Here is a link to a site on the web with recipes you can adapt: Specific Carbohydrate Diet Recipes

Before the site changed over to this format John (Dragonslayer) used to have a list of foods in 3 categories that one could print out, good stuff, neutral stuff, and bad-for-you stuff, that one could print out and use as a guideline. While it wasn't perfect(everybody has something they avoid that others eat with impunity) it at least gave one an idea of what could be eaten.


I am going to do a real shortened copy of this now:

avoid:
regular wheat bread and baked pastries, biscuits, crackers
All products made with grain such as wheat,rye, barley, which contain gluten
malto dextrin
modified food starch, corn starch
corn
potatoes
dried beans*, lentils*, plain rice*
very starchy nuts such as peanuts
processed sausage, luncheon meat or processed cheese or yoghurt which contain starches (read labels)
melted "butter" in restaurants, which frequently has things added to it that will make you feel sick later.
most commercial salad dressings (read the labels)
soy sauce UNLESS it is label "wheat-free tamari"

neutral sorts of foods

fresh, raw fruits
fresh raw vegetables, if it's green, it's usually good
non starchy nuts such as almonds, filberts, pecans, walnuts,pistachios
yams (less starchy than white potatoes)
eggs
yoghurt**
dry aged cheeses**
real mayonaise made WITHOUT STARCH
corn syrup
tofu
honey
coffee, tea (make it yourself ! some flavored coffees and some instant teas CAN contain wheat or other starch byproducts)
chocolate (read the label...)
butter
olive oil
chicken, beef, fish
mushrooms
olives
pumpkins
melons
artificial sweetener sacharrin (pink packet) watch out, some others contain starch, read the label)


good stuff:

raw vegetable juice
citrus juice if non pulpy
grapes, raisins, figs, prunes, dried unsulpered pineapple, currants
almonds
watercress, parsley, cilantro
oil cured olives
real apple cider vinegar made from real apples
okra
blueberries, cranberries (dark berries very good)
fresh ripe tomatoes
celery
lettuce
seaweeds
carrots
bean sprouts
artichokes
cherries
gelatin
garlic
olive oil
pomegranites
rhubarb
chard, endive
mint
papaya
squash
raspberries
ripe persimmons
mustard greens, spinach, turnip greens
wheatgrass juice


*dried beans, lentils
If you are going to eat these anyway, cook by bringing to a boil, pouring off the water, and adding more water to get rid of a lot of the starch. This is an iffy category for some people. Rice was NOT on the original list, I added it. A few of us added rice back in sometimes with variable results. Rice does not contain gluten but is starchy. If you are going to blow it, use rice and do less damage, but DON'T fry it.

**dairy products such as yoghurt and aged cheeses which have had the lactose aged out of them...your results and tolerance may vary. Some commercial yoghurts put dried milk powder in as thickener after processing, which has lactose, which sets some people off. Some processed cheeses are really funky. Be careful.

These lists are not complete and may be controversial, they are only meant as a general guideline in thinking about one's grocery shopping list. I have added a few things in like beef. I realize the rice/bean thing is almost heresy but it is based on my own reactions only after being extremely strict for a long time.

I hate *&^%$#$%&*( modified food starch.