Our first day on the elimination diet

[Wendi]

I thought I'd give you an update of how our day's going. To recap: for the next 2-3 months, ds cannot have yeast, cane sugar, rice, chocolate, milk or cheese, chili peppers, millet, zucchini, mushrooms, bananas, grapes, olives, papaya, pecans, black or white pepper, sweet potatoes, quinoa, tomatoes, or yams. Whew!

Breakfast:
2 hardboiled eggs
4 homemade muffins made with honey and soy milk (mmm)
dried apples

Lunch:
natural peanut butter and sliced strawberries on tortillas
orange juice

So far, ds is happy with the food and not starving to death! :D

Dinner will be chicken, broccoli, and couscous.

If anyone has any great recipes for pancakes with no dairy or cane sugar, let me know!

Wendi

[pixelroper]

Good luck!!:) I know how hard these are.

[Karin]

Sure, you can use the milk substitutions we mentioned for the dairy. I make buckwheat pancakes with pure maple syrup as the sweetener (we use only buckwheat flour as dd cannot have gluten and is also on a rotary diet.) I don't know if the proportions I use will work so well with wheat, though. I've also used honey in pancakes before. However, I'd call the maple syrup company to see if and what they use for defoaming agents as they are not required to be listed on the ingredients label. Usually some type of oil if they use it.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Good luck. Your menu looks yummy! The first couple of weeks will be hard but then it will get easier. You'll find yourself in more of a routine.

[Lizzie in Ma]

We did the whole family last year! All that misery to find out the one dd I thought was ok was the one with dairy issues.;)