My Best Modified Elimination Diet Tips!

Here you will find a compilation of the best tips I can give you to help you succeed on this diet.

1) Prepare EVERYTHING from scratch until you are familiar with this diet and how it works! I found that once I got familiar with safe ingredients, good substitutions, and did the research then I was able to much more easily feed myself without thinking too hard about it.

2) No store-bought condiments! or sauces! or marinades! They all will include things you can't have, whether it be honey, vinegar, citrus or gluten. I mean literally, all of them. There isn't a sauce on the market you can have. You will have to learn to make your own marinades! You can have 100% juice, just remember no citric acid - you can't have citrus. I use pineapple juice in my marinades and desserts to add a little bit of a sweet citrus-y flavor.

3) Not all gluten-free products are safe! Remember, you can't have corn. You also have to be careful for yeast. This will cut out pretty much every already made gluten free bread substitute available to you.

4) Gluten-free recipes probably won't help you. There is a glut of gluten-free blogs, but while these recipes can serve as inspiration for your own recipes with modifications, many of them won't work for you. A lot of gluten-free recipes rely on corn, oats, or sweeteners you can't use. Try instead searching for allergen blogs. Raw recipe blogs can be great as well.

5) Broth - The diet calls for gluten free broth. All vegetable broth is gluten free. Chicken broths? Not so much. Only organic broth is gluten free and still, you need to check the label to be sure. Better than Bouillon does have an organic chicken broth that is excellent and gluten free, but make sure you are buying the organic as their regular one does contain gluten.

6) Take your allergen food list with you when you are shopping! Don't leave it at home until you feel comfortable you know all the foods you need to avoid.

7) Don't think you can just eat a lot of delicious salads - salad dressing you can eat simply ceases to exist when you can't have vinegar! Instead, I use salsa. There are some canned salsas that are gluten-free, check the ingredients list. Your best bet is homemade.

8) Don't get your heart set on recreating the a new allergen friendly version of a favorite food. It probably won't work out as well as you would hope. Instead get ready to try new things and create new favorite foods!