Breakfast

Mon 07.07.08 - The hardest part of a gluten-free, diary-free, egg-free, yeast free allergy diet is breakfast.

Think about it. No eggs. No regular bread. No regular cereal. No bagels. Etc.

Ever tried to make a pancake with rice flower, rice milk, and egg replacer? It can be a disaster.

I am one of those folks who needs to start every day with a good protein breakfast, to not do so is to court hypoglycemic disaster just before lunch. When I was first taken off of wheat and yeast in the late 80s / early 90s, I became a morning egg eater, as well as learned to eat dinner leftovers for breakfast.

Now that I am off eggs and diary on top of the no gluten and no yeast, breakfast can be challenging. I am very happy to report that Ener-G's Gluten-free Yeast-free Brown Rice Loaf is my morning savior, along with a few other gluten-free items. But I am supposed to not eat the same thing everyday, to rotate my food choices so that I do not develop new food sensitivities. Thus, the challenge.

This morning, I had two slices of bacon, two apricots, two slices of the Ener-G break with apricot jam, and some tea with honey and rice milk in it. It was delightful.