Thursday, January 22, 2009

What to eat

I see and hear a lot of questions from parents starting on diets. I've gone through my own roller coaster for S on diets, and going through all the bewildering options, and S might as well stop eating altogether :-(

Here's where I am at at the moment. I have no idea whether this will work or not.

No gluten 
Casein - goat milk yogurt cultured at home only (using Progurt as a starter and adding probiotics)
All food prepared at home

Look at IGg & IGe panel to cut out items that S is highly allergic to or has developed an allergy to and eliminate them (IGg is "temporary", so maybe good to go off the number 3s temporarily and introduce sparingly).

For e.g. We have been seriously skewed towards almonds in all forms so I want to go off almonds temporarily. Diet has also been meat heavy, so I want to plan to reduce that as well.

Sweetener: Honey, fruits

Grains allowed: Buckwheat groats, quinoa, millet, amaranth [pre-soaked for 8 hrs before use, dehydrate and dry grind for flours], brown rice

All vegetables except starchy veggies (use starchy veggies as sparingly as possible)
All fruits - wait for bananas to fully ripen (black spots), give no-phenol enzyme - don't overdo fruits, ok to load up on pears

Meats: white only (chicken, turkey)

Rotation: select one grain per day. Limit to say 3 servings (to ensure that I don't overdose on grain). don't repeat the grain for the next 4-5 days.

Next post on meal plans.