Note: This post has somehow turned into mostly me complaining about my current skin flare-up, so please feel free to skip to the admittedly meager list of dinner ideas at the bottom, if you come here mainly for dinner ideas and not for skin-venting sessions.
I am not eating dairy, on the advice of my acupuncturist. This is her recommendation to help my skin. The dermatologist has yet to call me back, so has not had a chance to weigh in on this suggestion. (I did get a call from the dermatology nurse, though, who told me to discontinue the medication I had been using to treat my rosacea.)
Will the no-dairy thing even work? WHO KNOWS?! But I am at the point where I will try anything. My face got So Much Worse after I posted on Monday. Painful and inflamed and itchy and horrible to look at. I am only putting three things on my skin now: Cetaphil face wash, Cerave moisturizer, and water. And also air, I guess. I am trying Jenny's suggestion to keep my face cool when I wash it, and I am trying the suggestion of another person in my circle not to get too sweaty (which is impossible, because I am a very sweaty human).
So. No dairy. The big problem is that now I don't know what to eat. Somehow, dairy has become the main source of protein in my diet. I have been starting the day with a smoothie, made with milk and yogurt, and then eating cottage cheese with lunch or as a snack, and then eating yogurt for dessert. Even the delicious chocolatey lumps have yogurt in them! Now what? (I realize the world is full of non-dairy options, but they are largely unknown to me.) Also, my fridge is FULL of dairy that I bought before I was instructed to avoid it that will now go bad because I'm not eating it.
I made the mistake of discontinuing the medicine on the same day that I stopped eating dairy, so it's impossible to tell which of those things is helping, or if this flare-up has just run its natural course. Neither is helping A LOT, but my face is slightly better than it was last week. Still not great, Bob, but better.
Okay, on to dinners. This is apparently the time of year (although this happens more than once a year) when I completely forget what food is. Meals? Never heard of 'em. You say there is a foodstuff known as chicken? How might one prepare and eat such a thing? My husband and I started talking about what to make for dinner tonight on Saturday, because I wanted to have A Plan, and neither of us could think of anything. Neither of us came up with anything. Well, that's not true. My husband suggested white bean enchilada soup and chicken paprikas, but as both have copious amounts of dairy in them, I had to veto both. I asked him yet again as he was leaving for work this morning and he finally blurted out, "Some sort of meat with broccoli." Yes, I can work with that.
Should I be consulting my big master list of reliably good meals? Yes, I should. But I'm not, for reasons I don't fully understand.
Also, this weekend is Mother's Day, and my husband keeps asking me food-related Mother's Day questions. Do I want to go out to brunch? (I don't like brunch, and also the idea of brunch on the brunchiest day of the year sounds AWFUL.) Do I want him to make me some sort of baked good? Yes, but also no. The one thing I want to eat above all other things is a plate of cheese enchiladas with a big, salt-rimmed margarita on the side. That doesn't exactly jive with the "no dairy" thing, though, so we'll see.
Dinners for the Week of May 8-14
What's on your meal plan for the week?
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