Day 27 and 28: Almost There

I can't believe that 30 days is almost over. This diet really hasn't been as hard as I expected it to be. With a little planning and not much eating out, it is a very doable diet. For those people with Celiac, I am sure they have a few other challenges and considerations that I did not take into account (like getting a new toaster or using separate cookware). But overall, I am glad that we tried it and saw a few results.

So what is next? Are we just going to quit? No. The plan right now is to slowly bring dairy and gluten back into our diets and see if there are any noticeable changes. I am going to start eating dairy again starting on day 31. Then 3 days later I will start eating gluten again. If I start noticing changes in Daniel, then I will go back to eating GF or CF again. If we don't notice any changes, then 3 days later he will get some dairy and 3 days after that, gluten.

So what have we been eating the last two days?

On Day 27 I made Country Style Ribs, potatoes, and asparagus. For the ribs, I boiled them for about 1 1/2 hours. Then we covered them in Sweet Baby Ray BBQ sauce and baked them in the oven at 350 for 20 minutes. This is my favorite way to cook ribs because I am not so good at grilling them. Boiling them makes them really tender and they almost fall apart when you take them out of the pot.

In other news, remember that fruit bar that I bought from Whole Foods that was not GF? Well, Daniel found an open one in the living room (that my lovely husband left there while he was feeding the baby) and ate the whole thing! I didn't really notice much of a difference today though. So much for being COMPLETELY GF during this experiment.

On Day 28 Sam's grandma and uncle came for a visit so I made them a special meal: Crawfish Pie. Now I don't really like crawfish at all, so I didn't really mind that I was missing out on their fabulous lunch. I don't know how I could make that meal GF-CF unless I found a GF pie crust and somehow figured out how to make canned mushroom soup from scratch.

I also made a GF-CF cake (Betty Crocker mix again). It was very good, although not as good as the chocolate. We decorated it to celebrate the 4th of July (a day early) with lots of strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries!

Daniel even helped decorate it! (That was a first!)