I might have spent the weekend stewing over my no fruit diagnosis.  I know this is severely ridiculous.  There are real problems out there.  After hours of stewing, I  pretty much decided to do nothing.  I am going to keep eating the way I eat and take notice on how I feel after I eat fruit and certain food combinations.  In the past I would’ve have never thought to look at my reaction to fruit and the combination of potato and grain, but now I have a new investigating tool in my toolbox.  If I notice that I do, indeed, have adverse reactions fruit and certain food combinations, I will do my best to avoid them.  I basically decided on this route because I did not have any symptoms prior to getting the test.  I got the test for giggles.  If there was an ailment that I was trying to get to the bottom of, then I would definitely experiment more deligently with the world of no fruit.  I am not saying that this test doesn’t have any real validity or that I wouldn’t benefit immensely from going this route.  I am just honestly not sure the stress is worth the reward.  I might change my mind in the future, but right now I feel healthy, I am at healthy weight and I have a very balanced relationship with food, so I am not terribly eager to rock that boat.

I will say the no fruit fate got me to purchase a few new things at the grocery store:

1. Rhubarb – rhubarb is on the a-ok list because it isn’t actually a fruit.  I am not sure what I am going to do with these pink sticks of goodness, but I will find something.  Maybe a compote.

2. I also bought watermelon, which all melons are on the a-ok list too.  Why have I never bought watermelon before?   I love it.

3. Heavy Whipping Cream.

Because I am not supposed to have a grain and a potato within 8 hours of one another and retinyl palmitate is a preservative in most milks and milk alternatives I am not supposed to have a grain at breakfast and a nut milk.  However, there are no preservatives in heavy whipping cream and it is so darn good in coffee.

tiny ingredient declaration.

I will say with this whole food intolerance thing, I have started to put even more thought into eating real, whole food.  I am really going to make a conscious effort to eat more fare with fewer ingredients.

On another note, I discovered the perfect yogurt:

Nancy’s Organic Whole Milk Greek Yogurt!  Finally- it has arrived!

Here is why this perfection:

• It is Organic
• It is Greek
• It is whole milk

This is a combo that I had yet to stumble upon, until Sunday.  Sunday I found it.

This morning’s breakfast of overnight oats involved the above perfection:

I will leave you with this:

Happy Tuesday!