Re: Feeling like my grand mother/Re: cheating?

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Carol and to all,

Thanks for the advice...I feel like my grandmother....always in the kitchen!

What a change from the old me! Even my husband has picked up the SCD cook books

and is helping out! This is a miracle...he use to live off fast food and

macaroni and cheese!

Antoinette (SCD day 18 entire family)

Re: cheating?

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> Some of this started with a discussion of convenience foods -- and a

statement that we

should quit looking for convenience foods and just cook more.

Would everyone describe the sort of convenience foods you wish existed? Maybe

we can

come up with some short cuts or similar ideas.

(Prior to SCD if I wanted dinner I usually had to broil some meat and cook a

couple of

vegetables, pour some dressing on a ready mixed salad green combo. I still do

that. and

think most people have to at times)

Some food ideas that may suit your convenience:

Elaine convinced me a food processor would be a great help. It certainly is.

I wake up very

early, toss muffin ingredients in it, line a muffin tin with paper baking

cups and 30

minutes later have enough muffins for 10-12 days. While the muffins it's a

good time to

make yogurt

CVheecake also takes little time, dump ingredients in food processor.Pour into

a loaf

panand chill when cooled. Delicious

When you have no SCD bread around roll prosciutto in a long piece of Swiss

cheese and

add a little mustard. keep some hard boiled eggson hand. When I want a dessrt

fast that

isn't baked, Try partly thawed blueberries in a parfait glass adding already

ground pecan

flour on them, some honey and stir, Gooey instant dessert!

For salad, in a hurry throw capers, nuts, crumbled blue cheese into a bowl of

packaged

organic field greens and drizzle on some olive oil. ( I include fresh chopped

garlic)

Want some fast protein at lunch? Drain a can of salmon (or less often) tuna,

add SCD

mayo.

Here's how to get a veggie snack, Cut up beets or squash, in the food

processor spray

with oil, add seasonings and legal herbs and bake until crunchy. It work with

beets,

squash or mushrooms.

I am fortunately able to get legal hotdogs from Big s in Toronto. They

are already

cooked and just need to be in boiling water for a few minutes.

When you want sushi, roll some ginger or avocado in sugar free smoked salmon

and eat

it.

For something like a Good Humor, freeze chunks or slices of ripe banana

dredged in nuts

and a little honey.

When you fancy ice cream, add partly frozen strawberries and a few nuts to

dripped yogurt

and drizzle on honey.

Make crisp crackers by placing small 1 " pieces of hard cheese on parchment

paper and

baking 15 minutes at 350 until they bubble and brown around the edges. Cool

and peel

off the paper.

Stuff dates with softened cheddar cheese for a delicious snack.

Broiling bacon on a pan with a rack doesn't need watching. Set the timer for

10 minutes

and check to see if it's ready.

A tasty baked meat loaf provides a few dinners and is great and portable

sliced cold. Add

SCD ketchup or some mustard. Again, ingredents get tossed into the food

processor then

to a loaf pan and into the oven.

I know these may not all appeal to fussy eaters but some may.

Carol F. SCD 6 years, celliac

For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

_Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

websites:

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and

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