Rotation diet help

[Rachel J.]

I'm getting ready to start a rotation diet (actually started already, even though my mom suggested getting everything in order first per her experience years ago) and need some help figuring out how to figure things out I am wondering if there are any really helpful resources out there, either internet (preferably) or books (or other if there is an other). Also recipes that you use; I'm struggling to find recipes that have limited ingredients, especially bread-type foods (all I want is a simple, one grain that's gluten free, flat bread recipe). Okay, I haven't eaten yet today and this has taken me about 10 min. to type because I'm not thinking straight so I'm guessing that's a sign that I'd better eat something, even if it's out of rotation

[changingseasons]

The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook is a great one- it even has recipes with ingredients in matching food families so that you can use them on a rotation.

There are some good recipes in the Recipe sticky at the top of the forum too.

[kjbrown92]

I have recipes on my blog (and I also put them in the recipes sticky at the top of this page). The recipes on my blog can be sorted by allergen.

If you search "calgary food families" on google, it gives you a list of the foods in each food family. I could give you my rotation that ALCAT made for DS or DD! I made a buckwheat flatbread the other day. It would have been really good with hummus, but I'd have to make it myself, since DD can't have the sesame tahini part and I wasn't that energetic since I'd just made soup (I made a really good acorn squash and carrot soup that night too). Give me the foods on your rotation, and I'll try to help you.

[Rachel J.]

Originally Posted by kjbrown92

I have recipes on my blog (and I also put them in the recipes sticky at the top of this page). The recipes on my blog can be sorted by allergen.

If you search "calgary food families" on google, it gives you a list of the foods in each food family. I could give you my rotation that ALCAT made for DS or DD! I made a buckwheat flatbread the other day. It would have been really good with hummus, but I'd have to make it myself, since DD can't have the sesame tahini part and I wasn't that energetic since I'd just made soup (I made a really good acorn squash and carrot soup that night too). Give me the foods on your rotation, and I'll try to help you.

Thank you! I checked some recipes out on your blog last night and it looks very promising (once I get some sort of system down ) The foods list is very helpful, more thorough than the other one I found. I'd love to see your rotations. That would give me a great starting point and if necessary, I could adjust to my personal needs.

I found an Indian recipe for fried millet flatbread that I'm going to try tomorrow (I have it soaking in a bit of water kefir overnight). If it works well then I can try other gf grains easily. I've done plenty of gf/cf/ef baking and got pretty good at it but now I can't have potato starch/rice flour/sorghum/tapioca all at once or I'll end up with nothing else to eat the rest of the week

The foods I'm not eating right now are gluten grains, eggs, dairy (ghee is okay), peanuts, and chocolate : (all things that I've eaten way too much of at various times). Otherwise I'm wide open and will eat almost anything. Tomorrow may be pork day for me and I'm thinking pork liver pate : My other proteins are beef, chicken (questionable because I can't find any really good pastured chicken), pork, salmon, nuts, maybe lamb, goat and rabbit. I've been overdoing the coconut as my dairy replacement (yogurt, ice cream, cream and lots of oil).

Thanks so much for the help. I didn't eat today until after 2pm because I was too busy in the morning to figure out what I could eat and prepare it and then I was too tired and hungry (seasonal allergies acting up and making me extra tired) to figure out what to eat.

Another question while I'm thinking about it, what do people do about supplements? I'm on a bunch of supplements and while I could stop some of them for a little while, I won't be able to function without the others (mainly my mulitvitamin which is a liquid without any of the typical allergens but does have a lot of food based concentrates, and magnesium).

[kjbrown92]

I use Vital Nutrients for supplements. They don't have any of our allergens in them. Send me a PM with your email and I'll send you our rotation (it's on an excel spreadsheet). We do corn one day (DS only), millet the next day, tapioca and sweet potato the next day, and buckwheat on the fourth day. I do use baking powder in some things on the non-tapioca day (my baking powder is tapioca starch, baking soda, and cream of tartar). I don't use rice alot because DS can't have it, and he can't have white potato either, so we can't use the standard gluten-free stuff. The light buckwheat flour I found is awesome. I like it so much better texture-wise than the darker stuff. I get my pastured chickens (and beef and pork) from www.paidom.com. They send the stuff frozen, and it's a better price than I can get locally. And it tastes really good. I got some pastured beef from our state, and it was very gamey. The other stuff I've seen is too expensive.

[Rachel J.]

Pm'd ya! I just checked out my multi-vitamin and found that it has concentrates of broccoli, tomato, and a myriad of various veggies and fruits. I'm not sure what to do. When I stop taking it I feel like death warmed over. I can actually function when I do take it.


I checked out the pastured meat site. Looks really good, I may have to go with it if my search here turns up nothing. I think I might be able to find it for cheaper but I'm not having luck getting in touch with the farmer so far. Interesting about the gamey meat. We get pastured beef and it's not gamey at all but when we were initially looking into it some of the beef we tried did taste a bit like "grass." I wonder if you could try another source if you can find it? Ours is about $3/lb based on hanging weight so it's pretty reasonable.

Do you guys do sorghum, amaranth, teff, or quinoa? Those are some of my favorite non-gf grains. I just read something about millet being very high in goiterogens which mess with the thyroid. Countries that eat lots of millet have higher incidents of gout. Anyway, since my digestion is less than ideal and I have other options that I prefer I think I may limit my intake.

Thanks again for your help.

[kjbrown92]

Great and of course we've been using millet. And I have at least a multi-nodular goiter (diagnosed last year) and I'm going to see an endocrinologist in a couple weeks to get my thyroid checked out because of all the other stuff going on. How do you find out which foods are like that?

The cheapest meat I found around here was $7/lb for the cheapest cut (ground beef) and I tried it in chili and stew and things where the taste wouldn't be as pronounced and it was VERY gamey. Very tough. I didn't like the taste at all. Paidom meats was very good and even with the shipping, it was cheaper than anything I can find around here. A lot of the pork here has additives in it (like sodium lactate and misc. other ingredients in their 12% solution) and I'm not comfortable with anything "lactate" with the issues we have. I used the ham hocks in some beans to make baked beans in the slow cooker and it was really good. DS had three helpings.

[Rachel J.]

Here's a link to the information on millet. I just stumbled upon it, I'm not even sure what I was looking for initially that lead me to it- too many rabbit trails to follow on the internet. That's why I can sit here all day long and still don't usually have what I came for!

If I end up buying from Paidom (and I will if I can't find anything locally) I'm very tempted to try their bratwurst. Those are a comparable price to the yucky standard ones.

Thanks again for the rotations. It will be a huge help for me to have so much already in place and tweak it as needed.

BTW, where do you get your light buckwheat flour?