New Member Questions

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Thank you for allowing me to be part of your group! My son is

almost 3 1/2 and we started the SCD on Thursday. He has normal

stools, has been on Feingold for 1 1/2 years and GFCF for 10 mo. I

am starting the SCD to target his bad yeast issues. He is enjoying

the chicken soup with carrots, eggs, hamburger patties, and cooked

pears. I have a few questions:

1) He has been on Ambrotose for about 2 years and it helped him

dramatically--no more sickness or asthma after beginning--but it is

illegal on the SCD. Does anyone take it or do we have to

discontinue?

2) What do you use for snacks at school/preschool? I was thinking

of making the muffins with the chicken and squash listed here

recently. Is that o.k. so soon?

3) Do you need to limit fruit amounts due to yeast? He has only

had pears in moderation for about 5 months due to yeast. I am

afraid of giving bananas and other fruits due to the natural sugar.

Thank you so much for your insight!!

Meredith

[Guest guest]

Meredith,

I have some ideas for Question#2 snacks:

I don't know if you are trying to avoid certain foods, as my son was

never on Feingold, and I'm not sure if you are trying to avoid some

SCD foods because of it, like doing SCD without the casein is a

choice, and it is already gluten free. So here are some ideas:

Baked apples/pears

Applesauce or pearsauce with cinnamon

Jello made from grape juice (or jello jigglers for more fun shapes)

Carrot or squash chips

Deviled eggs?

Pumpkin pie filling made from butternut squash (there are several

pumpkin recipes in the " Files " section, look there to find the pie

filling recipe (no crust)

Meringues (egg whites, honey, salt) easiest with dehydrator for

drying nice and crisp

Homemade popsicles (pineapple juice/orange juice/ripe banana)

Homemade ice creams (we love the peanut butter ice cream recipe from

pecanbread.com....it is amamzing how much peanut butter flavor you

get from using such a small amount of legal peanut butter....you can

also cook some peaches or other fruit to make a fruit ice cream.

I realize frozen foods aren't easy to pack to school, but my idea is

to keep variety in the diet, so my son wasn't eating the same things

at home for snack that he had to eat at school. And at year end it

always seems that the kids are given popsicles at recess, and this

way I'd be prepared for taking a popsicle to school and keep in

their freezer for these days.

Then when you get around to it, you'll be using nut butters, and be

able to make things like peanut butter brownies.

And on your question about limit fruits due to yeasts, my experience

with this diet and yeast, is that I never limited my son's fruit

intake, and we had wonderful organic acids test results showing a

reduction in arabinose down to almost zero. We didn't use any other

prescriptions or supplements for yeast control either.

Best wishes,

(temporary moderator helper)

mom to Josh, 12, Aspergers, leaky gut, SCD 19 months