Dairy-free GAPS Food Processor Ice Cream

This is sooo easy and totally GAPS legal.  It's also dairy free!

Ingredients:

Frozen fruit (raspberries, mangoes, strawberries would all work really well)
Honey
Coconut milk

Combine ingredients in the food processor, blend, and freeze.

Harcombe Phase 1

I'm planning to start phase I of the Harcombe diet this week.  I've been on phase II for some time now and haven't lost anything, perhaps because I'm transitioning from GAPS.

I'm incredibly busy but I plan to use the simplicity of the diet Here is the meal plan:

Breakfasts:  Grab and go, hardboiled egg

Lunches:  Rice stir fry with veggies

Dinner:  Steak or salmon with veg

The biggest challenges: not drinking coffee! and not substituting coffee with dark chocolate!

Pretty and simple GAPS valentines treat

Mix halved strawberries and pomegranate peices with a few tablespoons of honey.  Top with chilled coconut milk.

Transitioning from GAPS to the Harcombe Diet

A year after starting this blog, I have decided to transition off of GAPS.  Reasons follow:

• Low energy on GAPS
• Tendancy to 'cheat' badly on GAPS - its better (for me) to eat a quinoa salad than order a pizza
• I have some weight to loose and GAPS isn't cutting it
• GAPS worked

What I will continue to do is:

• Avoid wheat
• Incorporate broth wherever possible
• Avoid dairy
• Take probiotics and cod liver oil

Below is my personal meal plan for the Harcombe diet, from January to March:

	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN
	Fruit
Carb	Lentil Chilli	Roast Parsnips	Asian Veg & Rice	Steel Cut Oats	Butternut Spinach Quinoa Salad	Chia Seed Cereal	Chia Seed Cereal
Neutral	Crudités	Vegetable Soup	Kale salad	Vegetable soup	Green Beans	Salad	Salad
Fat	Chicken Curry	Grilled Chicken & Zucchini	Pho	Fish and Roast Butternut	Out	Roast Chicken & Eggplant	Steak & Peppers

Festive-looking GAPS Dinner

A candy-cane colored meal!

Zuchini ribbons (use a vegetable peeler) stir fried in garlic and oregano with long slices of red pepper.  Dress with white wine vinegar and olive oil, and top with crumbled feta.  (Note: I just discovered that feta is not GAPS legal..too bad because it gives a nice white dusting of 'snow' on top ;)

GAPS diet complex carbohydrate substitutes

I am all for enjoying a food for what it is, but that said, I find that sometimes you just crave the old stuff.  Here is my round up of carb substitutes:

Mashed potato ~ Mashed cauliflower

(with lemon; don't know why but the lemon seems to make it taste more like potato)

Rice noodles ~ Spaghetti squash

(people always seem to think spag. squash is a sub for wheat pasta...it so isn't...see below)

Wheat pasta ~ Lentils

(in the old days I used a great wheat pasta made with lentils; sadly I can't have that anymore but for some reason that lentil flavor seems to work well)

Crostini ~ Garlic rubbed eggplant

(rub with garlic, grill, and dip in oil and wine vinegar)

Pasta and potatoes in minestrone soup ~ Well cooked carrots and slightly cooked leeks

Burger Buns ~ Portobello caps

(only works for haute burgers, with a knife and fork)

Am I missing any?  Leave a comment!

A whole roasted chicken for one

Despite appearances, it's unbelievable how practical a roasted chicken is for one person. I thought I would share my method of using a whole roasted chicken.

Meal no. 1 - wings

Meal no. 2 & 3 - quarter chicken; alternately have thighs and legs separately.

Meal no. 4 & 5 - breasts

Meal no. 6 & 7 - soup from bone broth