Three weeks ago Jeff broke his diet. He began eating flour, sugar, starches all the 'normie' foods. Oddly he had very little reaction. This change was in preparation for an endoscopy. Not much really went wrong, a little bloating and gas, but no pain or other reaction.
On Friday Jeff had the endoscopy, camera and light down the throat to look at the intestines and stomach. The result was very encouraging. overall the result was normal. The Gastroenterologist said that it looks better than expected, a normal healthy intestine. He is going to be reviewing the biopsies to see what it may be wrong.
It could be that Jeff never had Crohns, nor Celiacs, but just had a kink in his intestines originally. Since this part was cut out it may be that Jeff is healthy. As it stands Jeff is a medical mystery and the Doc's are going to be reviewing his case to see what is up.
There is the other option that Jeff had Crohns and was relieved by the Specific Carbohydrate Diet which was created in 1890 to cure Celiacs but then left behind in favor of Pharmacutical company based maintance which doesn't end the problem (healthy people don't buy meds).
Either way Jeff will probably return to the diet just to secure the change, but won't be quite as fanatic about it.
So Praise God for healing.
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Jeff's take on the PJ Pizza Parade
So on my diet Pizza is a major no-no. Flour and sugar in the crust, usually sugar in the tomato sauce, lactose in Mozzarella and pepperoni, starch as an anti-caking agent on the preshredded cheese the restaurants gets. I would spend Christmas in major pain or soaring on narcotics, neither is my idea of a good time...well narcotics are fun in a different way,
So with some research and a bit of intuition I made this up...a gluten/sugar/lactose free pizza crust.
3 cups cooked Spaghetti Squash
2 eggs
1/4 cup shredded cheddar or jack cheese
1/4 cup cooked white beans
Italian herbs and spices.
whirrrr this together in food processor, put in oiled pie plate
bake at 350. I haven't quite figured out how long to bake it...go for browned and i may be pick-upable. It was a bit crumbly...maybe oil in the crust...try it and tell my what you come up with
Mine made enough for two pizzas. Top how you like to...It's a Pizza go crazy, artichoke and olive, or change the seasoning in the crust to a more spanish style and do a taco pizza.
Family traditions are too important to skip. This is how I made it work.
Tell us about some of your favorite christmas traditions.
So with some research and a bit of intuition I made this up...a gluten/sugar/lactose free pizza crust.
3 cups cooked Spaghetti Squash
2 eggs
1/4 cup shredded cheddar or jack cheese
1/4 cup cooked white beans
Italian herbs and spices.
whirrrr this together in food processor, put in oiled pie plate
bake at 350. I haven't quite figured out how long to bake it...go for browned and i may be pick-upable. It was a bit crumbly...maybe oil in the crust...try it and tell my what you come up with
Mine made enough for two pizzas. Top how you like to...It's a Pizza go crazy, artichoke and olive, or change the seasoning in the crust to a more spanish style and do a taco pizza.
Family traditions are too important to skip. This is how I made it work.
Tell us about some of your favorite christmas traditions.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Some days are worse than others...some are the best
Hi; Jeff here:
So today I found a food that is a bad choice for me. You see I love chips but with the SCD all chips are out. Pork Rinds however are okay. Not so for me. I have been having the loudest tummy in a few months and burps that taste wretched. So this kinda put me on edge...yeah, I know it is such a little thing i shouldn't be so sensitive...oh well, be glad you aren't married to me!
I decided to make myself a tunafish sandwich without bread. So I made the mayonnaise, grabbed the homemade relish and a can of store bought tuna. Plopped it all in a bowl, added spices and the smell was great. I glanced at the side of the Tuna can. The front reads "Tuna in water" the ingredients list shows "Tuna, vegetable broth (soy), water, salt" I can't eat soy. I believe my word at the time was "fudge-a-muffin" (which is pretty strong cuss word for me, right after "chripse" and "dang-a-chow-whuup").
So i didn't feel good, had no dinner, and had a Sunday school lesson which drastically needed work.
At this point I looked over and saw Heidi sitting at the table with her dinner. She wanted a PB&J sandwich, dates, goldfish crackers, and a scrambled egg shake (her first venture into creating a recipe: hard boiled egg, cucumber, celery, banana blended up. It isn't horrid) . She must have known something was up because she smiled and said "I love you daddy, do you want some of my scrambled egg shake." Some days her smile is all I need. Parenting is horribly good sometimes.
So today I found a food that is a bad choice for me. You see I love chips but with the SCD all chips are out. Pork Rinds however are okay. Not so for me. I have been having the loudest tummy in a few months and burps that taste wretched. So this kinda put me on edge...yeah, I know it is such a little thing i shouldn't be so sensitive...oh well, be glad you aren't married to me!
