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[~Shanna~]

I know this has been discussed before, but I can't find it.....does the Search function, even work? Are any of the Applegate Farms products legal? According to the ingredient lists, the sliced roast beef, the Great Organic hot dogs and the Stadium-style hot dogs might be (depending on what's in the onion powder). Any advice?

I'm dying here.....I'm just starting month 5 of SCD and can't do legumes, cheese (even goat, which is the only yogurt I can do), nuts or nut butters, winter squash, cabbage, cauliflower......I'm ruling out trying new foods until after Christmas, when I hope I'll see some advancement in foods I can tolerate. My life is currently eggs, meat, fruits, veggies, repeat.

[Annikate]

Originally Posted by Shanna4000

I know this has been discussed before, but I can't find it.....does the Search function, even work? Are any of the Applegate Farms products legal? According to the ingredient lists, the sliced roast beef, the Great Organic hot dogs and the Stadium-style hot dogs might be (depending on what's in the onion powder). Any advice?

I'm dying here.....I'm just starting month 5 of SCD and can't do legumes, cheese (even goat, which is the only yogurt I can do), nuts or nut butters, winter squash, cabbage, cauliflower......I'm ruling out trying new foods until after Christmas, when I hope I'll see some advancement in foods I can tolerate. My life is currently eggs, meat, fruits, veggies, repeat.

No - none of the Applegate products are legal as far as I know. When I first started SCD I had read that the *regular* turkey breast (not smoked) and the hot dogs were legal but I've since discovered that that was wrong information.

[~Shanna~]

Originally Posted by Annikate

No - none of the Applegate products are legal as far as I know. When I first started SCD I had read that the *regular* turkey breast (not smoked) and the hot dogs were legal but I've since discovered that that was wrong information.

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Thanks for saving me the trouble of buying them - they're not cheap.

As a side note, I've found that a couple of the house-made sausages at Whole Foods in the deli case are legal. We've had good luck with the Carribean jerk pork sausage and one of the brat recipes. You just have to be careful to grill them about the spices that are on the ingredient label. Not cheap, about $5 a pound even on sale, but sometimes it's worth it......

[Annikate]

I know, they're not cheap and they're not even that good really. IT's the carageenan that's the illegal ingredient.

[Punchy Kaby]

Originally Posted by Shanna4000

:
Thanks for saving me the trouble of buying them - they're not cheap.

As a side note, I've found that a couple of the house-made sausages at Whole Foods in the deli case are legal. We've had good luck with the Carribean jerk pork sausage and one of the brat recipes. You just have to be careful to grill them about the spices that are on the ingredient label. Not cheap, about $5 a pound even on sale, but sometimes it's worth it......

Thanks for the info. Sorry you are not progressing on the foods. Have you tried any fermented veggies yet? I recently found chinese broccoli at the grocery store, it tastes like the regular stuff but instead of floweretts they have leaves. Why are you waiting until after Xmas to introduce new foods?

[ChristieB]

Originally Posted by Annikate

I know, they're not cheap and they're not even that good really. IT's the carageenan that's the illegal ingredient.

The Applegate Organic Uncured Beef Hot Dogs don't have carageenan in them. I don't see anything on the ingredient list that would be illegal, unless there's something in the "spices" that would be a problem. As I've said before, we're not completely strict about the SCD diet, so I went ahead and bought some. My son has had no problem with them (but then, he's celiac, but doesn't have a lot of the gut issues that SCD addresses). We know right away when he has a problem with a food, because his blood sugar goes out of control (he has diabetes). Is there something I should know about the "spices" in that product? The product came recommended by someone who is super careful about her diet, so I didn't check with the company. Maybe I should.

And by the way, the hot dogs I mentioned actually do taste pretty good. But they are very expensive, so dh and I leave them for ds for the most part.

Are we maybe talking about two different hot dog products? I know they sell chicken, and I haven't even looked at the label for those, so maybe those have carageenan? We definitely stay away from carageenan!

Christie

[~Shanna~]

Originally Posted by Nolansmum

Thanks for the info. Sorry you are not progressing on the foods. Have you tried any fermented veggies yet? I recently found chinese broccoli at the grocery store, it tastes like the regular stuff but instead of floweretts they have leaves. Why are you waiting until after Xmas to introduce new foods?

