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> 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.

I have been serving lots of chicken but I was using a garlic mushroom sauce.
Need to find another way to fix it. Daughter really likes it that way.