I have found the restrictions for Lyme patients to be a bit daunting in deciding what to eat.
I have been told to eliminate the following:
Gluten Sugar Caffeine Milk and Milk Products Alcohol
What has been your experience when eliminating these things?
I also have a laundry list of other things to eliminate from my food sensitivity test.
The big things that will be hard to cut out are chicken and coconut, b/c so many healthy dishes have these two things in them!
I was also instructed to buy organic and the cleanest meat possible. I have found this to be very expensive.
I am a single person, so I am cooking for one. I am trying to come up with a food budget. This new diet is a little overwhelming.
She also wants me to do a rotational diet.
Do any of your have any recommendations or advice on how to overhaul my diet?
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Daunting was an understatement of how I felt - oh, probably about 20 years ago when I first dropped gluten, processed foods.
What opened up for me, though, was a whole new world I had never really considered. Sure, budget is a trick to say the least, still, choices are plenty and very delicious with great variety.
I find it helpful to look at the hundreds of foods that I CAN enjoy. Really, there are still hundreds - at least after you count the various ways to prepare totally different dishes.
Beef, lamb, buffalo, salmon, etc. best from "clean" sources of course as you know can be hard on the budget but I just find I eat about four ounces of meat 4 x a week.
With lamb, with Easter & Passover upon us, stores will be offering some specials, likely. Often lamb ranchers will be at farmers' markets with a freezer case. [Maybe even in Texas?]
BEANS can be a great help. Kidney beans are very hearty. Cranberry beans very nice, too.
The broth from the chicken bones goes into many of my bean and lentil dishes. (Oh, but did you say you need to avoid chicken? --- you can make beef broth, etc.,
though onions, garlic, leeks, fennel bulb and herbs & spices can do wonders even without a meat stock).
I do fine with tofu. If one has adequate iodine in their body (I take 12.5 mg a day) soy should be okay, organic of course. Two meals a week of tofu for me. So many ways to prepare it.
Mushrooms - the best meat substitute on the planet.
Eggs (the happier the chicken, the better the eggs will be for you).
There is a whole world of legumes
and all kinds of non-gluten whole "grain like" things like
wild rice, black rice, red rice
quinoa - and red quinoa or tri-color
buckwheat groats, millet, amaranth
For rare times, TINKYADA gluten free RICE pastas (as they will be higher on the glycemic index that whole grains, be sure to have lots of veggies, a serving of protein and good fat along with it).
The produce department at your local market can help you select items that you may not yet have tried.
Call your best natural foods sort of market and ask if they have someone who can help you walk through some of your new choices, in all departments. Just stay away from anything in a box, can, etc.
Farmers' Markets also have coordinators offices you can call and maybe ask if they have a volunteer with whom you meet and have them walk you through and offer suggestions. -
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Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
with 3 (for 18 grams of protein) not-too-hard boiled eggs,
with just a tiny touch of stevia to offset the [Organicville] gluten free dark mustard and avocado oil, and sea salt.
It was delightful. Like deviled eggs in a way, all mashed up. The avocado oil really makes my day.
ANOTHER COLOR vegetable should have been present, though, there was a guy on my roof and I had none prepared. A knife in hand with a guy on roof, good to avoid that situation. So, carrots later on. -
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Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- I usually soft boil eggs so as not to need any oil at all - more for budget considerations to stretch out my supply.
As for cutting out coconut oil, there are so many other oils to consider. I recently had to cut out coconut oil, too. I don't even miss it now that I've found
avocado oil, other nut oils, still used EVOO but rotate - and I use GHEE, too. Even with a dairy free diet, ghee can work where butter would not as ghee is clarified. But ask your doctor.
Now, with warm temps, you may do best to find I your local stores. Check the retail prices here (and VitaCost's lower prices are nice)
Ghee is wonderful, be sure to get from a truly organic source. Purity farms is good. I checked them out. Avocado oil & other nuts oils from La Tourangelle are at vitacost, too.
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Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
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