Re: SCD & vacations

June 14, 2007

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> Does anyone here like taking SCD on the road (ie: vacations)? If so, what is

the secret?

We are at the end of our trip and I don't ever feel like taking another vacation

again as

long as we are on SCD! We are staying in a furnished home with a very nice

kitchen and

the entire time I am wondering why we bothered to even come here. I have done

nothing

but cook and clean up the cooking mess! The kids have been very bored waiting

for me to

finish cooking and cleaning. I told my husband maybe an RV with kitchen is the

answer.

Does anyone here do that & if so does it help?

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One woman on SCD just returned from an Outward Bound excursion but did have

something illegal (was told it had no sugar) and that triggered a flare. Which

is why we ask

for things in writing.

I imagine if I travelled I would have some restaurant food like eggs, use less

cooked food

and do things like wraps in cheese, salads, fresh and dried fruit (advanced)

bring along

baked stuff, buy cartons of Tropicana etc. I haven't travelled in seven years

as I won't

leave my dogs, not on account of the food challenge, but then I don't have small

children,

just furry ones :-)

Carol F.

SCD 7 years, celiac

June 14, 2007

How unpleasant! If you ever travel again, you might try doing most of

the cooking ahead and just re-heating at your location and using

disposible plates, utensils, etc. so you can have some fun.

Marilyn has travel all worked out, but she is advanced and your family

is just starting, so I'm sure you can't eat many of the things she

relies on.

Still this post may give some hope for better travel in the future:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pecanbread/message/53997

I hope you find a way that works for you.

, mom to

June 14, 2007

We traveled from NC to TX last fall, and I hated it. I cooked all of the food

ahead of time which made preparing for the trip a nightmare. Then, we were

staying with my husband's family, and it was very unpleasant for my son and

myself for different reasons for each of us. He was still in the all pealed,

seeded, and cooked phase of SCD, so it was just a pain. That being said, I

think a true vacation in a home by ourselves with a furnished kitchen would've

been fine. Still, the preparation would've been horrendous, but I think we

would've at least enjoyed the trip itself. He is now more advanced, and I

occassionally give him raw fruits and vegetables. I also have taken him out to

restaurants without taking his won food recently. I usually order him a

hamburger patty or steak with steamed veggies on the side. I always make sure

to explain the " severe food allergies " to the cook, and ask for clean cooking

utensils and pans to be used for him. He's been fine with trying out the

restaurant food. I'm sure it's pretty uninteresting for him. What's so special

about going out to eat for him when he's having more boring food than he has at

home? I will say that if we travel again, I will have some stuff prepared for

me, and shipped ahead of time to the location. For example, I will have

cookies, muffins, ect. made from SCD Bakery, and sent to where we will be. I'm

not planning to travel for quite a while though. By then, my hope is that

iel will have recovered from autism, and we will be able to be a bit more

relaxed when traveling with our SCD compliance. We'll see.

Meleah

SCD & vacations

Does anyone here like taking SCD on the road (ie: vacations)? If so, what is

the secret? We are at the end of our trip and I don't ever feel like taking

another vacation again as long as we are on SCD! We are staying in a furnished

home with a very nice kitchen and the entire time I am wondering why we bothered

to even come here. I have done nothing but cook and clean up the cooking mess!

The kids have been very bored waiting for me to finish cooking and cleaning. I

told my husband maybe an RV with kitchen is the answer. Does anyone here do that

& if so does it help?

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June 14, 2007

We are going on a family vacation in August and will be staying in a

cabin with a kitchen. I'm in the same boat as everyone else here,

wondering how it will be much of a vacation with me in the kitchen

cooking and cleaning all day as usual. I am thinking about precooking

the dinners and keeping the breakfast, lunches, and snacks very

simple, but we will still be in the very early stages at that point,

so no raw yet which makes things, especially snacks, a bit more

complicated.

Has anyone tried to precook a whole bunch before the trip? I was

thinking of freezing the dinners to reheat on vacation and precooking

all the snacks, but this will make for one hectic time preparing for

the vacation. Is all that preparation worth it? It seems crazy to work

so hard in order to take a vacation, LOL

We will definitely be using paper/plastic cups, plates, etc so I have

less dishwashing to do! :-)

Thanks to everyone for sharing their tips so far. This has been a very

timely thread for me. :-)

K

Hashi's, Fibro, CFS etc (mostly healed!)

