Wheat, egg & MSG free

It’s been a while since I went on an elimination diet. But I figured there’s no other way but to bite the bullet and do it for the sake of figuring out our skin woes as written about in Scratch, Scratch, Scratch and Scratch, Scratch, Scratch 2.

I had to wait till the Christmas/New Year feasting was over to begin this. It is actually much easier to do it this time round since I am dealing with an older child. At 9, she’s able to understand and accept why her meals are plainer and sometimes less pleasant than the others’. And she has shown her maturity in in doing so without complaining. So I guess I had better not complain!

If you ever tried to go wheat free, you’d know what a pain-in-the-you-know-where it is. You need to cook everything from scratch. Almost everything processed has wheat in it. Even soya sauce has wheat in it! It is much easier to go seafood/shellfish free! And when you throw eggs into the mix, whoa! Even wheat free bread and pancake mix can’t be used! And of course going MSG free means no outside food and no tomatoes or mushrooms (these have naturally occuring MSG).

But it is all worth it – well, at least that’s what I am telling myself! We are on Day 5 only and we’ve both been less itchy even tho I had to deep clean the kitchen and we’re experiencing mega dust from the upgrade of Bishan Park.

So what are we eating?

Rice, bee hoon, mee tai bak, rice cakes, corn cakes, cornflakes, oats for our carbs. Meats are marinated with tamari sauce (bought from NTUC Finest) or just salt and some garlic powder. Desserts and snacks are fruits and…chocolates

I must say tho that my system must be highly addicted to wheat I felt so, so, so awful on the 1st 3 days. Kinda like when I went off coffee. And I feel hungry all the time!

But we press on! I may just get to lose some weight.