Egg Free Breakfast Roundup! YEE HAW!!!

Hello allergy ladies!

I know for me, I can get in a breakfast rut rather quickly...which leads to me opening and shutting the refrigerator door and cupboards repeatedly hoping something will inspire me.

Oatmeal makes a regular appearance in my breakfast meal rotation. Then some days I am so whiny about another bowl of oatmeal.

So, I decided to inspire both you and me, I would search the web for some yummy breakfast ideas that are all egg free!

I will start with some links from my own blog:

(S) Just like Grandmas Rolls: http://anointedwithoilofjoy.blogspot.com/2015/05/just-like-grandmas-rolls-bread-oh-have.html

I use these to make a breakfast sandwich with a beef breakfast sausage. Of course this means you have had to have the made up ahead of time. These are a bit of a time commitment.

(S) Egg free Blueberry Scones - these are delicious!
http://anointedwithoilofjoy.blogspot.com/2015/02/blueberry-s-scone-egg-free.html


(S) Egg free scramble, I will usually make a large batch of this so I can rewarm and enjoy several days in the week and cook/clean less!
http://anointedwithoilofjoy.blogspot.com/2015/01/egg-free-s-breakfast-scramble.html

(S) MIM with beef breakfast sausage, this is quick, easy and delicious!
http://anointedwithoilofjoy.blogspot.com/2014/11/allergy-friendly-s-breakfast.html

(E) Breakfast scones and healing protein London Fog tea
http://anointedwithoilofjoy.blogspot.com/2014/11/london-fog-healing-protein-tea-oatmeal.html


Now on to my blogger friends great recipes!!


(S) Jennifer Griffins Porridge, great for a quick no brainer breakfast, so fast and easy!
http://anointedwithoilofjoy.blogspot.com/2015/01/s-breakfast-egg-free-dairy-free-yet.html

(E) The Fabuless Wife Cinnamon Roll Oatmeal
http://www.thefabulesswife.com/2015/05/cinnamon-roll-oatmeal-thm-e-breakfast.html#.VWXBOs9Viko

(E) Jennifer Griffins Baked Oatmeal
http://www.ahomewithpurpose.com/baked-oatmeal-gluten-dairy-egg-and-soy-free/

(S) Simply Healthy Home Egg Free Breakfast Skillet for One
http://simplyhealthyhome.com/egg-free-breakfast-skillet-one/

(FP) Simply Healthy Home Strawberry Lemon Green Smoothie
http://simplyhealthyhome.com/strawberry-lemon-green-smoothie/

(S) All Day I Dream About Food Low Carb Peanut Butter Flax Power Granola
http://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/2012/07/peanut-butter-flax-power-granola-bobs-red-mill-giveaway.html

(S) All Day I Dream About Food Low Carb Chocolate Avocado Smoothie
http://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/2015/05/low-carb-chocolate-avocado-raspberry-smoothie.html

(S) Simply Healthy Home Strawberry Granola
http://simplyhealthyhome.com/strawberry-granola/

(FP) Gwen's Nest Homemade Fruit Bottom Yogurt Recipe
http://gwens-nest.com/fruit-bottom-yogurt-recipe/

(E) Briana Thomas' Scrumptious Overnight Oatmeal 5 Ways
http://www.briana-thomas.com/scrumptious-overnight-oatmeal-5-ways-e/

(E) Counting all Joy Cherry Quinoa Porridge
http://www.countingalljoy.com/2013/12/cherry-quinoa-porridge-e-trim-healthy-mama-paleo-transitioning-off-gaps-dairy-free-egg-free-gluten-free.html

(E) Counting all Joy Cinnamon Apple Berry Nut Crunch
http://www.countingalljoy.com/2013/06/cinnamon-apple-berry-nut-crunch-trim-healthy-mama-gaps-paleo-scd-dairy-free-grain-free-egg-free.html

(S) Counting all Joy Good Morning Trail Mix Muesli
http://www.countingalljoy.com/2014/04/good-morning-trail-mix-muesli-s-trim-healthy-mama-gaps-paleo-scd-sugar-free-grain-free-dairy-free.html

(S) Counting all Joy Grain Free Pumpkin Pie Granola
http://www.countingalljoy.com/2013/10/grain-free-pumpkin-pie-granola-s-trim-healthy-mama-gaps-paleo-scd-dairy-free-sugar-free.html

I sincerely this helps to open up your breakfast options and make breakfast time more enjoyable!!

Would it be helpful to have an egg free dessert round up as well??

