Wheat-free, dairy-free, egg-free, sugar-free, low-carb recipes?

[Garga]

My friend has recently been diagnosed with a bunch of allergies to wheat, dairy, and eggs. She also doesn’t do well when she eats sugar and carbs. And to make matters worse, she has a full-time job and many responsibilities so not much time to cook.

Anyone have any recipes that are wheat-free, dairy-free, egg-free, sugar-free, and low-carb? And easy to cook and eat on the go?

Edited May 7, 2021 by Garga

[Tanaqui]

I think she may need to speak to a dietician. That's a lot of things to toss out.

[fairfarmhand]

Meat and veggetables. Sounds like cooking that way will be hard and she may need to stick to very basic recipes. Soups would be probably good.

[prairiewindmomma]

fajitas, served in corn tortillas

beef & mushrooms (instant pot)

grilled chicken + veg

pea protein shake + handful of nuts + berries for breakfast

black bean soup 

To clarify, these are true allergies, rather than some crazy crap muscle testing by a chiropractor? Once you get into limiting your diet that much, it gets super complicated and super expensive pretty fast. 

I would advice picking a simple rotation for breakfast, doing a salad for lunch, and picking a protein + veg for supper and just letting that be her rough menu while she adapts.  We have had to BTDT, and it cuts the brain fog of so much decision making.  My other advice is to find a handful of snacks she really enjoys to cope as her taste buds adapt---corn chips + salsa, or chili lime flavored cashews, or whatever. She will need something to make her happy when she has become completely frustrated with everything.

We live by our instant pots, fwiw.  It cuts prep time down a ton.

[klmama]

Salads work great as "to go" meals.  She could make a bunch of them at the start of the week.  Lettuce/greens, various cut veggies, maybe some nuts and seeds.  Maybe some sliced strawberries.  She could grill and cube some chicken and add some to the first two salads, then freeze the rest to be added to the others before leaving the house.  (If just refrigerated more than a couple of days, the chicken may taste "off" by the time she eats it.)  Cubed beef or pork work well in salads, too - I'd add them frozen, as well, if possible. If she can handle quinoa, that works in salads, too.  Just throw the salad in a bag with a fork and a freezer pack, and head out the door!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Garga]

15 minutes ago, prairiewindmomma said:

fajitas, served in corn tortillas

beef & mushrooms (instant pot)

grilled chicken + veg

pea protein shake + handful of nuts + berries for breakfast

black bean soup 

To clarify, these are true allergies, rather than some crazy crap muscle testing by a chiropractor? Once you get into limiting your diet that much, it gets super complicated and super expensive pretty fast. 

I would advice picking a simple rotation for breakfast, doing a salad for lunch, and picking a protein + veg for supper and just letting that be her rough menu while she adapts.  We have had to BTDT, and it cuts the brain fog of so much decision making.  My other advice is to find a handful of snacks she really enjoys to cope as her taste buds adapt---corn chips + salsa, or chili lime flavored cashews, or whatever. She will need something to make her happy when she has become completely frustrated with everything.

We live by our instant pots, fwiw.  It cuts prep time down a ton.

She has been having a bunch of autoimmune issues and said she went to a specialist and was dx’d with these allergies. I don’t think it was a chiropractor type of thing. She’s had a lot of issues for the past 10 or more years.

[prairiewindmomma]

Some naturopaths put AI patients on overly restrictive diets without doing the blood work. It is worth asking. The fact that they gave that specific list makes me a bit wary. It is meant to be anti-inflammatory yet there are many people who don’t benefit from that as much as just eating a lower carb, low processed food diet. 
 

If she has actual IG bloodwork tests backing that up, great, and I am sorry she is going to have to be that restricted...the GFCF is one thing, but adding in egg free makes it next level. :( 

[prairiewindmomma]

Paleo autoimmune diet is another phrase she might google. AIP is another. McDougall diet is a third.

When she gets desperate for pizza, Trader Joe’s sells cauliflower crusts and she can use vegan cheese (follow your heart has a decent faux mozzarella).

[Jean in Newcastle]

Yup. Meat and vegetables. 
 

Breakfast can be scrambled tofu instead of eggs. 
 

