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

Sweetman, Chupi; Sweetman, Luke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569244111 ISBN 13: 9781569244111

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2004

Synopsis

Living with food allergies and intolerances used to mean one had to stick to a restrictive, often tasteless, and sometimes downright unpleasant diet--but not anymore. In What to Eat When You Can't Eat Anything, Chupi and Luke Sweetman, who had to rethink the way they ate because of their own food challenges, offer over 120 healthful and delicious dishes that put the joy back into eating. These mouth-watering recipes accompanied by 40 stunning photographs--covering breakfast to dessert--are perfect for all types of food sensitivities, from wheat, sugar, and yeast to dairy products, gluten, and artificial additives, and best of all, they allow readers to indulge in many of the everyday foods that we all know and love. With the collaboration of Patricia Quinn--one of Ireland's best-respected nutritionists--this book is filled with important information and sound advice on specific food allergies and intolerances, what foods and ingredients to stock, how to buy them, and much more. What to Eat When You Can't Eat Anything is guaranteed to add fun--and great taste--to every food-sensitive diet.

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"

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About the Author

CHUPI AND LUKE SWEETMAN, the teenage children of Irish writer Rosita Sweetman, had to relearn what to eat because of their struggles with food allergies. They live with their mother in Wicklow, Ireland. PATRICIA QUINN is a nutritionist and kinesiologist who specializes in working with children. Quinn lives in Ireland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1569244111
• ISBN 13: 9781569244111
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 212