Tap water reintroduced
I started drinking tap water a couple of days back as the first stage of the various reintroductions I’ll be going through over the next few weeks. No effect. Still feel great from the diet. It’ll be potatoes from today, so I cooked up a curry last night with a couple of the now-sprouted potatoes I had been keeping hidden away underneath a tea towel away from the light in one of the kitchen cupboards. Most had gone a little soft so I just put a few in.
One of the things I find with ADD is that the saying “out of sight, out of mind” is completely accurate. I once left some potatoes in the celophane wrapper they had come in stowed away on an overflowing shelf in a flat I lived in for perhaps a year and a half in Prague. Eventually they spilled over and the rancid liquid that is produced when you leave potatoes for this long flooded all over the carpet, leaving my long-suffering housemate on her knees all day. The trouble was the kitchen was in the room of my other housemate, and he was one of these with whom I never got beyond the awkward stage and so I didn’t feel I could go in to his room - the door was most often closed - and cook. Of course this was a massive problem.
Anyway, my curry tastes fantastic. I’m getting back into making curry with all the usual spices, cardamon, cumin seed, mustard seed first into the hot oil, and then onions (though on this diet it has to be just finally chopped peppers). It was a base of coconut cream, then potatoes and parsnips, chicken and cabbage. It’s a little grey, and very hot, perhaps from all the spices I added which cooked in as the veg and chicken cooked in the sauce, but possibly also from the paprika which I added and which I suspect was a hot Hungarian Paprika or some such rather than the mildly flavoured spice the package suggested (I had been using a different container and also thought it was fairly old).
It’s not ideal to reintroduce something whilst also making such a hot curry which I’ll be having over the few days of potatoes - it’s said hot spices can exacerbate a problem with an excessively permeable intestinal lining. And I have brought in rice this time as well, as much for aesthetic purposes - so people don’t see me eating this aromatic but grey schlop - which also ups the carbs at a time when I am reintroducing starchy potatoes. Still, if I find there is a problem there is a second reintroduction stage when I can more carefully monitor these other factors.
I haven’t been very good at doing my food diary. I must keep on top of that.
