Hey Ballerine! I'm going to send you an email later! I think that you still need starches for benefit and that going without the starches isn't really going to starve the yeast any faster-maybe but I don't know- I mean veggies in a way are carbs right? So I think its really about the combo of things- the ratio that is crucial meat starch veggies. I think if the rice crackers are causing a reaction than maybe you could try making your own or try them again in a month? I think rice cakes are causing me a bit of trouble but they are so convenient that I am unwilling to give them up at the moment. I think I'm fine with brown rice but perhaps the processing that the rice crackers/cakes go through might be somehow a contributing factor? I mean a factory might have things in it that cross  pollinate likeI dunno peanut dust or something?  I think for folks that are reacting to grains/rice and cannot eat them without flaring so they omit them is more of a get the inflammation under control so I can tolerate the grains later kind of thing. I cannot feel full when I eat without the starches and I get less energy if its omitted no matter how much chicken and broccoli I eat!

I have gotten into the habit of eating them with olive oil and baking them with sea salt.  Since I began treatment I have been waking up with puffy fingers, and joint pain (which I only use to have when I eat certain things).. I cant tell if its the rice crackers or not.  I know I have no reaction to brown rice, but all other grains do something bad to my body.  The rice cakes I am sure cant be good the way I am eating them.  Alone, with no protien or vege.  I will ask Matia on our call next week.  I will be willing to give them up, if she says it will hinder treatment. I will update what she says next Wed, when I talk to her.