Favorite Food Friday

My favorite treat lately has been iced coffe with LOTS of ice and french vanilla coconut creamer. I'm not a huge coconut fan so I was reluctant to try this (I really don't care for coconut yogurt) but I'm so glad that I did. It's really creamy, sweet enough that you don't have to use a whole lot, and it doesn't have much of a coconut flavor. Yum!

Favorite Food Friday

This week's favorite food is... Green Valley's Lactose Free Vanilla Yogurt!

Silk soy yogurt used to be a staple in my diet. When I found out that I shouldn't be eating it and would need to switch over to real yogurt, I was actually disappointed. I've never preferred the taste of regular milk or yogurt and was reluctant to try this yogurt. I have to admit, it did take a couple days to get used to the consistency, but now I LOVE IT. Great lightly sweet flavor, very creamy and rich, and it's really filling too. I would eat twice as much soy yogurt to feel as full. Lately what I've been doing is having it with homemade maple cinnamon granola and a seed and nut trail mix.

Favorite Food Friday

I was really worried that being on this new diet (I hate the word diet, more like nutritional plan) would make me feel limited with my food choices, but it has actually opened my mind up to new things. There are a ton of new-to-me products I've fallen in love with, so I decided to start "Favorite Food Friday" to feature one every week. My husband wanted to call this post "Fantastically Flavorful FODMAP Free Food Friday", but I thought that was a little much. ;)
So the first most delicious food ever is... QUINOA PASTA!

Who would have thought? I used to hate quinoa. This pasta is blended with corn and you can't really tell it's not wheat, except that it has a delicious buttery flavor and texture. Which is better, so I will not miss traditional past at all! I've been making it with spinach and feta chicken sausage and 365 organic pasta sauce. They have one flavor of sauce that doesn't contain onions, just garlic. That seems to sit ok. I'd also love to try this mac n cheese recipe (minus the garlic and plus gluten free breadcrumbs).