Guest guest Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 Thank you for all your help. Goodness, it's so nice to communicate with people with similar issues. Sorry for such a long email but I thought I'd answer the questions all at once. - I don't believe that I should eat eggs in any form. I'm allergic to both the yolk and the egg white. - In terms of rice, my allergic response isn't tremendous. But, rice does sit in my stomach funny and I get tired a couple of hours later. I don't know what brown rice syrup would do. Even when I wasn't aware I was allergic to then, I never ate potatoes and corn so I'm actually not sure what they do to me. They might be okay in small amounts...don't know how strict I should be. To Deborah: - I do very much like quinoa and millet. I've been eating lots of both over the last couple of weeks. The best I've come up with is Pesto Quinoa. Fortunately, I'm an extremely open minded eater. I'm not picky at all and will give anything a try. I just returned from living in China for six weeks. While there, I fell in love with their vegetables: lotus root, bok choy, etc. I like to cook as well. I also have always loved fruits and vegetables. Lichee is great (although expensive here...I live in California). Okay, I do have a confession...I joined this list mainly because of the fact that I'm gluten free but I do eat some meat (lean chicken and fish). Instead of listing the everything I can eat, I'm going to list everything I can't. They are as follows (the ones highlighted a particularly bad): Vegetables Asparagus Broccoli Cabbage Brussel Sprouts Cauliflower Eggplant Radish Carrot Garlic Onion Beans Soybean White Bean Kidney Bean Pinto Bean Animal Products Egg* Cheese Whey - any form of dairy: yogurt, milk, etc. Fruits Cranberry Pineapple Orange Nuts/ Seeds/ etc. Almond Cashew Nut Coconut Safflower Sesame Canola Peanut Mustard Grains Yeast, Baker's/Brewer's Gluten/Wheat Rice Corn Potato Deborah Pageau <dpageau wrote: I hope we can do better for you than food replacement drinks! Stop focusing on what you can't eat and focus on what you CAN eat. There ARE non-gluten grains other than rice... millet, quinoa, amaranthe, teff, buckwheat (YES! The name is unfortunate.) are a few. Winter squashes, sweet pototoes and yams are very different than potatoes in their chemistry and allergenisity, but they are filling and nutritious. What veggies CAN you eat? What fruits CAN you eat? What legumes CAN you eat? I've heard of people living long and healthy lives eating very limited diets of very few foods, so I know it's possible. You can get enough protein and everything. I would suggest structuring your diet around the REAL food that your body will tolerate. There is a lot of variety available to us in North America, much of which many people just walk past when they are shopping because we have a tendency to just eat a few things all the time. Look around at the grocery store, for the moment, in your imagination. When you are up and around again, start exploring ethnic stores and find new and different things to expand your options. Ever tried Taro? Durien? Mango? Papaya? Guava?? Lichees??? Yummy! :-) When I gave up the staples of my diet (dairy, meat and wheat) the variety of my diet actually increased. Deborah I seem to be extremely sensitive to everything, which is causing of ton of serious digestive problems (in fact I'm writing this from the hospital!). they've got me on an IV diet right now which is giving my GI a rest, but I need to think about what to eat when I go home. the doctors here tell me to just drink ensure, boost, glucerna, etc, but I'm not happy with those choices because I seem to have grain and dairy sensitivities that western medicine doesn't seem to want to acknowledge (lame!!). plus, most grocery store liquid diets are high in sugar, something I feel better when I have less of in my system. so here I am, looking for a liquid diet for home that will give me the nutrients I need that limiting myself to my current " safe foods " might deprive me of. something dairy free (or potentially only lactose free - I'm not sure yet), gluten free, hopefully corn free. there's speculation that I might have an overall grain problem (even rice!) but that's still in the maybe stage so I'm not worried about rice at the moment. at this point I need something easy to digest, low in sugar, and dense in nutrients. yes juicing is an option, but I'm pretty weak these days and will need a pre-fab product for a little while until my energy builds to the point that I can prepare food again. what do you folks eat/drink/consume when in need of a liquid diet that caters to your sensitivities? is there the perfect liquid diet? . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 wow! and omnivores think that the standard vegan diet is a challenge...! On 12 Sep 2006, at 08:11, Kate McCullough wrote: > Thank you for all your help. Goodness, it's so nice to communicate > with people with similar issues. Sorry for such a long email but I > thought I'd answer the questions all at once. > > - I don't believe that I should eat eggs in any form. I'm allergic to > both the yolk and the egg white. > - In terms of rice, my allergic response isn't tremendous. But, rice > does sit in my stomach funny and I get tired a couple of hours later. > I don't know what brown rice syrup would do. Even when I wasn't aware > I was allergic to then, I never ate potatoes and corn so I'm actually > not sure what they do to me. They might be okay in small > amounts...don't know how strict I should be. > > To Deborah: > > - I do very much like quinoa and millet. I've been eating lots of > both over the last couple of weeks. The best I've come up with is > Pesto Quinoa. > > Fortunately, I'm an extremely open minded eater. I'm not picky at all > and will give anything a try. I just returned from living in China for > six weeks. While there, I fell in love with their vegetables: lotus > root, bok choy, etc. I like to cook as well. I also have always loved > fruits and vegetables. Lichee is great (although expensive here...I > live in California). Okay, I do have a confession...I joined this list > mainly because of the fact that I'm gluten free but I do eat some meat > (lean chicken and fish). > > Instead of listing the everything I can eat, I'm going to list > everything I can't. They are as follows (the ones highlighted a > particularly bad): > > Vegetables > Asparagus > Broccoli > Cabbage > Brussel Sprouts > Cauliflower > Eggplant > Radish > Carrot > Garlic > Onion > > > Beans > Soybean > White Bean > Kidney Bean > Pinto Bean > > Animal Products > Egg* > Cheese > Whey - any form of dairy: yogurt, milk, etc. > > Fruits > Cranberry > Pineapple > Orange > > Nuts/ Seeds/ etc. > Almond > Cashew Nut > Coconut > Safflower > Sesame > Canola > Peanut > Mustard > > Grains > Yeast, Baker's/Brewer's > Gluten/Wheat > Rice > Corn > Potato > > Deborah Pageau <dpageau wrote: I hope we can do better > for you than food replacement drinks! Stop focusing on what you can't > eat and focus on what you CAN eat. There ARE non-gluten grains other > than rice... millet, quinoa, amaranthe, teff, buckwheat (YES! The name > is unfortunate.) are a few. Winter squashes, sweet pototoes and yams > are very different than potatoes in their chemistry and allergenisity, > but they are filling and nutritious. > > What veggies CAN you eat? > > What fruits CAN you eat? > > What legumes CAN you eat? > > I've heard of people living long and healthy lives eating very > limited diets of very few foods, so I know it's possible. You can get > enough protein and everything. I would suggest structuring your diet > around the REAL food that your body will tolerate. There is a lot of > variety available to us in North America, much of which many people > just walk past when they are shopping because we have a tendency to > just eat a few things all the time. Look around at the grocery store, > for the moment, in your imagination. When you are up and around again, > start exploring ethnic stores and find new and different things to > expand your options. Ever tried Taro? Durien? Mango? Papaya? Guava?? > Lichees??? Yummy! :-) When I gave up the staples of my diet (dairy, > meat and wheat) the variety of my diet actually increased. > > Deborah > > I seem to be extremely sensitive to everything, which is causing of > ton of serious digestive problems (in fact I'm writing this from the > hospital!). they've got me on an IV diet right now which is giving my > GI a rest, but I need to think about what to eat when I go home. > > the doctors here tell me to just drink ensure, boost, glucerna, etc, > but I'm not happy with those choices because I seem to have grain and > dairy sensitivities that western medicine doesn't seem to want to > acknowledge (lame!!). plus, most grocery store liquid diets are high > in sugar, something I feel better when I have less of in my system. > so here I am, looking for a liquid diet for home that will give me the > nutrients I need that limiting myself to my current " safe foods " might > deprive me of. > > something dairy free (or potentially only lactose free - I'm not sure > yet), gluten free, hopefully corn free. there's speculation that I > might have an overall grain problem (even rice!) but that's still in > the maybe stage so I'm not worried about rice at the moment. at this > point I need something easy to digest, low in sugar, and dense in > nutrients. yes juicing is an option, but I'm pretty weak these days > and will need a pre-fab product for a little while until my energy > builds to the point that I can prepare food again. > > what do you folks eat/drink/consume when in need of a liquid diet that > caters to your sensitivities? is there the perfect liquid diet? > . > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Hi Kate: Great! The fact that you CAN eat quinoa, millet and a variety of Chinese veggies shows that we can definitely do better for you than those sugar-ladened meal replacement liquids! Do you have a local Chinese market? That's good that you are into trying new things, that will help too. In terms of common North American foods, it looks like you're also OK with regular green beans and peas, possibly lentils, garbanzos; squashes, sweet potatoes and yams; lots of fruit options for you (melons, cherries, berries, apples, bananas, etc); filberts, walnuts, flax seed. Have fun mixing and matching these foods with whatever herbs and spices you are OK with, eating the full variety of these foods that you tolerate, enough to satify your hunger and keep your weight at a healthy level... and you've got all your needs covered. If you weren't eating any meat, I'd suggest that you start taking a Vitamin B12 supplement, but since you do eat meat, as long as you are younger than 65, you may be OK without that. Since you just returned from an extended stay in China, your body's illness may be related to the trip in some way. Your condition may improve and your level of reactivity may drop over the next few weeks as you stabilize and recover from the trip. You may want to stop eating the lean chicken and fish sooner or later, and see how much improvement you get from that too. Animal flesh, especially fish, is loaded with toxins that we can do without! :-) Welcome home! Deborah Thank you for all your help. Goodness, it's so nice to communicate with people with similar issues. Sorry for such a long email but I thought I'd answer the questions all at once. To Deborah: - I do very much like quinoa and millet. I've been eating lots of both over the last couple of weeks. The best I've come up with is Pesto Quinoa. Fortunately, I'm an extremely open minded eater. I'm not picky at all and will give anything a try. I just returned from living in China for six weeks. While there, I fell in love with their vegetables: lotus root, bok choy, etc. I like to cook as well. I also have always loved fruits and vegetables. Lichee is great (although expensive here...I live in California). Okay, I do have a confession...I joined this list mainly because of the fact that I'm gluten free but I do eat some meat (lean chicken and fish). Instead of listing the everything I can eat, I'm going to list everything I can't. They are as follows (the ones highlighted a particularly bad): Vegetables Asparagus Broccoli Cabbage Brussel Sprouts Cauliflower Eggplant Radish Carrot Garlic Onion Beans Soybean White Bean Kidney Bean Pinto Bean Fruits Cranberry Pineapple Orange Nuts/ Seeds/ etc. Almond Cashew Nut Coconut Safflower Sesame Canola Peanut Mustard Grains Yeast, Baker's/Brewer's Gluten/Wheat Rice Corn Potato . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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