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<ul><li>spinach and feta omelette</li>
<li>arnold bennett</li>
<li>crab stuffed avocado with marie rose sauce</li>
<li>bratwursts and apple compote</li>
<li>sauteed broccoli rabe on toast</li>
<li>chana masala</li>
<li>lemon and parmesan chickpea salad</li>
<li>watermelon, tomato, green onion, cucumber, and feta salad</li>
<li>cobb salad</li>
<li>grilled cheese sandwiches and (frozen) tomato soup</li>
<li>sesame noodles</li>
<li>salad lyonnaise</li>
<li>stir fried green beans</li>
<li>gazpacho</li>
<li>swiss fondue with crusty bread, apple, and sausage</li>
<li>pancetta and cantaloupe</li>
<li>curried chicken over rice</li>
<li>steamed mussels and baked french fries</li>
<li>pesto</li>
<li>gratin (you can literally throw anything you want into one of these)</li>
<li>scrambled eggs with chorizo</li>
<li>roasted shrimp and broccoli</li>
<li>(frozen) butter squash soup</li>
<li>grated carrot salad</li>
<li>savory bread pudding</li>
<li>shakshuka</li>
<li>cacio e pepe</li>
<li>spinach and chickpeas (so much better than it sounds)</li>
<li>strawberry, bleu cheese, and baby green salad</li>
<li>(frozen, pre-made) lasagna</li>
<li>tomato sauce with onion and butter</li>
<li>turkey roll-ups (spinach, grated carrot, cream cheese)</li>
<li>BLT's with avocado</li>
<li>frittata (another thing you can throw most anything into)</li>
<li>soft boiled eggs and asparagus</li>
<li>quesadillas</li>
<li>chicken salad</li>
<li>saltimbocca</li>
<li>teriyaki salmon</li>
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Leigh, next time we come to NYC to visit family, I'm coming to your house for dinner ;-)<br><br>
I did a lot of experimenting this year with different diets to see how I felt. Vegan for 6 months to keep my endometriosis at bay when my pp cycle returned.<br><br>
Then our house got H1N1 and I was so stressed and insane taking care of everyone that I had no time to make the kind of food I needed to eat to stay healthy and ended up eating dairy (always my weakness,) ended up with pneumonia for 3 weeks which was really bad. Thought I was going to end up in the hospital and was nursing through it all. In the middle of all that I went back to eating meat.<br><br>
Once I got healthy again I did Dr. Hyman's cleanse for three weeks. After that I tried to keep dairy and wheat out of my diet and that's probably the best I felt out of all the diet varieties. But of course I didn't stick with it.<br><br>
We eat only organic, except when we eat out, but we're still cautious about choosing restaurants. We try to only go to the ones that are using local meat or we eat vegetarian out. We're really fortunate to have excellent local farms to get our meat from so we hit the farmers market every Saturday and usually get a chicken and a roast or something along with eggs and make that last the week plus we eat at least a couple of veggie dinners a week. We also have a plot in our community garden and when we can't grow it ourselves we get it from the farmers market. Other than that we try to avoid the junk, so hard to do this time of my pregnancy. I wish I didn't have such a sweet tooth. I'm hoping to go back to cutting out the cheese and the wheat once I feel a little better. I've had a dairy allergy since I was a kid so it's really not a good idea for me to have it but it just taste so good!!!
