This is a blog for people whose digestive systems are in open revolt! Those who suffer from IBS, colitis, celiac disease, crohn's, or any other non-specific digestive malaise may find sympathy and a chance to commiserate here, as well as find new and helpful ideas (or recipes!)
This is the place to read too much information (TMI) about symptoms (or you can skip those posts; no one would blame you), read and post recipes, problem foods, good foods, food wishlists, trips to the doctor, and more!
About Me
I recently graduated from university, where I studied violin, education, and starvation. Life got a whole lot more difficult when I realized that three bagel-shaped meals a day was making me ill.
When I started university, living away from home for the first time in a shared apartment, I ate tomato soup, popcorn and bagels. Mostly bagels. Toasted bagels with peanut butter, sometimes with melted butter, garlic and cheese, sometimes as little pizzas. I'd change it up every now and then for English muffins. Oh, I ate apples, too.
Unfortunately, I was rather sick all year (digestively), and I did not get better when I came home for the summer and ate proper meals prepared by my health-conscious and wonderful mother.
Four years later, it would seem that I have celiac disease, but that may not be the whole story. What I do know is that all grains make me ill, but rice and corn are the friendliest, so I consume those on a regular basis, I am lactose intolerant, and soy is death. Soy milk seems to be the worst offender. The last time I tried soy milk, I put some into hot chocolate and found myself heaving a mere ten minutes later.
Stop by Gluten for Punishment Every Now and Then
This blog was started for the purpose of sharing discoveries, like celiac-friendly restaurants (I had a WAFFLE the other week in a restaurant, bringing tears to my eyes) and on the spur of the moment recipes, like the COOKIES I made last night with:
1 cup of corn flour 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs 1/2 cup raisin
1/4 butter pinch of cinnamon
I plopped that dough into little balls on a VERY GREASY cookie sheet and cooked those puppies for around fourteen minutes at 350.
"COOKIES!" *Scrappy hops up and down excitedly, waving around a yellow cookie*
This only took ten minutes to prepare, and they're edible, especially if you're gluten-free and have chocolate chips handy. Try using some vanilla extract - I think that might work well in these cookies.
This blog is for my confessions when I cheat ("I've been sick for weeks anyway. Who wants Pizza Hut?"), my discoveries like restaurants and recipes, charting my health, trying your suggestions, but never complaining. I will complain sometimes, because I am human and I hate being at a pizza-party when I'm trying to behave myself and we all need to vent now and then, and I encourage you to do it too!
My partner is a vegetarian, though thankfully she eats eggs and fish, and trying to find meals we both can eat is often a fun challenge. I often think that if she was vegan, we would never work out, because I am a CHEESE FIEND (cheddar and swiss don't have lactose! Hurray!) and I have a Never Consume list which you will not see me cheat on:
1) Pasta
2) Beer
3) Soy milk
I also would rather eat white bread than oats or bran. And NO flax seeds.
So please post responses! Share stories, recipes, ask questions! Let's get the party started!
You can email me at lifeafterbagels"at"gmail
Cheers!
Scrappy
