I’m doing that really important thing today calling “sorting out your life before you screw it up so badly you end up being mental all over again”
Long title but I think you get the point. Back in September I ate all sorts of junk to have this human MOT test done to see what I was intolerant to, what the problems were with my body, to check out my hormones and yadda, yadda, yadda. I found out I was intolerant to loads things. Due to my busy life style and can’t be botheredism I kinda fell over, my face met the floor and it was downhill since then. Not like the good ol’ days(!) so it’s all good. I can fix it if I fooooooocuuuuusssss…
The list totals up to about 50 things but obviously a few categories include several things so it means most, if not all staples are out the window.
So, my intolerance list in no particular order:
- Fructose – that’s fruit sugar in case you didn’t know
- Cheese – I eat the raw kind if I find it and it doesn’t smell or taste like feet (note: that doesn’t mean I’ve tasted feet before)
- Cow’s milk – I totally drink raw milk though!
- Gluten – This is summarised as the next three items of food
- Wheat
- Barley
- Rye
- Quinoa
- Spelt – I think?!
- Oats – apparently I should be able to stomach (nwithhout pun intended) some. I’m happy without.
- Seafood – prawns
- Rapeseed oil
- black pepper, apparently.
- Nutmeg – we Muslims can’t consume it anyway
- Pork – So haraam even the test’s telling me to avoid it.
- E211 – aka sodium benzoate aka benzoic acid sodium salt
- E214 – aka Ethyl p-hydroxybenzoate
- E215 – aka Sodium ethyl p-hydroxybenzoate
- E216 – aka Propyl p-hydroxybenzoate
- E217 – aka Sodium propyl p-hydroxybenzoate
- E218 – aka Methyl p-hydroxybenzoate
- E219 – aka Sodium methyl p-hydroxybenzoate
- E220 – aka Sulphur dioxide a common preservative used in almost everything processed. Lovely.
- E621 – aka Monosodium Glutamate aka MSG which needs to be illegal and banned from the Earth.
- Yeast – all kinds as far as I’m aware but specifically brewer’s yeast.
- Soya – again, needs to be banned from Earth
- Brazil nuts – adjusted my raw fudge recipe for this. Still yummy though!
- Cashews
- Peanuts – really? Mind you, they are legumes which brings me on to…
- Legumes! – all of them, this includes…
- Lentils – all of them obviously
- Grapefruit – was never a fan
- Kiwi – a known allergy in my family.
- Hops
- Malt – as above really. No malteasers
- Corn – aka maize, refined maize starch and all those similar things. Includes popcorn
- Goat’s milk
- Rice – white, brown, ground, flour
- Allspice
- Tomatoes
- Flaxseeds/Linseeds
- Nori – aka Seaweek. Need to find out if that includes kelp noodles which did give me stomach aches… oops?
- Chia seeds
- Kelp
- Semolina -I was totally intoxicated after consuming halwa, an Indian dessert so that was obvious
- Agave – agave syrup is apparently bad for us anyway… more on that some other time
- Millet
- Hemp flour(?) but apparently I’m ok with hemp seeds so abstaining from all to be safe!
- Stupid people – Never tried eating one before so that’s good (the human MOT didn’t show this, I may have added that in myself
- …
May Allaah have mercy on me and make this next stage in my life easy for me, aameen!