subsitute for Almond flour

[Guest guest]

Does anyone here have a substitute for Almond flour? My grandson is

diagnosed as PDD-NOS and we want to start him on the SCD regimen, but

my other grandson has a tree nut and peanut allergy. Needless to say,

there is no way my daughter will have anything in the house that has

nuts in it. I need suggestions, please!!

[Guest guest]

Maybe the other son needs to be on scd as well.

As you start scd dont start eating almond flour goodies until on scd for at

least 6 months to a year. You can also go on scd without ever eating the

nuts flours

--

JH

www.glutenfreeeugene.org

Celiac, MCS, Latex Allergy

SCD 3 years

>

> Does anyone here have a substitute for Almond flour? My grandson is

> diagnosed as PDD-NOS and we want to start him on the SCD regimen, but

> my other grandson has a tree nut and peanut allergy. Needless to say,

> there is no way my daughter will have anything in the house that has

> nuts in it. I need suggestions, please!!

>

>

>

> For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

> _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

> websites:

> http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

> and

> http://www.pecanbread.com

>

>

[Guest guest]

Welcome to the group,

It's tricky, but not impossible to do SCD without nuts. Please read

the following post:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pecanbread/message/71157

mom to -12

SCD 4/23/04

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the suggest. I don't doubt the SCD would benefit the entire

family, but tree nuts and peanuts don't just cause a rash, it can be

fatal (there is no way to know how your child will react).

Additionally, my 4 year old grandson has SEVERE sensory issues and

will not eat, period, if his food is not familiar to him. We would

like to gradually move him to the SC diet to avoid the MAJOR meltdowns

(I am not talking about tantrums) we have experienced in the past with

changes to his routine.

Perhaps I am naive, but my goal is to add something resembling bread

which we can use to begin that transition (he takes a sandwich to

preschool). Maybe I am being too pessimistic, but in his case, it can

not be out with the old (diet) and in with the new (diet).

> >

> > Does anyone here have a substitute for Almond flour? My grandson is

> > diagnosed as PDD-NOS and we want to start him on the SCD regimen, but

> > my other grandson has a tree nut and peanut allergy. Needless to say,

> > there is no way my daughter will have anything in the house that has

> > nuts in it. I need suggestions, please!!

> >

> >

> >

> > For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the

book

> > _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the

following

> > websites:

> > http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

> > and

> > http://www.pecanbread.com

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

We also have this situation in our house: one child needing to be on SCD and

another child with an anaphylactic reaction to tree nuts and a peanut allergy.

We were told by a nutritionist at Mass General Hospital that SCD is not a

nutritionally-complete diet *for kids* without nut products in it (this

nutritionist was meeting with us specifically to help us implement SCD, so she

was pro-diet). Before SCD, we had no nut products in our house.

Any nut product that must be kept in the refrigerator is in a plastic bag (i.e.

the peanut butter is in a ziploc) that is labeled. Babysitters and anyone else

but dh and me who feed our children are told to NEVER give the nut-allergic

child anything homemade, on the chance that it's SCD and has a nut product in

it.

DD is moderately allergic to peanuts and I cook peanut butter brownies in my

house after she is asleep (so she won't come in the kitchen while I'm cooking).

I originally would not cook peanut butter in the house, but she walked through

my mom's kitchen once when *she* was making them, and was fine. If your

grandchild is ana to peanuts, obviously this is not going to work for you.

My mother or BIL make any other nut products for dd. I dare not try making

those at home. If I heat them up here, I put them in a pan used only for

nut-products.

DD knows she must wash her hands and immediately clear the table after eating

nut products.

Raw nuts are kept on the topmost cabinet shelf in a locking tupperware (umm, no

actual lock, just tight-fitting). My dd is 5 and knows to keep the heck away

from nuts and will ask me if something has nuts in it. If your grandchild might

try to take some nuts, I would get an actually-locking case if I needed to have

raw nuts around. We had this in our minds when dd started SCD as something we

might need to do.

Basically, we treat nut products rather like toxic waste . What can I tell

you--it's working, and thankfully, both children are doing fine.

Good luck figuring out what works for you. I will say that I often feel like

it's a tightrope as to whose health I am going to help/imperil.

Ellen in Boston

10 y/o dd scd since 5/06 for Crohn's

[Guest guest]

Hi saffronce,

<<Perhaps I am naive, but my goal is to add something resembling bread

> which we can use to begin that transition (he takes a sandwich to

> preschool). Maybe I am being too pessimistic, but in his case, it

can> not be out with the old (diet) and in with the new (diet).>>

There is a " Nut-free, dairy- free bread " recipe at

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pecanbread/files/

Sheila, SCD Feb. 2001, UC 23yrs, PCOD 22yrs

mom of and

[Guest guest]

Thanks Ellen for your response, I can empathize. I think it best not

to have any nuts in the house at all b/c the youngest (16 months)could

have an anaphylactic reaction to peanuts and his allergist is just not

certain how severe the tree nut allergy is. He is a blond, with quick

reacting skin (smallest scrape is red immediately) and his doc just

said avoidance is best. Is there any better test besides skin prick

for tree nut allergies?

We are just so concerned about a mix-up somehow with the almond flour

(if it be made into a bread product) that avoidance seems the best

course. We think he can have coconut, that is going to be tested next

week, do you know if that can substitute for almond?

JPB

>

> We also have this situation in our house: one child needing to be on

SCD and another child with an anaphylactic reaction to tree nuts and a

peanut allergy. We were told by a nutritionist at Mass General

Hospital that SCD is not a nutritionally-complete diet *for kids*

without nut products in it (this nutritionist was meeting with us

specifically to help us implement SCD, so she was pro-diet). Before

SCD, we had no nut products in our house.

>

> Any nut product that must be kept in the refrigerator is in a

plastic bag (i.e. the peanut butter is in a ziploc) that is labeled.

Babysitters and anyone else but dh and me who feed our children are

told to NEVER give the nut-allergic child anything homemade, on the

chance that it's SCD and has a nut product in it.

>

> DD is moderately allergic to peanuts and I cook peanut butter

brownies in my house after she is asleep (so she won't come in the

kitchen while I'm cooking). I originally would not cook peanut butter

in the house, but she walked through my mom's kitchen once when *she*

was making them, and was fine. If your grandchild is ana to peanuts,

obviously this is not going to work for you.

>

> My mother or BIL make any other nut products for dd. I dare not try

making those at home. If I heat them up here, I put them in a pan

used only for nut-products.

>

> DD knows she must wash her hands and immediately clear the table

after eating nut products.

>

> Raw nuts are kept on the topmost cabinet shelf in a locking

tupperware (umm, no actual lock, just tight-fitting). My dd is 5 and

knows to keep the heck away from nuts and will ask me if something has

nuts in it. If your grandchild might try to take some nuts, I would

get an actually-locking case if I needed to have raw nuts around. We

had this in our minds when dd started SCD as something we might need

to do.

>

> Basically, we treat nut products rather like toxic waste . What

can I tell you--it's working, and thankfully, both children are doing

fine.

>

> Good luck figuring out what works for you. I will say that I often

feel like it's a tightrope as to whose health I am going to help/imperil.

>

> Ellen in Boston

> 10 y/o dd scd since 5/06 for Crohn's

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi, JPB,

Do not substitute coconut yet. Coconut is very fibrous. It takes a

good amount of healing to work up to the point where you can use

coconut flour. Do try the nut-free bread that was mentioned by Sheila

and in the post I referred you to. Here is the link to the files

again; look for Nut Free Dairy Free Bread:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pecanbread/files/

mom to -12

SCD 4/23/04