan is this; I'm supposed to eliminate all these things from my diet for 3 months and then I can slowly reintroduce them one at a time and see how my body reacts. I highly suspect that I'll be able to add many of them back before too long, and possibly all of them eventually (excepting beef of course, as I have no real desire to add it in the first place). So that's the plan.

Now for reality... as Patrick so kindly put it, I'll be eating a lot of potatoes! I'm still trying to figure out what else I can eat. :) I did go grocery shopping today at Carrs (normal grocery store) and managed to find a lot of good things though that fit the diet, including pasta (rice pasta - gluten free), cheese (goat cheese! and sheep cheese!), veggies, beans, rice, almond milk, and plenty of other random but relatively normal things. So we'll see how it goes.

Two things that I have happily discovered so far...

1. I can still eat Thai green curry!!! (Just w/out tofu - chicken is good though!)

2. I've already found a cream cheese substitute - goat cheese! It's perfectly spreadable like cream cheese, tastes similar, and can probably substitute for it in my favorite potato leek soup as well. :)

I'd love to hear any suggestions if anyone has any. If it takes more than 20-30 minutes to make though... it's likely to get ignored. *wink*

Memorial Day Weekend

I spent Memorial day weekend in Fairbanks, and enjoyed slightly warmer weather, a good hike, plenty of sneezing from seasonal allergies, and hanging out with friends. Overall it was a very good weekend, and rather relaxing, even if I did have to drive 5.5 hours each way. I'm still sore from the hike up Angel Rocks on Saturday though, which is pretty sad.

Apparently you can blog in the future now!

Click on the title or here for more information on blogging right now in the future. :)

Anyways, no need to future date this post, but it looks kinda cool.

I'll be in Fbks this weekend if anyone wants to say hi. It's graduation weekend, so I'll be a bit busy with family and whatnot, but I do hope to see at least a few of you for at least a little while. Give me a call! And if you don't have my number... email me. I might check it. :)

Weekend

Yay! I got myself a new camera, started a new crochet project, and went on a blind date! Those were the good interesting parts of my weekend. :)