Sure, you’ll be able to have pumpkin pie . . . and biscuits and gravy, and cheesecake, and gravy along with your turkey and nonetheless keep on monitor in your Wheat Stomach life-style!
Some individuals fear that, by following the Wheat Stomach grain-free life-style, they should endure by way of a vacation dinner of dry turkey meat and lettuce leaves and miss out on all the standard tasty dishes. However that’s merely not true. You possibly can get pleasure from an excellent, scrumptious, and wholesome Christmas dinner, as an illustration, whereas residing the Wheat Stomach life-style, staying on monitor and persevering with to reap the appreciable well being advantages together with ongoing weight reduction. However, with a purpose to protect your well being and never achieve, say, 3 kilos from the vacation feasting, there are some simple swaps you should utilize to interchange unhealthy vacation staples with a wholesome and Wheat Stomach-compatible various.
So here’s a listing of simple swaps to make for components and dishes that can enable you to navigate this vacation safely whereas not sacrificing something in style. And, as somebody who avoids all wheat and grains, you can’t devour any dish containing wheat or grains else re-exposure phenomena will present—diarrhea, bloating, joint ache, nervousness, anger, thoughts “fog,” return of irritation and autoimmune situations, and so on.–sufficient to damage your vacation. However household and friends who usually are not wheat- and grain-free can safely eat your wheat/grain-free dishes with none drawback in any way (apart from these with allergy symptoms to our substitute components, akin to nuts). By following such Wheat Stomach swaps, there may be subsequently no want to arrange, say, a pumpkin pie for the grain-eaters and a pumpkin pie for the non-grain eaters. Simply serve the wheat/grain-free model and everybody will likely be completely happy.
Along with the numerous vacation recipes within the Wheat Belly Cookbook and Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook, listed below are some concepts for wholesome swaps and recipes. On the left discover the standard ingredient or dish; on the proper is our Wheat Stomach swap:
Gravy thickened with wheat flour or cornstarch———-Gravy thickened with coconut milk (canned), cream/butter, pureed mushrooms, eggplant, zucchini, broccoli, pumpkin, squash. (Extra on Wheat Belly compatible thickeners, savory and non-savory, might be discovered right here.) After all, use drippings as your gravy base.
Mashed potatoes———-Mashed steamed cauliflower. Recipe here.
Biscuits and gravy———Biscuits and gravy made with almond flour and protected thickeners. Recipe here.
Cranberry sauce———-Cranberry sauce made with natural cranberries and sweetened along with your alternative of certainly one of our benign sweeteners
Dressing/stuffing———-Dressing/stuffing with out breadcrumbs or bread. Recipe here. (Observe that this dressing recipe is not supposed to be cooked within the turkey, however made individually.)
Soup—————-Soups with out noodles or unhealthy thickeners. Recipe for Cream of Mushroom soup here. Be sure you save your leftover turkey with the bones to make soup/broth afterwards.
Pumpkin pie———Pumpkin pie with a floor pecan or walnut crust and no-sugar-added filling. Recipe here.
Cheesecake————Cheesecake made with a nut meal crust and no-added-sugar filling. Recipes for Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake, Double Chocolate Cheesecake, Blueberry Cheesecake Pie.
These Wheat Stomach meals swaps let you have a protected and wholesome vacation with out weight achieve, with out the agony of wheat/grain re-exposure, with out rises in blood sugar, whereas collaborating within the all the nice consuming and enjoyable.
Completely happy holidays, everybody!
