Friday, July 5, 2013

Preparing for no iodine


Spending the day preparing for my two weeks of no iodine.  Ugh!!  How sad is this list of foods I will be eating.  To be honest with you it just plainly makes me depressed.  I love food.  Love it.  On the bright side I found lots of sites out there to help you know what you can eat and what you cant.  Even sites with lots of recipes to cook.  Looks like Bryan will be taking his culinary skills to a new level :)
  
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Allowed Foods and Ingredients
• Fruits except rhubarb and maraschino cherries (with Red Dye #3 or E127 in the United Kingdom).
• Vegetables: preferably raw or frozen without salt, except soybeans and (according to NIH diet) a few other beans.
• Unsalted nuts and unsalted nut butters.
• Whites of eggs.
• Fresh meats up to 6 ounces a day.

• Black pepper, fresh or dried herbs and spices.
• Oils. All vegetable oils, including soy oil.
• Sodas (except with Red Dye #3 or E127 in the

UK), cola, diet cola, non-instant coffee, non-instant tea, beer, wine, other alcoholic beverages, lemonade, fruit juices.
• Read the ingredient list on all packaged foods.
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Easy Snacks for Home, Work, or Travel
• Fresh fruit or juice
• Dried fruits such as raisins
• Fresh raw vegetables
• Applesauce
• Popcorn
• Unsalted nuts
• Sodas other than those with Red Dye #3 (E127 in

the UK)
• Fruit juice
• Unsalted peanut butter or other nut butters (great

with apple slices, carrot sticks, crackers, and rice
cakes)
• Unsalted Matzo crackers and other unsalted

crackers
• Homemade low-iodine bread or muffins

Easy Quick Meals • Oatmeal toppings-cinnamon, honey, applesauce, maple syrup and walnuts, fruit • Grilled fresh meat, vegetables, fresh fruit or baked apple
• Salad topped with grilled chicken or beef, oil and vinegar dressing
• "Sandwich" with Matzo crackers, plain peanut butter, jelly

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