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Failed Gluten-Free Bread
Nov. 24th, 2021 11:58 pmStill schlepping along in Arabic. It is taking forever to learn my first few dozen words because I don't have the reinforcement of continually seeing and hearing them used in Rosetta Stone. That's because RS doesn't teach the base form of words and because at least half of my vocabulary is coming from a separate method, a beginner's Arabic textbook I bought but for which I have not been able to find the audio. For a while I was also trying to incorporate a third method, Assimil Arabic, but it's so painful and I have so little energy thanks to insomnia that it fell by the wayside. I might return to it in the future.
I've been wanting a (vegan) cheese sandwich, but I can't have regular bread because I'm following the low-fodmap diet. Gluten-free bread is expensive, especially for a snack I'll have only two or three times, and I have other foods I need to save that money for (like protein powder and organic produce).
So I tried to make my own gluten-free protein bread this evening. It's made of chickpea flour and ground sunflower seeds. Chickpea flour has an unpleasant taste, but I thought I could take the edge off by adding a bit of sweetener. I think I succeeded, but the bread was a failure anyways because I added too much salt. I'm guessing saltiness receptors are on the back of the tongue because I continually found myself ok with each bite until it reached the back of my mouth, at which point I suddenly noticed the saltiness in a way that triggered a weak, vague gagging reflex.
With all those sunflower seeds, the crap was way too high-calorie anyhow.
My Irlen exam is this Saturday, and I still have decided on how I'm going to get into town to catch the out-of-county bus I need. I can't take the local bus because it doesn't run early enough. My appointment is three counties away, and public transportation always takes forever, especially on weekends, so I'll have to leave early. I can walk or bike the 5-10 miles over to the next town or drop thirty to thirty-five bucks (I called and asked the company) for a cab. I can't afford a cab in the best of times, but especially now, since I haven't paid my energy bill in months.
However, biking isn't terribly reliable because I won't have the money (or the time) to fix flats/get new innertubes if necessary. Maybe I'm just paranoid. The first time I was homeless, I had back-to-back flat tires for a while because I was camping in an area that had some type of sharp bush needles on the ground. Money was tight and I was stressed out over recently having had to suddenly switch from living in a van to living outdoors, so continually getting the flats fixed hurt me.
I'm finally really devoting time (a whole workout, in fact) to growing my puny wrists/forearms and my obliques. I hope I"ll stick to it this time. The workout is rather boring and tedious and somehow feels insignificant even though it directly addresses two of my bodybuilding goals.
I'm using my Windows machine the majority of the time because it's the only OS (besides Debian on my second LInux partition) on which Rosetta Stone and Anki, my vocabulary memorization software, is installed, and I use those a lot throughout the day. I'd rather my LInux machine (the one I'm typing on now, the big "desktop replacement" laptop) be my primary computer, but having both computers on my tiny standing desk and switching between them is a hassle.
I've been wanting a (vegan) cheese sandwich, but I can't have regular bread because I'm following the low-fodmap diet. Gluten-free bread is expensive, especially for a snack I'll have only two or three times, and I have other foods I need to save that money for (like protein powder and organic produce).
So I tried to make my own gluten-free protein bread this evening. It's made of chickpea flour and ground sunflower seeds. Chickpea flour has an unpleasant taste, but I thought I could take the edge off by adding a bit of sweetener. I think I succeeded, but the bread was a failure anyways because I added too much salt. I'm guessing saltiness receptors are on the back of the tongue because I continually found myself ok with each bite until it reached the back of my mouth, at which point I suddenly noticed the saltiness in a way that triggered a weak, vague gagging reflex.
With all those sunflower seeds, the crap was way too high-calorie anyhow.
My Irlen exam is this Saturday, and I still have decided on how I'm going to get into town to catch the out-of-county bus I need. I can't take the local bus because it doesn't run early enough. My appointment is three counties away, and public transportation always takes forever, especially on weekends, so I'll have to leave early. I can walk or bike the 5-10 miles over to the next town or drop thirty to thirty-five bucks (I called and asked the company) for a cab. I can't afford a cab in the best of times, but especially now, since I haven't paid my energy bill in months.
However, biking isn't terribly reliable because I won't have the money (or the time) to fix flats/get new innertubes if necessary. Maybe I'm just paranoid. The first time I was homeless, I had back-to-back flat tires for a while because I was camping in an area that had some type of sharp bush needles on the ground. Money was tight and I was stressed out over recently having had to suddenly switch from living in a van to living outdoors, so continually getting the flats fixed hurt me.
I'm finally really devoting time (a whole workout, in fact) to growing my puny wrists/forearms and my obliques. I hope I"ll stick to it this time. The workout is rather boring and tedious and somehow feels insignificant even though it directly addresses two of my bodybuilding goals.
I'm using my Windows machine the majority of the time because it's the only OS (besides Debian on my second LInux partition) on which Rosetta Stone and Anki, my vocabulary memorization software, is installed, and I use those a lot throughout the day. I'd rather my LInux machine (the one I'm typing on now, the big "desktop replacement" laptop) be my primary computer, but having both computers on my tiny standing desk and switching between them is a hassle.
