Re: relief and early diet questions

[Guest guest]

Angie,

I am glad to hear that you are feeling better.

As for coconut, it is very fibrous and is not typically something to

eat early on in the diet.

As for your chicken wings, you could either cook them with salt on

them as you mentioned, or you could try cooking them in a bit of

tomato juice with honey. It won't be exactly like BBQ sauce, but it

would be different from just salt on them.

Other treats... have you made the banana pancakes? Sneaky veggie

pancakes? The ice cream (made from egg whites)? Popsiclces made from

juice? The pumpkin pie filling (from pecanbread.com) is very tasty too.

Jody

mom to -7 and -9

SCD 1/03

[Guest guest]

>

> I appreciate, but don't want to hear about how any of these drugs may

> not be SCD legal.

> Right now, I don't care.

When we need it, we take the medication!

> so questions:

> 1) use of spices/seasonings? All we've used so far is salt.

Use spices not in mixtures e.g: no steak seasoning, no apple pie

seasoning. They can be dried or fresh as in the case oh herbs.

examples: cinnamon, cloves, rosemary, oregano FRESH GARLIc (no powder)

same with onion. You can dehydrate the last two and make them into a

powder

>

> 2) ideas of what to do with broiled chicken wings----something I've

> never fixed in life.

> That's what we have for supper tonight. Anything to put on them other

> than salt?

SCD tomato sauce/ketchup, combined with mustard, honey, garlic and

herbs.

> 3) I don't see coconut on stages list. I want to make something like

> macaroons when I'm

> back up. They need a treat====sick of jello. I made cheesecake from

> BTVC Saturday

> night, but it's not something easy to whip up and I don't have any

> goat milk at the

> moment. Any other treat ideas?

Not easy? Dump all the stuff in a Cuisinart, eggs first and it's done

in seconds. (without the crust which is optional) it does have to be

chilled for hours to set nicely.

>

> 4) I have BVTC, Grain-Free Gourmet, and Lucy's cookbooks. Just having

> a hard time

> seeing what we can have yet. Beef patties (ground beef and 1 egg) are

> getting old and

> boring--everyone is sick of the chicken broth. The recipes all seem

> to complicated for

> now (meaning, too many ingredients that we haven't moved onto yet).

> Any in-between

> ideas for what to do with meat?

Hope you are not doing the Intro beyond 2-3 days. Once that is over you

have more options. The Stages are a guideline and not mandatory. You

can still go slowly even if you don't follow that guide. It was devised

to suggest which food parents report as easily digestible but Elaine

originally said to just go ahead introducing new foods slowly. We

suggest keeping a log or journal to keep track of how well new foods

are tolerated.

>

> It's hard to go slowly, but we are. No one is having any tummy

> trouble. I went from

> nothing to diarhhea last night, but I'm thinking this is related to

> all the magnesium I was

> taking. Or charcoal. It was very tarry.

Tarry, tarry night.

Paint your palette blue and grey,

Look out on a summer's day,

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul:-)

It was the charcoal!

>

Carol F.

Celiac, MCS, Latex Allergy, EMS

SCD 6 years

[Guest guest]

Glad to hear you are having some relief for the moment. I hope you can

find someone that can actually fix the problem soon.

My boys are getting sick of the first foods too. A couple of ideas:

You might try mixing applesauce and honey together and making a glaze

for the chicken wings. Today for lunch I mixed pear sauce in with the

chicken patties. The boys didn't like it, but I did . I am on SCD

too. I am not sure on seasonings. My son could tolerate cinnamon and

ginger on GFCF. I have not reintroduced those yet here. I tried the

almond flour to make some granola-I was going for crunchy, but didn't

have much luck. I will try again sometime soon. We need some on the go

food. Also I think he had a reaction to the almond flour-hard to tell

really because he was so cranky. We did pecan flour waffles this

morning (I think this is jumping ahead a bit) and it SEEMS to be ok so

far. He was so happy to have waffles again! I also like the pecan

flour because here it is a lot cheaper that almond.

On coconut-that is another thing my son was able to tolerate on GFCF

that he is still ok with on SCD. Mind you, this kid was down to eating

rice, potatoes, and GFCF hotdogs and a couple of spices. I am excited

to have more that a handful of ingredients to work with!

