A Regimen for Remission
This log tracks my regimen of attitude, exercise, stress management, and SCD foods. Since I started this regimen in 1997, I've been able to keep my Crohn's in a drug-free remission.

Monkey-see,
monkey-don't
Even though I may have experimented beyond the SCD from time to time, one must remember that everyone is different. Follow the intro diet for 3-5 days, and stick with the SCD until you are completely symptom free for at least one year before experimenting.

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Breakfast: homemade applesauce, homemade yogurt, Lois Lang's nut bread, and a fiery October sunrise (albeit more pink than the sunrise on Tuesday morning).

Happy Halloween!!!

mhs@06:37

Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Dinner: homemade chicken soup, leftover grilled turkey with Punjab eggplant sauce. Dessert: pear tart.

Lunch: leftover slow-cooked cauliflower, onion, and garlic with Indian spices; roasted delicata squash with butter; almond meal "breaded" chicken breasts with Indian spices and an orange, honey, red pepper sauce.

Breakfast: homemade applesauce, homemade yogurt, Lois Lang's nut bread, and a fiery October sunrise.

mhs@19:27

Sunday, October 26, 2003

Dessert: pear tart.
mhs@20:19

Dinner: slow-cooked cauliflower, onion, and garlic with Indian spices; puree of acorn squash with butter and honey; almond meal "breaded" chicken breasts with Indian spices and an orange, honey, red pepper sauce.

Lunch: Leftover kale, grilled eggplant, sautee of scallions with radishes, and turkey burger with Muenster cheese.
mhs@19:46

Home Economics
The weather has finally changed and we are enjoying cool evenings and warm days. For the next six to eight months we'll be better able to enjoy baked goods without having too much concern over heating our home here in sunny, hot southern Arizona!

During this time of year, it is nice to make the applesauce and bake bread and winter squash, as it warms the house nicely on the crisp mornings. During the summer, it is an absolute necessity to do so in the morning (with the windows open) so the heat has a chance to dissipate before the hot sun heats everything around us and requires additional energy usage to 'cool' the heat created by the oven and stove.

We find the following activities work well in the weekend mornings:

• coring apples and making applesauce
• baking Lois Lang's nut bread
• baking winter squash

We find the following activities work well in the evenings:

• heating and cooling milk and then fermenting in the Yogourmet for 24 hours (so it goes into the refrigerator the following evening and is ready to eat the next morning)
• dripping yogurt (it is completely dripped by morning)

What do you do to make the SCD easier for you?

Breakfast: homemade yogurt, applesauce, and Lois Lang's nut bread.
mhs@08:19

Saturday, October 25, 2003

Dinner: sauteed scallions and radishes, grilled sea bass with butter and thyme, grilled baby bell peppers.

Lunch: tossed salad, tunafish salad.
mhs@19:33

Breakfast: homemade yogurt, applesauce, and Lois Lang's nut bread.

Dinner, yesterday: tossed salad with goat cheese, sauteed kale, grilled eggplant.

Lunch: tossed salad with goat cheese.
mhs@07:05

Friday, October 24, 2003

Breakfast: homemade yogurt, applesauce, and Lois Lang's nut bread.

Shortsightedness. Monkey-see-monkey-don't.
Dinner, yesterday @ Thunder Canyon Brewery, game 5 of the World Series: tossed salad with a lame Caesar salad dressing, cheeseburger, onion rings, and a pint of obsidian porter. What the heck, right? Wrong. I didn't sleep well and woke with a bunch of diarrhea a few times. By morning I was empty. I feel a little tired but otherwise I don't think there was any long-term damage, just a clear reminder of how the SCD works for me and why I maintain it and shouldn't make such gross transgressions. :-)
mhs@06:17

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Dessert update: Laura has just handed me a fresh batch of banana-cream frozen yogurt. :-)
mhs@19:34

Dinner: Mike's mini mushroom toaster oven pizzas!

Lunch: baked chicken, tossed salad.
mhs@19:30

Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Breakfast: homemade yogurt, applesauce, and Lois Lang's nut bread.

Dinner, yesterday: Indian-style turkey burgers with brie, tossed salad.
mhs@06:12

Saturday, October 18, 2003

Dessert: banana cream frozen yogurt.
mhs@19:56

Perhaps someday the web will be able to transmit the wonderful smells emanating from my kitchen. In the interim, suffice it to say it smells good here!

Dinner: tossed salad with hearts of Romaine lettuce, tomato, and a mustard vinaigrette; eggplant Parmigiana. Wonderful!

Lunch: leftover stir-fry of chicken, carrots, broccoli.
mhs@19:31

Breakfast: homemade yogurt, applesauce, and Lois Lang's nut bread.
mhs@06:44

Monday, October 13, 2003

Wow, we've been busy! Starting with Thursday after work, we've spent every free minute at home preparing to repaint the interior of our house (everything except the bedrooms and bathrooms). We bought miles of blue tape, plastic sheeting, dropcloth, and masking tape. We protected the lamps, the cabinets, the doors, the windows, the floor, the countertop. Everything is covered in plastic.

Then we rented an air sprayer, hooked it up to our 5-gallons of VOC-free paint from Sherwin-Williams, and sprayed away. We ran out of paint about 1/3 of the way through because the calculator on the Home Depot site was wrong.

So we were unable to finish as planned and ended up staying with Laura's parents on Saturday night. Sunday we waited for the paint store to re-open, bought more paint, and finished the job with 5 minutes to spare to return the cleaned sprayer to HD! Whew!

So, how to maintain SCD legal food when one's kitchen is covered in plastic and wet paint? First, you put a bunch of stuff in a cooler (with ice) in the garage, for easy access. Almond bread, homemade yogurt, fruit, cheese. I had dinner out two nights in a row; lamb shashlik at Laura's parents' on Saturday and some veal with tomato and pine nuts over a bed of spinach last evening.
mhs@07:19

Thursday, October 09, 2003

Breakfast: homemade applesauce, homemade yogurt, Lois Lang's nut bread.
mhs@06:07

Dinner, yesterday: pan-seared turkey, mushroom, and Asagio cheese sausages from TJ's, sautee of white peacock kale with a lemon-mustard sauce. Yum! It's like an updated SCD-legal Oktoberfest!
mhs@06:04

Tuesday, October 07, 2003

A gloriously rainy day in Tucson. Dinner: chicken soup with some fresh baby spinach thrown in for extra greens.

Lunch: tomato and vegetable soup.

Breakfast: homemade applesauce, homemade yogurt, Lois Lang's nut bread
mhs@20:12

Monday, October 06, 2003

Breakfast: homemade applesauce, homemade yogurt, Lois Lang's nut bread.

Dinner, yesterday: we were treated to an SCD meal at the home of Irene and Igor: breast of chicken with a sautee of carrots and onions in a buttery wine sauce, steamed green beans with garlic.

Dessert: Irene's mother's "carrot-coconut-upside down banana nut cake" (or something like that).

mhs@06:10

Sunday, October 05, 2003

More breakfast: bacon, fried eggs, topped with a bit of salsa.
mhs@09:53

Breakfast: homemade applesauce and yogurt, Lois Lang's nut bread.

Dinner, yesterday: Laura's SCD lasagna.

Dessert: orange-nut cake.
mhs@07:37

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