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6 Tips For Changing Your Diet

February 14, 2014 by officially gluten free Leave a Comment

Changing your diet isn’t an easy thing to do. Here’s a list of 6 things you can do, to help keep you on track.

1. Stock Up On Food That You Can Eat – You’re more likely to eat the food your avoiding if you don’t have many options around you. Keeping your fridge full of delicious food you can eat, will help keep you satisfied while you get used to your new diet.

2. Make A Shopping List – Changing your diet involves more planning, at least at first. You have to sit down and think about what you should make. Plan out a shopping list so that you have some snacks to eat. Otherwise you’ll be stuck staring aimlessly at the fridge, wondering what to make.

3. Bring Food With You – Bring food with you, when you know there won’t be many choices for you to eat. It can be hard going to parties where they are serving the food your avoiding. If you have some sort of snack in your bag or car, it can really help to keep you satisfied.

4. Don’t Skip Meals – When you’re famished you’re more likely to eat the food your avoiding. Keeping yourself full throughout the day, will help to keep you from making bad choices at night.

5. Drink Lots Of Water – Drinking a lot of water will help to keep your stomach full, which will make you think about food less.

6. Keep Busy – Keeping yourself busy will help keep your mind off food. So take up a new hobby or go out for a long walk. Whatever it takes to keep yourself occupied.

Cravings do eventually go away. The trick is to do what you can in the meantime, to keep yourself happy. Try to stay positive and know that feeling better is worth it.

Good Luck 🙂

Sorry Tradition…

February 13, 2014 by officially gluten free Leave a Comment

Most of us grew up on a diet consisting of wheat breads, pasta’s and cereals. Our parents bought white flour by the 50 lb bag. Now we use it to feed our family’s. Wheat flour is cheap and delicious, so why wouldn’t we want to use it. After all it’s in all the recipes we use and most of those recipes are tradition.

Sorry Tradition…but I’m just going to alter you a little. Don’t we alter our traditions anyways? Keep what works and throw away what no longer resonates. It’s time we changed our food traditions to food that’s better for us. Let’s eat the food that makes us feel good, instead of the food that we’re told will make us feel good. I mean actually physically feel good, not emotionally feel good because it reminds us of or childhood.

The proof is in the pudding… Going gluten free has made me feel better, so that’s what I’m going to continue to do. I still use the little cooking secrets I learned from my grandmother but I use them when cooking my own new gluten free recipes.

You never know, our grandchildren’s children might make some of our recipes as their own tradition. Or maybe they’ll just take what resonates with them and throw away the rest.

Honey Roasted Peanuts

January 30, 2014 by officially gluten free Leave a Comment

Honey Roasted Peanuts

These Honey Roasted Peanuts are so easy to make and they taste incredible. With only Four Ingredients you really can’t beat how simple this recipe is. Peanuts are inexpensive and just packed full of protein. They’re a perfect Gluten Free Snack you’ll want to make again and again.

Ingredients.

1/4 cup Honey

1/4 cup White Sugar

1/2 tsp Salt

4 cups Peanuts

Direction

1. Preheat oven to 300 F

2. Melt honey in a large pot, over low heat.

3. Add sugar and salt, stir quickly. Then remove pot from heat.

4. Add Peanuts and mix thoroughly with a stiff spoon. ( Do this quickly, it will stick as it cools ).

5. Place peanuts flat on a ungreased cookie sheet.

6. Bake for 30 minutes string every 5-10 minutes.