What CAN you eat then?

[alias_sqbr]

So! A list of foods I can eat for those foolhardy enough to try to feed me.

Savoury and/or healthy is better than sweet/unhealthy (overall your best bet is chopped vegetables and humous :))

I'll add things to this as I remember them, please ask if you want clarification. When in doubt, please check with me!

Here is the list of things I can't eat. I'm being a little less paranoid about soy flour since it's in EVERY BREAD but am happier if I can avoid it.

Preprepared or easy food

• Pfeffernusse biscuits
  
• Turkish bread, most white bread
  
• regular hummous (not spicy or fancy) eg Black Swan or Chris's brand from the supermarket
  
• unflavoured rice and corn thins
  
• most seaweed flavour rice crackers
  
• Boiled eggs
  
• Chopped vegetables (not red capsicum, but I can always just not eat it if it's there)
  
• non-acidic fruit: melons, grapes, banana, pear, paw paw, lychee/rambutan, loquat, custard apple. Ok in small amounts: red apples, berries, cherries
  
• Marshmallows
  
• Mondo brand nougat
  
• nuts and dried fruit (not pine nuts, nothing too acidic)
  
• most meringues or pavlova (minus any toppings)
  
• Big Sister brand Rich Fruit Cake. NOT the "light" one, the dark one.
  

Trickier food

Not for the faint at heart!

Overall: not sour, not fatty, but small amounts of acid or fat are ok.

Savoury ingredients:

• Unprocessed low fat meat
  
• soy sauce, miso paste, fish sauce, oyster sauce
  
• Most liquid stocks (dry ones disagree with me for some reason)
  
• onion, garlic, ginger
  
• Herbs that aren't mint or chives eg parsley, oregano, coriander, thyme, rosemary, sage
  
• Vegetables: Ok with tomatoes, potato, pumpkin, zucchini, beans/peas except red kidney beans, green capsicum, carrots, cauliflower/broccoli, green leafy vegetables EXCEPT the spicy ones. NOT OK: red capsicum family, tops of the onion family (eg spring onions), or anything mustardy (eg watercress, rocket).
  

Baking/sweet ingredients:

• sugar and sugar surups (eg golden syrup, honey)
  
• rice milk, oat milk, almond milk
  
• dried fruit, fresh fruit, jam
  
• bicarb, baking powder
  
• Fake coffee made from grains eg Caro, Ecco
  
• Flavouring essences eg vanilla
  
• in theory dark chocolate/cocoa but try not to have too much of them
  

Versatile ingredients:

• Any pure flour or grains except soy. NOT gluten free flour, it has wierd gums in it.
  
• eggs
  
• Small amounts of vinegar or citric acid in an otherwise non-sour dish
  
• Moderate amounts of vegan non-soy margarine eg Nuttelex
  
• nuts (NOT coconut or pine nuts)
  
• clear alcohol which gets cooked away: wine, mirin, rum, schnapps.
  
• some spices: salt and pepper, cinnamon, cardamon, coriander, tumeric, garlic/onion/ginger powder. Small amounts of nutmeg, cumin, or cloves.
  

Some example recipes. You can change the cooking times/type and quantities as much as you like, this is just to give an idea. Some of these talk about being gluten free, I'm not doing that any more thank GOD.

Savoury dishes:

• Marinated kebabs, or Yakitori minus the leek. Mushrooms, onion and green capsicum ar e a vegetarian alternative.
  
• Baked vegetables (roasted vegetables also good :))
  
• Roast meat
  
• Potato salad with stock as dressing
  
• Spaghetti + tomato-based pasta sauce + mince and/or spinach and/or mushrooms
  

Sweet dishes:

• Sponge cake (no lemon glaze) Google "sponge cake recipe -butter" and there's lots :)
  
• meringues
  
• nut macaroons
  
• anzac biscuits minus the coconut
  
• vegan thumbprint cookies (these are a bit fatty but I'll eat one or two)
  

(Hee, note the date and time)

Comments

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

So you can have soy sauce, but not soy flour. Is tofu in or out?

[alias_sqbr]

Tofu is SO out. Having discussed it with my doctor, he thinks it's the fermentation process that somehow makes soy sauce and miso paste ok. Which means I might in theory be able to eat tempeh (fermented tofu) but I've never been game to try it.

[mpfl.livejournal.com]

I love Pfeffernüsse, but I can't eat them any more because they're not vegetarian :-(

[alias_sqbr]

I guess this means you and I will never fight over a packet of biscuits :)

[mpfl.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, you can also get chocolate-covered Lebkuchen, which act as a suitable alternative to Pfeffernüsse.

[alias_sqbr]

Well, I can't eat much chocolate so there you go :)

[tree]

clear alcohol which gets cooked away

you realise that none of the examples you give are clear, right? well, there's white rum, i guess. but technically, only vodka and gin qualify as clear alcohol.

from one food-allergy sufferer to another :)

[sqbr]

Good point. What I meant was "alcohol which isn't made from anything I can't eat ie coconut, dairy", but that's not what I said.