Fri, Jun 06, 2008
They're Mocking Me
Posted to Miscellaneous category
Mocking me, I tell you. :-) Whenever I go to the refrigerator! 8 kinds of cheese, or more. Chicken-and-cheese sausages. Eggs. Butter. Yogurt. And all sorts of other stuff I'm not supposed to eat.
Even the salami has milk in it.
I think Nanette is going to get a cooler of dairy stuff this weekend (as well as the return of the dozen eggs I got from her last week). If only to make room in the fridge for stuff I can eat. Once I figure out what that is.
Non-perishables will go to Community Foodshare or something similar, but those are less urgent..
My red sauce tastes kind of flat without parmesan. Maybe I should add a tiny bit of hot sauce or red pepper flake.
I know I'm obsessing about food, but I'm in cheese withdrawal: going from an average of a few ounces a day to nothing I need to look up what other than dairy has calcium in it: I was in NO danger of calcium deficiency before now.
I asked for help on the Shadow Unit forum (where every discussion thread is about food eventually) and got some useful suggestions. Which help. And sympathy, which also helps.
I also asked inaurolilliumthe MadGastronomerthe Zombie Chef, who is a food industry professional and has a food advice column (the Ask Zombie Chef site).
(I think LiveJournal is paranoid about Zombies. They have Zombie Chef flagged for adult content for no reason that I can see.)
Posted at: 7:34 pm MDT
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Re: They're Mocking Me
Shawnwrote on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:59
Do you really need to go cold turkey? A phased approach seems more reasonable.
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Re: They're Mocking Me
elysewrote on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:15
The Doctor said: no eggs or milk products at all for the next month. That pretty much works out to cold turkey.(Though I'm cheating a bit with my two expensive candy bars. Which I am taking about three days each to eat.)
The problem with a phased approach for something like this is that you never get to the final phase where you get the benefits. As long as there is any noticeable amount of stuff I'm allergic to in my diet, the histamine levels will stay up.