Food allergies- Help me cook for DH!

[LoveLife]

Hi everyone,

I lurk here a lot, but don't usually post.  The short story is that my husband started feeling really terrible back in October, in addition he caught every virus that passed his way, etc.  After a series of doctors telling him there was nothing wrong with him or to take 6 months worth of strong antibiotics (yep!), we finally found a great doc who told DH he had Candida.  So we've been doing Candida for a 3 1/2 months, while DH has improved, he's can't seem to get to 100%.

So the doc did allergy testing and DH a bunch of allergies!  DH is:

Extremely allergic to eggs (whites & yolks).

Allergic to yogurt, cows milk, goats milk, cheeses, etc.

Allergic to sugar cane

Slight allergies to wheats (whole, gluten & gliadin), spelt, & rye.

So doc wants us to continue with the Candida diet, as well as go egg, dairy & gluten free.  The doctor thinks DH might have leaky gut and is attempting to help him heal, but DH is so discouraged and so tired of eating mexican, or steak or chicken with veggies.  So I need help find some delicious recipes to wow my DH and make him feel less deprived. He's particularly upset about the dairy because he LOVES ice cream and hasn't had it for months.

Do you have any favorite tried & true dairy/gluten/egg/sugar/yeast free recipes?  Or webites with great recipes?  I've been searching allrecipes, but not having much luck finding good stuff to fit his diet.

 Thank so much if you read this far!

[CoBabyMaker]

My DD is on the GAPS diet in addition to being off several other things and I am also off several things for my nursling.  I don't know all the ins and outs of the candida diet though.  My menu plan for the month is here: http://www.mothering.com/community/forum/thread/1304936/april-meal-plans 

It is free of all the things you listed.  Do you have an ice cream maker or can you get one?  You can make coconut milk ice cream with honey that is very good.  Or google banana ice cream-it's just bananas if he can have that.  (I can't remember if fruit is on the candida diet, sorry)

If anything looks interesting and you want a recipe (ok, I don't use recipes but can give you the basic ideas and rough amounts) let me know! 

[BetsyS]

Although it's getting too hot for soups, one of our favorite soups is Italian wedding soup.  Chicken soup, then tiny meatballs poached in the broth.  I usually add spinach, but any greens work great.  Season with salt, pepper, dill.  I sometimes serve with pasta, but it's fine without. 

Another soup we like is tortilla soup.  My version is chicken soup, with tomatoes, corn, sauteed onions and peppers.  Then, I top with a squeeze of lime (my most key part of the soup), corn chips, and sometimes cilantro and onion. 

Chicken salad.  Both green salad with chicken and traditional chicken/mayo/celery chicken salad.  There are lots of variations of this. 

Red beans and rice with andouille.

[krankedyann]

You can make ice cream.  Sub coconut milk for the dairy milk or cream.

Can you tell us more about his likes and dislikes?  I've got thousands of recipes, I can post some if you tell me what he misses most.  I'll gladly post some recipes.

[LoveLife]

CoBabyMaker: Your meal plan looks great.  What do you put in your orange chicken?

Krankedyann, I would love some recipes!  He definitely misses ice cream the most.  Spicey foods (not mexican- we do a lot of that).  He also misses his sauces.  BBQ sauce, etc.  But all of the recipes I can find for those have sugar and vinegar, which he can't have on the candida diet. 

Thank you so much!

[krankedyann]

What sweeteners are ok on a candida diet?  Can he do stevia?

[krankedyann]

This is a recipe from one of my menu mailers.  This will work best with canned coconut milk instead of the So Delicious, which is much thinner.

Vanilla Ice Cream                Hands-on: 10 minutes
Dessert        Serves 8        Hands-off: several hours

4 cups coconut milk or cream
½ cup rapadura (or use whatever sweetener he can have, to taste- remember, things taste less sweet when frozen)
1 Tbs vanilla extract
Pinch salt

Stir all ingredients and allow to sit until the rapadura dissolves.  Freeze according to the directions on your ice cream maker.

Optional additives:
Toasted coconut
1 Tbs oil and 1 tsp zest- orange, lemon or lime
1-2 cups berries
Chocolate chips
Crispy nuts
 

[SpuglyRoo]

I made this dairy/gluten/sugar free Strawberry Cream Pie for my family for a birthday and it was awesome.  We had a little bit leftover and we froze it and tasted it that way and it was still really good.  It isn't quite ice cream, but it could definitely be a Strawberry Creamsicle type Popsicle.  Or even just as pie it may satisfy his ice cream craving.  It is sweetened with raw honey, I'm not sure where that falls on your avoidance list.  Good luck! Allergies really suck.  If I think of anything else I'll be sure to post it later.

[krankedyann]

For BBQ sauce, I'd replace the vinegar with pickle juice or lemon juice, whatever is ok for him.  The point of the vinegar in a BBQ sauce is acidity so you have a balance between sweet and acid.  I think you could get a perfectly acceptable option by using a combination of other acids.  I recommend a combination because you don't want a single flavor to overpower the sauce.  I'd make the sauce without any acid, then slowly add it in and taste until you get it to where you think it should be.  Sweeten it with stevia or whatever other sweetener is allowed.

I'll post some recipes later today when I have a little more time.

[CoBabyMaker]

The orange chicken is here: http://twofoothome.blogspot.com/2011/04/orange-peel-chicken.html

If he can have tamari that would be an easier to find replacement for the coconut aminos.