A NYC streetfood gets a make-over

@Uraniumfish you're one healthy girl!! actually I kind of love carrots and even uncooked tomatoes..and I love to graze ..wish I could find a healthy snack that I could pick at all day long..the only foods( fruits) that seem to qualify are watermelon and strawberries otherwise everything else seems to go straight to the hips sigh! do you all like to snack while you write?do tell

I agree. I'm all about a strict diet of natural foods, but I don't skip the meat. Never met a vegan who actually looked healthy and non-yellow in the face, so that's pretty good motivation for me not to turn vegan.

I got really into homeopathy and natural healing because I was constantly having problems with sinuses, colds, severe chronic fatigue, depression, etc. These are all the most common symptoms of gluten issues. I know it sounds pretty broad, but I started with one problem and kept tracking it back more and more. Problems digesting gluten lead to malabsorption of vitamins which leads to metal overloads which leads to candida overgrowth and adrenal fatigue. This puts strain on your thyroid which (as if you didn't have enough problems with all of that) messes up your hormones and then your skin, nerves, digestive track etc all goes to hell in a handbasket. All because of friggin wheat products.

@NeverSleeps some folks are just nutty I guess.. I know this because I met a woman who refused to wear a silk sari( the Indian national dress which is often made of silk) because she was vegan and apparently many silk worms are killed to extract one meter of silk. She would wear only silk that is ethically produced strangely enough there is a company in India called Ahimsa Silk that has devised and patented a way to extract silk from the worms without killing them. I really wouldn't go to such extremes myself.

@JenMac thanks for the insight..luckily I dont have the symptoms that you describe at the moment though being allergic to gluten must be tough..you basically have to cut out many carbs don't you? what do you substitute it with ? Rice? Barley?

@JenMac must have something to do with yeast as well..my sis in law has candida overgrowth and the only kind of bread that she can comfortably eat is Irish soda bread which luckily for her is easily available in the UK..have no idea of its composition though..

@Everyone its certainly very difficult to live with/date someone whose dietary habits have tons of restrictions/ limitations. We are indeed extremely lucky to live in a city that offers a plethora of diverse foods that can meet almost all needs but as Uraniumfish said not many other cities in the world are like NYC and traveling to foreign lands which dont have similar offerings can be put a real dampener on a vacation. I have friends who are strict vegetarians back home , they have religious restrictions and are not allowed to eat vegetables that grow under the ground like potatoes, onions etc. I try not to have them over for meals for I really dont know how to cook meals without the use of basic ingredients like onions, ginger etc which are needed to cook any form of curry!