Food Goals

I'm pretty happy with where I am on the variety of foods I have. There are certain foods that I would love to work in because they are amazing, but if I had to eat only the foods I'm eating, they way that I'm eating them, right now for the rest of my life I think I could handle that. Except for one draw back.... Backpacking. In my mind, it's imperative that I be able to have dried fruits, dried meats, and nuts in order to have well rounded meals for backpacking.

What's really stopping me from having these things right now is the inflammation and damage in my ileum, partially due to the bacterial infection that I had in December and January. I had a suspicion that I was having too many things that were hard to digest because when I would eat too much nut flour in one day I noticed my belly getting noticeably fat. Food just wasn't being processed as quickly as it should. These last two weeks I've been eating much softer and easier foods to digest, cutting back on nut flour baked goodies and the like and have noticed a difference. But yesterday I was out of the house around lunch time and needed some food, I found a place that served me some steamed veggies, but they were hardly steamed and still very crunchy. I ate them anyway because I needed food and didn't have any. I had a really hard and painful night while my ileum tired to deal with digesting the almost raw veggies. This really sealed the deal for me that, yes, I need to eat soft foods.

This also really put in perspective for me that it's going to be hard to backpack this summer, even if I do get my strength back. I am planning a trip that will take place in one month, and I'm just not sure I'm going to be able to bring the foods I need. It's an exciting challenge that I hope I can work out by then. Expect lots of dehydrated recipes to be showing this blog over the summer while I experiment.