The Lazy Gourmet

[Unorthodox]

Tortellini in meat sauce. 

[Rusty Edge]

Looks delicious!

[Rusty Edge]

Tonight was pretty good.

It was a salad of half spinach, half mixed lettuces. A little bit of shredded carrot and fresh mozzarella. Some salmon, and I topped it with some Modena balsamic vinegar, which is made from red wine, is brown, and tastes kinda like pickle juice, without  the salt. 

[Unorthodox]

I’ve been on a new diet since being in the ER 2 weeks ago.  (We don’t know still other than not heart, liver, or diabetes, meaning likely gall bladder)

Fairly radical departure from my previous daily on one hand but easy so far with the exception of cold turkey soda withdrawal.  Immediate thoughts of “success” for weight seem to even out the second week.

Been adjusting things slightly since then.  Figuring out what triggers problems and what doesn't. 

I had one major incident since the original ER visit.  Not as bad as when I hit the ER but certainly enough to grab my attention.  But, I think we finally identified the major contributor:  Corn syrup. 

Some of you may recall my allergy problems in 2014, which left me scars all up my arms.  Corn silk was the cause then, but I could still eat corn fine, or so I thought.  Since identifying corn syrup and cutting as much as I reasonably can, my entire gut been better than it has in YEARS. 

As an aside.  I've also now been a month, with only one dose of any pain medication, and even that wasnt for my head.  This is some kind of record. 

[Rusty Edge]

That fits nicely with the book I'm reading, "The Plant Paradox" by Steven R. Gundry, MD.


Essentially it blames most of our health issues on leptins ( of which gluten is one) . They're proteins created by plants to fight predators. They tend to attach to cell receptors, and block or confuse information within the body. This results in a multitude of
maladies, including arthritis, autoimmune disorders,  and many diseases that aren't caused by infections or deficiencies. New world plants are worse than Old World plants on the whole because we haven't been exposed to them for as many thousands of years.

But, you can take that with a shaker full of salt. https://nutritionstudies.org/the-plant-paradox-by-steven-grundy-md-commentary/

The diet I'm following is based on his 2008 book, " Diet Evolution" which is anti-grain on the basis of- grains are what we use to fatten livestock. We shouldn't be surprised when they work on us, too.

[E_T]

D@mn, Corn Syrup is practically in everything these days...

[Unorthodox]

That fits nicely with the book I'm reading, "The Plant Paradox" by Steven R. Gundry, MD.


Essentially it blames most of our health issues on leptins ( of which gluten is one) . They're proteins created by plants to fight predators. They tend to attach to cell receptors, and block or confuse information within the body. This results in a multitude of
maladies, including arthritis, autoimmune disorders,  and many diseases that aren't caused by infections or deficiencies. New world plants are worse than Old World plants on the whole because we haven't been exposed to them for as many thousands of years.

But, you can take that with a shaker full of salt. https://nutritionstudies.org/the-plant-paradox-by-steven-grundy-md-commentary/

The diet I'm following is based on his 2008 book, " Diet Evolution" which is anti-grain on the basis of- grains are what we use to fatten livestock. We shouldn't be surprised when they work on us, too.

That theory fuses nicely with the anti GMO crowd since thats one of the things they target is increasing a plant's production of said proteins.  Corn one of the worst offenders. 

D@mn, Corn Syrup is practically in everything these days...

Yep. 

But, it's fairly simple on me since we I do most our own cooking at dinner.  I've come up with easy solutions for breakfast and lunch (which I don't eat much of anyway).  It's really the lack of drink alternatives that is hard on me.  I was a really bad soda junkie.  Could take or leave the caffeine, but the sugar/corn syrup is HARD to give up.  Ironically managing with some V8s when a craving is killing me.  Or a lemonade sweetened with honey when I absolutely need the sweet, but 90% just drinking plain water, which is about inverse of what I was doing before.   

[E_T]

Ice Tea that you sweeten with Sugar (to your taste).  I mix mine with Coca-cola, but you could find something else to mix it with.

[Unorthodox]

Iced tea has turned my stomach since my first 'real' job at burger king.  God, HATED cleaning that machine every night. 

[Rusty Edge]

I'm trying to increase my water consumption, because I'm basically pissing away the pounds. I'm supposed to avoid things that even taste sweet. Not as bad as it sounds because I rarely sweeten my tea. Maybe honey when I have a sore throat.

I started using unsweetened True Lime in my water today, and that helps.

Have you tried Stevia sweetner or True Citrus flavorings?
https://www.truelemonstore.com/True-Citrus-Beverage-Sampler-p/81-1076.htm?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6tqtn--k2gIVRLbACh2O5wwJEAQYAiABEgL_t_D_BwE

[Unorthodox]

I'm trying to increase my water consumption, because I'm basically pissing away the pounds. I'm supposed to avoid things that even taste sweet. Not as bad as it sounds because I rarely sweeten my tea. Maybe honey when I have a sore throat.

I started using unsweetened True Lime in my water today, and that helps.

Have you tried Stevia sweetner or True Citrus flavorings?
https://www.truelemonstore.com/True-Citrus-Beverage-Sampler-p/81-1076.htm?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6tqtn--k2gIVRLbACh2O5wwJEAQYAiABEgL_t_D_BwE

Haven’t dared. It’s in the ragweed family which could be a death sentence for me. (Literally)

[Buster's Uncle]

...You'd definitely do a bunch of interesting art off being dead, but I cannot recommend that...

[Rusty Edge]

I really thought that I enjoyed the taste of basil, so I bought an assortment of olive oils, one of which had basil in it.

I was wrong. I don't think basil makes everything  better. It strictly belongs in the garlic/tomato/Italian food sphere.

[Buster's Uncle]

It is use sparingly/carefully in my book, it makes chicken boiling -something faintly nasty-smelling about that- smell good - but Momma finds it bitter and all basil vanished one day and has never returned...

[Syn]

When any boiling is to be done, I add basil to the water. I rarely use it on actual food.