I need to go on an elimination diet.
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About us: I've got a sweet little girl who is 8 weeks old and has horrible, horrible gas. It smells worse than my dog's gas, I kid you not. In addition to the gas, she has LOTS of fussing at the breast, some pretty terrible acne that feels so rough and dry (really more eczema-like than acne) on her face, and after she nurses her face seems to almost break out in hives. She's sleeping okay, but...
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I'm wondering if there's an elimination diet plan anywhere. I'm just talking about something that could give me some ideas of what to eat, so that I can come up with a menu. If I don't come up with a menu, I'm sunk, and quite frankly there is dairy, soy, or gluten in everything that I cook. If I'm going to leave those things behind for a month, I need a plan. And there are so many websites and tangents and sidebars to everything, and people in these threads seem to be so light years ahead of cutting out those foods.
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So, is there a plan? A gluten-free, soy-free, dairy-free book? I know that there's "The Elimination Diet Cookbook," but from what I understand, that's for EVERYTHING. I'm just looking to eliminate the big three there, and I don't know where to start. I'm quite frankly so terribly overwhelmed and confused. I just want some basic menu ideas to get the ball rolling to cut those out and see if any of them help.
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Any help? Is there a sticky? A good simple website that outlines some kind of plan? I need to make a plan, and I have NO idea how.
