"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 22:27:43 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>> "Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > sf wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone have a good site for gout friendly recipes? He's not
>> >> overweight and doesn't drink, so I don't need to hear about that.
>> >
>> > Any diet without meat, cheese, or eggs
>> > should be fine. Any fruit, any vegetables,
>> > bread, pasta, butter, and cream are all fine.
>>
>> Not quite but close. Some veggies are bad. Like mushrooms and spinach.
>> The only problem with that is that it would be pretty carby.
>>
>> If it were me, I would make a big batch of Spanish rice but use a lot of
>> veggies like onions, tomatoes and peppers to help lower the carb count.
>> Could probably get away with some celery in there too. I would add beans
>> for protein.
>
> Rice won't work if it's white rice (diabetes controlled by diet) and
> according to goutpal.com, it's okay to eat vegetables even when
> they're high in purines because the human body doesn't metabolize
> vegetable purines the same way it metabolizes animal purines. I can
> only say he never reacts to the purines in mushrooms or spinach.
>>
>> I would also do something like a pasta salad with beans in it and tons of
>> cut up raw veggies to help keep the carb count down.
>>
> He hates that stuff.
>
>> Or a vegetable soup with beans and perhaps just a little rice or pasta in
>> it.
>>
>> Husband eats a lot of fruit and hummus when his is flaring. Not at the
>> same
>> time. Hummus is eaten with baby carrots.
>
> Hubby doesn't eat much fruit these days (although he plows through
> strawberries) because of his blood sugar issues + he hates cherries
> and won't drink cherry juice either.

That figures. Strawberries are usually fine for blood sugar. Other fruit,
not so much.