Just diagnosed with various food allergies. Have been dealing with sinus headaches and irritable bowel symptoms for months. Doctor finally agreed to test for food allergies and the results came back today. Primarily I am allergic to gluten, milk and brewers yeast. Or as my european wife says “Bread, cheese and wine.” May be grounds for divorce.
Anyone else deal with food allergies? Looking for advice on diet. Especially on getting my carbs with bread and pasta(unless it is gluten free) being out of the picture. Good news is I am okay with chicken and fish so my protein sources are okay.
Worst thing is I will have to give up the hot chocolate after long winter runs. Man, that was sometimes all that kept me going was knowing that I had a nice, tall cup of steaming hot chocolate waiting for me at home.
Could you treat yourself to hot chocolate that has no milk in it? I think you can get pure Mexican hot chocolate bars, heat them up and then sweeten them.
I have many friends who have the same allergies, so I am very familiar with what they eat!
Try some more recipes with rice. I love having some mixture of rice with beans, tomatoes, corn, and lots of spices. Wild rice is especially good and very good for you.
Potatoes - sweet potatoes are my favorite, but they are good carbs and on your diet!
Corn - One of the more carbohydrate rich vegetables
Beans - again, good carbs and good protein
Oatmeal
Rice milk/soy milk/ almond milk instead of regular milk.
In the past year my wife was diagnosed with food allergies. She had a list of symptoms that faded away once on the diet. When she falls off the wagon the symptoms come back with a vengence. She is urging me to get tested. I figure “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, but I’ll have it done for the heck of it.
Okay to eat: oats (in moderation), rice, corn, soy, potato, tapioca, beans, sorghum, quinoa, millet, buckwheat, arrowroot, amaranth, nut flours Avoid: barley, rye, wheat (durum, graham, semolina, kamut, spelt, malt or malt flavoring Note that the following also often contains gluten: brown rice syrup (Clif bars), broth, licorice, processed meats, marinades What exactly are you allergic to in milk? If it is just a lactose intolerance, you can use Lactaid milk and generally will be able to tolerate small amounts of yogurt and cottage cheese. Healthy regards, Kim Mueller, MS, RD www.kbnutrition.com
I pretty much adhere to a gluten free diet and was told that oats contained gluten… A few previous posters listed it as OK. Does anyone have a definitive answer? I love oatmeal and miss it a lot.
I often eat hot polenta with nuts, dried fruit and brown sugar for breakfast and get my other carbs from rice and corn tortillas.
It seems that more and more mainstream grocery stores are carrying gluten free products. yay!
Oh, I agree with the previous posters that Silk soy milk is great. You could get the chocolate flavor and heat it up for you fix.
I’m not actually one on a gluten free diet, just know what my friends eat…but I think the question about oats has to do with cross contamination when they are processed with other wheat products. Here is a study from PubMed:
While doing a search on it, I also found some articles saying that the only safe way is elimintation, but if they don’t cause you discomfort, then they should probably be okay in moderation.
How did they test you? I’m really interested in what sort of doctor/specialty you went to and what sort of test they used to test you, as those three particular food allergies are allergologically fairly unrelated.
Can you please provide the name of the test you took. I have a yeast/wheat allegy as well. Kind of worked it out by myself through trail and error over the course of a few years.
Like a few readers mentioned above …you are going to get very friendly with the Gluten-free cereal section of your supermarket as well as plenty of rice and potatoes.
Not being able to eat pizza is the one that kills me. And beer is completely out also. Once in a while I’ll throw caution to the wind and have a big blowout on pizza and beer. Like a reformed addict …sometimes you just fall off the wagon.
That is the website. Hopefully it can answer your questions.
I know the key will be moderation and avoiding temptation.
Meeting my wife changed my diet. She is european and added wine and bread(bagette) to my daily diet. Before I met her I had 2-3 beers a week and maybe half a dozen pieces of bread. Now we have 6 bottles of wine a week and bagette 5-6 days a week.
Meeting my wife changed my diet. She is european and added wine and bread(bagette) to my daily diet. Before I met her I had 2-3 beers a week and maybe half a dozen pieces of bread. Now we have 6 bottles of wine a week and bagette 5-6 days a week.
oh goodness…I think she must be my soul mate! Throw an enormous hunk of gouda in there and I am one happy (drunk) girl!
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“Anyone else deal with food allergies? Looking for advice on diet. Especially on getting my carbs with bread and pasta (unless it is gluten free) being out of the picture. Good news is I am okay with chicken and fish so my protein sources are okay.”
Yes… not only am I intolerant as well, but I counsel people on this stuff.
It’s not a death sentence except with your European wife yes, it certainly changes your ‘bread, cheese and wine’, but it’s easy to get used to – and you’ll feel better when you don’t eat all that. Trust me.
Get used to reading labels on everything. Gluten and yeasts are in so many processed foods, and most people have no idea how many. I’m sure as an athlete you already read labels, you’ll just get used to it even more.
There’s a great bread called “Health Seed” made without yeast or wheat. It’s not like white bread but it actually tastes great with butter or peanut butter. It’s in the refridgerated section of health food stores. The best part is that it’s excellent carbs and wonderful seeds.
Soy cheese will be your friend. My favorite (if you could call it a favorite) is “Soya Kaas” brand, Mozzerella style. It melts well enough and it quite seems like mozzerella cheese.
Soy milk also becomes your friend. I like “Silk” brand, and they are very environmentally conscious.
You’ll get used to not having that hot chocolate, unless you find a good substitute. I’d try teas – a delicious tea is “Throat Comfort” by Yogi Tea.
Pasta is very tough, btw. As is pizza. Sometimes you’ll have to treat yourself instead of eating like you normally did (a bowl of whole-grain pasta) but get used to that you’ll feel funny afterwards. Best thing is to consider very small amounts, and you may get by with less stomach trouble.
You won’t carb-up like your buddies do. Just mourn it now, get over that, and start looking around at what you CAN eat. The best part is that you’ll feel so much better when you have your strategies down, and know what you can eat.
Yogurt seems to be better for me. Someone once told me that the dairy in yogurt is transformed by the fermenting process so I can digest it.
“Raw” (unpasteurized/homogenized) dairy, also, you can have. The processing removes the enzymes which you need to digest the diary. If you live in CA I think you can get it in regular grocery stores… other states, it is illegal in stores, but many health-food co-ops get deliveries from farmers. You can get info on raw milk (and where to get it) from http://www.westonaprice.org : Weston A Price Foundation is about healthy eating without processsing.
You won’t be having breads, cereals and pastas in the same way, unless you find specific “wheat free, gluten free, yeast free” types. But you can find them in health food stores like Whole Foods or Wild Oats… but you WILL be eating more unprocessed foods - veggies, potatoes, sweet potatoes, fruits, beans. You will probably stay leaner without the processed foods anyway, so that will be nice for you.
I eat whole-milk plain yogurt, preferably organic. My BF says, “It tastes like a yeast infection” but that’s not true. You definately aquire a taste for it, and it’s not sweet – it’s tangy.
I put it in everything. I use it in salads like mayonnaise, even. But it’s great protein aand it helps round out a meal.
My breakfast is:
frozen fruit, thawed
1/3 c whole milk yogurt
1/3 c raw oats
barest sprinkle of Grape Nuts
Good carbs, good fats, good protein, and doesn’t make my allergies yelp.
