No sugar on gluten diet?
Our Dan doc put son on nystatin for yeast. He continues the gf/cf diet andnow we are TRYING to do NO SUGAR! There’s almost nothing he can eat now!All the things we had leaned on for gf/cf school lunches, are now off-diet.No fruit, no chips, no bread, no potatoes, no rice? Help!!!!!
I am making him koolaid with stevia (no juice allowed), but hate to haveeven the additives in the koolaid. Ideas for an alternative?
I’ve read many who have been gf/cf/sf for a long time. How do you do it?My son is 12, very “typical” looking and mainstreamed. How will I ever keephim away from sf out there in the worldl?
I made bread with Fearns baking mix (gf/cf). . . but it has baking soda andalternative flours of any sort. Is that ok?
I can tell cutting out sugar is working. His carb/sugar cravings arealready significantly curbed. He used to get up in the middle of the nightand eat fruit (all we had sweet in the house)!!! Also, some other negataivebehaviors are curbed. I DO want to keep it up.
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Rubin Lucore said,
Wrote on November 8, 2006 @ 1:01 am
We’ve been gfcf for a long time, but my son can have natural sweeteners. Goingsf too is tough. Hopefully, your son will get his yeast problem in check andwill eventually be able to add more fruits and natural carbs back into his diet.In the meantime, hopefully he’s eating lots of veggies for his fiber.
Ground flax seeds are another good source of fiber that may not aggravate hissymptoms. There are many ways to eat ground flax seeds. For instance, youcould sprinkle it on salad. I buy my flax seeds whole and grind them in acoffee grinder (that I bought just for this purpose) right before I use them.
As for school lunches, my son normally brings left-overs from the previousnight’s dinner. (We always make sure there is enough left over for his lunch.) Occasionally, when there aren’t enough left-overs, he has a boiled egg forlunch. For a while, we even had someone in the school heat up his leftovers. Then my son said that he preferred to eat his food cold. (He probably didn’twant to wait for his food to be heated up.)
For beverages, how about herbal teas sweetened with stevia? I think thatwould be better than koolaid. We usually just drink filtered water. My soneven brings filtered water for his drink in his school lunch.
I don’t think baking soda would be a problem. Alternative flours are okay aslong as they’re gf and they don’t have too many carbs. Some alternativeflours–such as quinoa or garfava–are actually a good protein source.
Hopefully, as your son feels better, that is providing him with enoughmotivation to stick to the diet. Hang in there! I’m sure that your effortswill pay off in the long run.
Lida Hambelton said,
Wrote on November 9, 2006 @ 8:20 pm
UI think that people that mention gf/cf/sf mean that they are glutenfree, casein free, and soy free.