I couldn't digest raw things very well either. So raw carrots and unripe bananas were still out of the picture. Carrots need to be boiled or steamed. Steamed carrots have better taste and more nutrients so that's the preferred route. Be sure you steam them long enough! They must be soft all the way through. Boiling can be easier to do a large quantity of so I understand that aspect too. Bananas need to be RIPE! For some reason if people see any brown on the peel they think the banana is bad; not so! You can have quite a bit of brown streaks and spots on the peel and it's still perfect inside; no brown. To tell if they are ripe enough they should be pure yellow; not even the stem should be green. Some brown streaks on the peel is a good thing. It should feel a little soft but not mushy. Final test is the stem; pull it back to peel it... if you can not just peel it this way or have to force it down it's not ready. It should gently snap and peel easily. It should have a subtle fermented smell to it.
Here's what I literally eat exclusively for two weeks:
- Bananas: RIPE, smell and taste with a hint of fermentation.
- Diced up and frozen; it's almost like ice cream! It's easy too eat a lot of bananas this way so I recommend only putting 1 or 2 bananas into each container otherwise you'll eat 4 before you know it =) It's actually REALLY good and I know I was like "it's like ice cream" *nom nom nom* and would eat it while watching a movie so it was super easy to over eat them.
- Peel it, skewer it with a kabob stick, wrap it in plastic wrap, and freeze it. Great treat!
- Right out the husk, mmmmm.
- Carrots: Steamed or boiled; NOT RAW.
- Chicken: Unprocessed (nothing added!), baked, or grilled.
- Boneless, skinless, chicken breasts.
- Ground chicken with nothing added. Made burger patties out of it.
- Rotisserie from a store or deli. This is the ONLY 'processed' food I ate the entire two weeks9. Find out exactly what's in their rotisserie chicken; if it has more than 5 ingredients ... don't eat... if you can't pronounce any of the ingredients... don't eat it.
- Home made chicken soup
- Rotisserie chicken (picked clean, just bones)
- Chicken leg quarters
- Carrots
- Salt
- Salt: Used as needed for flavor but sparingly. This is the ONLY spice, herb, or seasoning used!
- Olive Oil: Used as little as possible just so a chicken patty wouldn't stick to the pan... like one tablespoon.
After two weeks I added avocado. It's a dense super food and I really needed the healthy fats at this point. Ate them raw, right out of the shell, using a spoon and a pinch of salt. They need to be ripe; same as bananas. Give them a squeeze. It should feel like it's squishy just under the skin but still firm at the core. If it feels like there's just all mush under the skin it's bad. If there's no give or very little squish it's too early.
I gave them 2 days to see how I reacted. Eat one or two with every meal. From my research it seems some foods can take more than a day to show effects or symptoms. So you need to give yourself 2 days to really test a new food then on the 3rd day you add a new one. I include new herbs, spices, and other flavorings in this category too. Sometimes it's not necessarily the food itself but what's IN it or ON it. So if you add a new spice or herb give it 3 days. Read the label on EVERYTHING you consume. I had a bad reaction to garlic salt because I didn't read the label. After I did I saw all the crap they put in there... there's even sugar in it!
Keep adding things fomr the list of approved foods for the auto-immune Paleo diet here:
http://autoimmune-paleo.com/AIPincludelist.pdf9
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