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Food Allergies
What to eat when you have a limited diet

Milk-protein (Casienate) allergy:
Milk protein is in almost everything and many people can have an intolerance to it and not even know. About 4 years ago, I went off of all milk protein products for about a month and noticed a big improvement in symptoms.

Gluten-Free:
When I saw a nutritionist, I was put on a gluten-free diet. This is incredibly restricting. Pretty much everything I eat is made with RICE, its rice pasta, rice bread, normal rice, rice dream "milk", I mean its kinda funny, everything is rice!! What I found that I really like, it stir-fry vegetables with like peppers, onions, carrots, and other vegetables, mixed in with brown and white rice, that's always good. I also found a great cereal, its called Rice Twice.

I bought most of my food at Fresh Fields. They sell dozens of products labeled specifically for people with restricted diets.

Suggestions about what to eat on a milk-protein free diet

* Rice Dream vanilla milk----This is good on cereal, and also for baking, when milk is needed as an ingredient. Sometimes cakes and other things that you can make might indicate that they have milk in them, when really those milk ingredients are things that you are adding. If you can add a substitute, that's great. But it's a good idea to make sure to check with the company first.

* Italian Ice----Ohh...one of my favorites. Get any flavor. it's just ice and flavoring...great for desert or to eat on a hot summer day

* Soy Dream Ice-Cream----Tastes almost exactly like the real stuff. The best flavors are mint chocolate chip and vanilla.

* Wonder bread----Good to use for sandwhiches. Lots of bread is made with milk ingredients. This isn't

* Bagels----Not made with milk, so eat away!

The below information came from Rebecca Moore, Co-Founder of the Pediatric Network for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Orthostatic Intolerance:

Some of my favorite stores for special diet groceries are:
* The Gluten Free Pantry
* Gluten Solutions
* The Soy Free Chocolate Company
* Miss Roben's
* Gluten-Free Website (Suggested By Ashley)
* I've also been wanting to check out Enjoy Life Foods a new company whose foods are all hypoallergenic and most of which are yeast free.

Rebecca's Favorite Products (all free of gluten, dairy, soy, and citrus):

Flour and Baking Mixes
* Bette's Four Flour Blend, from Authentic Foods
* Pancake and Baking Mix, from Authentic Foods (The pancakes made from this mix are great, and with brown rice and bean flours, they're healthy, too)
* French Bread and Pizza Mix, from The Gluten Free Pantry

Baking Ingredients
* Bette's Four Flour Blend, from Authentic Foods
* POHA Rice Flakes (use them in mock granola and granola bars), from Miss Roben's
* Spectrum Organic Palm Oil Shortening, available at most health food stores and at Miss Roben's (it works well for pie crust)
* Ener-G Foods chocolate chunks
* Rapunzel Organics, Inc's Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bars

Desserts
* Rapunzel Organics, Inc's Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bars
* Pamela's Ginger Cookies and Peanutbutter Cookies
* Imagine Food's organic pudding (especially Banana)
* Spice Cake and Gingerbread Mix, from The Gluten-Free Pantry
* Old Fashioned Cake and Cookie Mix, from The Gluten-Free Pantry (make a chocolate cake by adding Hershey's cocoa and chopped Rapunzel chocolate bars)

Soups
* Taste Adventure's Sweet Corn Chowder, Curry Lentil Soup and Louisiana Red Bean Jambalaya
* Imagine Food's soups, especially Organic Creamy Potato, Organic Creamy Sweet Corn, and Organic Creamy Tomato

Pasta
* Tinkyada Pastas, especially their brown rice spaghetti and shells
* DeBole's Rice Lasagna Noodles

Bread and Snacks
* Ener-G Food's Seattle Brown Bread
* Food for Life's Almond Rice Bread and Pecan Rice Bread (keeps well in the freezer and tastes best toasted)
* Wasa Crispbread
* Holgrain Brown Rice Crackers
* Blue Diamond Almond or Hazelnut Nut Thins (Crackers)
* Brown Rice Cakes, from Lundberg Family Farms
* Sesame Blues Corn Chips
* Bearitos Taco Shells - organic yellow corn, no gluten or soybean oil
* Pepperoni or Salami from Boar's Head (most Boar's Head products are gluten-free)

Breakfast
* Health Valley's Blue Corn Flakes, Corn Crunch'ems, and Rice Crunch'ems
* Perky's Nutty Rice Crunchy Cereal
* Gorilla Munch (like Corn Pops)
* Bob's Red Mill Mighty Tasty Hot Cereal
* Orgran Muesli
* Louis Rich or Jennie-o brand turkey bacon
* Yu Organic Rice Beverage - Dark Chocolate (very good when added to coffee)
* Lundberg Drink Rice - Vanilla or Original

Gluten-free Supplements
* Freeda Vitamins -- A family owned company specializing in gluten-free, dairy-free supplements

Favorite Cookbooks
* Special Diet Celebrations - No Wheat, Gluten, Dairy or Eggs, by Carol Fenster, PhD
* Special Diet Solutions - Healthy Cooking Without Wheat, Gluten, Dairy, Eggs, Yeast, or Refined Sugar, by Carol Fenster, PhD
* Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home, by The Moosewood Collective
* The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Fast and Healthy, by Bette Hagman
* The Gluten-Free Gourmet Bakes Bread, by Bette Hagman
* The Gluten-Free Kitchen, by Roben Ryberg
* The Gluten-Free Gourmet, by Bette Hagman
* More from the Gluten-Free Gourmet, by Bette Hagman

