I hope that you're feeling great as you celebrate this special day.
Love,
Tex
Happy Birthday Patricia :party:
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Happy Birthday Patricia :party:
Happy Birthday Patricia!
I hope that you're feeling great as you celebrate this special day.
Love,
Tex
I hope that you're feeling great as you celebrate this special day.
Love,
Tex
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Thank you all SO MUCH! You guys are the best!!! 
I had a lovely day! The weather was picture perfect, I just love fall with the leaves turning beautiful colors, the blue sky, and the fresh crisp air.
Here is what I ate on my birthday:
My usual breakfast: 1 mashed banana mixed with white rice and cinnamon on top
My lunch was very typical, too: wild cod, white rice, black olives with olive oil and salt
For dinner my husband and I went to a nice restaurant downtown Pittsburgh. They always send their customers on the email list a gift certificate for a free dinner entree for their birthday.
For my appetizer I ordered oysters with lemon slices but no sauce. For my main course I picked out items from their fancy entrees and put my own main dish together: scallops, roasted fingerling potatoes, Swiss chard, only prepared with my own olive oil (that I carry in a little bottle to restaurants, not that we go out very often anymore), salt and pepper. They did just that and were very nice about it! They had asked me what my allergies were and I had told the waiter gluten, dairy, egg, soy, and sugar. He asked if they could make the potatoes with duck fat, but I wasn't sure if that duck fat was going to be pure or whether something else would be added to it, possibly soy in some form or another, and I did not want to risk anything. I told him I would prefer if they just used my oil, salt and pepper and nothing else, just to be on the safe side. When he came to ask for dessert, he offered that they could make me a fruit plate. But I did not want to go into how I actually don't seem to tolerate fruit with the exception of bananas. I just thanked the waiter and said I was fine, I didn't need a dessert but my husband would like to order one. When my hubby's dessert arrived, it was nicely arranged on a plate, with a happy birthday chocolate square (happy birthday written with white chocolate on a piece of dark chocolate) and a burning candle in the middle of the plate. The waiter told me he really wanted me to be able to make a wish and blow out a candle even if I was not able to eat the dessert and would have to watch my husband eat it. He was so kind and understanding! And I was fine the next day!! Yay!!!
I didn't have any chocolate on my birthday, not even the Enjoy Life one. A few weeks ago I made GF SF DF EF brownies for my youngest daughter who is GF and mostly DF. I wanted to try out the recipe in my GF SF DF EF baking book. The book also contains the recipe for a phenomenal chocolate cake. I wanted to see if the brownies were just as good, so I could make them for my youngest daughter a different time, when she is invited to a friend's house and worried that there won't be anything safe for her to eat. I made the brownies, they were delicious, and I had two or three for about three days in a row. Well, not a good idea! For my daughter, yes, for myself, no! I think it was just the sugar causing the SIBO to flare. So now, a few weeks later, finally back to better, I decided I was not going to risk it again. I might have been fine with just one tiny brownie, but I have been more interested in desserts than the rest of the meal since I was born. And not to eat the rest of the brownies when they were in front of me, was too much of a challenge! And even though it was spread out over a few days, it was too much.
I am also doing a trial without avocados right now. I haven't had any avocados for two weeks to see if that might change the burned tongue feeling. So far, no difference at all. I might give it another week, if nothing changes by then, it's back to avocados for me!
Thanks again to all of you! I am so grateful for my Potty People Family!! I do not know (nor want to know) where I would be physically, mentally, and emotionally without all of your wonderful advice. You are my heroes!
Love, Patricia
I had a lovely day! The weather was picture perfect, I just love fall with the leaves turning beautiful colors, the blue sky, and the fresh crisp air.
Here is what I ate on my birthday:
My usual breakfast: 1 mashed banana mixed with white rice and cinnamon on top
My lunch was very typical, too: wild cod, white rice, black olives with olive oil and salt
For dinner my husband and I went to a nice restaurant downtown Pittsburgh. They always send their customers on the email list a gift certificate for a free dinner entree for their birthday.
For my appetizer I ordered oysters with lemon slices but no sauce. For my main course I picked out items from their fancy entrees and put my own main dish together: scallops, roasted fingerling potatoes, Swiss chard, only prepared with my own olive oil (that I carry in a little bottle to restaurants, not that we go out very often anymore), salt and pepper. They did just that and were very nice about it! They had asked me what my allergies were and I had told the waiter gluten, dairy, egg, soy, and sugar. He asked if they could make the potatoes with duck fat, but I wasn't sure if that duck fat was going to be pure or whether something else would be added to it, possibly soy in some form or another, and I did not want to risk anything. I told him I would prefer if they just used my oil, salt and pepper and nothing else, just to be on the safe side. When he came to ask for dessert, he offered that they could make me a fruit plate. But I did not want to go into how I actually don't seem to tolerate fruit with the exception of bananas. I just thanked the waiter and said I was fine, I didn't need a dessert but my husband would like to order one. When my hubby's dessert arrived, it was nicely arranged on a plate, with a happy birthday chocolate square (happy birthday written with white chocolate on a piece of dark chocolate) and a burning candle in the middle of the plate. The waiter told me he really wanted me to be able to make a wish and blow out a candle even if I was not able to eat the dessert and would have to watch my husband eat it. He was so kind and understanding! And I was fine the next day!! Yay!!!
I didn't have any chocolate on my birthday, not even the Enjoy Life one. A few weeks ago I made GF SF DF EF brownies for my youngest daughter who is GF and mostly DF. I wanted to try out the recipe in my GF SF DF EF baking book. The book also contains the recipe for a phenomenal chocolate cake. I wanted to see if the brownies were just as good, so I could make them for my youngest daughter a different time, when she is invited to a friend's house and worried that there won't be anything safe for her to eat. I made the brownies, they were delicious, and I had two or three for about three days in a row. Well, not a good idea! For my daughter, yes, for myself, no! I think it was just the sugar causing the SIBO to flare. So now, a few weeks later, finally back to better, I decided I was not going to risk it again. I might have been fine with just one tiny brownie, but I have been more interested in desserts than the rest of the meal since I was born. And not to eat the rest of the brownies when they were in front of me, was too much of a challenge! And even though it was spread out over a few days, it was too much.
I am also doing a trial without avocados right now. I haven't had any avocados for two weeks to see if that might change the burned tongue feeling. So far, no difference at all. I might give it another week, if nothing changes by then, it's back to avocados for me!
Thanks again to all of you! I am so grateful for my Potty People Family!! I do not know (nor want to know) where I would be physically, mentally, and emotionally without all of your wonderful advice. You are my heroes!
Love, Patricia
