Does SCD Food Taste Good?

[Guest guest]

Dear List Members,

I am reposting an email that Marilyn sent . Marilyn is the co-

moderator of ElainesChildren.She is writing an SCD cookbook as well as a

novel.We are very fortunate to have her help. She makes our journey to

SCD fun and delicious!

Best, Mimi

Subject: Basics of SCD

>> Saying what is forbidden is pretty depressing. How about a list of

>> what you can have? Please, someone who knows. <<

,

Why depressing? I suppose if your diet is mainly pasta, rice, and

potatoes, it would be.

It's downright scary to completely rearrange the way you think about

food, and what you consider healthy - especially when what you're asked

to do seems to fly in the face of what you've always been told. Whether

you've been a vegetarian, a consumer of the Standard American Diet

(SAD), or even someone who has tried, really tried to eat healthy,

you're going to be making changes.

Making the changes, giving up foods you may enjoy, or which are part of

your culture, isn't easy. You may worry that people will think you are

strange for going on such a restrictive diet.

Especially threatening is making all these changes if you are

physically, mentally, and emotionally fragile because of the condition

of your health or that of a loved one.

That said, you can have a wide variety of meat, vegetables, greens,

fruits, cheeses, eggs, yogurt, etc. How you COMBINE these to make

wonderful gourmet meals is entirely up to you.

I can state that Harry and I are eating better than we ever have in

almost 27 years of marriage.

I have my parents over once a week for dinner. It is all SCD.

One week, we had grilled catfish, and a shrimp salad with homemade

remoulade dressing, and vanilla ice cream with blue berries.

Another week, I did cheese burgers with steamed mixed veggies and

homemade ranch dressing, and we had lemon cream pie for dessert.

The next week, we had roast chicken and dressing, steamed green beans,

and finished off the lemon cream pie.

Then we had steaks, with mock-potato salad, and mixed green salad with

honey-mustard dressing.

Be aware, also, that when I do these meals, they must also be free of

added sodium because of my mother's congestive heart failure.

Tonight, we're back to roast chicken; meanwhile, I'm hunting a low-

sodium SCD legal cheese so I can do Mexican food for my folks.

Limiting? Not on your life!

SCD has, however, forced me to think out of the box as far as meals are

concerned.

-- Marilyn (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)

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[Guest guest]

Thank you for posting this. I wanted to add a short testimony about our family

of five for the newbie. We came very addicted to the foods of our old ways. It

was very difficult to go through the transition...we all GRIEVED...cried and

ranted and raved...all five of us. We truly had withdrawal on top of die off, I

do believe.

After the cravings subsided about one month into eating SCD with no purposeful

infractions, the cravings vanished in all of us and something miraculous

happened. Food started to taste better. Things like broccoli and vegetables

had MORE flavor and tasted better than they ever had in our life. I do not know

if this has happened to others, but this has been a true blessing. We may eat

only SCD allowed foods now, but we now enjoy doing it because they are good, and

we are no longer so sick! Rewards have been plentiful, even with our set backs!

Antoinette and (celiac) parents to three kiddos with (add, adhd,

asd/autism and hyperekplexia) SCD 2/06

[Guest guest]

I have to concur. Real food tastes divine. MSG and processed sugar and carbs are

an addiction, similar to heroin, changing the way the body responds to the

environment around it. Once the drug is removed, the world seems different. I

think it is a good analogy for the experience of removing processed and flavored

enhanced foods with real food.

Summer

Thank you for posting this. I wanted to add a short testimony about

our family of five for the newbie. We came very addicted to the foods of our old

ways. It was very difficult to go through the transition...we all

GRIEVED...cried and ranted and raved...all five of us. We truly had withdrawal

on top of die off, I do believe.

After the cravings subsided about one month into eating SCD with no purposeful

infractions, the cravings vanished in all of us and something miraculous

happened. Food started to taste better. Things like broccoli and vegetables had

MORE flavor and tasted better than they ever had in our life. I do not know if

this has happened to others, but this has been a true blessing. We may eat only

SCD allowed foods now, but we now enjoy doing it because they are good, and we

are no longer so sick! Rewards have been plentiful, even with our set backs!

Antoinette and (celiac) parents to three kiddos with (add, adhd,

asd/autism and hyperekplexia) SCD 2/06