Fitness and Health

Hi! As promised, here is my post all about my families’ fitness and health. Since our little Brownie developed his egg allergy, we have completely eliminated eggs from our diet, that means in all baked goods and everything. In the early stages of his allergy Caidoc was also very sensitive to wheat, gluten, dairy, and soy. We have since worked those back into his diet but we kinda miss eating totally allergy free, it makes the body feel to light and happy! So, we have decided to re-commit to a allergy free eating lifestyle, at least at home. The best product’s I’ve found that are a necessity for allergy free living are:

Bob’s Red Mill Rolled Oats

I use these in lots of baking as a flour substitute, I simply blend the oats into a fine powder. Be careful of the recipe you pick, it’s best to use recipes that are already allergy free by design. I also get these oats in bulk from Cash and Carry, MUCH cheaper!

Egg Replacer

My sister in law introduced this to me and it changed my life! This makes baking without eggs unnoticeable.

Almond Milk

Husband and I tried rice milk for awhile but this is so much better, AND we get it from Costco which is about half the price of the stuff on Amazon.

Applesauce

This is the best and most simple replacer in baking ever! And it’s much better for you.

Chips

Okay so these aren’t totally “healthy” but MAN they are good and also fit our diet restrictions. YUM.

Those are the main staples I can’t live without in our allergy free eating. I’ll keep you posted on anything else cheap and easy I find! As far as health goes we like to keep VERY active. Husband has soccer once and week, we walk every evening together as a family, and I try and keep active with running four times a week and doing some strength and ab work three times a week. Sometimes I feel like I need to make more time for husband to work out since he loves it as much as I do. One thing we have started doing as a family is running 5K’s together. We did our first one when Caidoc was only 7 months old! We love it. This October I’m running a 5K with one of my friends and I’m very excited about it!

My advice for staying fit and healthy is by doing it as a ritual. It’s our families’ ritual, rain for shine, to go for a walk in the evening. Caidoc now asks to “go on an adventure” which is his way of saying that it’s time for a walk. Another ritual we have is by eating healthy, we love discovering new things to eat while having a couple handy “go-to” recipes for when we feel weak and want fast food 🙂

How do you eat healthy? How do you like to stay active?