Unexpected Sources of Gluten, Milk, and Soy

* Margarine (it’s almost impossible to find one that is free of both soybean oil and milk)
* Salad Dressing (check labels for soybean oil, milk, cheese, yogurt, and starch)
* Tomato Sauce (Check lavels for soybean oil or cheese)
* Tomato Paste (Some brands are thickened with flour)
* Home fries coated with flour or fried in the same oil as breaded items
* Tuna Fish (may be canned in soybean oil, or may be in broth with casseinates and soy protein)
* Cereals (Even rice-or corned based cereals are often sweetened with barley malt, which contains gluten.)
* Candy (soybean oil, caseinates, or a flou coating are often sweetened with barley malt, whch contains gluten)
* Rice Dream Products (barley is used in the processing)
* Soy or tamari Sauce (often contains wheat, obviously contains soy)
* Products advertised as "wheat free" (look for barley, oats, and rye)
* Chicken or Turkey marinated in a dressing that contains gluten or soy
* Taco Shells (soybean oil)
* Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Curries, and other spice mixes (check labels for flour or soy protein)
* Voullion cubes (usually hve gluten and/or soy)
* Vitamins and medications *gluten or soy in the capsules, lactose as a filler)
* Bread Crumbs (left in the jam or other condiments, from other knives and wheat bread)

Gluten is found in oats, rye, barley, wheat, spelt, kamut, and other varieties of wheat. I must avoid bread (white, whole wheat, oat, and rye), pasta, crackers, cereals, and baked deserts, but can substitute gluten-free versions of these items. Packaged foods such as soups, salad dressings, marinades, meats, and candies may contain gluten in various forms. See the list below, to know which terms to look for.

Ingredients to avoid on a Gluten-free Diet:

* Abyssinian Hard (Wheat Triticum duran)
* Alcohol
* Baking Soda and Powder
* Barley
* Barley Malt
* Beer
* Blue Cheese (made with bread)
* Bran
* Bread Crumbs
* Bread Flour
* Brown Flour
* Bulgar (Bulgar Wheat/Nuts)
* Calcium Caseinate (contains MSG)
* Caramel Color
* Cereal Binding
* Cereal Extract
* Chilton
* Citric Acid (made outside USA)
* Cracker Meal
* Couscous
* Dextrins
* Durum, Duram Wheat, Dural Flour
* Edible Starch
* Einkorn Wheat
* Enriched Flour
* Farina Graham
* Filler
* Flour (either white or whole wheat)
* Fu (dried wheat gluten)
* Gelatinized Starch
* Germ
* Glutamate (free)
* Gluten
* Gum (vegitable gum)
* Graham Flour
* Granary Flour
* Gravy Cubes
* Groats (barley, buckwheat or oats)
* Gum Base
* Hard Wheat
* High Gluten Flour
* High Protein Flour
* Hydrolyzed Plant Protein (HPP)
* Malt
* Kamut (pasta wheat)
* Hydrolized Vegitable Protein (HVP)
* Malt Extract
* Malt Syrup
* Malt Flavoring
* Malt Vinegar
* Miso
* Matzo Semolina
* Modified Food Starch (made outside USA)
* Modified Starch
* Mono and Diglycerides
* MSG (made outside USA)
* Mustard Powder
* Natural Flavoring
* Nuts, Wheat, Oats, Avena Stativa
* Pasta
* Pearl Barley
* Rice Malt (contains barley or Koji)
* Rye
* Scotch Whiskey
* Seitan
* Semolina Triticum
* Shoyu (soy sauce)
* Small Spelt
* Soba Noodles
* Sodium Caseinate (contains MSG)
* Soft Wheat Flour
* Soy Sauce
* Spirits
* Spelt Triticum Spelta
* Starch
* Stock Cubes
* Strong Flour
* Suet in packets
* Tabbouleh
* Teriyajo Sauce
* Triticale X Triticosecale
* Udone (wheat noodles)
* Vegitable Gum (may have oats)
* Vegitable Starch
* Vinegars (cider vinegar is OK)
* Vital Gluten
* Vitamins
* Wheat (Bran, Germ, Gluten, Malt, Starch)
* Wheat nuts
* Wheat, Abyssinian Hard
* Wheat, Bulgar
* Wheat Durum Triticum
* Wheat Triticum Mononoccum
* Wheat Starch
* Wheat Germ
* White Vinegar (problem for some)
* Whole-Meal Flour
* Whole Wheat Berries
* Whole Wheat Flour

Ingredients to Avoid on a milk protein free diet:

* Artificial butter flavor
* Butter, Butter Fat, Butter Oil
* Buttermilk
* Casein
* Rennet Casein
* Pudding
* Milk Chocolate
* Cheese
* Cream
* Custard
* Half and Half
* Sour Milk Solids
* Yogurt
* Curds
* Lactulose
* Ghee
* Cottage Cheese
* Lactoglobulin
* Nougat
* Lactalbumin, Lacalbumin Phosphate, Lactose, Milk (in any form)
* Whey (in all forms)
* Hydrolysates (Casein, Milk Protein, Protein, Whey, Whey Protein)
* Sour Cream, Sour Cream Solids
* Caseinates (Caseinate Ammonium, Caseinate Calcium, Caseinate Magnesium, Caseinate Potassium, Caseinate Sodium)

These ingedients MAY contain Milk Protein

* Flavorings (including caramel, bavarian cream, coconut cream, brown sugar, butter, and nation flavors. the only way to be sure is to contact the manufacturer.)
* Chocolate
* Margarine
* Simplesse
* A "D" on a label next to a "K" or "U" in a circle may indicate the presence of milk protein.

Ingredients to Avoid on a Soy-Free Diet

* Hydrolyzed Vegitable Protein
* Miso
* Soy
* Soybeans
* Soybean Oil
* Soy Cheese
* Soy Milk
* Soy Protein
* Soy Sauce
* Tamari
* Tofu
* Seitan
* Tempe

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