Thanks for the love I'll have to explore the chinese broccoli, I haven't yet determined if regular broccoli brings reactions on for me or not - I know that cauliflower and cabbage do

I'm waiting until after Christmas for a few reasons. My reactions manifest as very painful acne, so it's a frustrating cycle of try new food-wait 2 days-get acne-wait 4 days for acne to tone down - try new food. I'm really tired of being on such a restrictive diet and still having such painful acne. Also, I'm 3 months pregnant - there's a lot of rhyme and reason to what I react to (anything remotely starchy or cruciferous, any legumes or nuts), so I'm hesitant to subject my baby to the possibility of such a strong autoimmune response when i already have healthy, sustaining foods that I can stick with. I have the sense that if I give my body another 3-4 months to heal and not be constantly challenged with new foods, that I'll make a lot of progress. I can already see that my reactions, when they occur, are much less severe than they used to be, so I'm hoping that a few more months will allow me to handle foods that BTVC says I should be able to.

Sorry for the long story - it's so frustrating, though not nearly as frustrating as the alternative I see all of these stories of how people lead almost normal lives on SCD, but it usually revolves around foods that I can't have yet (almond flour, cheese, etc.). Yesterday, I thought that I might seriously be willing to do harm to a person if it meant I could just have a BLT......

[ChristieB]

Hi Shana! I sure hope you find that healing a bit longer, and without challenges, will work for you! I'm sure it's so frustrating. Especially with all the cravings and aversions of pregnancy. I'm impressed with what you're doing for your baby (trying to avoid the autoimmune response). I'm doing that, too, but only having to avoid gluten and dairy. And like I said in another thread (at least I think I did) I really admire you for being able to stay on the SCD through the first trimester. I couldn't/didn't. Then again, we've been on it for ds and dh, not for me. Maybe if I were seeing a benefit like you are I'd be able to (I hope so! I'd hate to think I was that weak).

We found that with ds, until we removed all the foods he reacted to, there was little healing happening. Now that we don't try new foods, and have found all of the foods he was reacting to, things are progressing. I hope the same is true of you! Just so you don't feel alone, he can eat very few foods, too. There are two nuts he can tolerate, but we try not to over-do those (both because we don't want him to start reacting to them, and because they're both expensive -- pine nuts and brazil nuts). There are also several veggies (including the winter squashes, we recently discovered), and a few fruits that he can't eat. He eats no dairy. But I make him some coconut yogurt.

Someone mentioned cultured veggies, have you tried kefir? We have some water kefir grains, and I think that drinking the water kefir has helped ds quite a bit. Because I can only make so much kefir, he probably doesn't get as much as he should. It would be a little tricky to make it SCD legal (I use agave nectar, which isn't SCD legal but works for us, esp. with ds having diabetes). Honey will kill them or change their structure. Ask me how I know . And using honey will make the kefir very alcoholic (at least it smells and tastes that way). But you could use juice. It would just change their color. They like juice, though. Anyway, it's a thought.

Also, something that has really helped ds (more than anything other than going gluten-free and dairy-free) is taking high quality enzymes. Right after going gf and df, we started noticing other foods falling off the "OK" list. He was losing a lot foods in just a short time. We started him on enzymes, and he's hardly lost any foods since. He's also needing less insulin. And his behavior has changed much for the better. Again, just another thought.

Christie

[Punchy Kaby]

Originally Posted by Shanna4000

Thanks for the love I'll have to explore the chinese broccoli, I haven't yet determined if regular broccoli brings reactions on for me or not - I know that cauliflower and cabbage do

I'm waiting until after Christmas for a few reasons. My reactions manifest as very painful acne, so it's a frustrating cycle of try new food-wait 2 days-get acne-wait 4 days for acne to tone down - try new food. I'm really tired of being on such a restrictive diet and still having such painful acne. Also, I'm 3 months pregnant - there's a lot of rhyme and reason to what I react to (anything remotely starchy or cruciferous, any legumes or nuts), so I'm hesitant to subject my baby to the possibility of such a strong autoimmune response when i already have healthy, sustaining foods that I can stick with. I have the sense that if I give my body another 3-4 months to heal and not be constantly challenged with new foods, that I'll make a lot of progress. I can already see that my reactions, when they occur, are much less severe than they used to be, so I'm hoping that a few more months will allow me to handle foods that BTVC says I should be able to.

