It’s been an exciting month for me! A local new station, KDKA, is doing a segment on the Avani Institute and our Healing Yourself In The Kitchen class series. Kym, the reporter doing the segment, came to my house to interview me while I was cooking! I couldn’t decide what to make, so I decided to …
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Last Thanksgiving I made a great dinner… well I thought I made a great dinner. (Want to see over 101 Holiday recipes? Check out this post here!) I had gluten-free stuffing, gluten-free gravy, steamed veggies, turkey and dairy free/gluten-free/refined sugar-free pumpkin pie. The stuffing was GROSS, but everything else was good. The pumpkin pie, if I do …
Last October I started my healing journey with food. For months I cut out sugar, gluten, dairy, corn, soy, gmo’s… the list goes on and on. Fast forward a year. I still have not included most of these back in my diet, but I know I need to make a change because my health has …
Going out to eat is kind of a stressful event now a days. Autoimmune patient food choices can be verrrryyyyyyy limited. I get kinda creeped out when reading menus where ONE of the dishes will be “all natural, no hormone” chicken. Sooooooo does that mean all the other chicken options are not natural and use …
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So it’s been 10 months since I embarked on my healing journey with food. I’ve come far, but I still have a far way to go. I won’t lie, I do get discouraged when others criticize me and comment on how I should feel better since it’s almost been a year that I’ve been on …
This recipe is delicious, but only make this if you’ve added peppers back into your diet and you did not have a problem with them. So many articles tell those with arthritis to shy away from night shade vegetables. When it comes down to it, it really depends on YOUR BODY! That’s why elimination diets are …
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I needed to make a dessert to take to a picnic this month and wasn’t sure what to make. My requirements were 1. Had to be super easy 2. Had to use ingredients I already had on hand 3. Had to be delicious So, I started looking through the pantry to see what I had …
Being on an elimination diet for the past 9 months I find it hard to go to parties. The only reason I’ve been on the diet so long is because I had about a 2-3 month period where I couldn’t even eat regular food, let alone test out new foods to see if they affected …
I started introducing foods back into my diet the end of December. Since then my eyes have really been opened to seeing how foods play an impact on how we feel! So far I’ve introduced . . . Bananas Oranges Red Peppers Tomatoes Wine (haha!) Sheep’s Milk Cheese The wine wasn’t really part of the …
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