Thank you, Rob. DH is recovering from his surgery, and doesn't need either radiation or chemo for this particular cancer, so he is doing as well as can be expected. I agree that this WOE was a challenge at the beginning, 6 1/2 years ago. I loved to bake and cook, and must take a certain amount of blame for feeding DH's sweet tooth. But once I got past that I find that I just don't "see" the foods that are not good for me. Yes, I'm sure that good bread is still good, but I don't eat grains now, so bread just isn't an issue. However, I don't have an addictive personality, and I can be quite stubborn, so, having decided that I don't eat "that" (whatever "that" might be) ... well ... I don't. And now I don't miss much of what I won't eat. I still like to cook and experiment in the kitchen, and, as WereBear says, all the things that I CAN and WILL eat are luscious, and delightful, and (in a former life) decadent, so why would I want to have anything else? Steak with Bearnaise sauce is perfect on it's own; bread would only be useful to get the last bits of sauce, and there are other ways to do that.
Actually, about the bread: after several years of not eating any I had the opportunity to have some from a really good local bakery. I allowed myself a couple of bites, and - truth be told - it wasn't really worth it. I'm sure the bread was just as good as before, but my tastes had changed. I took the rest home to feed to the chickens