Sorry for the long story - it's so frustrating, though not nearly as frustrating as the alternative I see all of these stories of how people lead almost normal lives on SCD, but it usually revolves around foods that I can't have yet (almond flour, cheese, etc.). Yesterday, I thought that I might seriously be willing to do harm to a person if it meant I could just have a BLT......

I admire your willpower for your baby! It is very frustrating, the whole process of healing is slow. I still do not know for sure all of DS's trigger foods, I have a feeling it could be a variety of vegetables but I can only restrict my diet so much. I currently eat SCD no dairy, no fruit, I tried no nuts but after 2 weeks it didn't seem to do anything so now I try to have a nut butter only every few days. YOu are doing an amazing thing for your baby!

[Annikate]

Originally Posted by ChristieB

The Applegate Organic Uncured Beef Hot Dogs don't have carageenan in them. I don't see anything on the ingredient list that would be illegal, unless there's something in the "spices" that would be a problem. As I've said before, we're not completely strict about the SCD diet, so I went ahead and bought some. My son has had no problem with them (but then, he's celiac, but doesn't have a lot of the gut issues that SCD addresses). We know right away when he has a problem with a food, because his blood sugar goes out of control (he has diabetes). Is there something I should know about the "spices" in that product? The product came recommended by someone who is super careful about her diet, so I didn't check with the company. Maybe I should.

And by the way, the hot dogs I mentioned actually do taste pretty good. But they are very expensive, so dh and I leave them for ds for the most part.

Are we maybe talking about two different hot dog products? I know they sell chicken, and I haven't even looked at the label for those, so maybe those have carageenan? We definitely stay away from carageenan!

Christie

Dunno about the hot dogs. I do know that the deli meat products have carageenan though. I ate the turkey even when I first started SCD because I had read that the turkey and the bologna (turkey) were legal. Then later I found out they weren't. That's what I get for not doing my own research I guess.
Anyway, I didn't have any issues with them btw. I just didn't like the hot dogs because the outside casing was tooooo chewy. DD liked them though!

[Annikate]

OT Shanna,
On the HTG thread I posted about goji juice. It's supposed to help many things including digestion AND acne. Anyway, when I read it I thought of you.

[ChristieB]

Originally Posted by Annikate

Dunno about the hot dogs. I do know that the deli meat products have carageenan though. I ate the turkey even when I first started SCD because I had read that the turkey and the bologna (turkey) were legal. Then later I found out they weren't. That's what I get for not doing my own research I guess.
Anyway, I didn't have any issues with them btw. I just didn't like the hot dogs because the outside casing was tooooo chewy. DD liked them though!

You know, I'm starting to think that Applegate may have changed their hotdogs (for the better, which is pretty rare IME). Their casing is definitely not chewy now (I hate chewy casings, too -- gross!). Maybe that's what it is? The person who told me about them mentioned them as if they were a new product.

[~Shanna~]

Originally Posted by Annikate

OT Shanna,
On the HTG thread I posted about goji juice. It's supposed to help many things including digestion AND acne. Anyway, when I read it I thought of you.

Thanks for the tip

Everyone else, thanks for all of the support for being on SCD while pregnant - it wasn't much of a choice, since I strongly suspect that my two previous miscarriages were related to leaky gut But that's OT.....

Has anyone found any SCD-legal bacon? BTVC mentions making BLTs (todays craving, by the way) with almond bread, etc., but I couldn't see where you could get SCD bacon. We order our beef and pork from a farmer who does his own curing of the hams and bacon - He's trying to research for me how to do bacon and ham that I can have, but he tells me that I may be asking for "bacon-free bacon"

Also, I've had good luck with Annie's Organic yellow mustard. Amazing what a victory it can feel like to find prepared foods that we can eat.....

Going to make the BTVC meatloaf tonight. If the homemade catsup isn't too gross, my next magic trick will be to make cocktail sauce - if I can ever find fresh horseradish root......

[~Shanna~]

Just tried this recipe tonight, which is SCD-legal:
http://www.thegutsygourmet.net/goulash1.html


Ooooohhhh, yum!!!! I substituted equal volume of tomato juice for the tomato paste and water, and served it over the zucchini "noodles" in BTVC. And, for those of you who are pg and needing to stock the freezer (anyone, anyone? ), it looks like it will freeze great.

