Re: COLLEGE STUDENT : some easy cook recipes

[Guest guest]

Dear Jasmin!

great to hear you got so well in just a few weeks!

Here are some ideas for quick meals:

QUICK NO-COOK DISH

Bell-pepper boats

Cut a red bell pepper in half and get rid of seed etc

Mix home-made/legal mayo with canned tuna (legal) and fill each half. Done!

SALLADS

Sallads can be quick to make and very filling. Add some cooked meat or

chicken. Add

fruit to your sallad, as well as lots of veggies. Sallads can be " cooked "

too, which makes them warm and more filling.

Use your crock pot or micro and heat up half a cup water with flavouring

(spices you like, some olive oil, some chicken fat if you have left over

from cooking etc). Pour over the boiling hot liquid over the sallad, stir

quickly and then eat. Hot sallads work great for breakfast!

QUICK BEEF DISHES

Cook ground beef in the micro until done (stir every now and then so it

cooks evenly). It will keep a few days in the fridge once it is cooked. If

you do this every 2-3 days, you will always have some meat to eat. When you

need to eat you first make the " flavour " you want (see examples below) and

then when the " flavour " is done, you add some cooked ground beef and warm it

up.

taco-style : cut up tomatoes, chili pepper, cucumber and onion and cook in

the micro

Italian style: cook mushrooms and tomatoes together (or legal tomato sauce)

etc. you will figure out combos you like, it will take a bit of

experimenting, but even the failed experiments will be edible. One trick is

to cook some veggies longer than others, for example do the onion first,

then add the other veggies.

QUICK CHICKEN DISHES

Fill your freezer with cooked and cut up chicken. Take out the chicken you

need a few hours before, or defrost in microwave.

Do the same as with the beef dishes, figure out combos you like and make

them.

Here are some suggestions:

Baby spinach - drizzle olive oil over, zap in micro so it wilts a little and

then add chicken and a little salt.

Squash and carrots - grate them and then cook them soft in the micro with

some olive oil. Add some curry and then the chicken.

I have to get back to work, so these are just some ideas. See if you can

borrow a book on microwave cooking for more ideas.

good luck!!!

cecilia

[Guest guest]

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>Hi Jasmin,

Being new to SCD (one month) and seeing decent results, I'll just

remind you to stick to some basics as well. Applesauce, pearsauce,

bananas w/black spots, legal cheeses. Give up regular nuts and dried

fruits until symptoms disappear.

Use the crock pot to make homemade jam (bag of strawberries, add some

blueberries, kiwi or whatever you can tolerate, add a little honey

and simmer in crock till it thickens. Refrigerate and/or freeze some

for later. Make SCD spaghetti sauce with tomato juice, shredded

carrots, zucchini, onion, garlic, red pepper, spices and simmer in

crock till thickened. Someone mentioned adding sun dried tomatoes,

cut up a bit, to help thicken sauce. An inexpensive hand-held metal

grater works great for veggie & cheese prep.

Use your griddle to make a large batch of scrambled eggs and add to

it some Friendship Farmer's cheese and spinach. Refrigerate

leftovers to use for the next couple of days.

Pancakes...Deanna's gold in the BTVC book are delicious. Try adding

other ingredients like a banana, nut butter or cooked mashed squash

for variety. Make a large batch if possible and refrigerate or

freeze. Great for a quick legal snack.

Keep a jar of legal almond butter and honey around. Mix the two for

a sweet, protein filled snack. I read somewhere (possiby

pecanbread.com) not to eat peanut butter till symptom free as it

harder for our damaged bodies to process.

When you get time, check out the sites in the book that give free

recipes to see if you can make them on the equipment that you have.

If you can get to a regular oven, you could make the sandwich rolls

in the BTVC book...they're great for sandwiches and freeze well. You

could also make snack breads.

Hope this helps, Jasmin. So many of us want to just help take care

of you...you could be one of our kids. We do understand how hard and

time consuming it is to cook everything from scratch, especially when

you're in college. Maybe you could have some of your friends over

for a " cooking " get together and make some fun out of it. Can you

get to Grandma's house to visit and bake...bet she would love to help.

Where are you located? There may be some folks in your area willing

to help or let you use their oven.

Keep your chin up, stay strong and know that healing your body is the

most important thing you can do for yourself.

God bless you,

Dianne

CD May 08, symptomatic years; SCD Sept 08; Colazal