Wednesday Breakfast

Breakfast, 2pm: grilled eye of round with onions, red peppers and garlic-infused clarified butter (ghee)

Egads - why is she photographing her food? How obsessed can one woman be? REALLY obsessed, as a matter of fact. But that's not why I'm documenting my brekkie.

I am a member of several low-carb message boards. I am also a member of several gluten-free boards (strangely, the two are never found together). I've noticed that in both communities, newbies (and sometimes oldbies) alike ask the same question: What can I EAT?? They wander around cyberspace, starchless, grainless, desperately seeking meal options, frantically sourcing substitutes for their old faves.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not knocking substitutes. If you absolutely cannot go one more day without some form of bagel or noodle, Kinnikinnick your Shirataki's off. But in a world where whole grain is considered tantamount to good health and starches form the basis of many meals, we've forgotten our dietary past which, for about 95% of our existence, did not include grains.

I'll save the diatribe for another post. Suffice to say, there is a whole world of food options out there for us gluten-free, dairy-free and/or low-carb folk. - options that make us neither sick nor fat. This brekkie is a far cry from my previous choices: ancient grain cereal with low-fat vanilla soy milk and bananas, a meal that left me bloated and starved a mere half-hour later. And yes...I have lost weight while eating this way.

So look upon my breakfast, ye un-mighty grain-eaters, and despair!