I can also report that the vegetable meatloaf in BTVC was divine, and that homemade cocktail sauce (homemade catsup + horseradish root) with shrimp is a pretty awesome SCD treat too. I'm gaining a small but reliable aresenal

[Pookietooth]

Try the SCDRecipe site for bacon cure recipes. http://scdrecipe.com/recipes/r_036_00364.php

[LovinLiviLou]

Pumpkin/Pecan recipe?

Anyone have a good pumpkin/pecan muffin or bread recipe? I've looked around the scd recipe websites and can't find one, though it seems it would be a popular thing. And I'm just so low on time right now that I'd love to find one I knew would be good as opposed to spending time in the kitchen to make something not so tasty. Thanks!

[Panserbjorne]

Yup! Just use the basic muffin (banana) and sub butternut squash with a bit of nutmeg and cinnamon. So for the muffins it would be:
1 cup raw almond butter (instead of cashew)
1 cup cooked butternut squash (instead of banana)
2 eggs
and cinnamon and nutmeg to taste.
I also add a bit of honey.

Makes 12 muffins at 400 degrees for 10 minutes or so.

I also love to add pecans or walnuts to these!

[Annikate]

Hey! They sound good. I think they're probably anti-candida *legal* too. (Minus the honey.)

[Bestbirths]

Ok.... encouragement needed....

1. we went from gluten and casein free to adding cheese and butter and going SCD oh, three months or so ago.
2. Now, one of our children has an inner inflamation and we need to cut dairy out, the inflamation probably was made worse around the time of the SCD switch to dairy.

So..solution would be to cut out dairy and do the SCD without dairy, right?

Are there any resourses for SCD without Dairy? I need a cookbook.

Then problem #3 Dd is supposed to cut all red meat out of her diet. DH is not supposed to have red meat...our son who is really thin (too thin, since starting the SCD) doesn't eat much meat anyway. We were having bacon more than what was allowed...but I was getting sugar free bacon. We were eating lots of it.
DD is supposed to eat seafood and a little chicken. We all LOVE chicken, but dd doesn't like seafood....ok..I am exploring every seafood but
she doesn't like crablegs, she only sometimes will eat shrimp, we made almond salmon patties last night, she didn't eat it...she said she would eat the thing we used to make a long time ago-udon noodles with little neck clams, garlic and oil. The udon are not SCD, but I don't have many ideas. I guess we could use the zucchini noodles in place...it might be good that way. Can you do SCD without red meat and dairy? If there is someone who is doing it w/o, can you share what you are eating?

She is allowed to eat the goat yogurt, but until I get it to taste yummy like yo baby soy yogurt, I have gone back to letting her have that because that is the only way she will take her coromega. I've had tart problems with my goat yogurt and have switched my starter. They won't eat it if it's tart.

Our diet needs a lot of tweaking. I was going to go off the SCD and back to GF/CF, but now I don't know what to do.

This is just hard. Dinners are my big problem right now. They don't like the cassarole type concoctions from the SCD cookbook. It's just been meat, and a veggie for so long...now were in a food rut.

I've been cheating by using a rasberry vinagrette dressing on our chicken and walnut salads. We make the walnuts with honey according to the SCD. We put the grilled chicken, cut up apples, honey roasted walnuts on top of organic raw spinach or organic spring mix.

Does anyone have a reciepe for a rasberry vinagrette that is SCD legal?

[Punchy Kaby]

Bestbirths-have you tried lamb at all? I use ground lamb all the time for a quick meal with some veggies. I do SCD without dairy or eggs but my baby is 9months and so picky eating is not our challenge yet. Have you tried the cauliflower mashed 'potatoes' yet? Steam a cauliflower then puree with butter/ghee, tastes like fluffy mashed potatoes. Some fish that is mild tastinghiting, cod or orange roughy. I get all in the frozen section at Trader Joe's. YOu can dip them in egg then in almond flour and sautee them in butter/ghee/oil. I would imagine you could cook raspberries(there are directions in BTVC) and then add them to a plain vinagrette.

Pecanbread.com may have more dairy free recipies.

YOu certainly have challenges to preparing food for your family, good luck! Hopefully once your girls are feeling better they will want to explore new foods.