My daughter ended up having another reaction to food last night, and it made me wonder what new foods I had introduced in the past day or two. The answer: yellow squash and pumpkin. I had to search online to see if it's even possible to be allergic to either of these foods. Surprise! Yes. That's when I started having my first mini freak-out of this elimination diet. Soy allergy, I get. As a vegetarian, she has had a lot of soy since she was born and it's possible her system has been overloaded. Maybe an allergy to dairy, ok. But then beans (possibly the whole bean family), pineapple, and now squash and pumpkin? It's starting to feel as though she's reacting to new foods as quickly as I can introduce them, which isn't supposed to be happening, since we are still in our cleansing weeks.
I've removed all squash now too (butternut, zucchini, yellow and pumpkin are really the only ones we routinely eat). My husband reassured me that we're moving in the right direction, and that we won't know for sure which foods she is actually reacting to until we do her testing weeks. So, for now, I'm back on track. Whew.
Also, I realized that pineapple isn't part of the citrus family, so I'm not adjusting anything there as I had been for a day or two. I'm just learning all kinds of things on this diet!
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And now, banana muffins
Inspired by my baking neighbor, I looked up a recipe for banana bread. The recipe only has a few ingredients, and I traded out Canola oil for butter, brown rice syrup for brown sugar, egg replacer for eggs (it has some citric acid in it, so that's my first known breaking of the rules for ingredients, but I'm ok with it). I used Orgran gluten free all purpose plain flour. The result was great! I made muffins instead of a loaf of bread because I didn't have enough flour to make the full recipe.
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