Startin' Early On the New Year's Diet and Already Failing

See this:

Beautiful, oh so beautiful.  Photo Cred

Oh, and this too:

Heartbreakingly yummy.  Photo Cred.

Despite our undying love for such products, we are officially going gluten and dairy free.  Aaron and I both have some symptoms that might possibly be related to either dairy or gluten intolerance or perhaps they might be something entirely different.  We shall see, we shall see.   

We started our gluten free (gf in blog speak) and dairy free (df in blog speak) diet yesterday.  Well we tried...We were supposed to have a yummy beef stir fry.  Halfway into making dinner, I realized that soy sauce contains copious amounts of wheat.  In fact, it is the second product on the content list after soy.  Oh, dear.  We haven't even made it one meal.  Then to top it off, Aaron forgot about our "diet" and had at least 2 fig newtons.  Dear, oh dear. 

Instead of focusing on all the things we can't have, here is a list of some of the yummy meals in our immediate future: Asian Salmon over wild rice pilaf, P.F. Chang's lettuce wraps, salad with homemade poppy seed dressing, and some coconut curry lentil stew.  Since we are having more Asian food I had to look up a soy sauce substitute.  Apparently you can make some kind of sauce out of beef broth and flavorings.  Gross, but we can't live without our Asian food so we will summon up our courage and go for it.  

Right now the hardest thing to deal with is breakfast.  I can't even have oats.  I've heard that most people who have a gluten intolerance can handle oats but they say that you should give it up during the trial period.  So that means no banana pancakes, no oatmeal or granola, no waffles, no yogurt.  What to do?  We're going to try a brown rice pudding made with non-dairy milk and lots of fruit, tons of eggs, and some hash made with either sweet potatoes or maybe just regular potatoes.  

If you have any suggestions, feel free to submit some recipes/links in the comments section.