Im having a BBQ tomorrow afternoon for a house warming/baby shower/birthday type thingy.
My baby sister, who is 21, is coming with her boyfriend. Shes a bit miserable as shes just in the process of being diagnosed with juvenile rhumatoid arthritis (sp??)
Shes recently started a food exclusion diet as in young people arthritis has been linked to food intollerances and there have been cases of people who have been totally cured for years and years on it, so considering it s progressive disease, and shes got a ong life ahead of her shes doing the diet. But its making her miserable and I want to have lots of foods available that she can eat tomorrow so she doesnt feel like she has to watch people eating foods she badly wants. But Im really stuck.
She cant have:
dairy products, wheat or any kind of gluten, most grains (although I think she can have corn), potatoes. Basically the only kind of carbs she can have is rice and we discovered today that sweet potatoes are allowed. She has to avoid citrus fruits and onions (incl spring onions etc..)
Its actually REALLY difficult. burgers and sausages have rusk in them which is wheat based so she cant eat them.
So Im gonna have a normal salad which she can have, Ill keep the lettuce, tomatoes and peppers etc... in separate bowls instead of mixing the salad so she can just pick out the bits she knows she can have and avoid the citrus, I think tomato might be citrus??
Then Ive made pasta salads but obv she cant have pasta cos of the wheat so I made a cold rice, prawns and sweetcorn thingy which I hope doesnt taste as bland as it sounds, but i remember having it in the past somewhere.
I did make a potato salad too, cos I didnt realise she couldnt have potatoes and she can have mayonaise. But I put spring onions and chives in it so she couldnt have eaten it anyway
So I want to do another type of salady thing with sweet potatoes as we have some in the fridge, but I havent a clue what to do!!!
She'll be able to eat;
spicy chicken wings, chicken drumsticks, and chicken skewers (although Im not sure about nuts cos I was gonna make them satay
) then for salads she can have the lettuce etc and the rice salad, and Ive got tortillias cos I THINK she can have corn chips but not potato/wheat based ones. got humous, salsa dip and gonna put out cucumber, carrot sticks and celery. I think if I can make something with the sweet potatoe and herbs then she'll have a really nice choice. made merignues for a desert for her too.
any suggestions, ideas , or experiences of these exclusion diets would be greatly appreciated!
My baby sister, who is 21, is coming with her boyfriend. Shes a bit miserable as shes just in the process of being diagnosed with juvenile rhumatoid arthritis (sp??)
Shes recently started a food exclusion diet as in young people arthritis has been linked to food intollerances and there have been cases of people who have been totally cured for years and years on it, so considering it s progressive disease, and shes got a ong life ahead of her shes doing the diet. But its making her miserable and I want to have lots of foods available that she can eat tomorrow so she doesnt feel like she has to watch people eating foods she badly wants. But Im really stuck.
She cant have:
dairy products, wheat or any kind of gluten, most grains (although I think she can have corn), potatoes. Basically the only kind of carbs she can have is rice and we discovered today that sweet potatoes are allowed. She has to avoid citrus fruits and onions (incl spring onions etc..)
Its actually REALLY difficult. burgers and sausages have rusk in them which is wheat based so she cant eat them.
So Im gonna have a normal salad which she can have, Ill keep the lettuce, tomatoes and peppers etc... in separate bowls instead of mixing the salad so she can just pick out the bits she knows she can have and avoid the citrus, I think tomato might be citrus??
Then Ive made pasta salads but obv she cant have pasta cos of the wheat so I made a cold rice, prawns and sweetcorn thingy which I hope doesnt taste as bland as it sounds, but i remember having it in the past somewhere.
I did make a potato salad too, cos I didnt realise she couldnt have potatoes and she can have mayonaise. But I put spring onions and chives in it so she couldnt have eaten it anyway
So I want to do another type of salady thing with sweet potatoes as we have some in the fridge, but I havent a clue what to do!!!
She'll be able to eat;
spicy chicken wings, chicken drumsticks, and chicken skewers (although Im not sure about nuts cos I was gonna make them satay
) then for salads she can have the lettuce etc and the rice salad, and Ive got tortillias cos I THINK she can have corn chips but not potato/wheat based ones. got humous, salsa dip and gonna put out cucumber, carrot sticks and celery. I think if I can make something with the sweet potatoe and herbs then she'll have a really nice choice. made merignues for a desert for her too.any suggestions, ideas , or experiences of these exclusion diets would be greatly appreciated!
xxx
