BRYAN’S FOOD INTOLERANCES:
In short: Gluten, nuts, seeds (& nut/seed oils), egg, oats, dairy,alcohol,caffeine/cocoa,
pork,beef
In detail (because these things hide in ingredients):
GLUTEN:
– All wheat (including spelt, kamut, etc), barley. “Starch” or “modified starch”, are usually gluten grains.
– Things beginning in “malt” often contain gluten (below) – such as “maltodextrin” or “maltose”. UNLESS they are confirmed from another source such as “tapioca maltose” or “rice maltodextrin” or potato sources which are OK
NUTS
walnuts, cashews, filberts etc (all nuts! – including peanuts which is a legume), including almond milk + other nut milks
Coconut is OK!
SEEDS
Flax, cumin, hemp, sesame, sunflower, mustard
And Seed/Nut oils: can’t do most. Watch for flax/sesame especially
Safflower oil is OK. As are coconut, olive, canola, avocado, other expensive-a.f. oils…
I can tolerate some sunflower oil (but not seed itself), which is almost impossible to avoid
VINEGAR, ALCOHOLS
Can’t do alcohol especially.
Most vinegar is probably OK like in pickled things & ketchup etc, but I will generally just hold off the vinaigrette dressing when I have the option.
EGG
Can’t do it. Not egg whites or yolks. Mayonnaise contains it as do many sauces based on mayo
OATS
Can’t do it.
caffeine / cocoa : makes me loopy
THINGS THAT WORK WELL
EVERY VEGETABLE!
I prefer vegan but can eat fish and poultry and if necessary beef
GLUTEN FREE BAKING FLOUR mix by Bob’s Red Mill – has a good combo flours I can have (not the pancake mix though!)
FLOURS / GRAINS: Rice, Quinoa, Chickpea, sorghum, rice, millet grains and flours
THAI CUISINE: has curry options that are gluten free, most often the Red Curry is safe which contains no seeds such as cumin sometimes sneaked into green curry. Hold the seeds on top, fish oil / oyster sauce (unless known gluten free)
SUSHI – hold the sesame seeds and spicy sauces which contain egg or gluten as well as tempura
FISH / Chicken / other meats with no offending fillers and only safe sauce
TOFU
TEMPEH
COCONUT products of all kinds are amazing