Kids: son Rhowan 5 yrs old, chronic diarrhea, ADHD behaviors,

salicylate issues; daughter Willow 6.5 yrs old, salicylate issues

SCD take two for 1 month (haven't redone the intro diet just yet)

June 14, 2007

Some things I've taken on a trip in a cooler, then transfered to a fridge

(albeit to the hospital for five days), foods that my son happens to love

include: olives, avocados, hard boiled eggs, cheddar and swiss cheeses that I

sliced ahead of time, legal juices, bananas, nuts and raisins (advanced but he

seems OK with them), SCD legal baked goods, frozen soups that I cooked ahead

(but I always do anyway), 24-hour yogurt (keeps well), individual packs of

unsweetened applesauce (ingredient list carefully checked), our legal salad

dressing so we can order plain salad and add our own dressing (in a jar),

Larabars (very handy). Actually this is not that different from what he eats

day in and day out. In restaurants I try to order absolutely plain steak, plain

roast chicken, and plain salad or steamed veggies.

Hope this helps,

Kuykendall wrote:

We are going on a family vacation in August and will be staying in a

cabin with a kitchen. I'm in the same boat as everyone else here,

wondering how it will be much of a vacation with me in the kitchen

cooking and cleaning all day as usual. I am thinking about precooking

the dinners and keeping the breakfast, lunches, and snacks very

simple, but we will still be in the very early stages at that point,

so no raw yet which makes things, especially snacks, a bit more

complicated.

Has anyone tried to precook a whole bunch before the trip? I was

thinking of freezing the dinners to reheat on vacation and precooking

all the snacks, but this will make for one hectic time preparing for

the vacation. Is all that preparation worth it? It seems crazy to work

so hard in order to take a vacation, LOL

We will definitely be using paper/plastic cups, plates, etc so I have

less dishwashing to do! :-)

Thanks to everyone for sharing their tips so far. This has been a very

timely thread for me. :-)

K

Hashi's, Fibro, CFS etc (mostly healed!)

Kids: son Rhowan 5 yrs old, chronic diarrhea, ADHD behaviors,

salicylate issues; daughter Willow 6.5 yrs old, salicylate issues

SCD take two for 1 month (haven't redone the intro diet just yet)

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June 14, 2007

YES! I know a secret! We are avid travelers and after many times like what you

experienced, I finally got it under control. First of all, I purchased a

traveling refrigerator

(from Wal-Mart) that plugs into your cigarette lighter in your car. I took out

the racks and

pack it like I would an ice chest. Then, I purchased a Food Saver vacuum sealer

and made

all the meals on the Sunday before we left. With this nifty machine, you can

package

things in just the right amount for one serving, and vacuum out the air and

create little

" pouches " of food for like a week or so (like Craig meals)! We were away

for 2

weeks, so the following Sunday I spent a half a day cooking and made sure we

stayed at a

place that day with an extended kitchen. Now, for the week, you take those

pouches (with

cooked beef or chicken or whatever) and you can ask any restaurant to bring you

a bowl of

hot water. I brought my own container and just asked them to fill it up with

hot water

from their kitchen. Then you let the little pouch steep for a few minutes while

you are

waiting for your food and it's ready! We traveled the entire state of Colorado

and rode on

all the steam trains from Durango to the town Loop and ate at restaurants

every

day and stayed at quaint bed and breakfasts with 2 autistic boys! I had

packaged snacks,

packaged meals...super easy once you get the hang of it and you devote only 1

day to the

cooking!

I hope this helps with an idea...at least you may not have considered yet.

Best,

Rhonda

(SCD 2 years/Mother of 2 autistic boys 4 & 7)

p.s....only tricky part:

1. You have to have a place to plug in the refrigerator when you reach your

destination

nightly (or you run your battery down on the car)

2. Always carry with you a bag with a pair of little scissors to open the

pouches of food

and a larger sized tupperware bowl to be able to submerge the pouches.

>

> Does anyone here like taking SCD on the road (ie: vacations)? If so, what is

the secret?

We are at the end of our trip and I don't ever feel like taking another vacation

again as

long as we are on SCD! We are staying in a furnished home with a very nice

kitchen and

the entire time I am wondering why we bothered to even come here. I have done

nothing

but cook and clean up the cooking mess! The kids have been very bored waiting

for me to

finish cooking and cleaning. I told my husband maybe an RV with kitchen is the

answer.

Does anyone here do that & if so does it help?

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June 14, 2007

When we did our trip last fall while iel was still early in the diet, this

is the type of stuff I took.

pre cooked chicken marinated in a fajita type seasoning(fresh lime jice, olive

oil, fresh garlic, and cumin). Cut it in to strips and grills. Freeze on a

lined cookie sheet, and then place in bags for travel.

