PecanBread.com - Treating Autism with the Specific Carbohydrate Diet

[Every child is different in which food he can tolerate,so these menus are just ideas,not prescriptions.The first three menus belong to three children with severe carbohydrate malabsorption.These children can only absorb a very small number of foods. Limiting the diet to only include absorbable foods enables the stomach to heal and gradually absorb other foods]

Hamburger patties
Baked chicken, whole or parts---just bake plain with skin on
Stew in a crockpot with carrots, rutabaga, onions and celery
Meatloaf made with grated onions and carrots some parsley and tomato juice
Pot roast with vegies
Sausage patties or skinless links (legal sausage, of course)
Fried chicken--- just fry in olive oil (You can coat with almond flour but it's fine without)
Legal hotdogs boiled with cabbage.

Also, if you peel and cut up a whole bunch of carrots, rutabaga, turnips and onion and then bake them in a casserole dish for an hour and a half or so, you have really good-tasting roast veggies. Make a whole lot so you can reheat them. It makes everything easier if you cook extras and can have leftovers from breakfast and lunch.

All the best, Ann

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One thing I did do was just cook a LOT of food, and have things to eat ALL the time, and I cooked things in as different ways imaginable as I could think of, like out of ground beef I would make:

---hamburgers
---"egg pizza" -- an omelet with (already cooked) ground beef in it, made in a little 7-inch omelet pan, and then cut into pizza slices
---meatloaf --every variation from just plain beef, to adding different things like tomato sauce, tomato juice, an egg, or shredding up some squash or zuchini in food processor and mixing it in with it-
---Etc, etc

I also made this that he LOVES:
I would brown some cubed meat (Like beef stew meat, or my son's favorite is lamb) in a little oil, and then add chicken broth and carrots, bring to a boil, partially cover, and simmer for a long time, a couple of hours, on a very low setting, stirring occassionally. What happens is the broth and meat juices simmer together and make the meat just very tender, but aslo the broth eventually cooks down (you ahve to stir it more towards the end), and makes like a "gravy" which is SO delish!!!

Anyway, it seemed like when there was always someting "ready", he ate better.
Because if I waited until he was very hungry, then he was fussing for a muffin or raisins or something he couldn't have. And he probably ate more.

Sonia

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Anna pretty much has coconut chicken or almond chicken or ground chicken (all sauteed in a pan with olive oil. The coconut and almond chicken is essentially just chunks of chicken cooked with shredded coconut or almond flour) at each meal, with a glass of her vegetable drink and a pecan/walnut muffin. That's it, three meals a day. Not too inspiring, though we're happy with it. She's a pretty picky eater and expansion even into other meats is a bit of a challenge (though we're working on it.) Also, since almonds and eggs have only recently come into circulation with us, more recipes (which we have yet to experiment with) will hopefully become part of our daily life

Marisol

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Here is my menu;my children have stomachs that can tolerate most SCD foods,so I have more freedom than the other parents.In time the other kids will get there too.

Plain days
breakfast:fresh fruit blended by Vita-Mix or blender(diluted with water )
goat yogurt
lunch:baked chicken
well steamed vegetables
baked winter squash
dinner::baked chicken or goat cheese
well steamed vegetables
avocado

Fancy days
breakfast:fresh fruit blended by Vita-Mix or blender(diluted with water )
goat yogurt smoothie made with honey,strawberries and/or banana
lunch:vegetables cooked with Indian spices
guacamole
dinner:omelette with vegetables
Almond bread
or anything from www.SCDrecipes.com that does not have beans.
We just did the SCD lasagne: "delicious"
Mimi

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Hi,

breakfast: almond bread w. peanut butter, apple/pear/banana juice (home made, diluted)

lunch: same as breakfast, but sometimes apple pancakes or muffins

diner: vegetables (steamed, usually 3 kinds of veg.), as potato replacer i use pumpkin, fish OR meat OR chicken OR boiled egg, lightly sprinkled with almond or hazelnut flour

dessert: frozen juice (sorbet-like ice) or fruit or nothing (ate too much), baked apple with honey, baked banana

snack: home made cookies

My son is NOT a picky eater and will eat anything, luckily.

Marjan
The Netherlands

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At moment my kids are eating smoothies with yogurt, fruit and the stray zuchinni--you can't taste it if you only add a little. The youngest eat raisins. All eat apples with peanutbutter, salad, carrots sticks, aged cheese, hamburger patties, eggs, nut cakes, nut pancakes, pumpkin pie with nut crust, chili, juice and chicken.

Autumn

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Breakfast Ideas(almost always vegetarian):

Eggs
Midas Gold waffles (recipe is in this website)
Peanut butter/egg/banana pancakes
Yogurt with fruit
Granola (from SCD with Taste and Tradition cookbook) with fruit and optional
almonmd milk as a cereal (homemade http://www.pecanbread.com/faq2.shtml#nutmilk )
Date pecan meal cupcakes (a rich almost chocolate flavor) with optional frosting (frosting from SCD with T and T cookbook again)
Yogurt popsicle (homemade yogurt sweetened with honey, and then stir some frozen cherries, blueberries or strawberries in as chunks, freeze in popsicle mold)

The last 2 are particularly great for breakfast on the run; for those rushed mornings where I need to grab something fast.

Beth

SCHOOL LUNCH

sending to school: (in a thermal bag)
hard boiled eggs, sliced roast chicken, sliced roast beef, raw or roasted veggies, tuna, cheese, nuts, baked mushroom crisps, dried fruit, if not promoting yeast,(Carol F)

Prepare a pear salad for him, give pear juice to drink, + for lunch you could consider an omelette or some muffins or even both. Variations are endless. You could make a meatloaf and freeze individual slices (wrap each slice in a seperate plastic sheet) and give those for lunch. Fill up the freezer with food, choose one day to do all the SCD-cooking. That way you do not have to ask yourself every day what you have to prepare. Because you already prepared. Saves you a lot of thinking and a lot of time.(Marjan)