My New Direction & Mourning the Loss of Cheese

So due to some recent health issue's I'm having to extract certain yummy things from my diet - mostly ooey, gooey cheese, whole eggs, cheese, peanuts, cheese, soy, cheese, wheat - did I mention cheese?? Another big one was milk - what the hell am I supposed to eat my brownies with?? Water? Almond Milk? That's blasphemous. The list was rather daunting after I looked it over. I never really noticed how what I ate effected my body, my sleep patterns (lack thereof), my moods, ect... I can sometimes tend to be a bit obsessive about things if I let myself, but I didn't want to drive myself crazy wondering if what I am about to stuff in my face had any of the 14+ plus things that I might have a food allergy to. Bottom line I just want to feel normal again, be healthy and BE HAPPY! So if limiting or completely eliminating things from my diet will supposedly help me do that, then alright...I'll do it...if I gotta.

One of the things that I miss dearly - besides cheese - are brownies, cookies, cupcakes, ya know the good stuff. Luckily the Vegan movement has hit the baked goods area pretty hard and I've been able to find some simple recipes for things that don't involve wheat or dairy AND are pretty dang tasty. I'd like to state that NO I am not 100% Vegan, it just helps that Vegan recipes are very "food allergy friendly". I still eat meat, because come on - how am I supposed to get any protein if I can't have soy, peanuts, eggs??? I can't survive on beans alone, and nobody should - for an obvious reason! The only meat that I've been told to stay away from is Pork, but somehow I can have Ham??....I don't get how the food allergy thing works, but OK.

I will say that once you've cut something out of your diet and you try to gradually introduce the item back in - or in my case have a moment of weakness and indulge a little, you finally understand what the heck the Doc was talking about. My husband made brownies the other night that had wheat, milk and whole eggs in them and I thought "Just a nibble, just a few bites, I've been good!" Boy do I regret it!! Talk about an almost instantaneous reaction, my stomach violently rejected it. I'll certainly think twice again, before giving into a moment of weakness, no matter how tempting that brownie maybe.

In my search for Vegan friendly recipes, I requested Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World by Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero for Mother's Day. It's arrived so now it's time to get down to some cupcake making business. Don't worry I will be blogging my adventure's into the wonderful world of Vegan Cupcake Goodness and hopefully convince you that they're not so bad after all.