I am very excited to announce the new Valentine’s Day Menu Planner for Limited Diets!

Many people like to spend a nice meal with their spouse or significant other on Valentine’s Day.

However, if you or your loved one is on a limited diet, this can be more complicated than making reservations at your favorite restaurant.

What if you were to surprise your loved one with a home cooked, romantic meal?

Maybe there is a menu that your significant other would love to eat at a restaurant but normally contains their food restrictions.

When I had the idea of making a Valentine’s Day Menu Planner, I thought of what kinds of meals that people on limited diets would love to eat – if only they could eat the ingredients!  I also considered food that is known for being “romantic…”

So, I put together a simple but delicious and allergen-friendly menu that I believe almost anyone could enjoy, even if their diet is very limited!

Here is the menu:

Veggie Lasagna (I am including three recipes so that you can use the one that work best for your diet)

• Grain-Free version (made with egg noodles – these taste just like real noodles!)
• Grain and Egg-Free version (made with zucchini noodles)
• Gluten-Free version (made with brown rice noodles)

Strawberry Avocado Salad with Crispy Pecans

Three Desserts to choose from to fit your diet:

• Hazelnut Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Icing (Grain-Free)
  
• Vanilla Cake with Raspberry Sauce and Vanilla Icing (Grain and Chocolate Free)
• Devil Food’s Chocolate Cupcakes (Gluten, Nut and Egg Free)

All dishes are free of the following:

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First of all I have to apologize for my absence and lack of blog posts lately!  Things have been a very busy on the home front between shopping for a home and Elijah being sick.  But I hope to get back into the swing of things soon!

So for today I want to share a very yummy and very simple recipe for gluten free drop biscuits.  The original recipe comes from Elana Amsterdam’s new cookbook, The Almond Flour Gluten Free Cookbook.  I love her recipes and her blog and they are very adaptable to the GAPS and SCD diets.  I simply use honey in place of agave and coconut oil or butter in place of the grape seed oil.

If you’re on GAPS or don’t want to use baking soda, I have found that separating the eggs and then beating the egg whites until stiff helps the bread to rise without baking soda.  You can read more about this here.

For this time, I also used almond meal (also called natural almond flour) because I didn’t have any blanched on hand.  In my experience, almond meal is more like “wheat flour” and blanched almond flour is more like “white flour.” These biscuits were still delicious with the almond meal, but I think they would be a little lighter with blanched almond flour.

So here’s the recipe:
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