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<div>Originally Posted by <strong>OtherMother'n'Madre</strong> <a href="/community/forum/post/7938535"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/community/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style="border:0px solid;"></a></div>
<div style="font-style:italic;"><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/smile.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="smile"> Like I said, it's tough and we don't actually follow the diet but use it more as a guideline. The two main things we noticed in regards to trigger foods is how they are cooked and if they are organic. DH has a hard time with pastas due to his blood sugar issues. It's been an uphill battle finding one we can use. For some reason, he doesn't react to organic brands of simple pastas. When I say simple, they need to be ONE grain or veggie based (like a spinach noodle). He can't handle a multigrain style noodle as well as a simple egg noodle for instance. I think, in terms of pasta at least, the fact that there are so many less preservatives and crap for his body to break down in an organic one that he can digest and break down the trigger easier. It doesn't have a chance to sit and ferment in his blood stream/gut.<br><br>
The other thing is how the veggies are cooked. The thing to remember is cooking activates certain properties of foods that can be less than desireable to our bodies. The failsafe diet explains it pretty well. For instance meat (since none of us here eat it <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol">), the older it gets the more amines it naturally produces (a compound of amonia). ok that's fine since it's naturally occuring but add in cooking and those compounds shoot through the roof. Especially if you cook it to health standards and chose at least a medium rare. That's when they become a problem for the body. It's an overdose and since the body can't handle that plus other things you get trace amounts floating around causing issues. The veggies we thought we triggers were actually being cooked wrong. We either eat them raw or we stir fry them. We don't add in extra juices/liquids. We don't boil anymore. Everything gets stir fried and then added to whatever...even the veggies that go into salads or casseroles. He has had fewer reactions to foods done in that manner than we thought possible.<br><br>
Soy is a toss up in our house. DH really can't handle it but we have found that there are times he can. We still have yet to find out what changes it up for him but one thing we do know is how it's cooked (again!) and the firmness of it. He can't have soft but he can have extra firm. Oddly enough when it comes to dairy the harder it is the easier his body handles it. Conincidence? Possibly. Who knows? Soy is eliminated for the most part in our diet right now. We have no problem doing veggie burgers and tofu but as of right now they cause reactions in him. Switching from an omni diet to veggie there is going to be a detox. We are hoping that here in a few months when the body is on track with the diet we can start introducing more and more trigger foods. So far we have found a pasta that works. That's it. Every thing else is still in que. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/lol.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="lol"></div>
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Wow! I found it hard when I did it and I was omni!! I suspect I have an amine intolerance but given that I have IBS the diet didn't make enough of a difference to it for me to bother (or for me to be able to pinpoint really). I have too many symptoms that aren't food related! I do know though that banana's and avocados give me an itchy mouth and throat and a big belly ache after I eat them and when I was omni I loved tuna sandwiches but also ended up with a big belly ache for hours afterwards. Chocolate burns my throat instantly (no matter what kind but I can handle a little bit of cocoa powder) and then causes washing machine belly. Soy I only picked up on cause I went dairy free for a few months a couple of years back (separate to the diet) and drinking soy milk had me on the loo the next day without fail. Every time I stopped drinking it the toilet visits would slow down and then when I had it again back to the toilet. It only took about 1/2 a cup a day too. I can handle a teeny bit of tofu (like a couple of squares, nothing worth bothering to cook and it gets me all washing machine belly again) and a teeny bit of tempeh (that one seemed to go down okay but I only had a tiny amount) and soy sauce and stuff doesn't bother me. I could never drink it though or eat an entire meal cooked with tofu and I only experiment with it about once a month if that <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/greensad.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="greensad"> Too bad cause I love soy!!<br><br>
Hmmm wondering if your hubby can handle firm dairy but not wet is it possible to just be a lactose intolerance with that one? I know that as cheeses etc harden they have less lactose than something like ricotta? Although yoghurt is different again I guess.<br><br>
Good luck with the diet and figuring out what his triggers are! I hope you have better luck than I did <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.mothering.com/discussions/images/smilies/smile.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="smile">
WRT pulses - a lot of people do find that they cannot eat them cooked, but that they are fine with sprouted pulses in the 'raw' way. There are a couple of things on your list that I'm intrigued to see there - jicama is not considered a pulse or a tree nut here in the UK, neither does red clover fall into these categories. Alfalfa is a seed, not a treenut, that is eaten sprouted here. Lecithin can be derived from many sources, and whilst legumes (usually soya for commercial reasons) are one of those, most used here (UK) comes from sunflower seeds, or from oil seed rape. I'm also a little suprised to see liquorice on your list - sticks and root is the main source for this, its not considered a legume/pulse, or a treenut or nut.. Think my head is <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/img/vbsmilies/smilies/dizzy.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Dizzy">:<br><br><br>
