Pass the bread and the Lactaid

lunch 3.6.14  Today is a bread kind of day.  First, I ended up sampling many day old gluten free breads and sandwiches to decided which one holds up better in the cooler and wrapped in plastic . Then I ate a bowl of dry Froot Loops, followed by a flour tortilla from Finger Lakes Fresh. What could be better than a plate full of focaccia bread, Tuscan Cauliflower and and apple.  The bread just looked good today. I think I’m good with carbs for the rest of the day.

 

Unfortunetly, this will be my last post of the 5 Days.  Gideon 0305141225ahasn’t seen his grandparents in quite some time, so tomorrow we will be traveling to the western part of NY for some quality family time.  I too will be visiting with my grandparents tomorrow for lunch.  They have told me that we are having pizza.  Now, this posses a few questions. 1. I can try to explain what I’m doing with being dairy free this week, which I already know the response I’ll get “What do you mean you can’t eat dairy; that’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard”, plus it’ll turn into a three hour conversation trying to get them to understand what dairy free is.  2. The wrath I’ll get for not eating the pizza.  The wrath of my grandparents lasts a long time, something I don’t want to get into when they’re getting up there in age. Part of the wrath is not receiving birthday cards filled with cash; and we all know how much fun that is.  So, tomorrow, pass the Lactaid, I’m eating the cheese!

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Detox with Team Dairy

lunch 3.5.14  After endless meals of fatty pig, I’ve decided to have a detox lunch with a meal that was geared towards the glutens of yesterday; Steamed Haddock with Tarragon & Lemon, Edamame Beans and steamed Cauliflower, and of course a baguette.  I enjoyed my lunch with the company of  most of Team Dairy; Ed, Jill & April (I’m sure the others were disappointed that they didn’t make it today).  Although I’ve been finding many alternatives to Dairy, the one craving that I can’t quite fulfill is jumbo cookies and cupcakes.  The mid afternoon treat that helps me to plow through the last couple of hours; Stacy’s pita chips and Cookie Crisp cereal doesn’t stimulate the pancreas as much as the dairy laced cupcakes do.

Martha’s has to have Dairy free Breakfast….

….Or Not!  Surprisingly, my options were etremely limited for food choices.  I could have had oatmeal or dry cereal once again, so I chose an English muffin with egg and pork.  Didn’t even have vegan cheese to glue everything together.  But don’t worry, they will tomorrow! Another day of pork made me start to think that it would be nice to have mushrooms or grilled vegetables on a breakfast sandwich instead of a pork choice.  But considering that none of the retail units can cook their own food, adding something as simple as grilled mushrooms becomes a huge process.  Since my taste buds revolted to soy milk earlier in the week, the Izze seemed like a fitting choice. breakfast 3.5.14

Shrove Tuesday Lunch

Although I wasn’t able to fully enjoy the entire meal at Seasonal 365 today, I did eat a variety of different foods for lunch.  Today’s meal consisted of dry cereal, Del Monte Fruit cups, Pork Sausage cooked in pineapple and a bag of PopCorners.  This is typical of how I normally eat throughout the day; basically just grazing through different stations when time permits and when I have a few minutes to think straight or realize that my stomach is hungry.  The rest of 365 was dairy overload.  Buttermilk and sourcream was seaping out of the pores of the pancakes; Ambrosia salad, well, the main ingredient is whipped cream; fried apples – think apple wedges sauteed in butter.  All favorites of mine that had to be passed by this week.

I was thinking of going in for a cholesterol test at the end of the week, hoping that the lack of dairy would help lower my LDL; then I realized that I’ve consummed more pork products this week than I normally do, as today’s lunch was my third pork meal in two days.  I guess it is human instinct to want to eat animal;…….. no need for the blood work now.

Need Energy

breakfast 3.4.12Last night I wanted to and felt like going to bed at 6:30pm. I’ve associated my energy depletion to the lack of dairy I’m consuming; I was trying to explain this theory to my wife, but she wouldn’t buy it.  If this project were to go on longer than 5 days, I would need to negotiate a shorter work day.  Since it’s only day 2, negotiation of a shorter work day is probably just wishful thinking, so to try to up my energy for this morning I opted for a Trillium omelet.  This eggwhite omelet, loaded with green peppers, sausage and vegan cheese not only tasted good but will hopefully provide the punch I need to go fry donuts for today’s Shrove Tuesday menu.  The vegan cheese melted and tasted like USA cheese.  American cheese isn’t really a favorite of mine, but considering the circumstances I didn’t mind the taste, but I’m sure the fat from the sausage helped to make this more enjoyable.  The meal was rounded out with homefried potatoes and orange juice.

Late Breakfast Early Lunch – Dairy Free

Sage introduced a yogurt & fruit bar this morning. When I was there looking over the options, I already knew the answer to my next question “Where is the dairy free yogurt”?  Clearly, we don’t have dairy free yogurt.  I piled fresh fruit high into a cup, picked up a Brainy Oats oatmeal to go and a drip coffee with Vanilla Soy.  After going through the cash register and paralyzing my wallet at a whopping $9.73, I quickly ate my meal.  I took a deep breath in right before my first sip of coffee and soy mixture, and I started to think that the room temperature-shelf stable-citric acid creamer isn’t so bad now.  To my surprise, the coffee with soy milk wasn’t as terrible as I thought it would have been.  I wasn’t able to drink the entire 12 ounce cup though; this might be the week where I cut down on my coffee consumption.  Is it coincidence that Lent begins this week?

5:37 AM Cereal

I normally begin my day with a bowl of cereal at 5:30am.  Right before reaching for the milk, I realized that I choose not to eat Dairy this week. This posses a big problem when it comes to choices in my refrigerator.  I have cranberry juice, prune juice or water.  There is just something not right about Cherrios floating in a red liquid in a semi lit kitchen, it’s almost something out of a horror show.  I decided I wasn’t desperate enough to eat cereal with the above choices; I ate it dry….for now.

 

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