Elimination Diet

As a result of my elimination diet, I have come up with some weird substitute snacks for myself. I craved chocolate, and seeing the family indulging in chocolate only made me crave it more, but to my dismay, when I looked at he ingredients, all of them have dairy.

I haven't eaten ice cream for over a month either. I crave that too, but I'll be patient.

I have been eyeing the cocoa sitting on my wall shelf in the kitchen for quite some time now. That, and the seaweed plus coconut milk would make a perfect chocolate snack for me. So I made my own cool, creamy, chocolate jello snack, using good ole Asian seaweed.

Results: oh la la! I've never been more proud of myself for inventing my own recipe!

"What do you think I should name taht chocolate agar-agar?' I asked the girls as I was typing this.

"Chagar-Chagar," S responded.

"Because it's chocolate agar-agar," she continued.

So, Chagar-Chagar it is!

Chagar-Chagar

8 cups water
2 cups coconut milk
1 45g packet of seaweed
3 estimated tablespoons cocoa
a dumpload of sugar (I didn't think of measuring it when I dumped it in)


1. Bring 8 cups of water plus a dumpload of sugar to a boil
2. Throw in the whole packet of agar-agar (seaweed)
3. Stir it till the agar-agar completely dissolves
4. In 2 cups of coconut milk, stir in the cocoa until the cocoa is dissolved
5. Pour the creamy chocolatey coconut milk into the pot of sweetend dissolved agar-agar
6. Stir till combined
7. Pour into dish and let cool to set
8. Cut into desired shapes

I had myself a chocolatey snack for a few days.

Today, we had another try at Kuih Sagu. Again, I overestimated the amount of water to the amount of tapioca pearls, so we ended up with a Kuih Sagu that is not that easy to slice, so we spooned it and rolled it in grated coconut. Still oh la la!


I wonder what else I can 'cook' up. I'll probably end up with my own cook book of 'elimination diet' at the end of this journey. All thanks to Baby Z who now has impetigo in his face, poor boy!