*hearing our first Sandhill Crane of the season
*our yard being invaded by huge numbers of Chickadees
*the White-crowned Sparrows singing
*buying our red chile peppers and having them roasted
Saturday was not the best day. We went out to lunch, and the restaurant was very busy, so by the time we got served my blood sugar was pretty low. Also, I was feeling a bit low. I knew it was low beta endorphin, so I just carried on, knowing the feelings would pass. Anyway, that afternoon my husband went to the grocery store to pick up a couple of things. He had been talking about making green chile chicken enchilada casserole. He uses cream of mushroom soup in the sauce. I had asked him to get Amy's instead of Campbell's because I am working on not eating any gluten. He came home with Campbell's and I asked him about it. He said Amy's had too much sodium for him. I told him I didn't want to eat gluten. Then he started giving me a hard time about how a little gluten wouldn't hurt me. Because my Beta endorphin was low, I proceeded to brood about it.
Fast forward to Sunday. After a nice morning of bird watching and a good lunch, we went to a different grocery store to buy some things they hadn't had at the other one, and we decided to look into the cream of mushroom soup issue. As we read the labels on various different brands, it became clear that all of them had wheat and a lot of sodium. This time, I was able to come up with a plan instead of getting upset. I suggested that we look at recipes for cream of mushroom soup and then make some kind of thick mushroom sauce of our own to use in casseroles. We could make a bechamel sauce and use oat flour instead of wheat flour. That way, there would be no gluten and we could also have control over the amount of sodium. DH got excited about this idea. So instead of us getting into a power struggle over whether I was going to eat gluten in the casserole, we came up with a solution that works better for both of us. On Saturday there was no way I would have come up with that solution. Life works so much better when biochemistry is in balance.
Allison
