So apparently eggs are trying to kill me...
I’ve spent the last several months (since Easter) trying to figure out why I feel so sick all the time and why food hates me. Turns out, I’m majorly intolerant/possibly allergic to eggs. The final straw came last week after my last avoidance-then-eat experiment I tried. I’ll spare the gory details, but the feeling of my throat swelling up, like something is stuck in it that I can’t swallow, is not a fun feeling. I almost went to the ER because I was afraid it would get worse, but thankfully it didn’t. I won’t be doing that experiment again.
So now in addition to being extremely lactose intolerant and having to avoid regular dairy that hasn’t been treated with lactase, I now have to avoid anything with eggs. I never realized they were in so many things I eat on a regular basis! Holy shit! No wonder I feel like death all the time.
If I still have digestive problems in a few months, I’ll have to pick another thing to cut out of my diet. Probably gluten. I have Hashimoto’s disease, and apparently gluten causes a lot of problems with that. I’ve tried a gluten free diet in the past. It lasted about 3 months and was a freaking nightmare. I don’t rec it unless it’s something that you have no choice over. So hard, and MAJOR expensive!
I know I should just switch to a vegan diet, possibly even a gluten free vegan diet, but I just cannot afford something like that. I’ve looked at recipes on pinterest, and some of those dishes would cost more to make than my entire family’s food budget for the week. Anyone have any advice for cheap and easy vegan food that doesn’t take a million ingredients that I can’t find in the store or take 6 hours to make? And ideally doesn’t taste like cardboard?