What to Eat

When I was discharged from the hospital, I was put on a strict No Lactose, Low Fiber diet. Now normally, I am on a Low Fiber diet (Fiber can really irritate your intestines, and mine are already messed up enough), so that part of the diet hasn't been so bad. However, lactose and I are pretty much Best Friends. I have cheese on everything, I love yogurt, enjoy Instant Breakfast milk-drinks... the list goes on and on (chocolate? ice cream?!). So it has been a little bit of a rough patch for me the past few weeks, trying to figure out what is okay to eat.

Here's a few things of what I've come up with:

Vegan Banana Bread Muffins.
This idea came about when the bananas that I bought before I was admitted to the hospital had turned very black by the time I got out & finally went back to the LiNK house. I was trying to decide what to do with them, and really wanted banana bread muffins, like Cheyanne used to make when we lived together at CLU. However, banana bread muffins usually required at least eggs, and oftentimes milk. Clearly that wasn't going to cut it, so I started thinking. Lucky for me, Dylan was standing right there and said "why don't you make Vegan banana bread?" What a genius. I finally got around to making them last night... and wow. They tasted so delicious. So there is one thing that I can eat. Check out the recipe HERE*

Chicken and Rice.
While at the grocery store the other day, I was looking through all of the instant pastas, wishing I could eat them, (but alas they all have cream bases) when I continued down the aisle to the rice section. I was very excited because I saw that Rice A Roni had some sort of herb and rice concoction, which sounded delicious! So like the good kid that I am, I read the ingredients list, and about 3 ingredients in was "MILK." What?! Who puts milk in rice (unless its that delicious Cheddar/Broccoli one)?! So I had to rethink what I was going to do. Most of the boxes that they had on the shelf were some sort of cheese or that herb one. Then I came across another box, Chicken-flavor. I decided to give that one a shot. So I read the ingredients (twice), and there was nothing! (well, nothing harmful for my gut, anyway).

Finally when I got home from work today, I decided that I needed to try said Chicken-flavor rice. So I cooked up a nice HUGE chicken breast and made the rice, finally mixing it all together at the end to have a nice chicken & rice meal! I was amazed at how well it turned out. The chicken was pretty juicy after spending its last 5 minutes cooking in with the rice, and the rice was flavored really well (thank you Rice A Roni). Lucky for me, it made about 3 or maybe 4 servings, so I'll be able to have delicious chicken & rice for a few days now! (yay not having to cook!) Check out a similar recipe HERE*

I found several recipes online that I will be trying over the next several days/weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to find some delicious stuff to keep me filled up & happy (but not too broke). I might venture into making my own pancakes, bagels, and bread from scratch... we'll see how that all goes.

:)