Healing Hashimoto's: Day 13

The edge is starting to come off, so that's nice. I'm not crawling out of my skin for a pretzel or a cookie. Although, I still imagine eating them sometimes. I'm starting to find some quick-fix favorites. The trip to Vermont forced me to think about portable meals and snacks so now I feel prepared for the upcoming school year. Some great quick-fix lunches I've loved are mostly a variety of salads. I mix chickpeas with salsa and avocado, or coconut and lemon (I'm not a fan of lemon, so I think next time I'll try orange juice), salads with various berries and seeds, or sometimes tempeh, and homemade balsamic vinegarette. And one really simple, really delicious quick lunch is just smoked tofu with balsamic - and I added mixed seeds. Really yummy. Great salty snacks are edamame or nuts. My favorite sweet snack is apples with peanut butter - and the peanut butter is literally just ground peanuts. No sugar really means no sugar - including agave, cane juice, dried fruit of any kind, and some of my favorite fruits, like pineapple.

The biggest challenge is dinner because I'm cooking for two, and one of the two is not a vegan and has a big appetite. I've tried some recipes, some modifications of my favorite meals, and some things just made up off the top of my head. Favorites include a taco - made of walnuts, smoked tofu, mushrooms, and onion with cumin, coriander, and Bragg's amino acids, and I also really loved Chinese night which consisted of Asian-flavored tofu with broccoli, carrots, celery, and onion. I've tried things I've never tried before - brussel sprouts and parsnips to name a few. Yes to brussel sprouts, no thanks to parsnips.

The foundation of a lot of my meals are these amazing varities of tofu by Soy Boy. They have Asian, Smoked, Italian, and Carribean - although the Carribean flavor has gluten in it, the rest are gluten free! Don't be fooled by the online label, they updated the soy sauce to be wheat free. (I learned this after a brief panic attack when I looked at the below picture and then frantically searched the ingredients on the package in my fridge.)



Closing out week 2, I'm ten pounds down and seem to be slowly recovering from withdrawal.