Restricted

well i went back to my lovely specialists this week to see if they had discovered more from my latest blood tests about the allergies i am battling.

unfortunately the really specialist tests they are doing haven’t come back so i am still in a discovery restriction mode.

in fact

the dietician recommended going on a one month trial salicylate free diet.

a what?

basically the list of what i can eat has got way smaller and the list of what i cant has got huger.

things that are my go to food like broccoli, cauli, corn, capsicum, green tea, coke, any fizzy, orange juice, spicy food, spices etc are off the menu

salt is my only flavouring allowed.  no spices.  no sauces.

plain food.  peas, potatoes, iceburg lettuce, mung beans, bamboo shoots are on my yes list.  i confess i dont know what to do with the latter two!

cheese, milk, soy, meat and bread (with butter only or cheese) are fine.

really no flavoured drinks and pears, peeled, are one of the only fruits i can have.

for a month.

some of the things that are on the list of can haves i cant have because of existing allergies, like eggs and nuts.

and i have to confess, i dont like peas.  and i love spring salads.

all the meals i worked out for the family to eat, GF, i cant have because they are saucy and flavoursome.

but have drawn up a meal plan – a sanity plan – to plan the week ahead of meals, that makes it work for the activities we have and the food we can eat.  i will cook “normal” meals for the family and then a bit of plain meat for myself and plain things.  i’ll make it work and see what happens.

oh and the connection with the picture above… we had a bag of pineapple lumps in the house.  i ate them all on thursday and started my SF diet on friday…