Happy Easter and Passover

We've had a few busy days with family visits and tonight we're having a dinner catered at our apartment.  I imagine Jim and I will take our own plates of food down with us as I'm sure there's not likely to be a thing we can eat with our funny diet.  We've discovered we can make some really nice flat breads in the George Foreman grill, and now I'm just experimenting with various flours to see what works best.  We made our first batch of ice cream yesterday, using coconut milk, strawberries and honey.  It was delicious.  Today I've made a coconut icecream.  I still have to try one using carob powder to give us our chocolate fix.  I do find I have to have a brain break quite often, or I start doing really wierd things in the kitchen! Oopss...brain quiver there....wierd should be "weird"! Yep!

From the inside out

There is a great article written by a doctor in England who has Picks Disease (frontotemporal dementia).  It is certainly worth having a read through. From the Inside Out

Jim's Mother is visiting for a few days.  She is having to suffer through all my cooking experiments as I try to find new and interesting meals on our new diet.  I haven't had to throw any more foods out, but we did find out that the millet flour we had used was rancid.  Apparently millet flour has a very short shelf life.  Our next visit to Kingston will be looking at flours sold at Asian and Chinese grocery stores, where we should be able to get very fresh flours.  We will probably do another Chinese Buffet as well.  I was delighted to discover last week that there were lots of food there we could indulge in and still stay on our diets!

Another speaking engagement

I have been asked by the Alzheimers Society of Oxford in Woodstock, Ontario to give my speech at their Changing Melody Forum in October.   I'm really pleased people are finding my speech helpful and it's a good feeling to know I might be helping a few more folks on this journey.

Doctor treats husband's alzheimers with coconut oil

I've read about this before and forgotten it.  Jim just found it in ALIVE, the Canadian natural health and wellness magazine.  Since we're not allowed to have corn oil or soy soil we are definitely switching to coconut oil.  Here's the link to the article.  I made pancakes this morning using tapioca flour and millet flour.  Jim had his with blueberies and I had mine with artificial syrup.  We each had one, then filed the rest in the Trash Bin!  yuck  Back to the drawing board!!

Foodprint 200+ IgG Food Intolerance Test

Jim and I have gotten the results back from the bloodwork we had done for the food intolerance testing called Foodprint.  Food intolerances can be the cause of many symptoms including bloating, weight problems, depression, sinus issues, headaches, anxiety, skin problems and insomnia to name but a few. So we're now changing our diet to avoid all the foods that our results indicate our bodies can't handle.  No more dairy, eggs, yeast, wheat flour, rice, beans, cabbage, corn, peas and sugar to name just a few.  Each day is a new adventure in shopping and eating.   I'm still looking for a supplier of water buffalo milk, which is the only dairy that we can have!  The good news is we can eat ostrich, octopus, eel, cuttle fish and barnacles if we can catch them!
Click here to see the list of foods that were tested for.