With Joy ~ Tina

Just Like Grandmas Rolls - bread, oh have mercy, bread.....(S)

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http://www.anointedwithoilofjoy.com/2015/05/20/just-like-grandmas-rolls-bread-oh-have-mercy-bread-s/

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Today I have bread for you ladies. S BREAD! Seriously, this tastes like a wonderful whole grain roll. My dear friend and fellow THM Admin Cathryn Perotti Larkin created this most amazing recipe. Rolls and bread is one of those items that I have found recipes that "will do". Or, it's an E bread and I want to devour the entire loaf.

This my friends is a lovely roll, that I use as bread, as rolls, as hot dog buns, hamburger buns and pizza crust. It is so versatile and yes, it is EGG FREE!!

I have made several batches and played with the recipe a couple of times. I have had successful rolls every time. Here is my one little catch, which doesn't bother anyone in my household at all, they are a little bit doughy inside when done. But not overly so. By the time you fill this baby up with sandwich fixins or even eating it plain, it works! I added butter to mine (because seriously a roll and butter, HELLO!!!!) and it was amazing. The first night I made them I ate 4. FOUR! I had to walk away. That good. Can you all tell I am so excited to be sharing this with you?? These rolls are like little pockets, when you cut them open they are almost hollow with a little pockets for good things to be added.

Below I am posting Cathryns original recipe from the meme created for it. Her original version has eggs. She played with the recipe and came up with what I am sharing here today with you for all of our lovely egg free ladies. So we have a double option here, egg free or if you can, try the original version!




Just Like Grandmas Rolls (Egg Free)

Dry ingredients:
1 cup oat fiber
1/2 cup nut flour and
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup psyllium husk
1 1/2 tsp salt
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
~~ Seasonings are optional, but delicious! (make it yours!)
1/2 tsp basil
1/2 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp garlic powder

4 Tablespoons butter or for dairy free coconut oil

Wet Ingredients:
2 gelatin eggs (2 tsp gelatin mixed with 6 T cold water, let sit)
6 T applesauce (I use a single serving applesauce cup)
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar (ACV)
1 1/2 cups boiling water

~ Combine dry ingredients
~add fat of choice (I grate butter into mine), combine well
~mix in "egg", applesauce, and ACV, combine well
~Pour in boiling water (it will fizz up, so pour slowly!)
~mix WELL!! Allow to sit for several minutes to thicken
~Make plum sized balls and place on a parchment lined baking sheet or I now use Silpat
~Bake at 375 for 45-55 minutes.  When done baking open oven door a crack, leave rolls in oven and allow to cool.

NOW you can take them out and enjoy!! (Trust me, I did it early the first time because I couldn't help myself, while still yummy, it was more gooey inside, but I know, you'll need to test it for yourself, just don't burn your mouth!!)

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Thank you Cathryn for sharing your creativeness and delicious recipe. You have blessed this allergy mama and her hubby greatly!!

With joy ~ Tina

Moments of Joy

Friday in our home is a busy day. Our family observes the seventh day Sabbath, Shabbat. Our Fridays are spent preparing our home and hearts for a day of rest, a time spent as a family and with God. I love Shabbat, I love a day off! I love the busy-ness of Friday, knowing that my busy-ness will end for 24 hours and I get a true break and a rest from my daily activities and the burdens I have been carrying throughout the week.

This morning as I was reading my daily passage of the Torah portion, I started in Leviticus, chapter 23, verse 24:
Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

This is specifically speaking about the festival of Trumpets...but something jumped out at me today. The phrase "you shall have a rest, a reminder".

These seasons of reminders are times when we remember God's power, His deliverance, His miracles, His care, His love for us. He joins these seasons of remembering with the command to rest, something He asks us to do for the weekly Sabbath. While we rest, we are able to reflect and remember all He has done in our lives. Another beautiful concept, that I want to work more on, is when I rest from laboring, trying to manage all the details of my life, that gives God time to work. I am out of the way as I rest in Him, He is able to have space to work. All too often, I work so hard to make things go as I would have them be, forgetting to allow God space, time and plenty of room in my life to work His will.

Remember and Rest.

What an amazing God I serve, He asks me to remember and rest.

I think I will get started on that rest now. Shabbat shalom.

With joy ~ Tina

THM Egg Free Baking and Substitute Tutorial

Oh man. I was nervous creating this video, but I really wanted to share with you mamas the lessons I have learned so far while navigating THM egg free. I hope this is clear and please, if you have any further questions, please feel free to ask!

