Hi,
I wouldn't say I have added foods, I still don't eat all the no go foods such as grains pulses potatoes etc. I may have forgotten something but this is my food list.
Fruits I eat mostly apples and berries as many tropical fruits test starchy here, occasional figs, kiwis, grapes. Dates dried cranberries and raisins, avocado. Sometimes dried prunes (great pudding recipe) and apricots.
Most greens lettuce watercress spinach etc, cucumber, celery (mostly in juices), occasional peppers, tomatoes (avoid cooked where I can). Ginger, parsley and fennel in juices. Fennel in juices purely because not got round to adding to my one recipe I know using cooked.
Broccoli and alfalfa sprouted seeds.
Veg: Lots of onions and garlic, broccoli, sprouts, cabbage, courgette, leeks, kale in juices, occasional cauliflower, French green beans. Asparagus when in season. Carrots but only raw. Occasional mushrooms.
Occasional cheese rarely dairy
Lots of eggs
Salmon and smoked salmon, sardines in olive oil, chicken, lamb and occasional beef and venison and bacon. I use homemade stock/bone broth in soups etc.
Sometimes honey on 'bread' and yeast extract yum.
Mustard (starch free) hemp and olive oil, coconut oil and homemade ghee for cooking.
Herbal teas: camomile, green tea with lemon and peppermint.
If I am having wine it is only Chardonnay or Pinot Noir for the klebs effect!
The stuff I shouldn't eat too much of but have a hard time not! Most of it is used in baked stuff eg 'bread' and dehydrated crackers.
Almonds, macadamia, walnuts, pistachios, some brazil nuts occasional cashew nuts (love salted cashews). Sesame seeds, hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, occasional sunflower seeds.
Coconut flour in baking and coconut cream if I make a chocolate ganache.
Last but not least chocolate usually Green and Blacks organic when its on offer mostly plain sometimes milk chocolate and lately Montezumas dark cooking couverture chocolate (I know, desperate but it has no soya in it).
My sweet tooth is my downfall I find if I have something sweet I need MORE. I am trying to keep my sugar consumption down....
I have mostly no pain my eyes bother me the most nothing significant just not quite right between spells of feeling 'at peace'. I rarely flare now if I do its my SI joint and that lasts a day at most.
I can get away with the occasional curry, chicken cham cham and saag paneer yum, from our local who use no starch thickeners cooked fresh (though the spices are starchy).
I am in a minor flare (compared to how I used to be) at the moment due to going to a dinner party Sat eve and being polite eating a tiny bit of soup that had a vegetable stock cube in (most likely rice flour) and stew that had flour in. I had told them what I couldn't eat but you know how it is hard enough to get the hang when you are doing it never mind someone who doesn't understand.
My current flare started with fatigue then my back started up and was on fire in the night/Tues morning. That has calmed down but yesterday was in my upper back/ribs that is now easing but I am now monitoring my eye for signs of iritis it was feeling 'off' this morning.
I must add that I have never really managed to do a proper elimination diet no will power and am not good at keeping a food diary when I am good I forget and its shuttin the door after the horse has bolted to do it when I am feeling bad!
Sorry this is so long but I hope it helps.
x
Last edited by Grumpyally; 10/11/13 08:56 AM.