Precooked hamburger patties

Precooked roast

Precooked " chicken nuggets " . This is chicken breasts cut into nugget sized

pieces, and breaded with nut flour and seasoning. Then, pan fry, freeze on

lined cookie sheets, and bag.

Beef and brocolli pie(found at scdrecipe.com)

homemade applesauce

bananas

yogurt

cheese chunk

travel sized Welch's 100% grape juice bottles

Really, you could marinate chicken breasts in any marinade you want(as long as

it is legal ingredients), and then grill it. You can just buy frozen veggies

when you get there, and cook those up for the meals. The food is more basic and

boring perhaps, but it allows for enjoying the fun of the trip more. If you can

do the baked goods with honey and nut flour, you can order stuff from

scdbakery.com. Jill will do a special order for you fi you call to ask her to

make certain items for your trip, and then ship them to that location or to you

prior to your travel date. You might want to check the abundance of recipes at

scdrecipe.com to see what you can tolerate that would travel well.

Meleah

Re: SCD & vacations

We are going on a family vacation in August and will be staying in a

cabin with a kitchen. I'm in the same boat as everyone else here,

wondering how it will be much of a vacation with me in the kitchen

cooking and cleaning all day as usual. I am thinking about precooking

the dinners and keeping the breakfast, lunches, and snacks very

simple, but we will still be in the very early stages at that point,

so no raw yet which makes things, especially snacks, a bit more

complicated.

Has anyone tried to precook a whole bunch before the trip? I was

thinking of freezing the dinners to reheat on vacation and precooking

all the snacks, but this will make for one hectic time preparing for

the vacation. Is all that preparation worth it? It seems crazy to work

so hard in order to take a vacation, LOL

We will definitely be using paper/plastic cups, plates, etc so I have

less dishwashing to do! :-)

Thanks to everyone for sharing their tips so far. This has been a very

timely thread for me. :-)

K

Hashi's, Fibro, CFS etc (mostly healed!)

Kids: son Rhowan 5 yrs old, chronic diarrhea, ADHD behaviors,

salicylate issues; daughter Willow 6.5 yrs old, salicylate issues

SCD take two for 1 month (haven't redone the intro diet just yet)

June 14, 2007

We went to the coast this last week. The week before I cooked a little

extra for dinner everyday and then froze it.

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June 15, 2007

Sounds like you have a great technique, Rhonda! I have a question

about the car refrigerator. How long would you say you could stop for

sight-seeing and not come back to a dead battery?

, mom to

June 15, 2007

We have a Suburban and I don't know if it varies from car to car, but we can

actually spend the night and the battery is not dead. I don't know about other

cars, though. If we go for day trips, I put some ice blocks in the refrigerator

just

in case...the refrigerator was a lifesaver for us...and so was the Foodsaver!

The neat thing about the Foodsaver is that it vacuum packs portions which

means you can fit a whole bunch in the fridge! It's amazing how things go

down in size when you vacuum the air out!

>

> Sounds like you have a great technique, Rhonda! I have a question

> about the car refrigerator. How long would you say you could stop for

> sight-seeing and not come back to a dead battery?

> , mom to

>

June 15, 2007

Our portable refrigerator also has an AC adaptor so we can take it

inside an plug it in upon arrival. I believe it is made by .

I bought it at Kmart.

June 15, 2007

does this " look " like a refrigerator or more like a cooler - so I know what I'm

looking for. And at about what cost?

We had an auto plug in item / cooler that was so bad / useless we gave it away.

It just did not keep things as COLD as we would have liked but maybe they have

improved things within the past 5 years.

W.

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From: White

Our portable refrigerator also has an AC adaptor so we can take it

inside and plug it in upon arrival. I believe it is made by .

I bought it at Kmart.

. _,___

June 16, 2007

It looks more like cooler, however you can set it up on it's side and

use the included shelves (we haven't used it that way).

I got it at Walmart, not Kmart. (sorry I mis-spoke before) Here's a

link: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4810828

I bought it in April of this year before our SCD Spring Break trip.

The price at WalMart includes the AC adaptor. I have seen the same

cooler other places without the adaptor and then they charge $30 to

get it as an accessory. We drove 14 hours, had it plugged in inside

for an entire week, then the 14 hours back home with no problems

keeping things cold.