Here is my director and producers notes on my video:

"Too many Umms" and "You didn't show enough of your fun personality".

Not too bad for my first time. If you all enjoy this and would like to see future videos, please let me know, my producer and I would love to make more! (Ideas would be great as well!!)

Oh, CREDITS go to my Producer and LOVELY daughter, Atira. She's amazing with a camera.
Here is her page:

Shaggy Studios Photography

With Joy ~ Tina

Peanut Butter Oat Cake - Crossover!

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Have you ever visited Chocolate Covered Katies website? She makes some fabulous stuff. Pre-THM I made many lovely things from her blog. Since THM I have found that many of her recipes are so close to being on plan, that with minimal changes, they can work for us! I especially LOVE that she's vegan, that makes the EGG FREE part especially easy!

I wanted a yummy treat for my husband today, he has been recovering from an illness and lost a few pounds and could stand the extra calories. I found this lovely little peanut butter cake recipe on her site and with a few changes, it is now a delicious THM crossover! I also made her frosting that is linked in her post. So easy!! (Sadly I am allergic to peanuts, so this isn't for me, however I think any nut or seed butter would work great in here!)

You can find the original recipe here: Frosted Peanut Butter Snack Cake

These are my changes

* I used oat flour for the flour called for, same measurements
* 1/2 cup of sweet blend was plenty to sub for the 1 cup of sweetener she calls for. If you use any other sweetener, I would recommend using the full cup.
* I used a single serving size cup of apple sauce in place of the yogurt. This keeps this one dairy free as well!

I made it in a 9x13 cake pan and it came out a little thin, but still great. Husband and daughter were VERY happy with it! Their review was that it was delicious and they would definitely want it again!

I might try using a square cake pan next time and see if that results in a little deeper cake. Either way, we are happy and this cake will be made regularly around here.

Thank you Chocolate Covered Katie for your hard work and great recipes!

With Joy ~ Tina

Spaghetti! One of my go to meals....easy S Super allergen friendly!

 Spaghetti Squash - a GREAT Fuel Pull Noodle!

 Brown Rice Noodles - These can be used on THM in side serving portions on occasion, be careful, they will still spike your blood sugar!

Not Naughty Rice! This is a fun little addition to my meals! I will chat more about this below....

Albeit a little loved looking, my crockpot is one of my favorite kitchen appliances. She's not pretty, but she sure is useful!

 

Chicken Italian Sausage, these ones are in links from Trader Joes, Isernios is also a great brand, it's an S food.

Mixing it up!

When I first started THM I often thought, "I know why these sisters are so skinny, they are constantly on their feet cooking and cleaning!" :)  There really is a learning curve, and there really are great tricks to minimize that cooking/cleaning time. I am a BIG advocate of cooking in bulk, preparing and using handy tools like my crockpot!

So, this post isn't a ground breaker with some amazing new recipe, this is just an encouragement hat you don't need a lot of time, nor do you HAVE to have fancy ingredients for a great on plan meal. You can do this if you have food allergies. This is a very simple meal, tastes great and can come together with a few minutes of prep time. This is for my drive through Sue sisters!! <3

When I have a very busy day spaghetti is a go to meal for me. I always try to keep the staples for this meal on plan. I always keep my pantry stocked with on plan sauce in a jar, noodles, and spaghetti squash stays good for a very long time. I happened to have "not naughty noodles" here, but they are certainly not needed. I use them to bulk up my portion, I don't feed them to my whole family.

In the morning when I get up, I pull out my crockpot and pour the sauces into the crockpot. If you have a good dry red wine around I would add a splash, it gives the flavor a lovely depth. I then slice up my chicken Italian sausages, this is a favorite since they are precooked and I don't have to cook something. If I don't have them on hand, cooking up a pound of ground beef or Italian sausage will also do, it's just a little more work. I turn the crockpot on low and away I go!

If it's a VERY busy day, I will pull out my second and larger crockpot and put a couple of inches of water in it. I then place my spaghetti squash in and turn to low, OH! Be sure to pierce it a couple of times. It will be ready when you are ready for dinner. If you have time otherwise and don't use a second crockpot, put the oven to 450 and let bake for about 40 minutes. I slice mine in half and clean it out first, placing cut side down on a cookie sheet.

Now truthfully, you could stop here. You now have a veggie and a complete S meal. You could add a salad to round it out nicely and a bagged salad would accompany this quick meal nicely.