I decided to make myself a tunafish sandwich without bread. So I made the mayonnaise, grabbed the homemade relish and a can of store bought tuna. Plopped it all in a bowl, added spices and the smell was great. I glanced at the side of the Tuna can. The front reads "Tuna in water" the ingredients list shows "Tuna, vegetable broth (soy), water, salt" I can't eat soy. I believe my word at the time was "fudge-a-muffin" (which is pretty strong cuss word for me, right after "chripse" and "dang-a-chow-whuup").
So i didn't feel good, had no dinner, and had a Sunday school lesson which drastically needed work.
At this point I looked over and saw Heidi sitting at the table with her dinner. She wanted a PB&J sandwich, dates, goldfish crackers, and a scrambled egg shake (her first venture into creating a recipe: hard boiled egg, cucumber, celery, banana blended up. It isn't horrid) . She must have known something was up because she smiled and said "I love you daddy, do you want some of my scrambled egg shake." Some days her smile is all I need. Parenting is horribly good sometimes.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Relish the night
This is Jeff (at midnight);
I firmly believe that part of living simply is to find entertainment in sources that do not directly fund destructive forces or Mass Media. The pleasure of having fresh produce CANNOT be duplicated especially by the dorks who put High Fructose Corn Syrup in everything (check the honey at KFC).
Gardening is one of these entertainments. Of course Bi-Mart does get a bit of money from us (seed packets) but that is all. Our friends and people we want to be like, Randy and Sharon, have let us use a spot in their garden (read: good Christian communal attitude). The soil is great for just about anything that can grow in the Willamette valley. This year we did carrots, radishes, tomatoes, pumpkins, peppers, and cucumbers.
Our next simple entertainment idea was to pick and can some of this stuff. The Specific Carbohydrate Diet doesn't allow sugar (or factory produced sweeteners) and most canning recipes call for it. Odessa and I have scoured the internet for pickling recipes with out sugar. Didn't really find any, so we called the OSU extension office and found that honey is a good substitute, just cut the amount in half. We then created a recipe for our own relish.
Oh by the way, I have a five gallon bucket of pickle relish in the making (you should see the size of the burger!). It is now midnight and I am waiting for some cucumbers to finish soaking and some brine to boil. This is a bad idea. Between prepping for Sunday school, Family visiting, and Settlers of Catan I am working off of 3.5 hours of sleep. Someday try my relish, but wait until morning to make your own.
If any of you are Crohnies' or on the SCD or are just wanting better tasting pickle relish that is six hours from field to brine (not Corporate outsourced cukes) here is a recipe.
Cucumber pepper relish (O Kershner )(I added the parenthetical statements)
8c cucumbers chopped fine
2c onions chopped fine
4c peppers chopped fine (any type-we use Jalapeno, Ancho, Bell, Anahiem. Will try 1 Habanero later)
(use your food processor to chop fine, especially if doing a five gallon bucket. Or hire Chuck Norris)
1 Tbs tumeric
1/2 c salt (kosher)(usually canning, but you would need to adjust the amount, we only had kosher on hand)
4c cold water
1.5 c honey
4c vinegar (5% white wine is awesome)
2 Tbs Mustard seed
2 tsp celery seed
Put chopped cukes, peppers, onion in large bowl (or bucket). sprinkle with Tumeric.
Dissolve salt in water, pour over veggies. let stand 3-4 hours (take nap). Drain. Cover with fresh cold water, let stand .5-1 hour (power nap). Drain well.
Heat honey, vinegar, and spices to boiling. pour over veggies. Cover with cloth (I used red terry cloth, blue teeshirt should be fine). Let stand 12-18 hours (sleep, go to work, come home).
Simmer until vegies are lightly boiling. Can following standard canning wisdom and practices (ten minutes in water bath is what we do)
Maybe tomorrow..err later today.. we will post our spicy fridge pickle recipe But I have to go to bed now. Hopefully my dreams will not be about small green things.
I firmly believe that part of living simply is to find entertainment in sources that do not directly fund destructive forces or Mass Media. The pleasure of having fresh produce CANNOT be duplicated especially by the dorks who put High Fructose Corn Syrup in everything (check the honey at KFC).
Gardening is one of these entertainments. Of course Bi-Mart does get a bit of money from us (seed packets) but that is all. Our friends and people we want to be like, Randy and Sharon, have let us use a spot in their garden (read: good Christian communal attitude). The soil is great for just about anything that can grow in the Willamette valley. This year we did carrots, radishes, tomatoes, pumpkins, peppers, and cucumbers.
