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WhatIEat#40 (SIBO/low carb)


Pancakes, eggs and bacon 😍 For me!
I havent perfected a SIBO diet pancake yet, but these were the best I've made so far.
I love it when I get to eat the same thing as the rest of my family, and Sophie has been learning to cook lately and making pancakes is her favorite,  so Saturday morning we all enjoyed this lovely breakfast. Ok, the pancakes they ate weren't the exact same recipe as the ones I ate, but at least our plates looked the same. 😊
Homemade bone broth, with pink salt and turmeric is what I reach for if I want to stretch my "fasting" a little longer in the morning without stressing my adrenals. It provides nutrients like minerals in the salt and protein in the broth and it is very healing for the gut, plus its filling, and its a liquid so helps keep you hydrated. Win! And it's delicious too.

Last night's dinner-Date Night- 
My first restaurant meal since January/starting SIBO treatment. Blackened salmon with a lemon butter caper sauce and grilled asparagus. It was very good. It was also very stressful...I seriously wanted to cry and leave when we got there and the whole time we were waiting for the food to come. I've just been the only one making my food for so long and it's such a restrictive diet, it's scary to completely give up control and blindly eat what's put in front of you after months of being on this diet. I did specify gluten free and no garlic and subbed more asparagus instead of the coconut rice the meal was supposed to come with. Brian was so patient with me, and so encouraging. I did really want to conquer the fear though, and not leave scared, so I pushed through it. I asked myself what I was so scared of...my stomach has hurt alot of times and I'm still alive so it would be ok. I would survive. And guess what? I did. In fact, I didn't have any upset tummy at all! Victory 😊
I even had a couple teeny, tiny tastes of the lovely, complimentary, gluten free chocolate molten pudding dessert they brought out...and I was still ok. Yay! Progress💛


Creamy soft scrambled eggs with avocado for breakfast this morning for the kids and I.

Homemade graham crackers, fresh out of the oven.  I go through a double batch of these a week, all by myself, all spread with butter or ghee or nut butter and sometimes a drop of honey.

My lunch- Shredded chicken off drumsticks that were cooked low and slow and the meat was so tender and juicy...mmm. And broccoli with pecorino romano, which, if you aren't familiar with that, is a hard sheep cheese, similar to parmesan and it is so nutty and good. (I get it at Costco in a wedge.)

My dinner- pureed greens mixed with pureed root vegetables and cod cooked in butter with chives and parsley. I stirred some spiced ghee into the puree, which was very tasty. 


I put 3 lbs. of raw, organic, steam pasteurized almonds into warm salt water to soak for the next two days, and then I will dehydrate them and process some into almond meal and eat the rest as snacks. This really enhances the flavor as well as making them super nutritious and easy to digest.

Fresh batch of homemade pecan butter. I soaked the pecans, dehydrated them, and ran them for a couple minutes in the food processor and they made a lovely, rich, creamy butter, to which I added a drop of vanilla and a drop of honey and a pinch of salt and it is just amazing...so satisfying. 

And last, but for sure not least, I made another batch of my SIBO safe bread and it turned out great AGAIN! Hooray! Successful recipe. Its so exciting when I "make things from my brain" , as I tell my family, and they turn out so well. Being able to have bread again is very exciting too. I'm not quite through experimenting with this recipe, but if you need a SIBO/Low carb bread, stay tuned for that recipe! 


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