Recent Posts by Leah

Topic: Allergy Support Group / Does anyone know a recipe for a cake that is egg, milk, flour, sugar, wheat free?

You’d like the book Allergy Cooking With Ease by Dumke. It has all sorts of cakes/cookies using alternative flours.

Topic: Allergy Support Group / Balsam of Peru--is there no safe food?

I’m sorry. Sodium benzoate is a tough one.
I’d have thought just eating unprocessed foods would cover this. I noticed that SPICES are listed on your no-no list. What about HERBS, the leaves of plants? You haven’t listed them…sage, thyme, oregano, etc. If you CAN eat those, you could try growing your own. They sure taste better and are pretty.

So are you down to meat and vegetables?

Would probiotics help the vaginal issues? Couldn’t hurt. I think everybody with digestive issues would benefit from probiotics.

I’m sorry you’re having problems. Hang in there. Start a list of what is least offensive to your body and don’t focus on the no-no items. It really does help. :-)

Topic: Looking for Recipe / Pizza

Try using Quick Skillet Bread (this site) as the base. I’ve made pizza using these and only sauce and meat. It’s not exactly a pizza, but it comes close. :-)

Topic: Looking for Recipe / birthday cake & icing

Wow, this has got me thinking. You can experiment using the recipe below. I’ve never made it with wheat flour, though. You can add sweetening to it. The zucchini cake I made was good.

http://www.cookingallergyfree.com/recipes/show/345

Topic: Allergy Support Group / picky 3 yr old-newly diagnosed

Feat Without Yeast is a great cookbook written by desperate parents. They talk a lot about picky eaters. They say picky eaters often develop from food allergies.They are Kosher and use a lot of beans and rice, but everything doesn’t include rice.

Topic: Looking for Recipe / Birthday Cake or any desserts

I strongly suggest you get a copy of Allergy Cooking With Ease by Dumke. It’s an extensive book which gives variations on most of the recipes—different flours, etc. I will post Mix and Match Cookies in a few minutes. Maybe your son will like them.
Oh, this cookbook has many cake recipes, too!

Topic: Allergy Support Group / green olives

I’d guess they get lactic acid from different sources, depending on the cost. Some of it would be from dairy and some not. That labeling would keep them from having to change the label each time their source changes.

Avoid them if it’s necessary. I really like green olives also, but have to avoid them because of the vinegar, but I do cheat sometimes. :-)

Topic: Looking for Recipe / have multi allergies.need help with my grain/bread intake

You can get vitamins from health food stores which don’t have ‘things’ in them. Take a look.

I have a suggestion, but please be careful about it. Kamut is called Egyptian Wheat because it’s actually what the Egyptians grew centuries ago.(My understanding is that a few grains were found at a burial site and somebody started growing it.) SOME people with a wheat allergy can eat it because it’s different enough from modern wheat strains, that the body records it as something else. I can eat it, but I just ‘fell bad’ if I eat wheat.

Kamut makes great Skillet Bread. :-)

Topic: Looking for Recipe / Substitution for cream of mushroom

The type of sauce in the above recipe could be used with about anything.
The only other type of ‘casserole’ I make is a mixture of meat or beans and rotel or regular tomatoes plus seasonings, mixed with rice or layered with corn tortillas. If I’m daring and haven’t cheated lately, I’ll add cheese. :-)
I make several meat and rice/vegetable one pot dishes in the oven or stove top, but that’s not ‘casserole’.

Topic: Looking for Recipe / Substitution for cream of mushroom

Look at my Chicken and Rice Casserole 2. It’s on the Most Popular list on the Recipes Tab. I think this is the way people cooked BEFORE cream of mushroom soup. :-)

Topic: Chef Central / cheese and milk products

http://www.veganstore.com/209%20%20%20%20%20%20%20CHEDDAR.html
I’ve never tried this vegan cheese, but being vegan means NO animal products.

Topic: Chef Central / Brown Bag Choices for Teen

I have no idea. Try posting that question on the Allergy Support section of this discussion board.

Topic: Chef Central / Brown Bag Choices for Teen

A ham sandwich is still okay, if your bread doesn’t have egg. You might have to bake your own?? Homemade biscuits (made with water instead of milk/buttermilk) with ham might start a fad at school! Fruit is okay. Make cookies using egg substitutes. Unflavored chips. At least she CAN eat wheat! It could be worse. I understand about dairy. It’s my favorite, too, but causes problems.
I know this seems overwhelming, but once you’ve had time to think about it, the answers will be more clear.
You know, since she’s older, SHE could learn to bake bread, etc. She’ll have to do it anyway, later.

Topic: Allergy Support Group / All Purpose/rice flour sub?

A straight substitution has NEVER worked for me. Rice doesn’t have any gluten, so it just sits there, hard as a rock. I HAVE had luck using half rice flour and half oat flour, with vit. C crystals and an acid (lemon juice, etc.) to give lift, or baking powder. (See Country Bread, this site. Just rice flour will work in this recipe, too.) I don’t have the gums and powders others use. Maybe somebody else can help there.

