Restricted diet recipes, please?

[LBTC]

Hi, ladies!

I saw the naturopathic doctor today and he's recommended that I follow quite a restrictive diet for at least the next 4 weeks up until my scopes are done, and the follow up visit we may be able to loosen those restrictions some.

Part of the restrictions were decided based on the results of the electrodermal food testing I had done today:
no pork, no dairy, including casein and whey
no buckwheat, oats or wheat
no coconut or peanuts (or peanut butter)
no avocado
no corn or corn products (!)
no onion
no tomato
no alcohol (!)
no coffeed (whew, so glad I'm not addicted to that !)
no MSG
no sugar cane
no yeast, either bakers or brewers

In addition, he recommended that at this particular time I eat no grain other than rice, and avoid citrus fruits.

I don't like seafood - in fact, crab and lobster make me nausea in a big way.

He also suggested not to overdo it with eggs and potatoes.

I do have free reign with goat's milk products, and although he suggested more fish, he didn't restrict meat other than pork.

So, now that I've finally adjusted my diet (prior to this) to have lots of whole wheat pasta, multigrain bread, etc, I have to start all over again!

Do any of you have great recipes with rice and chicken or fish; without tomato sauce, etc??

I made a point tonight of finding a vegan butter substitute, rice flour and goats milk so that I can make a white sauce. Alright, I haven't successfully ever made a nice white sauce, but mushroom soup is now out of the question, so I'll have to learn.

He did not give me restrictions on spices. I'm pretty sure I can't eat ginger, but I like to use basil, cumin, coriander, fennel, nutmeg, curry powder, clover, dill and other spices.

If you have any great recipes, or can recommend a great site with such recipes, please either post or PM me. I figure it will take me about a day to be bored of grilled chicken and rice with vegetables.

Thanks so much!
~Teresa~

[KnottedYet]

Soups!

You could make some soups from your list of ingredients.

Ask if you can eat quinoa? Quinoa is fun (I just had some for dinner).

Rice milk is cheaper than goat's milk. I get it by the case at Costco for about $14.

Almond butter/cashew butter/soy butter. All nice on rice-cakes with a little honey and some sliced bananas.

Try looking up some celiac recipes: lots of celiackers can't do milk products either, and that would eliminate 2 of your no-nos. (wheat and milk)

Rice pudding! (made with honey, some almonds, a little rice milk, vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon... )

Tell me what you want (breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack/dessert) and I'll see if I have something I make that you could make, too.

These are celiaker cooking blogs, but might have some recipes you can use:
http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/
http://glutenfreebay.blogspot.com/

[snapdragen]

I don't know if this will work for you, can you eat salmon? It's a really easy and tasty recipe. Leave out the grape tomatoes - I did.

Roasted Salmon with Fresh Vegetables


Bagged fresh green beans and fuss-free grape tomatoes, along with potato wedges, make up the vegetables and starch for this dish, all prepared in one pan. Because they take longest, the potatoes cook alone for the first 10 minutes.

2 teaspoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt, divided
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
1 (12-ounce) package prewashed, trimmed, whole green beans
1 (8-ounce) baking potato, cut lengthwise into 12 wedges
24 grape or cherry tomatoes
4 (6-ounce) salmon fillets (about 1 inch thick)
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 1/4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
Lemon wedges (optional)

Preheat oven to 450º.
Combine oil, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, beans, and potato in a medium bowl; toss to coat. Place potatoes on a jelly-roll pan lined with foil; bake at 450º for 10 minutes.

Reduce oven temperature to 425º. Add beans and tomatoes to pan; move potato mixture to one side of pan. Sprinkle fish with remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Drizzle juice and Worcestershire sauce over fish. Add fish to pan. Bake at 425º for 18 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork or until desired degree of doneness. Serve with lemon wedges, if desired.

Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 salmon fillet and about 1 cup vegetables)

NUTRITION PER SERVING
CALORIES 396(36% from fat); FAT 15.7g (sat 3.5g,mono 7.4g,poly 3.6g); PROTEIN 39.6g; CHOLESTEROL 87mg; CALCIUM 59mg; SODIUM 416mg; FIBER 4.5g; IRON 2.1mg; CARBOHYDRATE 21.7g

From Cooking Light magazine.

[LBTC]

Knot

Could I have your rice pudding recipe? mmmmmmm pudding!

I just tried goats milk. It's yummy! So is the cheddar and the cheese spread! I've had rice milk before. I didn't like it. But it could be good to cook with and save the milk for drinking. Wow. I haven't had a glass of milk in probably 25 years!

I'll have to check on the quinoa. I suspect it will be a no in the short term, but probably okay later. It may depend on what my scopes reveal, as it is a grain that may be mechanically irritating.

I'll look for alternative nut butters when I go to the health food store tomorrow.

Biggest disappointment this evening - the superstore has lots of rice cracker, rice cakes and rice chips - all but the unflavoured rice cakes contain corn or corn oil. Again, I'll see if the health food store has better alternatives.

Usually I make meals ahead of time, freeze them in 1/2 cup containers and bring to work to eat every few hours. I have nothing available for work tomorrow. I made a nice omelette tonight with allowed veggies and goats milk cheese and didn't leave enough leftovers for tomorrows lunch. It appears I've got myself in a bit of a pickle now! heehee
So handy mixups that I can freeze for later would be great!

I'm going to start my breakfast this week with puffed rice, fruit and goats milk. I hope to find goats milk yogurt as I'd rather mix that with my cereal.

In most cases I will probably not be able to use soy products to substitute for milk products as they usually contain casein.

Snap, that looks like a good salmon recipe. We'll give it a try later this week.

