BASIC DIET
DIET - 1ST WEEK
ALLOWED / NOT ALLOWED
CEREALS:
Rice - Rice Puffs only
Oats - oatmeal with honey
CEREALS:
No wheat or flour containing foods
No corn Barley
FRUITS:
Any Fresh ones. * Canned IF in own juice without artificial color
FRUITS:
No fresh frozen or canned
VEGETABLES:
Any Fresh ones except corn, * French fries are OK. Potatoes are OK.
VEGETABLES:
No fresh frozen or canned
No corn
No mixed vegetables.
MEATS:
Chicken or turkey, veal or beef, pork, lamb, fish, tuna or other.
MEATS:
No Luncheon meats
No weiners
No ham, bacon
No artificially colored hamburger
No dyed salmon.
No breaded meats
BEVERAGES:
Water, Tea with honey, Coffee with honey products, Minute Maid
orange juice, Lincoln's Apple juice, Welches grape juice-bottle.
BEVERAGES:
No milk of any type or dairy
No fruit beverages except those so specified.
No Kool Aid.
SNACKS:
Potato chips, Rye Krisp crackers and honey, raisins
SNACKS:
No corn chips - Fritos
No chocolate anything
No hard candy.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Honey, Salt, Pepper, Vinegar and oil dressing, Saccharine or
sucaryl.
MISCELLANEOUS:
No sugar
No bread, cake, cookies (homemade, except on special recipes)
No eggs
No Dyed (colored) vitamins, medicines, cough syrups, etc.
No jelly or jam
No jello
No Margarine or diet spreads.
* These fruits and vegetables may contain corn and sugar
without being so labeled.
SUGGESTIONS
BREAKFAST:
Dry cereal or put allowed juices or honey water on it.
Fruit
LUNCH:
Vegetable salad, Fresh fruit or fruit salad.
Drumstick or chicken slices
Meat and salad or potatoes.
Chicken on rye krisp crackers.
Pork chops.
Apple crisp (see special recipe).
If a child appears to react to a food, stay on food an extra day
until certain.
ADDING FOOD 2ND WEEK
When readying foods, the following might prove helpful:
MILK:
Add milk, whipped cream sweetened with honey or artificial
sweeteners, and cottage cheese.
Avoid butter or margarine or yellow cheese (artificial dyes ) and
all ice cream.
WHEAT:
Add crackers or bread. Italian bread may not contain milk.
Baked goods would contain eggs and sugar so should not be eaten
until these foods have been checked unless extra 1/2 tsp baking powder is used to replace
sugar. If latter is used, reduce liquid in recipe by 1/4 cup.
SUGAR:
Use sugar cubes or granulated sugar.
DYES:
Add jello, jelly and artificially colored fruit beverages. Try to
add yellow, red, and purple because only one dye might be at fault.
If sugar is also a problem, use honey or artificial sweeteners or
dietetic colored beverages.
EGGS:
Add in usual cooked forms.
CHOCALATE:
Use dark chocolate (not milk) and cocoa, If sugar is not allowed,
use honey or artificial sweeteners.
CORN:
Give child corn, corn meal, corn flakes, popcorn (made with Crisco
and salt unless dyes are allowed).
THREE POINTS OF CAUTION:
1. If a patient reacts to a food, the next food should not be added
until the reaction has stopped.
2. If a patient questionably appears to react to food, stay on food
an extra day until certain.
3. If patient is sensitive to a food, that food must be stopped when
trying to add the other foods. |