HTH,

June 16, 2007

I have a few questions about this. This item refridgerates, not freezes. How

were you able to prepare meals for an entire week without freezing some

(wouldn't they go bad?). Or did you freeze some and refridgerate some?

I was also wondering about this item

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3942759 in combo. It seems

like if you also had this one, you could leave the small fridge/cooler in the

room with most of the food, but then heat up a lunch/dinner before you leave and

bring it with you and keep it hot in this heat/cool gadget. But I would really

worry about running down the car battery if you did this while the car was not

running. Like if you hit the beach in the morning and wanted to keep it plugged

in until lunchtime, would your car start?!

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White wrote:

It looks more like cooler, however you can set it up on it's side and

use the included shelves (we haven't used it that way).

I got it at Walmart, not Kmart. (sorry I mis-spoke before) Here's a

link: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4810828

I bought it in April of this year before our SCD Spring Break trip.

The price at WalMart includes the AC adaptor. I have seen the same

cooler other places without the adaptor and then they charge $30 to

get it as an accessory. We drove 14 hours, had it plugged in inside

for an entire week, then the 14 hours back home with no problems

keeping things cold.

HTH,

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June 16, 2007

I do see that this is different than the one we had before - we had the

Rubbermaid 17 liter one. THANKS!

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From: White

I got it at Walmart, not Kmart. (sorry I mis-spoke before) Here's a

link: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4810828

.

June 17, 2007

I did not prepare and freeze all of our food before the trip. I made

cookies and muffins, chunks of cheese, applesauce, etc. beforehand--

otherwise I cooked while I was there. We just made lots of extras

for dinner and usually had leftovers for lunch the next day. Same

thing for breakfast -- I use the sausage recipe from Eat Well Feel

Well--so I made a bunch a couple of mornings so we would have

leftovers for a couple of days. We had a tiny but functional

kitchen--not sure you could do it this way if staying in a hotel.

We packed enough prepared food in the cooler to eat on the way--I

baked and sliced a big turkey breast, boiled eggs, ripe bananas,

snacks I mentioned above--that kind of thing. We stopped at a Whole

Foods 4 hours from our destination, stocked up and cooked our meals

when we got there. We ate out only a couple of times. This

approach worked well for my family--we have one child and we all eat

SCD.

We used our cooler to keep our meats, cheeses, etc. cold during the

week by using the AC adaptor inside with no problems with spoilage--

and I'm a freak about that stuff.

My previous post was not intended to address precooking meals for the

entire week--only intended to offer the info on the cooler since some

folks seemed concerned about the cooling capacity and running it off

the car battery only.

HTH,

June 17, 2007

Hi- I flew to Florida Keys in April and stayed on the diet the whole time no

problem. I did have a kitchen where I stayed though. I shipped my yogurt

maker there (because I cannot be without my yogurt). When I landed in

Florida I stopped at a WholeFoods and bought all my groceries, put them on

ice and then drove 3 hours to the keys. When I got there my mom and I made

a nice SCD coffee cake, SCD lasangna, yogurt, SCD Chix Salad, and SCD

Sangria YUMMM (for adults only). It was kind of fun getting everything

ready and then we were basically set for the week. I had fruit and yogurt

for breakfast (or coffee cake), chick salad, regular salad, SCD lasanga,

tune salad or a burger for lunch and then we grilled for dinner amost every

night for dinner. It was so much fun, we didnt spend much time in the

kitchen other than the first day, and I felt great. When we went to key

West for the day I ate a burger for lunch and brought some coffee cake for

breakfast. I know this will not work on every vaca. I REALLY want to go on

a cruise but have no idea how to go about that. In any case, it worked well

for me.

Jill

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June 20, 2007

We went on a big cross Canada trip a few years ago (Actually half way

across Canada and as far south as Ohio) - 5.5 weeks long. I was on a

very basic diet at the time. When we stopped to visit friends along

the way I loaded up on the basics (mayo, souffle bread to make

sandwiches, BBQ/cooked chicken for chickern salad), cooked veggies,

cheese. We had a small plug in refrigerator that I kept the mayo and

dinks in. We also had a large cooler in which I kept yogurt. I'd

freeze the veggies if we were driving a large way and they'd be

defrosted. If the rest were eating at a restaurant I'd ask the

waiter/wiatress to warm up my food. I ate a lot of sandwiches that I

put together when we picnic-ed.

Sheila

June 20, 2007

Was it any fun? I was able to accomplish everything okay last week, it's just

that the kids were always sitting around waiting on me to finish

cooking/cleaning as were the people we visited!

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Sheila Trenholm wrote: