General information

Important Dietary Information:

1. My serving size is small. Especially now I'm not burning a lot of calories.. If the hamburger has a lot of fat so it Cooks down quite a bit, I can eat a full one. If it doesn't shrink down much, I usually eat a half. 

2. I have to have an acid Source at every meal. Acid sources are Italian seasoning, 2 dill pickles, rhubarb, grapefruit. I usually do grapefruit and a half of a stalk of rhubarb as a gauge on how much I eat. It helps me not have heartburn and with digestion. On occasion I will use like a teaspoon of organic apple cider vinegar in a little bit of water and just drink it. But that's Last Resort.

3. I drink Almond milk (60 calorie unsweetened) at every meal (Walmart's Great Value is the cheapest by far)

4. PHOSPHORUS: I need to have sources of phosphorus in my diet frequently. That would be salmon, turkey and chicken and nuts.  Nuts do not have to be organic.

5. HEALTHY FATS: It's important for my normal diet to have about one-third of the calories for my day to be in healthy fats. And almond butter also has phosphorus that I need for my diet right now to help rebuild bone. I eat lots of almond butter.

6. OILS: I have to cook my foods in healthy oil such as avocado oil olive oil coconut oil or animal fat off of an organic animal. Even a small amount of other oils will set off my autoimmune problem

7. FRUITS & VEGETABLES (everything must be organic): 

   1. BERRIES: I can do all organic berry's including cranberries, but not the kind you buy in the store. It has to be sweetened with organic apple juice. I have some here. 

   2. FRUIT: I eat quite a few organic Granny Smith apples and I have my organic pears and apples I have dried too. I have both Granny Smith and Golden Delicious dried. I can eat as many as I want Granny Smith but have to keep it down to about four or five slices to the other. Organic grapefruit, lemons, limes, honeydew & canteloupe are all ok. 

   3. VEGETABLES: All organic vegetables except tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and eggplant. I like to eat organic celery, peas, carrot sticks (but they need to be the small ones so they don't set off my TMJ problem, or I will slice them in my food processor).  I can only do small amounts of organic corn. I prefer organic Iceberg or romaine lettuce not the mixes that are organic in the clear tubs. (I do eat a lot of organic spinach that comes in the tubs). I will eat the organic salad mixes that do not include dressing. I am allergic to Cilantro. Plain lettuce is good, doctor up as specified.  I eat a lot of squash (butternut, spaghetti, etc.)

8. SEA FOOD:  Crab, salmon, or about anything as long as it is WILD CAUGHT (if it doesn't say wild caught, it won't do)

9. MEAT:  Must be grass fed or organic, no hormones or antibiotics. 

10. SALT: Can not be iodized.   Sea salt is best. 

11. NOODLES:  Organic spaghetti squash

12. SEASONINGS: The seasonings in herbs for my Meats for soup on my Foods do not need to be organic with the exception of garlic salt and onion salt. When cooking meat I always use my organic garlic salt because the stuff you get in the store has fillers that will set off of my response. Please don't use non-organic onion salt or garlic salt. No additives of any kind.

13. OTHER:  Organic black beans, kidney beans.  Nutritional yeast (doesn't have to be organic)

These are the places we've found we can buy food for Marilyn. There are probably others and every Walmart is not created equal.

Meat: 

• Smith's (they have some)

• Walmart (not steaks or roasts ...they're never good)

Produce:

• Gooseberries

• Costco

• Smith's

• Walmart (Small selection)