Well last weekend at the seminar I had my first ever sandwich, and I brought home a loaf of cambrooke homestyle bread. Its the first #Lowprotein bread I have ever had that I can stand non toasted. Most of the #Lowprotein bread is crumbly, tough, hard and can only be eaten toasted. So I am so excited to finally have a bread I can eat as sandwiches . You have no idea how exciting this is for me and how convenient its been this rotation of my night shifts.  I  have been experimenting with different ways to fill it and what toppings to use. The first night I had a lettuce, onion, cucumber and tomatoes sandwich with miracle whip. The second night I ran out of lettuce so I brought 2 slices of bread to work with me and a tupper wear with some toppings. I toasted the bread and used miracle whip, a cambrooke swiss cheese single, cucumber, onions , salt and pepper!! so good!!

Last night I had lettuce, pepper, onions, swiss cheese single, and alfalfa sprouts and brought the same tonight.

You see this is a pretty big deal to me! I still remember box lunches as a kid. I had “cracker sandwiches” with jam and butter, applesauce, fruit snacks and my “pink” phenyl free formula in a thermos of Troll or Disney , maybe little mermaid and lion king.  My formula was pink because my mom flavoured it with nestle strawberry quick.  I was not aloud outside to play until all my lunch was eaten, and sometimes If I didn’t like it I would miss a hole lunch hour and play time. I was teased because of my lunches and not sharing . Then this one time in grade 1  , while all the other kids where playing outside, I hit my thermos over with out the lid on and my pink milk spillt all over the “pod” of desks I was sitting at. I remember how thick and filmy it was. as well  how bad it stunk. The duty monitors helped me clean it up with paper towels and they had to call the teacher. I was horrified . When all the kids came back in from lunch hour,  the room stunk so bad and everyone was asking what that smell was. The teacher had to tell them my “special milk spilt” and they had to clean out there desks cause some of my milk spilt on there rulers and erasers. They had to throw them out.  Needless to say I cried. The rest of my early elementary school memories are foggy. After my parents divorce, I  changed schools in grade 3.  To this day if I run into people that I went to school with in grade 1 they ask me if I still drink that “stinky pink milk” and they called me the pink milk girl. Some of them even ask me why I had to drink that milk anyways.

So needless to say, taking lunches to school was traumatizing and inconvenient. I stopped taking lunches all together in highschool and was cheating so would eat  vegetable sushi or rice and even chow main from the mall.    later  on with the high level symptoms and my hole stint with not eating,  I skip breakfast and lunch all together. Only  eating when I got home from school. I also was pouring my milk down the drain by then too.

It was not until I grew up and started working and later in  college , that I began to take lunches again. I also started eating breakfast again after I  was admitted to hospital and didnt have a choice.  Taking lunches as an adult was even hard to because I have to set a day aside for baking and cooking for the week, if I do not than I dont have good choices to take to work and end up taking higher foods. Soup was easy to take but higher in phe, least the ones I like are.

So, having these sandwiches on night shift has been so cool! I love them and they taste great. I am out of bread though so tonight will be my last one until I have some extra money for a #Lowprotein food order.  There are alot of pre made foods I am wanting to order this time around from cambrooke , to make my life easier and not have to worry if I don’t get my baking day.

I really love how far low protein food has come thanks to companies like cambrooke foods. They really make the diet easier , well when you can afford them that is. I still dream for the day when I have unrestricted access to all the foods. To feel normal just being able to pull something out of the freezer or fridge and not have to prep and bake everything from scratch. TO have more variety of foods.  Its weird to think , but I dream of a day where I can have a deep freeze full of #Lowprotein food , and not have to rely on lower phe regular foods , and fruits and veggies to fill me up. I want to be able to go to the freezer pull out a loaf of bread, cambrooke camburgers patties, corny dogs, low protein chicken nuggets, pitas, muffins, bagels and more . To have them taste like real food and to enjoy food!

These sandwiches are just the beginning!