About Why We Eat The Way We Do

Our family likes food - a little too much!  We are on a diet.  We bounce between Susan Somers Somersizing and Trim Healthy Mama.  We also look at recipes for Paleo and Low Carb.  The priority is, it has to be Gluten Free.  My children and I were diagnosed with Celiac in 2006.  All the extra starch in the gluten free flour blend can add up.  I am getting good at tweaking recipes so that they are gluten free. My oldest daughter likes to bake and cook in the kitchen.  That is a real blessing.  She is very talented and experiments just as much as I do.  Well, maybe more than I do.  

We are use to putting a spin on things to make them low carb or gluten free.  We get stuck on things like noodles, rice and especially bread.  My youngest daughter loves sandwiches.  Candy and chocolate won’t tempt her, but bread will.  When a famous sub sandwich shop had commercials about “Sandwich Artists!” that is what she wanted to be when she grew up.  She was only 6 or 7 years old. lol Thankfully she has higher hopes then minimum wage.  She still creates some wonderful sandwich combinations.  

My dad is diabetic and diagnosed with an incurable cancer called Multiple Myeloma.  We are all learning how to live with this cancer.  He isn’t as strong as he use to be, but as long as he takes care of himself, he lives a meaningful life.  Especially after watching his cancer numbers go up and down and then up and down again, I truly believe WE ARE WHAT WE EAT!  He loves to eat out, but he sells himself short when he does.  Our bodies are worth more than French fries, hamburgers, pizza or fried chicken.  They deserve meals prepared at home with lots of love, veggies and proteins.  I do believe that we do better without processed foods, but it is a step better than eating out all the time.  

My husband loves starch!  He is my downfall with my diet.  He needs to diet more than the rest of us.  He also likes to eat out, but not as much as my dad.  He is the only gluten glutton that uses our kitchen, so we have strict rules for him to minimize the likely hood that we get contaminated.  When we wanted gluten, he would look for reasons to eat out.  Now that we are on this diet, he looks for reasons to go out to have pizza or potatoes.  

My husband did not want to go on a diet, until I said that we can have “cheat day!”  Then he was on board.  He gets so excited about cheat day, that he stretches it out over the weekend and calls it cheat day.  He even likes to add a cheat day in the middle of the week.  My daughter and I hate that, but at least we are learning ways to work around that.  Most of the time, we aren’t prepared.  Our goal is to get prepared eventually.  

We hope you find the recipes we share something that you will enjoy as much as we do.