The Ultimate Food Allergy Cookbook and Survival Guide: How to Cook with Ease for Food Allergies and Recover Good Health
April 30, 2010 by admin
Filed under Allergies @ Amazon
Product Description
The Ultimate Food Allergy Cookbook and Survival Guide: How to Cook with Ease for Food Allergies and Recover Good Health gives you everything you need to survive and recover from food allergies. It contains medical information about the diagnosis of food allergies, health problems that can be caused by food allergies, and your options for treatment. The book includes a rotation diet that is free from common food allergens such as wheat, milk, eggs, corn, soy, yeast, beef, legumes, citrus fruits, potatoes, tomatoes, and more. Instructions are given on how to personalize the standard rotation diet to meet your individual needs and fit your food pr eferences. Contains 500 recipes that can be used with (or without) … More >>
I bought this for my daughter who is gluten, wheat, soy and corn free. absolute waste of $$. do not buy this if you have multiple allergies!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
I could not take this book serious after reading the lists of Classifications of foods, Lion, Yak, Kangaroo, just to name a few that are listed at the back of the book. Waste of good money.
Rating: 1 / 5
The title of this book lead me to beleive I would be able to create meals that would be allergen free. It had lots of desserts, which I do not eat sweets, and very little in the way of meals that are wheat gluten and lactose free. The book does address rotation of foods, which I found helpful, but not worth purchasing for my needs.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book includes great information about the diagnosis and treatment of complex food allergies, as well as a wide variety of recipes for special diets. One of the features that I like best is that the recipes include a wide variety of substitution options so that you may individualize the recipe to your unique food restrictions. This book met the need I had to adapt my daughter’s allergic food restrictions to her decision to become a vegetarian. After reviewing this most recent of Nickie’s books, combined with her older ones, I was able to develop enough new recipe ideas to help my daughter comply with her increased diet restrictions. The new recipes added much desired variety and they tasted great. Two of the most fun surprises in this book included cranberry sauce on page 126 (which I chose to sweeten with date sugar) and kiwi sorbet on 201 (which I chose to sweeten with stevia).
Rating: 5 / 5
For people with many severe allergies to foods, this is the most comprehensive, best-organized cookbook I have found. It is clearly written, well-researched and informative without resorting to hype, and the recipes clearly have been kitchen-tested. The drawbacks of some recipes are noted (e.g., some alternative grain recipes are more crumbly or dense than recipes using wheat flour). Sources for unusual foods are listed; and the internet provides a great marketpalce for finding the rest. I found it easy to adapt the basic rotation diet to fit the foods I can tolerate best and purchase locally and online.
The author has done us a great favor by turning her many trials with allergies into a treasure-trove for the rest of us in the same boat. She not only groups foods by phylogenetic families to alert to possible cross-reactivity, but also mentions the newer, emerging findings on pollen-food interactions due to non-genetic similarity of protein forms. Best of all, instead of leaving the reader feeling hopeless in the face of so many potential cross-reactions, she outlines a workable way to cope.
Rating: 5 / 5