The Reluctant Raw Foodist

Are you what you eat?

"I used to be a' foodie' and now I am a "foodist'"

Welcome to my health and wellbeing blog.

I’m not a raw foodist by choice. I was recently diagnosed as having a complicated autoimmune condition including severe Histamine Intolerance and a form of reactive arthritis. I have become hypersensitive to high histamine foods, pollen, dust and some everyday chemicals. My condition affects every area of my life.

I have Mast Cell Activation Disease (MCAD).

I was prescribed a low histamine diet and then a raw food diet to ease my symptoms and over the past 2 years I have overcome my reluctance to a new way of eating and living. I have been experimenting to combine the two diets and I have been learning how to eat a diet comprising mainly of low histamine raw fruit and vegetables and how to change the habits of a life time.

I am starting to feel healthier than I have ever been before. I have also lost 35 lbs in weight.

I will be sharing with you how I got here and I'll be exploring low histamine raw recipes, natural beauty products, how to cope with being "allergic to everything" and generally how to regain health and fitness and live life to the full despite my unusual condition!

Please feel free to message me with any suggestions, questions, or comments. I'd love to hear from you!

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Loooooook goooood!

If you are histamine intolerant I might use almonds instead and  

I don’t use sugar or agave but would be great anyway!

seedsnsmiles:

Wholewheat Vegan Banana Pancakes.

You know it’s a good day when you get to eat pancakes for dinner and that’s perfectly normal behaviour. God bless pancake day.

I topped mine with extra banana (because you can never get enough nana), cinnamon, crushed pecans and agave syrup. It doesn’t get much better than this.

I’m assuming you know how to make pancakes, so I’ll just tell you the mix -

  • 1/2 cup wholewheat flour, 1/4 cup plain flour, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/8 tsp each of cinnamon and nutmeg, pinch of salt, 1 medium banana (mashed), dash of vanilla, 1 tsp of sugar/agave/maple syrup, 3/4 cup to 1 cup almond milk.

1. Stir together the dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet in another, then make a well in the dry and pour in the wet. Just use 3/4 cup milk, adding a further 1/4 cup if required. Mix until combined. Then cook pancakes as standard.

This is definitely my new go-to pancake recipe. It’s so easy, filling and healthy!

Happy pancake day everyone! :D

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