Dietary Changes

One of the best gifts I requested and received at Christmas was The World’s Healthiest Foods from their website.  It’s a whole food approach to eating healthier.  What I love about this book is that it lists 100 of the world’s healthiest foods, the health benefits, the nutritional breakdown, the best way to prepare the food so as to maintain the most nutrients, and very easy recipies to prepare a great and healthy meal in around 15 minutes. 

It’s been a blessing since our new houseguest arrived.  Adam’s brother Ben is staying with us for the next couple of months as we investigate through an elimination diet if a food allergy has contributed to some ADD-like symptoms he has been experiencing.  It’s been interesting and challenging to find new and exciting ways to prepare meals without high allergy related foods such as: wheat, dairy, corn, apples, oranges, grapes, and their derivatives plus a load of food additive and preservatives that are frankly in almost everything processed. 

So it’s been a lot of raw vegetables, meats and whole grains for us–which has been awesome!  For our main course tonight we had crepes (made with rice flour, rice milk and oil–instead of wheat flour, cow milk, and butter) filled with chicken and topped with a homemade tomatillo sauce and avocado.  It wasn’t too bad having totally made it off the cuff!