ThanksGiving time with P.A.N.D.A.S. & Lyme...

[EmersonAilidh]

Thankfully, & believe me, it feels weird to say this... My family is all kinds of medically screwed up so we're already accommodating Hashimoto's Disease & Diabetes in our holiday meals. Autism would be on that list but since it's a special occasion little Abram is allowed to eat dyes, although we don't use much anyway.

 

SO. My question is... How do all of you on restrictive diets cope?! I mean, I haven't eaten meat in so long that passing up turkey is second nature, but what about stuffing & pie & green bean casserole? Obviously I don't expect my whole family to go gfree for the holidays, but I was just wondering about how everyone else introduced their diets to the family at first. My aunt & Grandma, the two who host both holidays, haven't been involved in the Lyme part of this. Like, at all. Do I just call them up & go "Heeey, guess what?!"

 

On that note, does anyone have good glutenfree holiday recipes?! My friend wants to be a pastry chef & agreed to help me bake my own bread, make my own stuffing, & bake a pie with EmersonAilidhFriendly crust. I thought it might be cool to include my family in the glutenfree vegetarian cooking. Maybe go over the day before with my own cookware & show them that glutenfree-dyefree(yes, that one is new)-vegetarian doesn't have to be synonymous with nasty? Please get back to me! Recipes would be most appreciated.

 

 

 

 

 

P.S. ~ For all of y'all worried about my sugar intake (*coughcoughPIXIESMOMMYcoughcough* ), I have all but cut it out of my diet, with the exception of fruit & last week's FORCED candy binge. Cutting out all artificial sugar & dyes has made a difference already these past few days.

[emmalily]

Hey,

 

So first off, my aunt who hosts Thanksgiving has gotten so frustrated for me (not at me) about the food thing she says, "I'm just going to give you a napkin to suck on."

But she and my uncle do keep things separate for me, make mashed potatoes with rice-milk rather than butter, make a separate bowl of of unseasoned, unglazed veggies. I bring my own turkey because that's just too hard to do with them putting the stuffing in it (but you're veggie so that doesn't apply to you haha).

But anyway, I've got a pumpkin and apple pie recipes and a pumpkin spice muffin recipe if you need them!

 

And if you're going to have others cook for you while they're cooking the main Thanksgiving meal you might want to ask them to make sure they don't use the same utensils in your food that they're stirring something with wheat in it for instance...cross-contamination, big problem if you're sensitive enough.

Edited November 9, 2010 by emmalily

[pixiesmommy]

My ears have been itching lately and now I know why, it's because Ailidh was talking about me behind my back!

It's the mommy coming out in me. I mother people- it's what I have always done and what I will continue to do. Suck it up!

Honestly, though, I am soooo glad to hear you are cutting back on sugar. AND to hear that you are feeling better!! YAY!!!

 

You know I'll be blogging as I go through how we are going to do it. Much easier for me since I'm the cook, obviously, but hopefully I will make up some helpful tips as I work my way through it too.

 

Here is a pumpkin pie recipe:

http://bethsblog.typepad.com/bethsblog/scd-pumpkin-pie.html

 

Here is an apple pie recipe but with a texture like pumpkin (my own!):

http://chickiepea.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/perfect-autumn-pie/

 

Here is a fruit pie recipe that we love for summer months, but could definitely work for winter too:

http://www.freecoconutrecipes.com/recipe_Strawberry_Cream_Pie_Gluten_free_and_Dairy_Free.htm

 

So, here is the question- do you want dressing like you cut into squares or do you want dressing like Stouffer's-style loose crumbly stuff? I think you could do either, actually, if you make GF cornbread as your base. You can probably buy a mix for that or make your own. I have a garbanzo bean flour cornbread recipe on the blog too:

http://chickiepea.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/goose-in-the-kitchen/

 

If you let me know which kind of dressing/stuffing you want, I will make up a recipe for you. Basically, if you mix up some sauteed veggies (carrots, celery, mushrooms) and nuts if you want (I would use pecans) with some veg broth and hard-boiled eggs, along with the crumbled cornbread and a raw egg or two, then press it into a greased baking dish, you should be good to go. Oh, and add a little bit of spice- salt, pepper, sage. I'm not eating corn anymore, so figuring out the stuffing is going to be tough for us.

 

There are tons of already made GF breads out there. I think you can find one that meets your specifications. Call around if there are grocery stores or better yet, health-food/vitamin stores. If you don't have luck there, call yoga places and find out if they know of any health food stores you haven't heard of. Sometimes you can find ones frozen, and sometimes from a mix. King Arthur Flour is making a "gluten free all purpose flour" now that is in all the grocery stores here. Betty Crocker has some things out too for desserts (but watch the sugar and dyes- ick!)

 

You know where to find me if you need help!

 

 

Manda

[butterflymom]

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Edited February 2, 2016 by tampicc

[trggirl]

Thanks for this thread and all the recipes.

 

The big problem I have found in all the gluten-free products is they have corn. That is making it really hard.

[MichaelTampa]

I think the best approach really depends on how strict you want to be.

 

If you're really strict with so many things being avoided, and not even wanting a little of this in here or there, which is the way I am, then I have generally made a dish or two to bring and eat and share (for the few brave ones), so this takes the pressure off the host to provide a real meal for you, it's just normally too hard. Normally they feel a lot better you can eat something they prepared, and, depending on the communication channels, if you can politely give them information to allow them to do that easily with a side dish or two, everyone will feel much better.

 

If you're not worried about a little bad stuff here and there, then perhaps, with good communication channels and a host who is willing (some will be, some won't be), the host would be able to prepare things in a way where you can just eat some of what is prepared.

[AmberM]

I think the pie crust from Anna's Breads is pretty good. They're bread mixes are the best I've tried as well. The website is www.glutenevolution.com We can't use dairy or eggs here but the ener-g egg replacer works good as well as hemp milk.

-Amber

[EmersonAilidh]

Thank you all! Sorry, forgot to respond. I've decided on making a pumpkin pie, some stuffing, a batch of cookies (just gonna replace flour in a regular recipe for those!), & some blueberry-caramel stuff that doesn't need to be gfree. Thank you all!!!

 

Tampicc ~ I live in Texas. Believe me, I understand about the cornbread being everywhere, hahahahah.