Day Twenty-seven

I went to bed itchy last night and woke up itchy this morning. Yesterday I thought the problem was the vitamin D pill I took on Monday night, but when it continued so long I started thinking maybe it was salicylates. I didn't want to think about that. I REFUSE to have a salicylate issue!

Then I remembered that yesterday morning I had taken a bag of frozen berries to work with me to make a morning smoothie. However, I forgot to take juice. I looked in the fridge and there was a bottle of unsweetened apple juice, so I used a bit of that. It didn't have any sugar, but it did have ascorbic acid. I didn't think that was a big deal, I mean it's vitamin C right? Nope. Turns out ascorbic acid is made from cornstarch and volatile acids. I knew citric acid was bad (it's made from gmo black mold) but I didn't realize that ascorbic acid came from corn -- which means it's most likely gmo as well. Today I made my smoothie using just berries and water. It tasted fine, not really that much difference, and the itching was mostly calmed down by lunch. So bad news: I don't know if it was the vitamin d or the ascorbic acid; good news: it's not salicylates. Yay!

So for lunch, I had taken some butternut squash soup that I had in the freezer. It was basically roasted butternut squash, homemade chicken broth, garlic powder, and rosemary. But by lunch time I wanted something more substantial. There's a small sandwich shop across the street from the office, so I called over there and asked him to grill a chicken breast with just salt and make it a lettuce wrap. So basically, soup and sandwich. A small afternoon snack of carrot sticks held me the rest of the day.

This evening I decided to try celery root -- or celeriac -- I've been told it has a mild taste like celery but doesn't have the fodmaps. I cut it up and threw it in the pressure cooker with carrots, sweet potato, turnip, fresh basil, fresh cilantro, a bit of garlic powder, onion powder (I read on the fodmaps board that this is ok as well, so I'm giving it a try), and some italian seasoning, topped it with some chicken thighs and grey salt, added water and made chicken soup. It was so yummy I ate two bowls and wanted more. I have some put away for lunch tomorrow and one more bowl in the freezer -- if I'm not too bored with it by dinner tomorrow I may have it again.