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12/28/07 at 4:02pm

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Can someone give me a nice weekly meal plan template? Please!!? Thanks so much.

elimination/rotation diet meal planning chart

My son and I have delayed food allergies/sensitivities. That is why we are starting an elimination/rotation diet for 4-6 weeks. So we are eliminating dairy, gluten, corn, soy, beef, safflower, canola, brocolli, peanuts, cashews, and some others. Food proteins stay in the system for 3 days, so my doc has prescribed a diet where we only eat the same food once every four days, so we don't develop new sensitivitities. After 4-6 weeks, we will start trialing back eliminated foods. Sorry it was confusing.

So the chart is color coded for Days 1-4 of the elimination diet. After 4 weeks, Monday will be day 1 again. The reason the colors change the evening before is for ease of cooking and meal planning. So I can cook a large meal for dinner time, and then use those leftovers in lunches and things throughout the next day. So if Day 1 is a monday, it actually starts with Sunday dinner. Does that make sense?

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12/30/07 at 7:19pm

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Oh you have it all worked out, that's great! Good luck.

I need to do an elimination diet myself. My newborn is reacting to something I'm eating and I can't figure it out.

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1/2/08 at 4:09pm

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post #13 of 17

1/3/08 at 3:38am

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The elimination diet is going well. My DS was a terror the first two days, but on day 3 he woke up bright eyed and bushy-tailed. I hope we'll be on the up and up. I am really wondering what his baseline will be, and how soon we will find it. We are on vacation, so we are having pajama days and I am doing lots of cooking and filling the freezer, so hopefully it won't be too hard once the kids go back to school. I have diverged from my meal plan a little already, but I still love having it. Tonight I made a huge pot of curried coconut squash. It was yummy! I need to plan next week and school lunches and snacks, any suggestions anyone?

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1/3/08 at 12:54pm

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I just posted my menu plan on my blog http://rachelscooking.blogspot.com/2...ary-menu.html- but I do it by the month and don't have a template. I like wife&mommy's. I like to post my menu on my fridge-- so the kids stop asking what's for dinner.

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Oh you have it all worked out, that's great! Good luck.

I need to do an elimination diet myself. My newborn is reacting to something I'm eating and I can't figure it out.

OK- a bit OT, but my kids reacted to any tomato stuff I had- that only lasted the first 2 months or so and then I could eat it again. But it was tough the weeks after she was born when people would bring meals-- spaghetti, pizza and lasagna!! I think it was the acid of it.

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1/3/08 at 4:19pm