There is a recipe for fruit leather that looks pretty good too I will

try soon. I hope some of these ideas are of help. Keep us posted on

your recovery!

Mandy

>

> first an update: seems like all the doctors in this town are stilll

on vacation (the

> orthopedist, the regular doctor), so I ended up in the e.r. this

morning. Dx for the moment

> is a muscle strain in my lower back. They gave me a shot of toradol

which helped

> immensely. I also have been given Rx for vicodin and Flerexil and

told to rest for two

> days. I need that much just to catch up on rest I haven't gotten

from being in pain.

>

> I appreciate, but don't want to hear about how any of these drugs

may not be SCD legal.

> Right now, I don't care.

>

> But I do care about keeping the family SCD, so I have some questions

that have been

> building. We're following BVTC with a strong eye on the phases from

Pecanbread. We did

> two days intro followed by introduction of cooked carrots, green

beans, homemade

> applesauce, homemade pearsauce, ripe bananas. We having a little

trouble finding meat,

> as we only do free range, organic meat and our weekly supplier had

next to nothing this

> morning. (My husband went to the farmers market while I was in the

e.r.)

>

> so questions:

> 1) use of spices/seasonings? All we've used so far is salt.

> 2) ideas of what to do with broiled chicken wings----something I've

never fixed in life.

> That's what we have for supper tonight. Anything to put on them

other than salt?

> 3) I don't see coconut on stages list. I want to make something

like macaroons when I'm

> back up. They need a treat====sick of jello. I made cheesecake

from BTVC Saturday

> night, but it's not something easy to whip up and I don't have any

goat milk at the

> moment. Any other treat ideas?

>

> 4) I have BVTC, Grain-Free Gourmet, and Lucy's cookbooks. Just

having a hard time

> seeing what we can have yet. Beef patties (ground beef and 1 egg)

are getting old and

> boring--everyone is sick of the chicken broth. The recipes all seem

to complicated for

> now (meaning, too many ingredients that we haven't moved onto yet).

Any in-between

> ideas for what to do with meat?

>

> It's hard to go slowly, but we are. No one is having any tummy

trouble. I went from

> nothing to diarhhea last night, but I'm thinking this is related to

all the magnesium I was

> taking. Or charcoal. It was very tarry.

>

> What a way to end an email message!

>

> Angie

>

[Guest guest]

Angie,

Good to know you've got some relief for now. I had my lower back go out on me

last summer about this time. Scary! I was absolutely useless! I was terrified of

being disabled forever.... but it only lasted about two weeks and has not

recurred. I was happy to have the vicodin and muscle relaxers... no other way to

get through it.

Coconut is fairly fibrous. I would choose the peanut butter brownies over

anything with dried coconut at this point, even though some will say peanut

butter is a more advanced food. I would argue that coconut is even more

advanced. Anyway, the recipe is on www.pecanbread.com in the " recipes " section

(naturally ).

They are quick, easy and yummy. Ingredients are just peanut butter, egg, honey

and baking soda. I can't keep my non-SCD family members to leave them alone...

have to hide them!

I like to put a strip of foil extending about one and a half inches out over the

edge of the pan to protect the edge from burning. I just leave that on for about

half the baking time, then remove it.

For other " non-boring " meal ideas, I'd peruse the rest of the pecanbread.com

recipe section. You'll find a number of easy things that kids can love.

Patti

relief and early diet questions

3) I don't see coconut on stages list. I want to make something like

macaroons when I'm

back up. They need a treat====sick of jello. I made cheesecake from BTVC

Saturday

night, but it's not something easy to whip up and I don't have any goat milk

at the

moment. Any other treat ideas?

4) I have BVTC, Grain-Free Gourmet, and Lucy's cookbooks. Just having a hard

time

seeing what we can have yet. Beef patties (ground beef and 1 egg) are getting

old and

boring--everyone is sick of the chicken broth. The recipes all seem to

complicated for

now (meaning, too many ingredients that we haven't moved onto yet). Any

in-between

ideas for what to do with meat?