Allison,

I love reading your joy dots...and hope you get a lot of great information from your journal and experiments.

Joy dot: playing in the garden, decluttering the linen closet...there is *space!

I'm having an afternoon snack today. I forget that some of my gardening is hard work, and I didn't add in extra at lunch...and I was feeling a bit blood sugar crashy. Just glad I knew what it was, and know what to do about it.

I tried a new recipe today that has you soak your flour for 12 to 24 hours in yogurt, kefir or buttermilk before adding the rest of the ingredients and cooking. I used cocnut kefir for the soak, left the sugar out, and used buckwheat and brown rice instead of wheat. They were ok, but too much baking soda...I'm thinking a high altitude thing....and the muffins sunk. I haven't made banana muffins for a long time, and these turned out pretty good...I'll try it again.

Colette

: Joy dot: wonderful spicy sweet potato
: dish at dinner last night.

: I have been working on a few things:
: reducing gluten to see if it helps
: with digestive issues I've been
: having, and figuring out how to
: work out after work without blood
: sugar crashes. I've realized that
: this is an excellent opportunity
: to refine my journalling skills.
: Journal has always been my weakest
: step, and I always envy people who
: love their journal. I am really
: concentrating on mine right now
: and trying to give it the chance
: to be a tool I can love. I had a
: few pages left in an old journal,
: but I started with a brand new one
: to symbolize making a fresh start
: in journalling.

: Since I'm making a variety of
: changes, I have added a sheet of
: paper where I record the date I
: made each change. That way, I can
: go back and see what happened
: after each change when I review,
: and compare before and after. I
: find this useful because in the
: past, I got really depressed after
: cutting down on vitamin B, and I
: also got whacko after taking soy
: isoflavones. I was able to figure
: both those things out, but it
: would have been easier and quicker
: if I had had an easy way to find
: the date that I made those
: changes. I'll also add a sheet
: which lists my daily vitamins, and
: my daily shake ingredients so I
: can just write shake and vitamins
: in the journal, and then make note
: of exceptions.

: I think I will bake up some program
: friendly banana or pumpkin muffins
: to have on weekends with my omelet
: (made with oat and brown rice
: flour), and keep them in the
: freezer. Or maybe I'll try the
: baked oatmeal recipe. I used to
: have toast with the omelet.

: I'm looking at this as an adventure
: and working it out bit by bit
: instead of getting frantic or
: thinking I have to have it all
: worked out right now! the way
: I would have when I started the
: program.
: Allison