RE: GF, DF and soy free

[Guest guest]

I am the same way - I am 100% off gluten of course, I have to avoid dairy unless it is lactose free, and I don't have as much of a problem with soy but I try to not go too overboard on that front.It was hard for me for a long time, but I've gotten quite used to the diet now. The only thing that is upsetting is if I mistakenly consume something wrong, and then have a reaction. But by now I've found plenty of substitute foods. For the dairy thing, I personally seem to be fine with taking two or three lactase enzyme tablets if I'm about to eat anything dairy-ish like cheese or milk chocolate. I buy lactose-free milk which you can get just about anywhere, and Bryers makes a lactose-free ice cream which is usually available at Whole Foods. If it is just lactose that is the problem, those items might help.

-Joe-- Joe http://sanbeiji.com/On 2/8/07, Groff <

megroff01@...> wrote:

I am curious how many other GF members are

also dairy and soy free?

After was born, my body (immune

system) crapped out and now I can't eat even the littlest bit of soy or

dairy. I have had allergy testing which all came back – for every

food allergen (I think the tests were a big joke and rip off since it did not

even show the slightest bit of allergy) except peanuts which I don't

really eat anyway and have never noticed a reaction to. I have also lost

hearing in my right ear …which the ENT says was from a 'virus'

but I feel is linked to these 'sensitivities'. I (and my whole

family) have been living with out gluten, dairy, and soy for over a year now

and I am still having a very hard time with it – mentally as well as

physically (sick of cooking and trying to figure out what to eat).

Is there anyone else struggling, or

successful with this type of diet?

Eileen

[Guest guest]

I’m almost soy free – I occasionally

have some wheat free tamari or Bragg’s aminos.

I think of the gluten and casein as rat

poison and the things made from them as “sculptures”.

For menu planning I try to make a big

roast of something on the weekend and then variations on it all week –

Roast beef then tacos, beef on salad, with a sauce over rice, etc. That

way I do less cooking. Although I do fall prey to Adell’s sausages

and homemade sauerkraut when I just don’t want to cook. Or perhaps

a hamburger. I have a large freezer and buy a quarter of a beef and a

lamb or two and some chickens. I do use a microwave to defrost

stuff. I sit down once a week and make menus. I like variety so

sometimes I don’t do the Roast plus method and I schedule some different

protein every night with at least 2 veggies.

I had gotten very tired of cooking about 10

years ago and we has started eating out a lot and then diagnosis and I’m

back to it, but now it seems I’m doing it for me and my health and

charged up again about how to eat creatively, as a gourmet with out gluten or

casein.

Connie

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Groff

Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007

11:41 AM

Subject: [ ] GF, DF

and soy free

I am curious how many other GF members are also dairy and soy free?

After was born, my body (immune system) crapped out and now

I can’t eat even the littlest bit of soy or dairy. I have had allergy

testing which all came back – for every food allergen (I think the tests

were a big joke and rip off since it did not even show the slightest bit of

allergy) except peanuts which I don’t really eat anyway and have never

noticed a reaction to. I have also lost hearing in my right ear …which

the ENT says was from a ‘virus’ but I feel is linked to these

‘sensitivities’. I (and my whole family) have been living

with out gluten, dairy, and soy for over a year now and I am still having a

very hard time with it – mentally as well as physically (sick of cooking

and trying to figure out what to eat).

Is there anyone else struggling, or successful with this type of

diet?

Eileen