What I can eat for the next ten days

The appointment with my nutritionist, Joy, yesterday was really interesting. The bad news is that I have to give up wine, shrimp, raspberries, chocolate and coffee. The good news is that most of those can probably be rotated back into my diet at some point depending on how I react to them later. Raspberries are actually one of the fruits that I had a low reaction to, but I react badly to Benzoic acid which is in raspberries, and so have to avoid them for the time being.

I have a high reaction to several grains, but surprizingly wheat is not one of them. Rice, wheat, and corn were pretty low on my test. Most of the grains I did react to are gluten grains, so Joy said that she wouldn't be surprised if I do have some level of gluten intolerance. I am extremely reactive to baker's yeast so bakery products are out. If I do include wheat in my diet it would have to be pasta or tortillas--she said we can test this out later to see how I feel when I try to eat wheat.

So for the first ten days, I need to keep strictly to foods I do not react to. Chicken, eggs and pork are out--I had a huge reaction to pork and chicken. Eggs were also bad.

The LEAP program occurs in phases, so for my first phase (10 days) Joy is having me combine the first two columns of my results so that I have a good variety of foods to choose from. Here is the list:

Clams
Lamb
Beef
Pinto Beans
Quinoa
Rice
Buckwheat
Sweet potato
Broccoli
Cabbage
Asparagus
String beans
Carrots
Sweet bell peppers, green, yellow, red, orange
Tomatoes (fresh only nothing canned)
Green Peas (fresh or frozen)
Avocado
Grapes
Cantaloupe and Watermelon (M is allergic to these)
Pineapple
Orange
Strawberry
Goat's milk (just the milk--no cheese, yogurt or sour cream yet)
Cow's milk (just the milk--no cheese, yogurt or sour cream yet)
Pistachio nuts
Peanuts (including peanut oil)
Sesame (including sesame oil)
Olives (including olive oil) But no pimento-stuffed olives.
Coconut (including coconut oil, milk, cocnut water and grated coconut meat)
Black pepper
Honey
Vanilla
Cumin
Mint (but not mint tea yet)
Lemon
Mustard
Sea salt
White distilled vinegar
High shelf gin and vodka

So far I have had:

Lamb chops (with sea salt & pepper, olive oil & a sprinkle of cumin)
roasted sweet potato
green beans

Beef steak (with sea salt & pepper)
Grapes
Coconut water

Menus ideas for the week:

Saturday:

Coleslaw with olive oil and white vinegar
Ground lamb patties (or clams?)
avocado and tomato
Orange

Gin and seltzer with honey and lemon

Sunday:

Breakfast: Strawberry and coconut milk smoothie

Sweet and sour Thai beef

I can make a sweet and sour sauce with vinegar, honey, tomato, sweet peppers, pineapple, peanut butter and coconut milk. Then add sauteed beef, and serve over rice.

Monday:

Chili
Pinto beans, beef bones, ground beef, diced fresh tomatoes, cumin, salt and pepper.

I'll come up with more menus later. I must shop!!