GERD Elimination Diet – Day 38

Breakfast

Oats, 2% milk, cinnamon, vanilla, cashew butter and strawberries. About 390 calories.

Lunch

Turkey meatballs, lettuce and mozzarella on a flour tortilla with cantaloupe and honeydew melon on the side. About 380 calories.

Dinner

Lamb meatballs with roasted potato, carrot and Brussels sprouts, about 440 calories.

I have been thinking a lot about middle eastern food recently and thought I’d try and add some of those flavors to my meatballs. At first I was going to add dried mint until I remembered mint is a potential GERD trigger. So I went with fresh parsley, dried oregano, cumin and a little cinnamon. It was pretty good but could use more cumin next time. I didn’t add too much since I didn’t want to overdo it and ruin my lamb. It would have been great with a yogurt sauce but I don’t have any yogurt and ideally there would be lemon in it too. Well, some day maybe…

Snack

Cashews and a glass of 2% milk, about 310 calories.

Macros

According to the Fitbit app, my split today was 38% carbs, 41% fat and 21% protein and I ate a little over 1500 calories.

Final Thoughts

Milk is a bit of a weird thing as far as this reintroduction period goes. I used to drink it in my coffee every morning, but otherwise I didn’t consume very much except as an ingredient in something else. Sometimes I’d drink a glass at night if I was too hungry to sleep, or in the late afternoon if I didn’t want a snack but didn’t think I could wait until dinner.

Now, I’m supposed to have at least 2 serves of milk a day. Hence the milk as part of my snack. There are a few other food groups I need to reintroduce that will be similar to this. Like, I’m not sure I want two serves of beef for two days in a row. But as my husband says, it’s for science. We’ll see how things go.

I did manage to eat no eggs today, which is basically always an achievement for me. Since I need to conserve them, I’m trying to be a little more careful with how many I eat.