Lunch- my go to is a salad with protein. 
 

dinner- stir-fries without the rice

taco fixings without the tortillas. 
 

various proteins with grilled, roasted or steamed veggies 

[whitestavern]

Breakfast:

fruit salad

no sugar breakfast sausage w/sauteed apples

no sugar canadian bacon w/sauteed mushrooms and onions

smoothies w/coconut milk

roasted sweet potato slices w/mashed avocado

-no sugar bacon w/Brussels sprouts hash

 

Lunch:

salad with most any protein and veg

soup with most any protein and veg

 

Snacks:

no sugar jerky

cassava chips (yum)

cassava cheese puffs

plantains

plantain tortilla chips

dried mangoes(!)

fruit/veg

[My4arrows]

We've had a diet very similar to this for awhile.  At first it was difficult and overwhelming, but after time, it becomes second nature.  I'd suggest the book Keto Green.  Many, if not most of the recipes would suit her needs.  There are just a few which have egg (I don't eat breakfast, so I'm not sure about those), but they can be made taken out.  

[BlsdMama]

3 hours ago, Garga said:

My friend has recently been diagnosed with a bunch of allergies to wheat, dairy, and eggs. She also doesn’t do well when she eats sugar and carbs. And to make matters worse, she has a full-time job and many responsibilities so not much time to cook.

Anyone have any recipes that are wheat-free, dairy-free, egg-free, sugar-free, and low-carb? And easy to cook and eat on the go?

In all seriousness? I started thinking of “meal” concept differently. Baking went off my radar. Dessert became organic raspberries. A drink became kombucha. A meal was meat and veggies.

I’d think, “Chicken, pork, beef, or fish... And which vegetables?” And that was pretty much it when I was being the most “pure.”

 

[Garga]

2 hours ago, prairiewindmomma said:

Some naturopaths put AI patients on overly restrictive diets without doing the blood work. It is worth asking. The fact that they gave that specific list makes me a bit wary. It is meant to be anti-inflammatory yet there are many people who don’t benefit from that as much as just eating a lower carb, low processed food diet. 
 

If she has actual IG bloodwork tests backing that up, great, and I am sorry she is going to have to be that restricted...the GFCF is one thing, but adding in egg free makes it next level. 😞

Hmmm...I’ll ask her. Now that you talk about a naturopath, this might be the specialist she went to. 

She’s been in pain for so many years that she just wants to feel better and will probably do the restrictive diet just to find out if it makes her feel better. But she’s gotta figure out something to eat. 🙂 

[KungFuPanda]

5 hours ago, Garga said:

My friend has recently been diagnosed with a bunch of allergies to wheat, dairy, and eggs. She also doesn’t do well when she eats sugar and carbs. And to make matters worse, she has a full-time job and many responsibilities so not much time to cook.

Anyone have any recipes that are wheat-free, dairy-free, egg-free, sugar-free, and low-carb? And easy to cook and eat on the go?

I have a friend with loads of allergies. She can’t even eat a lot of vegetables and most fruits. She can at least have eggs. This woman lives on meat and leafy greens. She is very small, in ketosis permanently, and is a little bitter that people eat that way on purpose to lose weight. She does a cooking day each week and lives off protein topped salads and soups. She has to make all of her meals in her kitchen because it’s too tricky to eat out. 

[Jean in Newcastle]

A few of these will work for quick meals when she needs a break from cooking. https://www.kevinsnaturalfoods.com/collections/shop
I can get these at our local grocery store. 

[Spryte]

We are a wheat free, dairy free, egg free, nut free, shellfish free, legume free, most seed free, most raw food free house. Plus, celiac here. It’s crazy hard.

On the low carb: I managed to do a keto inspired diet for almost 4 years, but ... I had to sneak-eat some foods (cheese, eggs - kids cannot eat them, but I could keep them totally separate from kids, so it felt safe enough).  I’m not sure I could have done the really low carb without those two items.  Meat and vegetables, but it would have been rough.

Our restrictions are based on IgE mediated allergies diagnosed by an allergist.  I would never, never choose this restriction level without that.  Has she been tested for IgE allergies?  Our allergist hates seeing people restricting foods based on IgG, but I’m not a doc, so what do I know?  I would encourage her to see an allergist, I think.  Unless this is a temporary diet change, in which case sometimes one can do anything for a short time, to see what helps.  It’s just a question of whether it is sustainable.

Can she eat trace amounts of those things, or does she need to eliminate all traces?

So, we eat mostly meats and veggies. Lots of fajitas to go with meals (DH uses red and yellow pepper, red onion, they are delicious). Lots of roasted veggies. Breakfast is often leftover dinner.  

The low carb part makes it tougher.  How low carb?