Need inspiration for elimination diet

[consumerate]

Oh and in terms of inspiration food wise, the pear jam is pretty good, although reduce the sugar content. I ate heaps of swede mash and also really regularly made leek and potato rosti to go alongside meat.  Would be nice with an egg on it if you eat eggs as a part of your vegetarian diet. Lightly cooked cabbage was very popular too.

It is a lot easier if you can include dairy, so do that challenge as quickly as possible.  If it's only lactose that is a problem, once you are finished with the elimination phase you can actually use lactase tablets which means you can eat dairy while taking in only a small quantity of salicylates.

Also, you really need the holy trinity of books which is:
-The elimination diet handbook from rpah
-The friendly food cookbook from rpah or dymocks or qbd
-The Sue Dengate failsafe e cookbook

Don't think I could have done it without all three.

Wi

[Girlpower247]

Jo's blog @ Quirky cooking has some great recipes for sugar, dairy& wheat free followers...very popular

http://quirkycooking.blogspot.com.au/?m=0

[SuperMum_of_3]

Hi nickykat,
We've been on RPAH elimination diet 6 months. I can't tolerate any sals, amines etc at all so haven't been able to reintroduce anything successfully. My 2 little boys passed the amines test, but can't reintroduce any sals at all. We do meat, so makes it easier, but usually have a couple of vegetarian meals a week.

If you find you're okay with amines, you could do a vegetarian nasi goreng, using FAILSAFE veges & egg. Just google nasi goreng and adapt a recipe to suit FAILSAFE foods.

I do not like the RPAH cookbook because of the high sugar in a lot of the recipes, but also bc I found most of them taste yuck. I recommend domestic diva unleashed & cooking for oscar websites. I think you'll do FAR better with these sites than a cookbook. Here are the links:
http://www.domesticdivaunleashed.com/
http://www.cookingforoscar.com/

I've posted a recipe on mock tomato sauce on this forum. Make this multiple times a week to go into meals. Real lifesaver.
http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=11892.0

The above should get you started. I've ended up making up most of my recipes as hubby isn't FAILSAFE but eats it when at home, had to come up with a lot of recipes to pass as 'normal'. When I get time, will write them down & put them into an ebook or something similiar to help others like yourself.

If I may make a suggestion, if you're going to do the elim diet, do it properly - for eg. no toothpaste - use bicarb & salt mix instead. Find a no-frag shampoo, soap etc option. Fragrance free deodorant, etc. Use bicarb only for cleaning (even the smell of vinegar is too much as it's a strong salicylate). When you go off the foods, you'll become more sensitive to smells of sals & react to them too. Perfumes worn by others can be a real prob. We've had to take our 3.5yr old out of Kindy because he kept reacting to perfumes & cleaning product smells used in the centre. Make sure your kids don't wear sunscreen unless you find one that's RPAH approved. It's pretty full on. I wouldn't recommend the diet unless you 'have' to do it. If you can do a Liver Cleanse or take a weed, seed, feed approach to your gut first, I'd do that! If you end up needing to do the elimination diet, having a healthy liver & better functioning gut will help you tolerate reintroduction of sals.

All the best! Let us know how you go!

[SuperMum_of_3]

Hi nickykat,
Good luck with your diet, it sounds like babyw has great advice, I've got those cookbooks and I really liked the friendly food one. I will be embarking on the elimination diet in a few months too. I'm hoping to work out triggers for my migraines. I'll be interested to hear how you go.
Good luck

Hi Jamberie,
Try doing the elimination diet for AMINES ONLY first. Most people, including myself, find amines are the trigger for their migraines.
Cheers 

[Jamberie]

Thanks for the tip SuperMum. I'll chat to my dietitian (who conveniently happens to be my sister) about that in a few weeks when I start.

I already kind of know that I have a low tolerance of high amine foods. I made Umami paste once (it was the most delicious and tasty thing I've ever made/eaten- thanks Tenina), the next day I had one of the worst migraines I've ever experienced. I thought about what I'd eaten and the Umami (as delicious as it is) is full of the foods I shouldn't have.