What I Ate While Eliminating Dairy, Wheat, Eggs, Nuts & Soy for Two Weeks
What I Ate While Eliminating Dairy, Gluten, Egg, Nut & Soy…
As some of you may be aware, my newborn, Jordyn, was extremely fussy and uncomfortable for about the first 8 weeks of her life. After several visits to her pediatrician and lots of my own research I still couldn’t figure out what was bothering her. She was screaming most of the day every day and it was heartbreaking to watch. I finally decided to take her to a GI specialist (gastrointestinal doctor). Since Jordyn was and is still exclusively breastfed, he recommended that I cut out some top allergens for a two week period. The foods that I completely removed from my diet for two weeks were dairy, wheat, eggs, nuts and soy. I didn’t think it was going to be easy, but found it to be simpler than I thought. After all that I truly don’t think any of those foods were bothering here and she kind of just ‘snapped out’ of her crying fits at around 9 weeks old. Anyway, many of you wanted to know what the heck I found to eat while cutting out dairy, wheat, eggs, nuts and soy since it seems many of you have allergies or intolerances to one or more of these.
DAIRY-FREE & NUT-FREE MILKS:
- Pumpkin seed milk
- Oat milk
- Flax milk
- Hemp milk
- Sunflower Seed Milk
NUT BUTTER ALTERNATIVES:
- Coconut milk yogurt – my favorites are The Coconut Cult, Anita’s and CoYo.
EGG ALTERNATIVE (to be used in baking):
- Flax egg (combine 1 tbsp ground flaxseed with 3 tbsp water for 10 min)
- Chia egg (combine 1 tbsp ground chia seed with 3 tbsp water for 10 min)
- Hilary’s Eat Well Veggie Burgers & Breakfast Sausages
- Simple Mills Seed Crackers
- Rhythm Superfoods Kale Chips
- Siete chips & coconut tortilla
- One Degree Organics Granola
- Living Intentions Superfood Cereal
- Primal Kitchen Foods Salad Dressings
- Harmless Harvest Coconut Water
- Enjoy Life Foods (loveeee their chocolate chips)!
- Simple Kneads gluten-free bread
- Apple with sunflower seed butter
- Celery & carrots with hummus
- Siete chips with guacamole
- Berries
- Sweet potato with melted coconut butter and cinnamon
- Smoothie: 1 cup coconut milk, 1 frozen banana, handful spinach, 1 tsp ground flax, cinnamon & coconut butter
- Oatmeal: 1/2 cup oats, 1 tsp ground flax, cinnamon, 1/2 mashed banana & 1 cup coconut milk topped with sunflower seed butter and berries
- Chia pudding: 3 tbsp chia seeds, cinnamon, 1/2 mashed banana & 1 cup coconut milk topped with granola & sunflower seed butter
- Pancakes: 1/2 cup applesauce, 1 flax egg, 2 tbsp coconut flour, cinnamon, 1/4 tsp baking powder, splash of water
- Coconut milk yogurt with granola, sunflower seed butter and berries (honey drizzle)
- Avocado toast on Simple Kneads gluten free bread
- Salad with grilled chicken or wild salmon and lots of veggies
- Hilary’s Eat Well veggie burger over a salad with avocado
- Gluten-free bread with hummus, turkey, cucumber, spinach & avocado
- Organic ground turkey, sweet potato, brown rice & avocado
- Salmon with brown rice and broccoli
- Brown rice pasta with dairy-free pumpkin seed pesto, butternut squash, zucchini & organic chicken sausage
- Grilled chicken with sweet potato & veggies + side salad (romaine with cucumber & tomato)
I just wanted to point out for any of your followers who cut out the foods you mentioned in an attempt to determine any food allergies that coconut mimics several tree nuts. Therefore it should be eliminated as well until tree nuts are found NOT to be an allergy. I discovered this the hard way and hope to save others from the problems I suffered.
I’m glad your daughter is doing well.