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Food Allergy Recipes With Alternative Ingredients

By Julia Taylor-Fernandez

Food allergy recipes include alternatives to your regular ingredients, depending on the relevant food allergies. If you are allergic to wheat, then you may look at using spelt or kamut as wheat alternatives. Your main aim is to avoid adding an ingredient where there will be an adverse health reaction. This is why you will need to seek the advice of a medical doctor to confirm the diagnosis and advise you of the food ingredients to avoid.

You should then consult with a registered dietitian who can advise on the alternatives available and help you set up a diet program where you can use food allergy recipes to create delicious meals with alternative ingredients.

Expanding Your Range Of Meals

Eating these meals does not mean you will be eating tasteless food. A lot of the meals are delicious and you will be grateful to increase your knowledge and cook a wider range of meals.

You may be the one with the allergy, or it may be one of your children, the purpose is still the same. You may need to cook a separate meal for just one person and cook regular meals for everyone else in the family. If this is the case, you may need to ensure that the person with the allergy does not accidentally eat the meal of someone else and suffers health consequences.

Eating Simpler Dishes

Figuring out food allergy recipes can be pretty daunting when you are first diagnosed with food allergies, but if you keep in mind a few simple principles, it is eminently doable. I usually think of it as involving several stages.

When you are first starting to cope with food allergies – particularly allergies to classic staples like wheat, yeast, eggs, and things like that – your food allergy recipes should be pretty basic and stripped down. Basically, it is easier to avoid food you are allergic to by eating much simpler dishes.

Wheat Allergies Are The Easiest To Maintain With Alternatives

Basic grains, lightly cooked vegetables, and lean meats are the best friends of someone having to deal with food allergies. As you get more adept at negotiating your allergies, however, you can take your cooking up to another level.

Food allergy cooking recipes basically involve a lot of alternatives, and you will have to vary them depending on what allergies you have. Wheat is one of the easiest ones to deal with. For most people with wheat allergies, there are plenty of alternative ingredients that work just as well. Spelt is the most common one, but kamut is also a viable grain for many types of allergy food baking.

Yeast, Eggs Allergies Are More Difficult

If you are allergic to yeast or eggs, however, you'll have to work a little bit harder on a food allergy recipe. There are many different egg alternatives including bananas, gluten, and other, more exotic ingredients. Basically, it depends what you are trying to cook. With yeast, you can often use baking powder as a substitute in your food allergy recipes, but you'll have to very the proportions somewhat.

Fortunately, most food allergies involve less crucial ingredients, and these can be easily avoided. One of the things that you can do is to keep a lot of things that you want to eat canned. Then, when you have an idea about a possible alternative ingredient, you can try it out and note the results.

Asking Friends In Your Community

Allergies are, unfortunately, probably something you will be dealing with for a while, so finding useful food allergy recipes is crucial. Still, with patience and persistence, you can come up with an allergy friendly version of basically anything that you want to eat. It can help a lot to have a community to help you out.

Knowing other allergy sufferers as well as health food experts can really give you the resources to plan out a healthier, more complete, and more delicious meal plan.

You can also enlist the advice of a dietitian, who can advise you on the foods to avoid and the available alternatives. The dietitian may help devise a plan that will guide you on the meals to eat for each day of the week and how you can include alternative ingredients in your regular meals. You may even keep a dairy of the food you eat every day and note any adverse health symptoms. The diary can then be reviewed on your next visit to your dietitian and medical doctor.

Medical Diagnosis For Possible Food Allergies

There may be times when you do not know if you have an allergy to a certain food ingredient. You should consult with your medical doctor, so that you can be sent for a diagnosis for all possible allergies. For example, you may have an allergy to nuts, then this can be diagnosed and you will know to avoid nuts.

Some of these allergies can lead to extremely adverse health reactions, including death. For these reasons you should look to seek medical advice and the assistance of a registered dietitian to help you with food allergy recipes.

About the Author:
Julia Taylor-Fernandez has written a number of articles on food, cooking and dieting including General Nutrition, Meal Plans, Salad Dressings, Organic Baby Food, Fruit Flower Baskets, Fresh Fruit, Latte Coffee, Teen Weight Loss, Nutritional Information, Teen Diets, Healthy Appetizers, Health Food Store, Food Packaging.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.

Did You Know?

What are the kitchen basics I need?
Kitchen basics that every kitchen should have are pots and pans (in a variety of sizes), measuring cups, measuring spoons, mixing bowls and an assortment of kitchen gadgets that make life easier.

One of these gadgets is a can opener. Being forced to saw off the bottom of a can could take a little of the fervor away from cooking. Also consider keeping whisks, spatulas and tongs as part of your cooking basics.

Another item basic that is used often is a drainer/strainer. These can come in the form of bowls or be part of a boiling pan set. It is used to drain spaghetti water from the pasta or can be used for anything similar.