Recent Posts by Leah

Topic: Website Problems and Requests / Red # 40 food dye and other artificial colors.

My daughter (23yo) has the same problem with ALL colorings. She has sleep apnea. She’s been off colorings for YEARS. While out of the country recently, she ate some and those with her could tell she became hyper, but she didn’t notice. LOL
Have you been to feingold.org?

Topic: Chef Central / Non-Stick Skillet Question

The Quick Skillet Bread is my recipe. I don’t think it would work in an iron skillet, unless it was like my mother-in-law’s skillet. Her’s is dark and VERY slick from 40 years of use. :-) Even then, I’d use extra oil in it.
A cheap nonstick skillet will work.

Topic: Looking for Recipe / Crumbling breads--help!!

Gluten is what makes the flour able to hold together as it expands.
Eggs help a lot. I assume the replacements would, too.
The best book I’ve seen for baked goods is Allergy Cooking with Ease by Nicolette Dumke.

Topic: Website Problems and Requests / chicken broth has Wheat?

I’ve noticed that my recipes which contain chicken broth are marked as ‘containing wheat’. Is this because of store-purchased chicken broth? (I can’t eat wheat!)
I never purchase broth and it seem like those who are having allergy problems wouldn’t either. But maybe they do. :(
Anyway, it just seems odd to have it listed this way. Is there a way to specify ‘homemade chicken broth’? Is that too difficult? There are already SO MANY listings of allergens. It looks like this designation will restrict what will be found on your site by those with wheat problems.
Thanks for listening.

Topic: Allergy Support Group / New Blog for Sulfite Allergy

Hi klshow,
I know it is difficult trying to figure out what YOU can eat. The above blog sounds like something you need to check out.
Many with allergies think of themselves as ‘not much of a cook’ at first. If you want to be healthy (and possibly not shorten your lifespan) you will need to learn to cook. It’s not difficult. You just have to want to learn.
I don’t know what’s safe for YOU, but you can figure it out. Be encouraged by the above blog.

Topic: Allergy Support Group / Gluten vs Wheat

Yes. I can eat gluten but NOT wheat. Strange, I know, but my life is a little easier for it. :-)
I can eat Kamut and rye. (I think rye has gluten.)

Topic: Looking for Recipe / Peanut Allergy....Almond Flour.....??

Quote:
Peanut and tree-nut allergic reactions coexist in one third of peanut-allergic patients, frequently occur on first known exposure, and may be life-threatening, requiring emergency treatment.
http://allallergy.net/fapaidfind.cfm?cdeoc=18

I think I’d wait to hear from the allergist if it were me.

Topic: Allergy Support Group / Looking for aFood Additive Database?

I’m impressed Bluepebbles. This is much more than I could find. :-)

Topic: Allergy Support Group / Subsitute for Potatoes?

Everyone who has eaten these has enjoyed them. They’d be good without the rosemary, too. :-)
http://www.cookingallergyfree.com/recipes/show/295

Plantain can be a potato substitute. It’s the thing that LOOKS like a banana. Wash it well, slice it, then remove the rind. Cook/fry in a skillet with a little oil. Don’t eat them raw.

Topic: Allergy Support Group / New Here

My idea of breakfast had to change. My meals each day aren’t ‘different’. I don’t have any ‘breakfast foods’. Once you get used to that idea (meat and veg for breakfast) life will be easier.
Your crockpot will help make mornings easier. Put food in when you go to bed and eat THAT for breakfast.

Topic: Chef Central / PBS Healthy Cooking Show

How exciting!
I would love such a show and do think it’s needed!

Topic: Chef Central / Free Recipe Download

I’m glad you’ve experimented and found out what works for you.
I do have a question about this. I’m guessing your sourdough starter doesn’t have added yeast, but it’s fermented. (Even natural fermentation bothers me, not just yeast.) Molds and yeast/wild yeasts are a problem for me.
Could you explain a little when you have time? Thanks.

Topic: Allergy Support Group / Baby's sleepless related to food allergies?

It’s been a long time since I had little ones, but our daughter didn’t sleep well when she was young. She DID sleep better when older and we’d discovered her allergies.
I know that I sleep better when I don’t cheat on my diet. :)

Topic: Allergy Support Group / What to pack for school lunch?

My very first reaction is to make sure his teacher knows what’s going on. :-)
I’m a teacher and see kids exchanging foods ALL the time and stop it whenever I see it. I say, “His parents sent THAT food for him and not for you. You don’t know what foods might make him sick.” My little school allows kids to heat up lunches, if they are a little older. How old is he? If this is possible, he could take leftovers from supper the night before, or frozen supper leftovers. Maybe he could use the microwave his teacher uses.

How about sandwiches made with gluten free bread and veg. with dressing you make yourself, if none fit the bill? Fruit is good. You could get individual packages of nuts for HIM to take and make sure they’re in a place which isn’t available to his little brother, if little brother can even be in the same room as nuts. Gluten-free tortillas with fillings. Boiled eggs and salt to dunk them in would be good. Having eggs to boil wouldn’t be hard to keep away from little brother. And you’d get used to not cooking with them, but sometimes you may need to, to make your life easier. It depends on little brother’s age. It’s hard cutting out foods for several people with different allergies.

Do all the kids who bring their lunch sit at different tables from those who eat the school lunch? Some schools have ‘allergy tables’ at lunch time. That’s something to suggest if your school doesn’t already have one or two. Some kids are so allergic to nuts, they have to REALLY stay away.

Once he realizes how much better he feels, he won’t want to eat all those other foods which are now so tempting.

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.