What to Eat When You Can't Eat Anything: The Complete Allergy Cookbook - Softcover

Sweetman, Chupi; Sweetman, Luke; Sweetman, Rosita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0717136469 ISBN 13: 9780717136469

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Allergies are becoming increasingly common among both children and adults, and the link to our diet has become more apparent. As a result of their own food 'challenges', Chupi and Luke Sweetman had to re-think the way that they ate. With advice from nutritionist Patricia Quinn, they came up with a variety of healthy, nutritious but above all, incredibly tasty recipes aimed at allergy sufferers and non-sufferers alike. 'What to eat when you can't eat anything' is a cookbook for everybody, with a really practical approach to managing diets that can be seen initially by sufferers or their families as a challenge. Written as it is by two young people, it is unlike most other allergy cookbooks in that it is fun - with recipes such as Pancakes with Sweet Honey and Bitter Lemon and Cheese-Butty Chilli Sarnie, it is not for the faint of heart! Each recipe is coded to indicate which allergy group can eat it, with all the common allergies covered: candida, dairy, coeliacs, sugar and certain additives. Sections will include information on how to change to a really green diet without pain; what to stock and how to buy; an A-Z of all the foodstuffs and their nutritional values and the tools of the trade. All the recipes have been cooked and tested by hungry teenagers Chupi and Luke and their mother Rosita and have passed with flying colours!

About this title

From the Author

Authors' comments on the review posted by a reader from Essex.

"First of all we'd like to thank Essex reader for his/her comments on our
book What To Eat When You Can't Eat Anything'; second we'd like to recommend
some tips for using What To Eat so they could get more out of it. We feel
maybe they flicked through the book rather hastily and then discarded it.

* For those with multiple allergies, use the section at the front of What
To Eat, The Right Recipes at The Right Time, where all recipes are divided
into three basic categories, For When You are Ultra
Sensitive/Sensitive/Un-Sensitive. The trick is to start off with really
gentle foods and gradually re-build your digestive system so it can handle
the more full on receipes later such as Spciy Meatballs (yum, yum), Caesar
Salad with Smokey Chicken (yum, yum, yum). Multiple Sensitivity usually
means your body is so stressed it can't really handle anything, so you give
it the simplest, cleanest foods you can to help it regain strength.

* The biggest changes we made in our diet was dumping ALL articificial
ingredients (stressful and irritating to a system already stressed) and went
organic wherever possible. Chupi was highly allergic to 'ordinary' dairy
products but organic bio live yogurt was an absolute godsend. Its got the
good bacteria your gut loves and adores - particularly when it's having a
hard time, and is much easier to digest than full milk as it's already half
broken down by bacterial processes. The same with butter; we dumped all low
fat spreads and butter 'alternatives' and began using organic real butter
(in moderate amounts as Chupi's system got stronger).

On Essex reader's final complaint, that 'Dippy Egg' and Homemade Chips must
have been added in to fill space, actually there were loads more recipes
publishers said couldn't be included because of space issues. And, for
anyone with multiple sensitivities 'Dippy Egg' and Homemade Chips can be
lifesavers.

One final word, Luke says he would like to come and cook a meal for Essex
Reader; Doubting Thomas will be converted. O yeah!

Chupi and Luke Sweetman"

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

About the Author

Chupi and Luke Sweetman had to rethink and relearn what to eat in the wake of a number of serious and debilitating illnesses, all of which turned out to be food related. They did it with the guidance of nutritionist Patricia Quinn, author of 'Healing with Nutritional Therapy'. They live in Wicklow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0717136469
• ISBN 13: 9780717136469
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 156