2012 New Year’s Resolution:  To Heal Myself Through Food

Yesterday I threw out 10-15 POUNDS of flour—whole wheat, all-purpose, bread, semolina, fine-Italian, rye, corn meal and a few others I’m forgetting.  One bag of whole wheat flour was unopened, dated as packaged in Fall 2010.

The wheat-flour purge made room on the shelves and in the frig for all the OTHER flours I’ve been accumulating: rice flour (brown, sweet white, superfine brown), sorghum, teff, millet, tapioca, potato (both starch & flour), almond meal, garbanzo bean flour, . . .

You see over the past year I discovered (on my own, no help or thanks to doctors) that I am “sensitive” to wheat, corn, and dairy.  No, I don’t drop dead if I eat these things—though I once ate so much popcorn followed by a plate of nachos that I had shortness of breath!—but I definitely feel better (in my head, sinuses, lungs, and gut) when I don’t eat them.

SO, after almost a year of elimination/challenge diets, experimenting with taking things away and adding them back, my New Year’s Resolution for 2012 is to REALLY go gluten-free, corn-free, and dairy-free.  (At least as much as humanly possible—more on the challenges of “corn-free” later.)  More important than what I am “giving up,” I resolve to pursue healing through good food.  This blog will record my progress.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!