Recipe Ideas for a VERY Restricted Diet

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  • Cutemesoon
    Cutemesoon Posts: 2,646 Member
    Athijade wrote: »
    "If you can't have soy, then look into coconut aminos."
    I use it all the time.

    "I know what it is like to be heavily restricted when it comes to what you can eat."
    So you feel my pain.

    "I even have a decent no tomato chili recipe I use." I've seen recipes that feature carrots and beets to make tomato-less sauce. What's ur recipe?

    "Stay strong. You can do this. You may want to talk to your doctor about speaking to a professional who can help guide you."
    Thanks for the suggestions!

  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Both salmon and Chicken are quite receptive to a wide variety of flavors and seasonings. So learn about herbs, spices, etc, Don't forget about ground chicken. I rarely use flour or sugar in cooking. Use corn oil for your oil.
  • Semele0
    Semele0 Posts: 114 Member
    You may feel less overwelmed by listing everything that you CAN eat. It may also help you find new combination and recipes. If I were you I would list things I can eat and search the web and then write down various way in which you can cook them, and combine them.
    Also ask you doctor if there are other things you can eat, like salmon yes but other fishes no? Seems odd because there are many fishes that are easy to digest. In many recipes you can simply take out the ingredient you cannot eat, for example many good things with tomato are still good without. Then experiment with things you are not used to eat that are in the list of allowed foods, with time you will learn new ways to eat them.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Semele0 wrote: »
    You may feel less overwelmed by listing everything that you CAN eat. It may also help you find new combination and recipes. If I were you I would list things I can eat and search the web and then write down various way in which you can cook them, and combine them.

    This is my suggestion too.

    Well, first, I'd talk to an RD, as others suggested.

    But beyond that, I'd write down everything you can eat, maybe in different categories: protein sources (the meat, plus whatever else, such as beans, eggs, dairy), starchy veg (potatoes, oats, etc.), non starchy veg (whatever you can eat, including those things that you just have to limit), fruit, fat sources, so on.

    Then look for recipes including those ingredients or just combine them in different ways. I rarely use recipes, personally.

    If you really are limited to chicken and salmon (that sounds weird to me too, why not turkey, game hen, duck, trout, arctic char), there are still lots of different ways to cook them (use different parts of the chicken), and they will seem different with different sides. Thinking of it in terms of what you CAN work with rather than what you can't is helpful.

    I have no dietary issues, but during much of the year I get a farm box and try to use that as my veg for the week (it also might have things like potatoes or sweet potatoes or corn, depending on the date), and I also pick out meats to defrost and use those when they are ready, so I also basically cook from the ingredients I have on hand, and there are still lots of options. You could see yourself as doing something similar, just with less variation in the ingredients overall.

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