Friday, January 2, 2009

So far, I've eaten today:
Goat milk yogurt with pomegranate (thank goodness I finally figured out how to get the seeds out of these things!!)
A smoked salmon and cream cheese sushi roll

After my $8.99 purchase of a toaster, my next plan is to fire that baby up and finish off the rest of my homemade tzatziki sauce along with some quinoa tabbouleh atop a piece of gluten free toast.

I'm just impressed with myself! Not to get too sentimental here, but being diagnosed with celiac really has opened my eyes to the wonderful world of food out there. When I ate anything and everything, I didn't have to look to far to find something I liked. I tended to stick to the stuff that worked for me and my taste buds. So when a lot of those things are suddenly not options anymore, you find yourself looking harder to find things that delight the tongue. And in the process, you end up discovering foods that weren't even a twinkle in your eye before.

I'm eating WELL, here. In fact, tonight, Tom and I are making burrito bowls a la Chipotle right here at home. We've been doing great with cooking lately. We improvise, we steal recipes from our friends, and we imagine how to make the stuff we eat at restaurants all the time. (Which we'd end up having to modify ANYWAY.) And reading posts like the ones over at the gluten free girl website make me crazy inspired to try new things. (Of course, Iron Chef America also gets me inspired... just a completely different source.)

I tell you, if someone ever says to you, "Look, the bad news is that you have to be diagnosed with an auto-immune disease. The good news is that you get to pick which one!" Pick celiac. It's so doable, and frankly, I'm eating a much more balanced diet than before. I guess I pretty much have to.