Allergic to Spaghetti Squash?!

     Just when I thought I'd found the holy grail of pasta alternatives, after going through all types of gluten-free high carb goodness....I've had quinoa, rice, as well as corn pasta, which all do great in replacing the thing that makes me bloat beyond recognition.  My best friend recommended that I try Spaghetti Squash.  I've had vegetable noodles before, which I mostly do raw ( zucchini, cucumber, carrot, steamed-potatoes), but sometimes I just crave a nice warm, comforting pasta dish.  I picked up two large spaghetti squashes in the grocery store three days ago and had an entire one for dinner with a tikka masala (minus the butter ghee) vegetable stew as the topping.  It turned out so yummy and filling and the minerals I was getting from the whole squash sort of had me excited.  I had no reaction.  However, last night was very different somehow.  Not only was the second squash bigger (as big as my head to be honest), I made it with a more traditional pasta sauce, with mushrooms, zucchini, peppers, yellow and red tomatoes with tofu chunks.  Again I ate the whole thing with no problem and even ended up feeling hungry later into the night.  But between that time, a period of severe nausea and dizziness took over about 45 minutes after eating it.  What surprised me about this and worried me, was that I almost never get sick after eating anything, (except animal products) especially any type of vegetable.  We had to pull over the car several times for me to attempt to allow my body to rid itself of this, and I also speculated that it could just have been normal motion sickness.

     After extensive research this morning I found out that there is a possibility of having an allergy to a certain type of squash, especially the winter variety.  Who knew, right?  It was so hard to find information because it's apparently an allergy so rare that barely anyone knows that it really exists.  I think I'll stick to my regular veggie noodles from now on to avoid the discomfort I went through.  It even lasted till breakfast this morning.  Ugh.  Rough start to the day, but it got better.

     It mostly got better because Jeremy took me to Barrie, a city 45 minutes North of us that we'd never been to.  Along with picking up some water filters, we went to Rawlicious for dinner!  I've always wanted to go eat there and they just recently opened one in our town.  So I'm excited for future visits.  Go look them up! even better would be to visit for a dine-in if you can!  The food was so fresh and full of flavour.  All vegan, all raw, all allergen free.  We also went to the lake across the street, and basked in the sun and breeze.  Watching people sail by and having the nature surround us reminded me of why I fell in love with Canada...and why I want to move North now :P.  Don't know how that would work out seeing as there are no game studios in Barrie, but I'll be posting pics!

Goodnight, Lovelys!