What Is Left To Eat? -- a Food Journal by Laura Bracken

I've been able to bring my ph level from 5.5 to 6.5 but I still want to get more alkaline. I've lost a few pounds, so that's good.  And I feel (deep down) that I'm finally eating in a healthy manner.  As I said before, I had been eating healthy FOODS before, but I wasn't eating in a healthy manner (large meals, lots of carbs, lots of oils, etc). Now I want to share a few foods with you. The first is this homemade falafel recipe.  I took the basics from here  and made a few tweaks to it.  Here's what *I* did: Ingredients 2 cups cooked lentils (see below) 2 handfuls of fresh parsley (see below) 1 whole jalapeño, chopped roughly (see below) 1½ tablespoons olive oil 3 garlic cloves Juice of ½ a lemon juice Some salt 2 tablespoons non-wheat flour  Notes To make the lentils I put one cup of rinsed French lentils into my instant pot with 1½ cups of water and some salt and pepper and put it on manual for 1 minute with a 10 minut...

My second elimination diet wasn't yielding any results so I started digging a little and found that I may be suffering from GERD (chronic acid reflux).  This kinda freaked me out because I know someone who died of cancer brought on by chronic acid reflux. I didn't really HAVE heartburn symptoms so I wanted to prove that I didn't really have acid reflux.  I wanted to prove that there's surely something I'm eating that I'm intolerant of and that once I eliminate that food all will be well. Alas, even cutting out my beloved onions and garlic didn't do the trick.  So, I started reading.  I faced my fears and read article after article about acid reflux... mostly googling "Can I have acid reflux without symptoms?" kinds of things. One can take antacids, such as Tums, but in typical Laura fashion I wanted to get more to the root of the problem.  I'm almost always against treating a problem by merely making one symptom go away.  And although ant...