xaviersmum

gluten and casein free diets

Posted on 06/24/08, 11:08 pm

I'd love to know from other parents who have trailed this diet and how they went. It seems huge when I look at it, and would love some help at how to start it, even recipes!

• Reply #1 06/25/08  3:23am
  
  BobbiF
  My daughter was on it for a little over 3 years. That is how long it took to heal her intestines. (leaky)
  
  It does seem huge at first. I ended up going vegan because of it. My advice is to get the whole family on it. It is too hard if it is still in the house. Some one could leave out a cracker and it's all over. Also it can cost a lot of money if you buy all the pre made stuff, but if you make it your self you may finde (I found) that you spend less.
  
  What does your family like to eat? I love to share recipes.
• Reply #2 07/16/08  12:36pm
  
  PWSMom
  We started by going off of wheat. No bread and cereal and crackers and anything else with wheat. It sounds really hard, but we adjusted fairly quickly. Some examples of meals and snacks.
  
  Breakfast: eggs, fruit, bacon
  Snacks: fruit, nuts (esp. almonds and walnuts), celery with almond butter
  Lunch: soup, chicken salad, turkey rolls without bread
  Dinner: protein (chicken or fish or steak or whatever), vegetable (greens or salad or broccoli or whatever), fruit
  
  We find it to be a very healthy and nutritionally rich way to eat. We don't eat grains or potatoes (specific carbohydrate diet). If you eat other grains and potatoes, you can also add in rice and your potato of choice. Plus you can eat corn!
  
  And, the good news for moms is that you can really lose weight this way and keep your energy up. Summer is a good time to make the transition because there are so many yummy fruits and vegetables.
• Reply #3 07/24/08  12:39am
  
  Reneefriend
  I have been very interested in at least trying this. Thank you for the sample menus!
• Reply #4 07/29/08  11:45am
  
  momma75
  my ? is does the cost go up when u do this fresh fruits and veggies r getting expensive any suggestions....concerned mom
• Reply #5 07/29/08  6:55pm
  
  BobbiF
  You know Momma, I have found that if I cook the food from scratch, the cost goes way down. In the summer I grow alot of the food so I spend almost nothing.
  
  It does take some planning, but I know you can do it.
• Reply #6 07/30/08  3:13pm
  
  momma75
  well i live in an apt so i really could not grow i wonder if it could be grown in pots i have a big patio what u think?
• Reply #7 07/30/08  9:07pm
  
  BobbiF
  I think a patio would work really well.
• Reply #8 08/01/08  6:41pm
  
  79pounds
  does it work? i know either jenny mc cartney or jaime presley (i don't recall which one) swears by this. her son is in regular school now. she says the key is to strictly doit and do it while they are growing preferably under the age of five because it is an allergy and because of brain development. they are also doing a study on television adding to onset of this...i'll post something.
• Reply #9 08/01/08  6:44pm
  
  momma75
  it was jennie tv could play a role????????????
• Reply #10 08/01/08  10:43pm
  
  jordanc
  I took my son off dairy first. I remember it was the Friday after Thanksgiving last year. When we returned him to daycare the following Monday, our daycare provider asked what we had done with Harrison. It took a little longer to transition Harrison to gluten-free. The book I will swear by is Lisa Lewis' "Special Diets for Special Kids" and "Special Diets for Special Kids Two". They have many, many recipes, and the first book hs lots of information about how to implement the diet and the science behind the diet. There are also tons of online resources about the gfcf diet. All you need to do is google "gfcf diet", and you should get many resources. One thing you need to be careful of is not giving him too much of any certain type of food. I found it too easy to give Harrison many things made with rice, such as rice pasta, rice milk, rice-based cereals, etc. He now has a slight intolerance to rice, and we have had to cut back on the rice a little. Rotating different foods within the gfcf diet is probably a good idea.

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