Recipes for "multiple allergies"

amblight
amblight Posts: 350 Member
I'm trying to help out my mom! She has histamine intolorance, which practically presents it self as an allergy to, well, um, everything (not just food, there are enviromental triggers as well, but lets narrow it down for now!). The symptoms are both instant and long term, and range from mild, like an 'asian flush' look and hives, to severe things like anaphylactic shock (aka. the allergy-reaction you die from) and inhabilitating migraines etc.

The good news are, that she can have some of the things, but she has a limit, where if she goes over, she'll have her short terms symptoms, though the more days she can stay way low on histamine, the milder her long term symptoms will be.

This means that on days where she knows she'll have something on her 'no no'-list (for instance, if she is going to have a glass of wine for dinner etc.) she is stuck with very few food items she can eat during the day, so few that it's hard to put together a recipe.

And this is where this post comes in! Maybe someone can think of something? Here is the 'high histamine food'-list:

Any type of sourdough. Whole grains.
Ripened cheeses, sour milk cheeses, butter milk, sour creme, youghurt, cottage cheese, other sour dairy products. Egg whites.
Pickled fruit and veggies. Tomatos in any form. Spinach, soy, sprouts, banana, strawberry, pinapple, any nuts (and NEVER wallnuts or cashews)
Any kind of organs. Trout, salmon, mackerel, tuna, herring, sardin, lobster, shrimp, crab, oysters, molluscs. Any sausge (NEVER the fermented kinds), meat patés, mayo-salads (like egg-salad, chicken salad etc.), smoked meat, canned meats, salted or marinated meats (like, those that are salted or pickled to preserve them).
Dressings, spiced sauces and marinades. Processed soups and sauces (canned or powder), pudding powders. Chocolate, cocoa powder, nougat and marcipan, vinigar.
Any beer. Any wine. Any hard (especially dark) liquour. Juice.

^ There are more, but these are the major. Basically, anything sour and fermented, or preserved (so that's why so many processed things are out) probably has a lot of histamine, and thus should be avoided.

Any tips for recipes? :)

Replies

  • amblight
    amblight Posts: 350 Member
    bump
  • waipepe
    waipepe Posts: 110 Member
    I would look up clean eating recipes and eliminate the ingredients she can't have and replace with others.

    Can she have goat cheese, goat milk, goat yoghurt? as that is not diary.

    I eat chocolate but it has to be the 85% cacao and organic.
  • amblight
    amblight Posts: 350 Member
    She already eats like what most people consider clean eating... There is no tradition for buying precooked meals or fast food really in our country, and she is especially all about home cooking - I would say the only thing she eats that has been prepared before buying is some of the bread, some of the dairy products, pasta, and if she has some sweets.

    Goats dairy is still dairy ;) And it's the same 'rules' for that, if it's a soured or ripened product, she can't have it.

    It's in the cacao that the histamine comes from (and is intensified through the refining), so the higher quality (through conching) and higher % the worse it is for her.