Starting SCD This Week

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I've had Crohn's disease for about 15 years. One surgery and multiple

drugs later, I am just subsisting. I've been on Remicade for four

years, my blood counts are dropping and I'm experiencing scary

symptoms again. My doctor is suggesting going back to 6MP or trying

new drugs, and I've had it! I had heard a little about the SCD and

started researching last week, ordered the book and have already

started eliminating all complex carbs from my diet.

Question: I have a very busy work schedule with a long commute and

very little time/energy to prepare meals. I can manage breakfast and

dinner at home, but does anyone have any suggestions on lunch? Went

to Whole Foods this weekend to buy sliced turkey--but it ALL contained

carageenan (which I gather is illegal). I need a lunch menu that is

realistic and quick to prepare. Any tips?

[Guest guest]

At 06:26 PM 3/18/2008, you wrote:

Question: I have a very busy

work schedule with a long commute and very little time/energy to prepare

meals. I can manage breakfast and dinner at home, but does anyone have

any suggestions on lunch? Went to Whole Foods this weekend to buy sliced

turkey--but it ALL contained carageenan (which I gather is illegal). I

need a lunch menu that is realistic and quick to prepare. Any tips?

Welcome to the list and to SCD. One thing about SCD is that as healing

occurs, energy can come back -- I do things today that I would never have

dreamed of doing seven years ago.

Prosciutto, with just pork and salt is legal.

Legal cheeses, sliced, work nicely.

I make avocado chicken salad -- in fact my avocado chicken salad has just

been approved as a " soft food " for my recovery from my upcoming

cancer surgery. The neat thing about this is that you can grill and grind

a bunch of chicken breasts, with seasoning, pack in bags, and freeze.

Then you puree the avocados with the lemon juice, salt and pepper, and

you can freeze containers of that. Then take a bag of grated chicken mix

and a box of avocado mayonnaise, defrost, mix, and you have lunch for a

week.

If you find you tolerate nut butters fairly quickly, they're a great

source of fat and protein -- I often take slices of cheddar or provolone

and spread a layer of cashew, white almond, or peanut butter between

slices of cheese for a " sandwich " .

There are precious few processed and pre-prepared foods which are SCD

legal -- and if you think about it, that's probably why the incidence of

major gut problems has increased so dramatically as the quality of our

food supply has declined.

You might find

http://scdadventures.blogspot.com/ helpful, as Jill does SCD and

travels extensively. A couple things she recommends are marginal SCD, so

it's always worthwhile to cross check legal items against the BTVC book.

She's pretty scrupulous about noting which items. But she had great ideas

for SCD traveling and so forth.

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

The best tip I have is to make the wraps in the new " Grain Free Gourmet " cookbook over the weekend. I also crock pot some chicken breasts to store in the frig. Then for lunch, I grate some cheese of choice, sprinkle some chicken and roll it up in a sandwich wrap ... very easy.

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