Meals for Thursday

Midmorning snack: Red clover tea, carrots and sunflower seeds.



Lunch: Leftover broccoli, brussels sprouts and shrimp! Dessert: A pear (not pictured)


Dinner: taco salad with lean ground beef (seasoned with 1 T cumin, 1 tsp powdered garlic, salt and pepper), bell pepper, mushrooms, onion, romaine lettuce, tomato and avocado. (This salad is also very good without tomatoes and peppers.)

The bell pepper and campari tomato are currently in my autoimmune grey zone--bell pepper has very low levels of capsaicin which is supposedly the reason we avoid peppers. However there may be more to it than that. Dr. Cordain mentions avoiding green tomatoes but not red tomatoes, and if I find I should be avoiding peppers and red tomatoes as well, I am certainly willing to give both of them up if I can find a statement that thoroughly explains it--or I suppose I could do it the old fashioned way and exclude all of them for a month and then add them back in one at a time and see what happens. (That might be the best approach actually.) I am reading though Robb Wolfe's resources right now, because he suggests that for autoimmune disease you should avoid all nightshades and lists tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant as things to avoid. There must be a paper I can site that will go into it more thoroughly. When I find it I will let you know.