School - Janice SCD

[Guest guest]

Hey Janice!

SCD is not an easy diet to follow, but I feel it is our only option. Once you

get into the swing of things, though, it becomes second nature. It is a grain

free, yeast free, sugar free diet. There are no grains including rice and corn.

Also no potato is allowed because only monosaccharides are allowed to make food

easy to digest and not have a chance to ferment and feed yeast.

You can learn more about the diet and a lot of what is considered legal or

illegal on the food list by going to www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info There is

also a kid friendly site called www.pecanbread.com that has lots of very good

information and recipes. There are several excellent recipe books out. The

food is delicious and most of the recipes are very easy to make.

I have done trials with my boys off of all casein including the goat yogurt

and have not seen any difference. So, we do use goat yogurt for the good

probiotics. Goat yogurt is the only dairy that I give and Garrett. Yogurt

is very easy to make and (from what I understand) the process of making the

yogurt denatures the casein protein so that it is better digested and goat milk

is already more easily digested by many. What many parents do, is try their

child on just 1/4 of a tsp of the yogurt to start with to see if there are any

negative reactions and build up from there. My boys get one cup a day and love

it.

Hope this is helpful.

Dana

Janice <jscott@...> wrote:

Dana,

I am becoming very attracted to the SCD as we have sort of done it just by

default. Is that yogurt difficult to make and do your boys get diarrhea from it?

(I'm scared silly of anything with milk in it.) I actually told Mark that he

could possibly try eating chedder cheese per the SCD and he politely

declined.... but put that on top a slice of pizza and he has an entirely

different reaction.

Anyway, I digress. Mark has really done quite well on a diet with mostly fruits,

nuts, veggies and meat. We have sort of eliminated potatoes, rice, pasta and any

type of white grains. We do eat whole grains. Is this what the SCD diet is like

or is it a whole lot different? I know that they have a lot of 'lists' of

allowed foods and such but I just wonder if we are doing a hommade version of

the SCD?

Is the SCD diet very difficult to accomplish?

Janice

Mother of Mark, 13

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The only reservation I have about goat yogurt is not the casein thing

but digestibility in general due to what the goat is ingesting. I am

partial SCD but toy with going there full throttle for at least one

kid. One more trial of something else first. I did cook their eggs in

organic goat butter and one kid scarfed it down while the other

rejected. Not sure what is up with that. Perhaps organic goats milk

yogurt might comfort my paranoia...

> Dana,

>

> I am becoming very attracted to the SCD as we have sort of done it

just by default. Is that yogurt difficult to make and do your boys

get diarrhea from it? (I'm scared silly of anything with milk in it.)

I actually told Mark that he could possibly try eating chedder cheese

per the SCD and he politely declined.... but put that on top a slice

of pizza and he has an entirely different reaction.

>

> Anyway, I digress. Mark has really done quite well on a diet with

mostly fruits, nuts, veggies and meat. We have sort of eliminated

potatoes, rice, pasta and any type of white grains. We do eat whole

grains. Is this what the SCD diet is like or is it a whole lot

different? I know that they have a lot of 'lists' of allowed foods

and such but I just wonder if we are doing a hommade version of the

SCD?

>

> Is the SCD diet very difficult to accomplish?

>

> Janice

> Mother of Mark, 13

>