No sugar/dairy recipies..

[GinaMarie]

My sons GI doc wants me for three days to leave ALL sugars and dairy from their diet and then slowly wean it back in.

Noah and Adam have been having stomach cramps and we aren't sure why. He is checking for intolerences I think.. Tho I dont think its the sugar or dairy.. Adam says he gets stomach cramps when I cook hamburger or he eats foods with high fats.

ANYWAY.. I'm not sure if its here or if anyone knows recipies I can do to make foods with NO sugar/dairy in it to feed them besides just water and vegetables..

Adam is my challenge.. He DOES NOT like vegetables either.. I cant feed them fruit as they are "sugar" (natural sugar included).. I'm calling but I also think he means things as in dextrose, glucose etc..

I have NO idea what Im going to feed us for a week or what to send them for lunches.. I only get $400. a month in food stamps to feed 5 of us so I dont have a lot of money to buy a lot of fresh or stuff for scratch but will do my best.. I have this all done before April 1st.

Thanks..
Gina Marie

[Zonulin]

Hi Gina Marie -

This blog looks like it might provide some ideas: http://thisweekfordinner.com/2008/09/12/no-sugar-no-flour-no-dairyoh-my/

Have you heard of rice congee? You cook one cup of rice in ten cups of water, and over a couple of hours or so, it turns into almost a pudding/gruel. Then you can top it with bits of chicken, green onions, or maybe just sprinkle some cinnamon over it. It's warm and filling, and I have it for breakfast sometimes (make it the day before). Of course, meats have no sugar or dairy (the non-processed kind). Vegetables (raw carrots/celery). You can make a dip for the vegies from garbanzo beans mushed in the blender (or by hand), with lemon juice added, maybe some garlic. Plain nuts are good - but it seems that most peanut butters have sugar and other undesirable things.

They will have to pretend they are like real cavemen, and will have to eat "Paleo" for a few days. For lunches, I would pack some chunks of chicken cooked the day before, some easy-to-eat small vegies, some nuts that they like (sunflower seeds? almonds? what are their favorites?).

My son at 10 had to eliminate one type of food family for a week, and then eat a LOT of it at one sitting, and then we'd check his physical response (pupil size, heart rate, breathing, nausea, etc.). I remember the sugar one was pretty tough, especially eliminating fruit. Hope others will have better ideas than mine...

Karen

[NancyM]

I eat no-sugar, no-dairy all the time. Right now I eat: for breakfast for me it is bacon and eggs or stew or soup. Lunch might be Asian beef wrapped in lettuce (a massive favorite for me right now) or some sort of chicken recipe (I'm liking Mustard crusted chicken a lot right now). Or perhaps a large salad. Dinner is like lunch, sometimes the same food. Curried Chicken or Egg salad. Wrap it up in a lettuce leaf or eat out of a bowl.

I don't always eat veggies. Some baby bok choy in butter is really good. I love cabbage, so a salad of shredded cabbage with a mayo dressing, maybe some peanuts and onion in it.

Here's a cooking forum where all the recipes are sugar-free (http://forum.lowcarber.org/forumdisplay.php?f=2), some are dairy free, it might help you.

Here's a thread about paleo cooking (http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=266493) where all the recipes are sugar free and dairy free.

[annelb]

Three days of dairy free may not be long enough to give you an answer as dairy reactions can last for a couple of weeks. Removing dairy also means removing the hidden sources too. Here is some info on that. http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=66

This study found that those with cow milk allergy could have delayed reactions, especially on rechallenge. Evidence of very delayed clinical reactions to cow's milk in cow's milk-intolerant patients
Authors: Montalto, G.1; Custro, N.1; Notarbartlo, A.1; Carroccio, A.2; Cavataio, F.2; D'amico, D.2; Alabrese, L.2; Iacono, G.2

Source: Allergy, Volume 55, Number 6, June 2000 , pp. 574-579(6)
Background: In patients with cow's milk protein intolerance (CMPI), delayed clinical reactions to cow's milk (CM) ingestion may be misdiagnosed if the clinical symptoms are not “classical” and there is a long time lapse between ingestion of CM and the clinical reaction. The aim was to evaluate the clinical outcome of CMPI in a cohort of CM-intolerant children, with particular attention to the occurrence of clinical manifestations beyond 72 h after CM challenge.

Methods: Eighty-six consecutive patients (44 boys, 42 girls) with new CMPI diagnoses were enrolled; median age at diagnosis was 4 months. Patients were followed up for a mean period of 40 months. In all patients, CMPI diagnosis was made on the observation of symptoms, their disappearance after elimination diet, and their reappearance on double-blind CM challenge. At CMPI diagnosis, immunologic tests to demonstrate IgE-mediated hypersensitivity were performed. After 12 months of CM-free diet, CM tolerance was re-evaluated with a CM challenge continued at home for up to 30 days, according to a double-blind, placebo-controlled method. Patients who did not achieve CM tolerance continued a CM-free diet and subsequently underwent yearly CM challenge.

Results: The percentages of CMPI patients who became CM-tolerant after 1, 2, and 3 years of CM-free diet were 30%, 54.5%, and 70%, respectively. At the end of the follow-up period, 26/86 subjects showed persistent CMPI; these patients had a higher percentage of positivity of total serum IgE (P<0.05), RAST (P<0.01), and cutaneous prick tests for CM antigens (P<0.001) than all the others. At CMPI diagnosis, all patients had a clinical reaction within 72 h from the beginning of the CM challenge; at the subsequent “cure” challenges, we observed patients who first reacted to CM more than 72 h after ingestion. In total, 10 out of 86 patients showed “very delayed reactions”; in these patients, the mean time between the beginning of CM challenge and the onset of a clinical symptom was 13.3 days (range 4-26 days). The number of “very late reactors” increased from the first to the third of the “cure” CM challenges, performed at yearly intervals. The “very delayed” CMPI manifestations in these subjects were constipation (five cases), wheezing (two cases), dermatitis plus constipation (two cases), and dermatitis alone (one case); in 6/10 patients, the symptoms observed at the “cure challenge” were different from those at CMPI onset.

Conclusions: Very delayed clinical reactions to reintroduction of CM in the diet can occur in CMPI patients; thus, accurate follow-up and frequent outpatient observation in patients with a long history of CMPI are probably more useful and safer than prolonged CM challenge.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mksg/all/2000/00000055/00000006/art00011;jsessionid=458fqqmi5q13o.alexandra

A while back I came across a study that showed children reacting to milk about 2 weeks after it was removed, but I can't seem to find it now.
Anne

[can]

Hello Gena. Does your son have the gene for Gorlin Syndrome? Has he been checked for gluten sensitivity? I have also had problems with fatty meats etc. Good luck in your search for the answers for your son.