As I mentioned, I've been feeling like I'm going to get a period for a few weeks. Along with that has been a craving for sweets and chocolate. I perfected a cookie recipe with ingredients that I could tolerate. Well, I've been feeling like I'm experiencing a new food intolerance, D and aches almost every day. I didn't suspect my cookies at first because I didn't react to them when I first tried them, and I've tolerated all of the ingredients before.
I finally realized that it must be the cookies. Ingredients: almond flour, bean flour, cocoa, powdered vanilla, egg, peanut oil, salt and sugar. I stopped making them and was too chicken to try the ingredients individually to figure out what was bothering me. Then I ate a Larabar that I've eaten many times before, it contained almonds and cocoa. You guessed it! I got sick again.
I'm pretty sure it's the almonds and I just overdid it. I'm going to wait 6 months and try almonds again and cocoa. Darn it! I have tested the bean flour and still tolerated it.
Love, Jean
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MaggieRedwings
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Morning Jean,
I sure hope it is not the almond flour but if it is, maybe you can substitute potato flour which to me has little taste. The cocoa sounds like more of a culprit but we all know, it is a crapshoot for most of us MIs.
Hope you are feeling a bit better and have a better day today.
Love, Maggie
I sure hope it is not the almond flour but if it is, maybe you can substitute potato flour which to me has little taste. The cocoa sounds like more of a culprit but we all know, it is a crapshoot for most of us MIs.
Hope you are feeling a bit better and have a better day today.
Love, Maggie
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Could it be sugars or even a different food that you might be eating more of?
When I was searching for a food that was bugging me I was having a hard time figuring it out, I was eating all the foods that didn't bug me. But the thing I didn't realize was that I was eating more than normal of certain foods. Those foods for me were foods containing sugars, mainly fructose was the big problem.
Mike
When I was searching for a food that was bugging me I was having a hard time figuring it out, I was eating all the foods that didn't bug me. But the thing I didn't realize was that I was eating more than normal of certain foods. Those foods for me were foods containing sugars, mainly fructose was the big problem.
Mike
Jean,
Bummer but it seems to be the way the cookie crumbles for us MIs. LOL!
Perhaps it is the frequency with which you were eating the cookies and not any specific ingredient. As Mike suggested above, eating extra sugar every day might be a problem....... because it "feeds" the bad bacteria in the colon.
Or the lectins in the bean flour and peanut oil may have been opening up those gateways in the gut to promote leaking of foreign proteins into the body. I know we always hear that the peanut or soy protein is lost from oils during the distillation process, but my personal experience says otherwise. Maybe you can try substituting with canola oil? And maybe potato flour as Mags suggested (although I know bean flour is preferred because of texture).
Can you tolerate meringues? They have fewer ingredients (no grains) and are quite sweet. Good luck!
Love,
Polly
Bummer but it seems to be the way the cookie crumbles for us MIs. LOL!
Perhaps it is the frequency with which you were eating the cookies and not any specific ingredient. As Mike suggested above, eating extra sugar every day might be a problem....... because it "feeds" the bad bacteria in the colon.
Or the lectins in the bean flour and peanut oil may have been opening up those gateways in the gut to promote leaking of foreign proteins into the body. I know we always hear that the peanut or soy protein is lost from oils during the distillation process, but my personal experience says otherwise. Maybe you can try substituting with canola oil? And maybe potato flour as Mags suggested (although I know bean flour is preferred because of texture).
Can you tolerate meringues? They have fewer ingredients (no grains) and are quite sweet. Good luck!
Love,
Polly
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