It’s been 6 months since I had a blood test and found out that I have some form of gluten/dairy allergy. After doing a lot of research on what was affecting me I can now say that I feel a little better than I did many months ago. It has been a long couple of years now since I knew something wasn’t right with my body. Now that I have a better understanding of what is going on and what I can and can not eat it is a little easier. Yes, I do miss certain things…pizza, cheeseburgers, egg and cheese on a bagel, milk, bread, pies, cakes, pasta, etc. However, I eat a lot healthier now, even healthier than before. And I can really taste the food i’m eating now. Almost everything I eat is organic and fresh. I am not a vegan. I can still eat meat and fish. I do eat vegan cheeses sometimes and different kinds of gluten free breads, but it’s not the same. However, every couple of days or so I experiment to make a really tasty new meal. My culinary mind is forced to! What would you do if you had celiac disease AND you couldn’t eat any dairy products???

Take it from a first hand experience, it is impossible, life does exist after bread and cheese. It starts with RICE and SOYBEANS! Haha. I would say the majority of what I eat now comes from rice and soybeans. You’d be surprised what you can make from a soybean! I wonder if my truck would run on soybeans? Anyway, another bonus to the new diet I have been on is that I don’t have to work out quite as much as I used to. I simply don’t eat as much calories or as much fat as I used to. So there’s a positive. Unless of course you love the gym and go there all the time, which is fine. But I don’t love it as much as I used to. Anyway, I still love food, I just have to really try hard to get the culinary juices flowing inside my brain to come up with something that is really tasty…which isn’t a bad thing…it’s just something new to explore in this thing we call life…