food for freezing, and travel

I know this comes up in the threads once in a while, but I'm looking for something new (perhaps there isn't anything). Recipes. WHAT CAN I EAT?! I don't follow any one strict protocol, but I avoid gluten, dairy, sugar, and most processed foods.

First, for travelling - day trips, picnics, etc. What do you like to pack for travel or a work lunch, or anywhere that's not home, that holds well in a cooler?

Second, what can I stock my freezer/pantry with for these weeks when I just can't bring myself to slave away in the kitchen? I swear I never get out of the kitchen I tried looking up freezer dump meals but didn't come away with much for Lyme and Candida friendly recipes. Everything has tomatoes (which I try not to eat too much of, lest the nightshades attack) or cheese.

Almost everything has fruit or sugar, and I really need to cut all of it, because I'm struggling with Candida.

The twist: I can't have soy, including soybean (vegetable) oil.

What I have so far (and please let me know if there's anything here that should be avoided):

- homemade hummus and raw veggies for dipping. this is my travel lunch. and its getting old
- salad. so sick of salad
- smoothies. so sick of smoothies. I'm poor, so I have to use a garage-sale food processor, then a thrift-
store blender to get anything liquid. sick of washing those. and without fruit, they taste awful.
- frozen meatballs (I found a recipe called "emergency meatballs", for the freezer. I use local grass-fed beef)
-quiche for cheating (dairy) GF crust, and my gosh that's a wonderful zap-it-and-eat-it thing to have all ready to go for breakfast.

now I'm hungry.

I never liked tuna, but ever since I had a cat, I can't even stand the smell of it. It's cat food to me!

Just to make myself even more frustrated, I'm laying off corn for a while too. I used to eat corn tortilla chips, but looking back, it seems the weeks I had corn in the house were the times I felt the worst. So somehow I need to get GF wraps/chips without corn. I stock up on the bean and rice chips at the discount grocery stores when I go back to PA. Still packaged food but... well. kitchen. dishes. anger.

I make my own GF bread, but they all have yeast in them. Is that kind of yeast bad for Candida?

Hopefully some of the other meats/fillings for wraps I mentioned besides tuna sound good to you.

Krimpet 🍔 said...
Both of my doctors have suggested staying away from tuna.

It was only a small part of a large suggestion. No need to only concentrate on the one part that she doesn't like anyway. Makes me feel like I was suggesting she eat poison. I mean I feel terrible for including it.

I often make big vats of soups and freeze.....
Before I went vegan I would roast a chicken with lemon under the skin and fresh herbs. So easy, one hour in the oven at 350......
This would feed the family for a few days...... then I would just make a stock from the bones and add vegetables...... You can make it into almost anything... A minestrone to a curry........I will freeze it and pull it out as need be......

THE CHICKEN THAT KEEPS ON GIVING!

and i was kind of a jerk and didn't thank julymorning for the suggestions. My brain went to thinking wraps are a good idea, but i don't know where to find them without corn or gluten, and the search i will have to embark on... new asian grocery just opened down the street, it might be my lucky day.

So thank you, julymorning

What about brown rice cakes and nut butters? I have a terrible time with eating(and cooking!), and that's still one I'll turn to sometimes. You can also use celery instead of brown rice cakes, as well as other things. If you needed more calories or protein, I've also mixed a protein powder into nut butter and just eaten it of the spoon. Of course, you would need to be sure that the protein powder was soy-free as well.

I too have a serious soy allergy - it kind of gets in the way of being able to use many 'premade' food items because so many things have soy in them.

Do be sure that you eat regularly though, this is part of how the body heals, remember. It needs fuel to power the body to heal.