Re: Question about canned tomatoes

[Guest guest]

> At 11:15 PM 2/15/2009, you wrote:

>> Have you tried other canned tomatoes successfully?

>

> Tomato juice, per BTVC. After the Muir Glen experience, I didn't

> want to go there again, although I suppose I ought to consider

> giving it a test. I can't argue with the convenience of canned

> tomatoes. I just worry about people not getting the healing they

> need because of the short cut they're attempting.

Well, but isn't some of this idiosyncratic - like you reacting to

carrots on the

intro diet - and still not being able to eat many berries in summer,

etc?

Maybe you have a sensitivity to things that are canned for some

reason, in the same way that MCS people are triggered by very

particular things?

Or maybe you are over that by now? Or at least less sensitive?

It's been several years since you attempted it from what I gather.

I've used them very sparingly (a handful or so) in the last 1 year 8.5

months and never noticed a reaction.

I agree that they are not the way to go for beginners who are cleaning

out their systems and just starting out.

Mara

[Guest guest]

Well, but isn't some of this

idiosyncratic - like you reacting to carrots on the intro diet -

and still not being able to eat many berries in summer,

etc?

Absolutely it could be a personal issue -- but Elaine was completely

adamant about no canned tomatoes, because this question came up often on

the lists when she was on them. She also said that Dr. Haas was adamant

about it when Elaine's daughter was on the diet. As a consequence,

between personal reaction and the Word of the people who created and

carried on this diet, I just don't trust canned tomatoes.

Maybe you have a sensitivity to

things that are canned for some reason, in the same way that MCS people

are triggered by very

particular things?

I suppose it's marginally possible. However, there was one product --

canned mild chili peppers -- which I tried in those harrowing months

after Hurricane Katrina, when I'd lost every speck of my carefully frozen

foods, which was commercial, and to which I did not react. (Did not have

the money to purchase shipped-in frozen chili peppers, and had no source

of fresh ones, and I was desperate for a bowl of chili.) Of course, I

don't used mild chili peppers nearly as often as I would use canned

tomatoes. I have also used tomatoes bottled by a local farmer

(tomatoes and salt) and did not react.

Or maybe you are over that by

now? Or at least less sensitive? It's been several years since you

attempted it from what I gather.

Yes, the Muir Glen escapade was in 2004 -- and I'd only been SCD three

years at that point. And was still reacting to an awful lot of things in

any kind of quantity.

I've used them very sparingly (a

handful or so) in the last 1 year 8.5 months and never noticed a

reaction.

<wry grin> The problem there is defining in a quantitative manner,

what " sparingly " actually means. Given a chance, I can prepare

meals for a week, all of which could involve canned tomatoes! Chili,

lasagna, shrimp Creole, Egg plant Parmesan Napoleon, soft tacos,

burritoes, and on and on.... good thing I don't react to cooked

tomatoes!

I agree that they are not the

way to go for beginners who are cleaning out their systems and just

starting out.

Precisely -- and it is at the beginning, when the amount of food

preparation feels so totally overwhelming that people are most likely to

want short cuts like purchased processed tomatoes. It is also at this

point that they are most vulnerable to anything which may be in those

commercially processed foods.

That's why I feel compelled to warn people over, and over and over about

them!

—

Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

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