I had some testing that revealed many intolerances and am going to start eliminating. I mostly rely on take out and prepared foods.
My list of foods/spices to avoid:
Moderate/High Allergens: Dairy, Wheat/Gluten, Chicken, Sardines, Garlic, Walnuts, Yeast
Low level Allergens: Pork, Turkey, Duck, Eggs, oysters, Fish except shellfish and salmon, Rice, Almonds, Pecans, Peanuts, Lentils, Oats, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Mushrooms, peas,zucchini, Soy, Sesame, Sunflower seeds, Coffee, Cane Sugar.
Spice Allergens: Allspice,Basil, Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Cumin, Dill, Mustard, Nutmeg, Paprika, Peppermint, Sage, Thyme
I can eat all fruits, most veggies, beef, and lamb. My only dairy sub is coconut. Most gluten free substitutes are out bc soy, rice, almond, buckwheat flours. I have yet to find any packaged foods that really work. Obviously eating out will be a nightmare.
I have been using all recipes app that lets you avoid certain ingredients. I would like advice on ingredient substitutions, experience you've had with substitutions, pitfalls, or and any easy assemble meals that might come to mind.
Garlic- shallots may work?
Bacon- fatty cut of beef sliced thin and fried? Need to look at liquid smoke ingredients
Eggs in recipe-chia seeds soaked in water?
Soy sauce-coconut aminos?
Dressing- apple cider vinegar with honey?
Breading-corn flour or masa? Coconut flour
Whipped cream-coconut whipped cream.
Buttermilk-coconut milk with apple cider vinegar
Avocado to replace sour cream
Potato Vodka
Champagne with yeast removed from processing
Thoughts on salsa, ketchup, steak sauce, and barbecue sauce recipes? Spices I can use bay leaves, cloves, curry, fennel, ginger, horseradish, marjoram, oregano,parsley, rosemary, and vanilla.
Some meals that will work:
Roast, carrots and potatoes
Beef smoked sausage(need to verify label) with potatoes and green beans
Beef and potato hash
Vegetable soups
Bean soups
Corn cereal with coconut milk
Salads
I will cross post this.
Thanks in advance
You're definitely going to have to cook or prepare all of your meals with only minimally processed foods for the duration of this elimination diet. Make your life easier by preparing multiple servings of one recipe when possible and always pack snacks with you since this elimination diet may take some time to adjust to what leave you full vs hungry
Bragg's liquid aminos are a much better alternative to soy sauce than coconut aminos i think. More intense flavor and will work well for adding flavor to veggies and salad dressing
http://bragg.com/products/bragg-liqui...
Cashew milk is a good neutral flavor nut milk as an alternative to coconut milk, also really easy to make your own.
Look for chickpea flour, aka besan flour- you can use it to make quick savory crepes to use as a wrap for sandwich fillings
Salad dressings you can use lemon juice with olive oil or a flavored vinegar
Cashew cream is fantastic for anywhere you want a creamy texture with a neutral flavor- works great as a sub for sour cream, or whisk into a sauce to make it creamy, or soups.... be sure to use *raw* cashews soaked overnight
http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/savory-o...
I don't see tomato listed, so not sure why ketchup isn't ok...
pico de gallo is just tomato/onion/cilantro/jalapeño, so that shoukd be fine too.
Chickpea flour works as an egg substitute in, say, salmon cakes.
Cashew milk and cream are fine dairy substitutes.
Can you have nutritional yeast?
If corn is okay, you can have tortillas, polenta (make beef Sunday gravy sauce with tomatoes in large quantity).
Just read about a new chickpea pasta too, haven't tried it yet.
I work around a variety of sensitivities. It just takes practice and imagination. For example, tomatoes are on the no-no list so I make a pasta sauce out of butternut squash and roasted red bell peppers. It took trial and error to get it figured out.
Although both garlic and onions are on my no-no list, I can usually get by with a shallot and occasional clove or two of garlic. I just don't start every meal with sauteing onions & garlic in olive oil any more. And if I feel my tummy reacting to too many nights in a row of transgressions, I make sure to have a few nights without.
Beyond that, it's trial and error. You may find, for example, that cinnamon is fine cooked in something but not raw. I can eat cooked spinach but not raw. Tomorrow is Valentine's Day but I will wait to eat chocolate until the evening so I can take the resultant headache to bed.
Good luck and we will cry together about the lack of walnuts -- I've become a devotee of toasted almonds but it's not the same.
Oh, and my food sensitivities were determined in a doctor's office using a tine test and have served to reduce the GERD that was causing chronic sinus infections.
Some more thoughts for you:
vegan cookbooks often sub crisply fried thin sliced mushrooms previously marinated in a marinade that includes liquid smoke for bacon--you can make up a whole lot of this.
Also there is lamb bacon
http://www.foodrepublic.com/2015/07/1...
I'm not allergic to wheat, but I do eat a lot of yam-based asian noodles. There are also green bean ones. They are slippery and not actually a pasta substitute, but I enjoy them in their own right.
You might also enjoy shiritaki noodles--they're a traditional Japanese product. They're made with yam (but are chewy and transparent, don't think sweet potato), which you probably can have. A side benefit is that they have zero calories.
If you look at the vegetable recipes in a contemporary vegetarian cookbook (I was just perusing Vedge) you'll find lots of recipes you can have. There they use very thin sliced briefly roasted eggplant and daikon radish slices to create roll-ups, the way you'd traditional use pita bread or a flour tortilla.
You could do a seafood soup, like a bouillabaise. And I just saw an NY Times recipe for butterflied roasted leg of lamb with salsa verde. It looked exquisite and I think you can have just about everything in the recipe.
I'll keep thinking of what might actually work for you.
Trader Joe's recent flyer has broccoli and cauliflower "rice."
Eating out. You can always get
a burger and fries (no bun)
broiled salmon (tell them to put nothing on it) and salad
steak and a baked potato
grilled shrimp and a vegetable (tell them to put nothing on either)
Carry your own un-allergenic salad dressing. Or just ask for a wedge of lemon
I've used mashed banana in place of eggs to make bread and cakes.
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