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Peter A

In article >,
says...
> I'm being tested for allergies and other gastrointestinal issues and will be
> on an elimination diet for 2 weeks. Has anyone else managed to do this when
> there is a husband and young child in the family? I work fulltime and don't
> want to make two meals every night but this diet is very restrictive. I
> suppose I could do a lot of cooking and freezing for them and they just have
> to reheat. I can at least cook steam veg or serve salad.
>
> CAN EAT:
> fruit (except orange), vegetables (except tomato), rice, meat, chicken fish,
> bean/legumes, nuts, veg juices, herbal teas, all salts & spices, balsamic,
> olive oil, ghee
>
> CAN'T EAT:
> dairy of any sort, egg, soy, processed meats, no gluten (barley, rye, oats,
> wheat), peanuts, caffeine, sugar, yeast, artificial flavourings, additives,
> preservatives
>

I don't have any food suggestions but I am puzzled that you are
forbidden from eating yeast but allowed to eat vinegar, which is made by
yeast. When I was on an elimination diet - even though it was less
strict than yours - I was forbidden anything containing yeast or mold:
vinegar and soy sauce primarily. I was not forbidden oranges per se but
I was not to drink commercial orange juice because they use mold in the
extraction process.

Not that your diet should be the same as mine or anyone else's - but
banning yeast and not vinegar makes no sense.

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Peter Aitken
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