Intolerances and tracking them

What sort of food do you usually eat for each meal? Then people can suggest substitutions or other ideas that might appeal.

You're probably best off ignoring the aisles for baked goods and sauces.

If you don't usually cook from scratch, frozen vegetables are good to keep in stock. Usually they have no additives, they're easy to cook as the prep is all done, and they're diet friendly. And a decent spice rack helps. With those things to hand, and maybe a little fresh meat, you're never more than a few minutes from a soup, a stir-fry, a roast dinner, etc.

You have my sympathy. I react to casein -milk products. Almonds, I love marzipan on my cakes! Soy, and navy beans, took me ages to discover they are those used in baked beans! When you add salicylate intolerance - many plants, fruits and veg use this to protect themselves from moulds and mildews and it crosses over into paraben which can be used as preservative which does not have to be itemised on the ingredients list. I almost forgot, paraben gets added to laundry/cleaning products, perfumes and cosmetics/personal hygiene items! My other thing is histamine intolerance. Its like hay fever ish but when foods have been prepared for a while they give off histamine, meats hung for longer also is high in histamine. I'm sorry following your hop connection and realise you may have stunted "lads nights out", most beers use hops. Intolerances really cross things out of one's live.

I will be shot down with piles of woo's for this. I've made great progress by improving my digestive biome. I lived on rounds and rounds of antibiotics which deplete the species one should naturally have and benefit the strains which like sugar. There are some products which do not encourage Histamine growth it may be useful to do an on line search when i started there was only one product now there are several.

Dealing with your glutein issues. Avoiding Wheat can be an eye opener. There are many glutein free products available these days. Even take notice of the words, produced in a factory where wheat and other things are used. Depending on how reactive you are it can take several weeks if not months to achieve true relief from this one. For those who are really reactive it can take a year or there abouts and any slip will set them back in their conditon. I hope you will feel real benefits very soon, but still expect a month. Oats should be gluten free but if they are rolled in a building with wheat the can be contaminated.

I suggest you look to the foods/meals you prefer to use and go through those ingredients with a fine tooth come.

I'm not sure if you would benefit from digestive enzymes. These are available in healthfood stores. They can come in single or multipul enzyme groupings to cover anything from eggs to dairy to other food groups like proteins and things. I have some to help digest the salicylate, they were designed for autistic children requested by parents who feared their children loosing out on vitamins.

I promise you, it may feel like the end of the world at the moment, it will not be. You will become accustomed to the foods you are able to use, it will be second nature. The best part is you will feel more comfortable in yourself the excess weight will respond to your consideration of your bodies needs.

Take care. Know you are not alone, there are an increasing number of us with dietary issues. The one thing we can be sure of, at least we know the cause of your issues others are yet to discover theirs. I'm saddened it can be so difficult to discover what is going on.