Special Diets

Find out about intolerance’s, food and chemical sensitivity including Candida, Fructose Malabsorption and Amine and Salicylate sensitivity.

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Gluten Free Quinoa Bread

Gluten Free Quinoa Bread is the perfect snack or accompaniment with any meal. Great served with cultured veggies, pesto or with an egg scramble,...
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Poached Chicken 3 Ways

Here’s a really efficient way of cooking chicken for the week. Recently when I needed to rework our menu to accommodate low fodmap, fructose...
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Coconut Crisp

This delightful recipe is only made with 3 ingredients and I'm sure will satisfy any sugar craving. They look like an Anzac biscuit and...
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Coconuts and Salicylate Sensitivity

When I recently found out that my daughter had food sensitivities I was not thinking about coconuts. My family has been reaping the benefits...
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Parsley Cashew Pesto

Since starting a low salicylate diet with my daughter I've had to abandon all the usual "go to's" to make snacks and condiments. Before...
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Flax and Chia Seed Crackers

The one thing that's always missing in an elimination diet is crunch. Take away the toast, the nuts and often the rice or corn...
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11 Tips for starting an Elimination Diet

You have just been given the diagnosis and now you hear those 2 little words that everyone dreads. "Elimination Diet" What does it mean,...
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In The Land of Fodmap, Fructose Malabsorption, Amines and Salicylates –...

This post is part of a 3 part series on food intolerances and sensitives. This all came about after my daughter was diagnosed with...
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The Land of Fodmap, Fructose Malabsorption, Amines and Salicylates – Part...

  Last week I started a series of posts about fodmaps, fructose malabsorption, amines and salicylates where I talked about fodmap foods. And my daughter...

In the Land of Fodmap, Fructose Malabsorption, Amines and Salicylates

Well my posts have been few and far between over the last few months and while I’d like to say it’s because I’ve been...