If you have very hungry people in your home and need noodles too, I will often set a pot of water on the stove in the morning so all I have to do is turn it on to cook the noodles when I fly in the door.

Brown rice noodles are an on plan option on occasion in side serving portions. If you use a lean meat in your sauce this could be an E. Any other meat would make it a crossover with the noodles. For me, if I want noodles, I serve up my portion and add a lot of spaghetti squash. It makes me feel as if I have a bowl full of food and not missing out. It's a great little trick.

ORRRRRR, if you happen to have not naughty noodles or not naughty rice on hand, you can just rinse and use that! Which is what I did tonight. I would have taken a picture to show you my finished meal, but my family all agreed that it's not as pretty with the rice....so I will leave that to your imagination. It was DELICIOUS!

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With Joy ~ Tina

My Trim Healthy Man

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This is my Trim Healthy Man :)
I love him <3

He's a hard working man and eats a lot more than I do. He can also handle crossovers, and to be honest, I don't think he is really aware of what an S, E or Crossover is. He just eats what I make and he loves both the food and how he feels! He works in the trades so his food options are a bit more limited in that he doesn't have access to refrigeration or heating. Everything I make has to be able to go into his lunchbox and be easy to eat on the go. I notice a lot of ladies looking for quick meals or snacks as well as ideas for their THMen.

On my blog I try to have everything allergy friendly, especially egg free, since I feel that is a huge challenge on THM. However, this post I will be listing the foods my husband eats on the go at work. His only allergy is wheat...lucky duck. He also eats more S meals and snacks than anything else, we have learned that too many carbs and he gets achiness in his body. So while he has E's on a regular basis, he feels optimal on more S meals.

Here is a list of things I pack on a regular basis for my husbands lunches:

• hard boiled eggs
• BIM sandwiches (deli meat, tuna, chicken salad, egg salad)
• oat flour pancakes made into PB&J sandwiches
• cucumbers or bell peppers and hummus
• frozen berries with greek yogurt and sweetener in a plastic container
• mixed nuts
• fresh fruit
• applesauce cups
• cheese sticks (string cheese)
• MIM
• Oven MIM recipe for multiple muffins
• scones
• chocolate chip cookies
• chocolate cupcakes
• Salad in a jar (taco salads, chef salads)
• Lettuce wrap sandwiches
• olives
• dill pickles
• chocolate nut slab pieces
• 86% dark chocolate chunks
• peanut butter  or almond butter on celery sticks
• carrot sticks
• zucchini sliced thin with peeler and rolled up with lean deli meat
• Vitamin Water Zero
• Zevia Pop
• Oven Flax Crackers
• Kombucha

As an example, this is what is packed right now for his meals tomorrow, he needs breakfast, snack and lunch while he's gone. He has 2 hard boiled eggs, yogurt with blueberries and sweetener, a bag of mixed nuts, a banana,  a lean chicken breast sandwich on MIM, applesauce cup and a muffin in a mug.

My hubby just recently purchased one of these EBags lunch totes. The insides zip out and can be replaced if needed as well as for making easy cleanup! He really likes the multiple pockets and handy features!




My husband has been on plan for almost a year now. I had been on plan before him, and while he would enjoy some of my foods, he wasn't really interested in committing to the plan for himself. He was having some medical issues, rising cholesterol numbers, thyroid issue, blood sugar numbers increasing and a few other little issues were starting to show up in his blood work. As I mentioned, he also struggled with chronic body pains and tendonitis. He was not very over weight (maybe 10 pounds), but he was showing signs that he needed to do something to regain his best health possible. He decided to give the plan a go, which was an easy transition since I was already on plan and it was working great for me.

I didn't even take the time to explain things to him. He just knew to eat what I made, stay away from sugar when he was away from home and he already cannot have bread so that was easy. He also knows to look for high protein options if he's out and looking for something to eat.

Within 3 months of being on plan his cholesterol returned to a normal range, he lost the 10 pounds, his blood sugar dropped to normal as well. We were thrilled! The doctor was thrilled! Not only was his blood work showing the great improvement, but he physically felt so much better! The achiness reduced greatly, with some help from the doctor and the change in diet, the tendonitis cleared up. He was able to feel great again without the help of ibuprofen! He was fully sold out on this plan and doesn't even want to stray from it. He enjoys the occasional treat off plan, but for the most part, he feels so good, his blood work is so excellent that he works hard to stay on plan at all times. AMAZING! We are praising God for his health today and for this wonderful plan.

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