nefferdun
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I am going after FL1953 and have been on Dr. F's diet for about a month. I am not a gifted cook so I need help! I have 3 McDougal cook books so please don't recommend any more. I need your favorite recipe - the one you can eat everyday or at least once a week. Thanks
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Keebler
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- It's not a meal but do stock up on HEMP protein powder.
A nice STEAMER should help. I would think you'll be gently steaming many of your vegetables.
Is it just no added oils or animal fats?
Can you eat fats that are IN foods, such as avocados? Nuts?
As with all satisfying meals, good spices and garden herbs will pique interest with intricate flavors. -
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- Spinach, kale or chard - collard is too strong for this one:
Since added oil is off the menu, you can still get this pesto flavor without the oil.
If you can, add pine nuts or crushed walnuts.
This can be a dish alone, or with nearly anything else such as summer squash, spaghetti squash.
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Steamed CARROTS, YAMS or SWEET POTATO (Cut any way you wish)
Dash of CINNAMON &/or CARDAMOM, Sea Salt
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Herbs de Provence is a nice herb blend.
Summer Savory, too.
The Garden Herbs & Spices have such a hold on me. I hope others can come to appreciate how absolutely essential they are to our daily lives.
Essential. Absolutely. Seek out garden herbs & spices and I guarantee increased levels of happiness will come about.
Fresh is best, when at all possible. -
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nefferdun
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Thanks Keebler but no nuts or seeds or avocado! Isn't that miserable?! I can have 15 grams of fat a day. One tablespoon of oil has that much. I do cheat now and then. If I can get this under control, then I will lighten up and eat some seeds and nuts and avocado (I do love that!).
I will try the carrots and yams with cinnamon and cardamon. That sounds really good. This diet forces me to use herbs and spice more for the flavor I used to get from fat. I love cumin, turmeric - and Mrs. Dash has become my mainstay.
I also use Bragg's amino acids instead of salt. Apple cider vinegar is very good splashed on "sauteed" vegetables, especially portabello mushrooms (if only I could put them on a grilled cheese sandwich with pesto!). I am still eating wheat.
Thanks to you I discovered Chinese black rice and love that.
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I figured out how to make a bean (or lentil) loaf. I just throw this together so don't know the exact measurements. I use about one can drained black beans, 1/2 can refried beans and 1 to 2 cups of rice (black or brown).
I saute (in 1 TB of oil) chopped onion, celery, green pepper or whatever with cumin or turmeric. To spice things up even more I add about 1/4 cup salsa. Mix all together and here is the cheat - one egg! - and about 1/4 cup flour or whatever it takes to make it bind.
Before I could add chopped sunflower seeds and cheese but that is too much fat.
As this loaf makes enough for several meals, the oil and egg only add about 4-5 grams fat per serving. You can "saute in water" and leave the egg out.
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Keebler
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- You say: "I am still eating wheat."
As I THINK I understand it, wheat is not allowed on that FL1953 food plan due to the arginine.
I have other thoughts about this diet (as my brain REALLY needs more fat than this - and I think there are other ways to balance arginine and other ways to address biofilm issues) . . .
. . . still, if you are intending to follow it, I'd hate to see your efforts torpedoed by wheat.
Many LLMDs strongly encourage patients to be gluten-free during treatment as it helps in so many ways. Gluten can cause so many symptoms, too.
Good luck. -
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nefferdun
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Dr. F believes it is the arginine in wheat that can bother some lyme patients rather than gluten, but he also recommends the McDougal diet and that includes wheat. I usually eat sprouted grain bread because it has a lower GI.
The most important foods to avoid are animal products and fat. Here is a site that lists arginine in foods.
Surprisingly two of the highest foods in arginine are pumpkin seeds and peanuts, while two of the lowest are goat's milk and yogurt. Nuts are all very high. Compared to other foods, wheat is not that high so you are much better off eating wheat than you are eating nuts (which I love).
If you are going to cheat, then it would be safer to drink a little goat's milk or yogurt than meat, which is very high in fat and arginine. Goat's milk does not have the same casein that causes the problem in cow's milk. I have been staying away from dairy for the time being.
Egg white is better than whole eggs because there is about half the arginine and almost no fat. But the fat in one egg yolk is only 4.5 grams and if you are baking with it and splitting it between four people, there is really nothing to worry about (in my opinion).
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Go to the blog page and scroll down for some recipes. It seems to be 1/2 cup nuts/seeds + 2 cups beans/lentils +1 cup rice/quinoa etc + 1 cup (about) chopped onion, celery, carrot etc. with liquid, binders and seasoning. Once a person figures this out, you can be creative and do your own thing.
You can leave out the nuts or reduce the amount. 1/2 walnuts has 38 grams of fat so divided by 4, that would be 9.5 grams. Right now I am leaving nuts/seeds out.
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Inquisitive321- Thank you for posting these links
I still eat wheat but don't eat sugar or most dairy so the spoonfulofsugarfee website looks like it will be very helpful to me.
Wheat doesn't bother me at all, but sugar usually gives me headaches so i avoid it,
plus i don't really want sugar anymore, before I got treated for Lyme, & Babesia, I did crave sugar quite a bit, i noticed now that I don't like anything with sugar, it actually repells me, Odd... i know.
I noticed a big change after treating Lyme, & i also took a wormwood combination, & i think that made a difference for me in cravings.
Nefferdun- I dry saute orange ,yellow, red bell peppers, red onions, yellow onions or white onions, whatever i have on hand
with mushrooms, & whatever other veggies i have on hand like broccoli, cauliflower & zuchini until tender
add some spices like cumin or oregano, parsely etc
then put them in a wrap.
It comes out great & is fast & easy. My daughter often times makes this for breakfast and she doesn't usually like my veggie creations but this is one she loves.
Deborah Maddison has a book called 'Vegetarian cooking for everyone' that is EXCELLENT.
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nefferdun
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Inquisitive, those recipes look really good. I am making another trip to town to get the ingredients. I want to try several of those.
Shadesofpurple, I do a lot of stir fry but I had not thought of putting it into wraps. The quinoa tortilla inqus posted would make a good wrap. This is fun when things work out.
I made the lentil soup recipe Lauralyme posted and it is delicious. I find I can use leftover bean or lentil soup to make loaves. Today, I took two cups lentil soup (very reduced liquid), one cup Chinese black rice and enough rice flour to make it bind, to make a burger which was fantastic. I confess to adding an egg white to really make it really stick.
I also had some corn with salsa - chopped tomatoe, cilantro and onion. I have not eaten much corn in years but it compliments the lentil and beans protein wise, so i am using it again. I don't have much trouble with yeast.
Yesterday I made a pumpkin bread recipe from a no fat cook book I have had for years. It was so horrible I threw the whole thing in the trash. That is why I need tried recipes, not cook books. Sometimes i wonder if they even try all those recipes they publish.
On of my McDougal cookbook has a recipe calling for one can of corn, one can of black beans and two cans of stewed tomatoes - that's it. I did not care for it and ended up adding two more cans of beans and celery, onion, carrot, cumin and salsa to make it ok.
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