Topic: Chef Central / Small Kitchen Appliances You Can't Live Without?

Awhile back, I made spinach dip, grinding up almonds into a kind-of nutty mayo, then adding spinach to that. It wasn’t ‘milk’ but the processor did a good job. The dip didn’t have chunks of nuts in it. That recipe said to use a blender but I only had a processor. So, I’d GUESS it would work, but you couldn’t use as much liquid as a blender. I have had liquids slosh out of a processor. MESS.

Topic: Allergy Support Group / Facial Swelling

I know this may sound crazy, but… :-)
I was just looking at your bio and noticed your yeast/fermented allergies. If you’re desperate enough, in the morning, try this spit test. An overgrowth of yeast can cause MANY problems and often goes undetected because of that very reason.

http://www.adhdrelief.com/CandidaTest.html

Topic: Allergy Support Group / Fructose Malabsorption

I’d never thought much about fructose, so I looked it up.
Wikipedia states:
Fructose (also levulose or laevulose) is a simple reducing sugar found in many foods and is one of the three important dietary monosaccharides along with glucose and galactose. Honey, tree fruits, berries, melons, and some root vegetables, such as beets, sweet potatoes, parsnips, and onions, contain fructose, usually in combination with glucose in the form of sucrose. Fructose is also derived from the digestion of granulated table sugar (sucrose), a disaccharide consisting of glucose and fructose.

So, it’s a sugar found in plant food sources. It DOES seem to be in lots of foods, but I’m sure there’s a way around it. You’ll just have to learn which sources to trust and hopefully you’ll be able to tell by how you feel, which foods bother you.

Some of these foods obviously have more fructose than others. I assume you wouldn’t have to remove ALL plant sources from you diet. (?) It’s an intolerance, not a true allergy, so that helps!
So, did a Dr. tell you this? Did he suggest staying away from refined sugar, fruits and root veg? Some or all?

Is this your ‘only’ intolerance?

Topic: Chef Central / Small Kitchen Appliances You Can't Live Without?

My food processor makes mayo and chops everything, but that’s no surprise!
What I really use is a crock pot. I have both a 4qt and a 2qt. Soups and dried beans come out well without a lot of fuss and I can make more than what’s needed and freeze for easy lunches to take to work. Roast with veg is good in them, too. Almost anything can be adapted to crock pot use, just don’t cook things to death.

Topic: Looking for Recipe / Buckwheat Hot Cereal?

I found a recipe I’ll post in a minute.

Topic: Allergy Support Group / How do you feed your family?

I have Feast Without Yeast and there’s a recipe for Latkes without eggs or wheat. I’ll post it in a minute. :-)

Topic: Allergy Support Group / Simonmat, are you there?

Hi Simonmat. You didn’t leave your email address on your bio page.

I know this is a difficult time, but looking at your allergies, there ARE things you can eat! Most veg and beef kept me going for awhile, as did beans and rice. You’ll have to cook, though. Almost all processed foods are out for you.

Are you under a doctor’s care? I know this may sound strange, but have you ever done the ‘yeast spit test’? http://www.adhdrelief.com/CandidaTest.html It’s an easy way to tell if you have chronic yeast, which OFTEN goes undetected and untreated. TO ME, you sound like you’ve got it and your allergies make me think so, too. It is very hard to think straight when yeast has taken over your body. It affects your mind. I used to turn on the flame under a pan on the stove and walk off and leave it, forgetting all about it. It’s a mercy I didn’t burn down the house!

The Yeast Connection is a wonderful book and the web site has the same name. If you DO have yeast overgrowth and a doctor won’t treat it (some say it’s not a problem!!!) there are LEGAL ways to get Diflucan, etc., to take care of it. That’s what I had to do.

Post on here and let some of us encourage you. We do care.
Or email me directly. Click on my name under the picture of my herb garden.

Topic: Looking for Recipe / Pizza Help!

You could use Quick Skillet Bread for the crust. It bakes well after being cooked in the skillet, especially using a pizza pan with holes in it.

Topic: Looking for Recipe / Allergic to vinegar

I use unbuffered vitamin C crystals with a little water in place of vinegar, but some people with mold/yeast problems can’t handle it. And it won’t work for a lot of vinegar because lots of vit. C at one time can give a person an upset stomach, if they aren’t used to it.

Topic: Allergy Support Group / Cookbooks for a rotation diet

I like If This is Tuesday It Must be Chicken. It seems to have things everybody can eat or adapt to their diet. I wonder if it’s out of print? If so, try to find it used.

Topic: Allergy Support Group / Food additives

My daughter is the same way. She was maybe 6yo when we realized food colorings made her stop breathing while sleeping. Now she’s 21 and headed for Africa. I have a feeling food colorings won’t be a problem in the bush! While away at college there were many things she couldn’t eat in the cafeteria.
This doesn’t really help, but just know I DO understand.