On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:49:25 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

> I have to cook for a person with gout. And his favorite foods are the worst
> ones for it. Asparagus, red meat and seafood. And I was unwittingly
> serving the wrong things. Chicken with mushroom sauce. The chicken may
> have been okay but apparently mushrooms are not. And I've been making a lot
> of dried beans because they're cheap. Oops!
>
> I know that most fruit and vegetables are good. Spinach is not. I know
> that whole grains are good and that tofu might be okay. Eggs might be okay.
> But some people react to them.
>
> I am just kind of stumped when it comes to protein. I've been serving
> chicken and turkey but I'm sure that will get old. I have seen mixed things
> about cheese. Does cheese bother you?
>
> What can I fix? Luckily this person isn't a picky eater. Just prefers the
> foods that are the worst for gout. Exception being fruit. He is a big
> fruit eater. Guess I need to buy more.
>

That will change when he gets tired of having gout attacks. In the
mean time, don't bother because he won't appreciate what you're trying
to do anyway.

It seems like everything has purines in it in one degree or another.
The first thing he has to figure out what his triggers are and then
you can work from there. My husband can't eat more than one piece of
shellfish or he'll have twinges the next day and he limits himself to
one beer if it's a social drinking situation. Red meat (beef) isn't
as bad, but we only have it a couple of times a month because if we
have it a couple of times a week a couple of weeks in a row he can
feel his body start to complain (not an attack, but getting ready for
one). My husband *loves* mushrooms and they don't trigger his gout,
so I put twice as many as I used to in sauces and gravies now (by
request). We'd eat more fish if I liked it better and was willing to
cook it... but I don't and I'm not.

We eat a lot of chicken, so I have a myriad of recipes for that. We
could eat chicken every day and not get bored because the recipes are
so different.

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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.