Coincidence?

Wow, it's a long time since anyone posted here... oops... I guess life has somehow gotten busy, and gotten away from us. So, when we started this blog, we jokingly called it "Food in Mouth Disease" because we are both obsessed by food and eating, and recipe books, and restaurants, and growing our own food, and farmer's markets, and watching cooking shows while we eat our dinner, and food holidays and a balanced nourishing diet... and we thought that our food obsession bordered on a disease. How were we to know that there would then come a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis in the family? And that suddenly, there would be a relationship between food and a real disease? So, UC has now been living in our house for around 2 years (maybe more - it's hard to tell really when it started), and being managed on meds, with flare ups and so on. Well, no-one wants meds to be a long term solution if it can be helped, so after much research, we're about to embark on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, and see what happens. We are hopeful that it will induce a change for the better, and that gut health will be returned to something somewhere near normal, but at the very least, we're hopeful it will mean a reduction in meds to manage this disease. Full remission would be fantastic, but we are realistic! This week, we're waiting on the arrival of Elaine's book, saying farewell to some favourite illegal foods, and starting to identify where we can get enough carbohydrates into our diet, based on the 310g RDI for Australian (male) adults, given that all the easy sources of complex carbs are now going to be off limits. As there are only two in the house, we'll both be doing the SCD so that it's easier to stick to, and easier to cook and plan for. And given some of the beautiful recipes we've found so far, it's not a diet you want to miss out on!