TED- do you trial each food separately?

[DevaMajka]

If you've done a TED, or a very limited ED, do you trial each and every new food separately? Each different veggie, fruit, spice, herb, etc, then wait four days until the next one? You could be trialling foods for the better part of a year...or more!

I think this is what I'm going to have to do. He's reacting to something that isn't sals. sigh.

[mamafish9]

I didn't - but I'm not well known for my patience .

What I did was trial several hopefully low risk foods at the same time. Then wait 4 days. If something failed, I tossed out the whole group and tried another bunch. That got me back quite a few foods fairly quickly. Then I trialed top 8 foods one at a time.

I also discovered it was faster to trial foods directly in DS (so I didn't eat them, just fed him). He reacted within 24 hours, and then didn't get it for the next few days in my breastmilk, so it made food trials faster (every couple of days we could add in something new). Note this was not the process for the top 4 intolerances, I took those much more slowly, a couple of weeks between each.

[kjbrown92]

I do them one at a time, and keep a food journal. At least that's what I do with DS and DD2. I'm not so great at keeping the food journal for me!

[DevaMajka]

That's a good idea, to add foods to his diet alone first, to see what happens.

So I could either do one at a time, or a "block" of foods at a time. But wait at least 4 days in between.

Originally Posted by mamafish9

but I'm not well known for my patience .

me neither (surprise surprise! lol)

I think I'm going to cut everything back and start from this. Looking back through my food diary, I'm pretty sure he hasn't reacted to these:

For ds:
pear, rice, banana, black beans, chicken, golden delicious apple

For me- those, plus:
rice cereal, rice bread, quinoa, millet, mozzarella cheese, red lentils, flax, butter, maple syrup

No veggies, I know. I can't think of a low sulfur/low sals/non-orange veggie. lol Oh- maybe potato! And maybe I'll trial peas or green beans soon.

Does that sound at least reasonably healthy to start from?