Newbie and need help

June 15, 2007

Hi, I'm new to the group and new to SCD. I have Elaine's book and

have read a few chapters. I'd like to ask if anyone would be willing

to email me privately and offer menu/recipe advice. I have an almost

4yr old ASD son and 6yr old daughter with bowel issues. I'd like to

start this diet ASAP and am not the best cook by far. I could really

use some help that could " ease " my kids into this diet quickly if

that is possible. Meals (hopefully easily prepared) to get me

started while I'm learning all the what not to eat/what to eat info

in the book. He has yeast flare up again and I'd like to just switch

cold turkey to SCD now and not get the Diflucan if possible. I'd

probably need dessert/snack type items (cookies, etc) that would

replace all the gf/cf stuff we have now. My girl especially has quite

a sweet tooth and is a picky eater. I'm not very good with

experimenting with recipes to find a winner. Also, can someone tell

me how in the world to prepare frozen vegies (like green beans, etc)

to where they could closely resemble canned food?? I've tried the

frozen green beans and I can't get my kids to eat them. Texture and

taste is way too different to fool them.

My son has been on/off (mostly on) Diflucan for almost 2yrs now and I

feel it is way past time to stop bandaiding the yeast issue. I can

not express how grateful I am to any help given.

Thank you so much,

Pam

June 15, 2007

Pam, I can give you a few suggestions. I will say that I've never gotten my

frozen veggies to resemble canned, and I don't think that it will happen. My

kids still don't particularly love the green beans...at least the two who have

had canned in their life...but I just make them eat the green beans anyway.

There really isn't going to be much to replace for your daughter's sweet toooth

in the early months of SCD. Cookies and cakes can be made with nut flours, but

you will need to have some gut healing take place before you give them those

foods. It's going to be a whole lot of pealed, seeded, and cooked vegetables

and fruits with meats. In the first three months or so of SCD, we had a pretty

boring diet. I did a lot of baked chicken with just salt and pepper or lemon

juice(freshly squeezed) on it. I also grilled some fajita type chicken strips

after marinating them in fresh lime jice, fresh garlic, olive oil, and cumin.

This one probably came along about a month into SCD. We ate a lot of hamburger

patties, too. I will say that the basic fruits that are fairly easy are ripe

bananas, homemade applesauce(kind of a pain, so worth making a boat load at one

time), and baked peaches(use the frozen ones so you don't ahve to peal them).

Our veggies were pretty much steamed carrots, green beans, and either zucchini

or yellow squash. We usually eat them plain. Like I said, it was pretty

boring, but I'll tell you that it cleared up that yeast like nothing flat. We

were able to start chelating as soon as we saw our DAN physician for the first

time because he'd been SCD for three months, and we'd gotten rid of all of the

yeast and nasty bacteria. I am a good cook, and was a fantastic cook with

conventional foods. I didn't have time or money to waste on trying to figure

out SCD foods though, so we just did it very basic for the first probably three

to five months. Honestly, that is what I'd tell someone who also doesn't want

to spend a lot of time and money figuring out stuff while they're trying to just

get used to the changes of SCD cooking. There are a ton of great SCD recipes

out there. You've got scdrecipe.com, the Grain Free Gourmet cookbook, and other

things as well. I just found it easier on me to keep everything really simple

and boring while I learned and became comfortable with the ins and outs of SCD.

Hope this helps.

Meleah