Our next simple entertainment idea was to pick and can some of this stuff. The Specific Carbohydrate Diet doesn't allow sugar (or factory produced sweeteners) and most canning recipes call for it. Odessa and I have scoured the internet for pickling recipes with out sugar. Didn't really find any, so we called the OSU extension office and found that honey is a good substitute, just cut the amount in half. We then created a recipe for our own relish.
Oh by the way, I have a five gallon bucket of pickle relish in the making (you should see the size of the burger!). It is now midnight and I am waiting for some cucumbers to finish soaking and some brine to boil. This is a bad idea. Between prepping for Sunday school, Family visiting, and Settlers of Catan I am working off of 3.5 hours of sleep. Someday try my relish, but wait until morning to make your own.
If any of you are Crohnies' or on the SCD or are just wanting better tasting pickle relish that is six hours from field to brine (not Corporate outsourced cukes) here is a recipe.
Cucumber pepper relish (O Kershner )(I added the parenthetical statements)
8c cucumbers chopped fine
2c onions chopped fine
4c peppers chopped fine (any type-we use Jalapeno, Ancho, Bell, Anahiem. Will try 1 Habanero later)
(use your food processor to chop fine, especially if doing a five gallon bucket. Or hire Chuck Norris)
1 Tbs tumeric
1/2 c salt (kosher)(usually canning, but you would need to adjust the amount, we only had kosher on hand)
4c cold water
1.5 c honey
4c vinegar (5% white wine is awesome)
2 Tbs Mustard seed
2 tsp celery seed
Put chopped cukes, peppers, onion in large bowl (or bucket). sprinkle with Tumeric.
Dissolve salt in water, pour over veggies. let stand 3-4 hours (take nap). Drain. Cover with fresh cold water, let stand .5-1 hour (power nap). Drain well.
Heat honey, vinegar, and spices to boiling. pour over veggies. Cover with cloth (I used red terry cloth, blue teeshirt should be fine). Let stand 12-18 hours (sleep, go to work, come home).
Simmer until vegies are lightly boiling. Can following standard canning wisdom and practices (ten minutes in water bath is what we do)
Maybe tomorrow..err later today.. we will post our spicy fridge pickle recipe But I have to go to bed now. Hopefully my dreams will not be about small green things.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
SCD at 1 week (or so)
Hiya- Jeff again;
well here's an update on how the Specific Carbohydrate Diet is treating me. Over all I am doing very very well. My weight has stopped dropping, I am in the neighborhood of 110 lbs now (eat your heart out ladies). I am hoping to gain about 40 lbs in the next year...it would be nice to have it in time for my high school reunion in three weeks. ( graduated weighing 155, but I was 'normal' then and worked at Dairy Queen with half priced foods...yummmmm)
Wierd thing on this diet is (too much information comming) my bowel movement have pretty much disappeared. Not constipated, just nothing in the Queue. This is actually a nice thing, diarrhea four to eight times a day is no good. I am guessing that the goal of eating easily digested foods has had a remarkable result. It really saves time.
finding food to eat this early in the diet is a challenge. I am on stage one which is pretty limiting. I have been doing some crazy stuff though. We made real jello- fruit juice and unflavored gelatin, no sugars and no color added- thanks to the grapes Randy and Sharon let up pick last year.
Tonight I had Banana Pancakes for dinner...they were great! I'm putting the recipe down just so you try it.
1 very ripe banana mushed and smushed
1 egg, beaten
cinnamon (optional, try nutmeg, allspice, ground clove, chili powder you name it)
butter or oil to fry in
mix the banana and egg. Have pan hot and ready with oil. dump mush in. Flip at some point. Top with cinnamon and eat. As a hint, cook on medium high and let the pancake get lightly black. If you pull it out before this it is still good, but not as. Why you may ask...Caramelization...heck yeah burn the natural sugar in the banana and have a wonderful treat!
well here's an update on how the Specific Carbohydrate Diet is treating me. Over all I am doing very very well. My weight has stopped dropping, I am in the neighborhood of 110 lbs now (eat your heart out ladies). I am hoping to gain about 40 lbs in the next year...it would be nice to have it in time for my high school reunion in three weeks. ( graduated weighing 155, but I was 'normal' then and worked at Dairy Queen with half priced foods...yummmmm)
Wierd thing on this diet is (too much information comming) my bowel movement have pretty much disappeared. Not constipated, just nothing in the Queue. This is actually a nice thing, diarrhea four to eight times a day is no good. I am guessing that the goal of eating easily digested foods has had a remarkable result. It really saves time.
finding food to eat this early in the diet is a challenge. I am on stage one which is pretty limiting. I have been doing some crazy stuff though. We made real jello- fruit juice and unflavored gelatin, no sugars and no color added- thanks to the grapes Randy and Sharon let up pick last year.
Tonight I had Banana Pancakes for dinner...they were great! I'm putting the recipe down just so you try it.
1 very ripe banana mushed and smushed
1 egg, beaten
cinnamon (optional, try nutmeg, allspice, ground clove, chili powder you name it)
butter or oil to fry in
mix the banana and egg. Have pan hot and ready with oil. dump mush in. Flip at some point. Top with cinnamon and eat. As a hint, cook on medium high and let the pancake get lightly black. If you pull it out before this it is still good, but not as. Why you may ask...Caramelization...heck yeah burn the natural sugar in the banana and have a wonderful treat!
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Jeff's post of excitement and hope
Hiya all,
Generally I don't post on here, but this is a special night. I am doing something new that may help me live a normal (within the firms confines of Kersh-iness) life.
As you may know I have this disease called Crohn's disease. It is an auto-immune disease which causes inflammation of the small intestine. I have already had a chunk of my intestines cut out and been stitched back together (no fun at all). My GastroInterologist (GI for short, gut doctor) has told me there is an 85% chance I will need another at some point and I will live my life with constant chronic pain. Yippeeeee. To experience what my normal day is, go to Mexico and drink water from the tap, then have a rabid hedgehog sown into your abdominal cavity, Now have Chuck Norris roundhouse kick you in the gut...and know this is every day...until you die. Once Dead heaven (if you have faith in Christ) will be even better because you will go from extreme pain to extreme joy. This is the thought that has kept me going for three years.
However, I now have some hope of a pain free life on Earth. this isn't drugs, this isn't more surgery, this isn't looked on favorably by the current bureaucratic and wicked FDA. This is a diet program that solves the problem by getting to the root of it. No 'real' study has been done on it but hundreds of people inmy spot have found relief. The Diet is called The Specific Carbohydrate Diet. It is not low carb, it just eliminates bad carbs. It is sugar free, cassien free (that's a dairy thing), gluten free, cereal grain free, starch free, methel-ehtyl-bad stuff free.
So friends, I can't eat normal food. If you have thought about having us over for dinner please do so, just don't be insulted if I bring my own food. Or if you are up to a challenge here are some recipes that fit the diet.
Big question is does it work for me???? Big answer YES. I noticed that most of the gas pain was gone after the first day, My bloating subsided (not the stretch marks though). I have increased in nausea and fatigue because the diet is killing off the bad gut flora and they are very mad about it. But in the words of ICE T "die...die."
If any of you have Crohn's, Colitis, or have been labeled "ibs" or "ibd" by your doc and are tired of years of meds with no relief...try this diet out. Talk to me or any of the numerous people who are already completely healed.
Well that is all...I'll keep you posted
Generally I don't post on here, but this is a special night. I am doing something new that may help me live a normal (within the firms confines of Kersh-iness) life.
As you may know I have this disease called Crohn's disease. It is an auto-immune disease which causes inflammation of the small intestine. I have already had a chunk of my intestines cut out and been stitched back together (no fun at all). My GastroInterologist (GI for short, gut doctor) has told me there is an 85% chance I will need another at some point and I will live my life with constant chronic pain. Yippeeeee. To experience what my normal day is, go to Mexico and drink water from the tap, then have a rabid hedgehog sown into your abdominal cavity, Now have Chuck Norris roundhouse kick you in the gut...and know this is every day...until you die. Once Dead heaven (if you have faith in Christ) will be even better because you will go from extreme pain to extreme joy. This is the thought that has kept me going for three years.
However, I now have some hope of a pain free life on Earth. this isn't drugs, this isn't more surgery, this isn't looked on favorably by the current bureaucratic and wicked FDA. This is a diet program that solves the problem by getting to the root of it. No 'real' study has been done on it but hundreds of people inmy spot have found relief. The Diet is called The Specific Carbohydrate Diet. It is not low carb, it just eliminates bad carbs. It is sugar free, cassien free (that's a dairy thing), gluten free, cereal grain free, starch free, methel-ehtyl-bad stuff free.
So friends, I can't eat normal food. If you have thought about having us over for dinner please do so, just don't be insulted if I bring my own food. Or if you are up to a challenge here are some recipes that fit the diet.
Big question is does it work for me???? Big answer YES. I noticed that most of the gas pain was gone after the first day, My bloating subsided (not the stretch marks though). I have increased in nausea and fatigue because the diet is killing off the bad gut flora and they are very mad about it. But in the words of ICE T "die...die."
If any of you have Crohn's, Colitis, or have been labeled "ibs" or "ibd" by your doc and are tired of years of meds with no relief...try this diet out. Talk to me or any of the numerous people who are already completely healed.
Well that is all...I'll keep you posted
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