Thank you so much!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[KnottedYet]

I don't really use recipes, I just kinda throw stuff together 'til it looks right. So adjust my rice pudding "guidelines" to your tastes! Since sugar cane is on your list of restricted foods, I'm gonna leave sugar out of my recipe. If you know you have sugar made from sugarbeets, you're ok. Use that if the flavor of honey is too strong.

Quick And Dirty Rice Pudding

1/2 saucepan of cooked rice
a cup or so of rice milk (probably more)
1/4 to 1/2 cup of honey or beet sugar or brown rice syrup
1 tsp vanilla
1 or 2 or 3 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
any other nice smelling spices
almonds, pecans, cashews chopped or whole

Start with the rice milk and cooked rice. Get it simmering and start adding your other ingredients. Adjust the liquid (rice milk, goat milk, what ever) as needed, it may thicken quite a bit. Simmer and adjust ingredients until you have a consistancy and flavor you like. Since nothing is inedible if raw, don't worry about cooking time too much. (if you add an egg for more protien, be SURE to simmer until the egg is cooked!) The nuts will soften as they cook.

Eat warm or cold. Also nice with a dollop of Rice Dream Ice "Cream". Or put some fresh fruit on top. Will survive just fine in the freezer.

If you don't have cooked rice handy, here's my Quick-N-Dirty way of cooking rice. 1 part rice, 2 parts water. Boil for 5 minutes, then cover and simmer until water is just about absorbed. (if you push rice around with a spoon there's still about 1/4 inch water in the bottom of the pan) Turn off the heat and leave rice to sit covered until last of water is absorbed. (No burnt rice! Yay! )

[LBTC]

Thank you, Knot!

That's kind of how I cook, too....love to start with a real recipe then tweak tweak tweak...

I'm currently stewing fruit - raisins, dates, frozen peaches, frozen mixed berries with cinnamon sticks, vanilla beans, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg. Currently cooking instant rice to try making rice pudding. (I had some, what can I say)

At least I'll have something sweet I can eat tomorrow!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[Duck on Wheels]

Let's see. He didn't rule out red meat, but you have Crohns, right? And red meat can have long fibers. Still ... small cubes of meat simmered with your favorite veggies and some spices and stock? Potato cubes that cook apart as thickening? Also, chicken isn't on your avoid list. Lots of yummy things to do with chicken, or turkey, or (dare I say it) duck. How about chicken with apricots and almonds on safron rice?

[Mr. Bloom]

LBTC:

Years ago, DD was diagnosed with a corn allergy. OMG! Besides the obvious, like Corn Syrup, Xanthum Gum is corn based and IN EVERYTHING. Sea Salt is pure, but ordinary table salt has corn additives... Be careful if corn is a serious problem.

Until she outgrew the allergy, I made home made bread for her (I honestly enjoyed that) and she would essentially limit herself to Bread, Apple Sauce, Pasta, and limited flavors of Ragu!!

Also, many pills use corn products as fillers...it goes on and on...

Authentic Mexican softdrinks use Pure Cane Sugar rather than High Fructose Corn Syrup.

[LBTC]

Today I found the greatest snack food - bit size poppadoms. Made with lentil flour, and cumin flavoured! Yummy!

And I found a dark chocolate and mint chocolate bar sweetened with beet sugar; found licorice sweetened with molasses and made with rice flour, not wheat flour. And found every variety of pasta made from brown rice flour!!

And found the goats milk yogurt. I'm going to try making a goat dairy and rice tuna casserole! yippee!!

It's just an adventure, right?

Keep those recipes and links coming, though, I will run out of ideas soon enough.

Thanks!!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[Pedal Wench]

What about oriental cooking. Seems like a chicken and veggie stir-fry would be fine - just leave out those tiny baby corns. Indian curries, thai rice noodles in Pad Thai, chinese, japanese - sushi -- it all fits into your restrictions.

[LBTC]

Yup, pedal, I will definitely be going towards my favourite foods - those of the asian varieties.

Still have to be careful. Lots of sugar used in asian cooking, have to ensure only rice noodles and to leave the ginger and onion out, and, of course the baby corn. Pad Thai is made with ketchup, believe it or not, and my favourite curries are all made with coconut milk. With care I will be able to do it....need to find indian recipes: know any??

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[Pedal Wench]

I'll try to find my fav Pad Thai recipe. I don't think it uses ketchup. Hmmm, yes, actually, now that I think about it, it does, but it's a small amount, and I'm sure you could leave it out.

***Off to find recipe***

[EBD]

You could make a frittata (or Spanish omelette, or a crustless quiche) - add some fresh herbs, potatoes, goat's cheese . . . good for dinner with a side salad, and would keep for a couple of days for lunch.

Other things that spring to mind: roasted sweet potatoes; stuffed acorn squash or stuffed peppers (with a rice-based stuffing), roasted chicken with leftovers made into chicken salad . . .

[LBTC]

Tonight I made a chicken curry vegetable dish with rice vermicelli. It was really yummy! I added a few dollops of goat milk cheese and a bit of cashew butter to round out the flavour a bit, and there's lots of leftovers for some lunches. Yay!

Now I have to go figure out what to do with a papaya. hmmmm

Thanks for the ideas. I love frittata. I usually make it with ham and cheese - the goat cheese is easy, but not sure waht to use to make up for the ham....hmmmm

And I'll try to make a cream of broccoli soup soon, too. Goats milk should work just fine, but I run into the ham probably there again.

Keep those ideas coming, please!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[EBD]

Can you have turkey bacon? That could substitute for ham in a lot of recipes. Nice and smoky.