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Buckwheat
August 5, 2012
6:57 pm
LisaAJB
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I am currently on a doctor recommended crazy stupid diet because my crazy stupid body is going to heck in a hand basket (or that's what it feels like). Right now I'm off all wheat, sugar, soy, dairy, and corn as well as a few other things like coffee, oranges, and alcohol. Pretty much, if I enjoyed eating it, I can't. It's especially hard because I used to bake all of our bread and make 99% of our wheat products from scratch. So as an alternative I'm giving buckwheat a try. I've already tried to make grandmother bread using a buckwheat substitute and it was a huge flop. It was either too wet to kneed or too dense to rise and I couldn't find a middle ground. The chickens devoured that one. So I'm asking for tips on how to work with buckwheat. I'm going to try and make the wheat tortillas using buckwheat and oil for dinner tonight.

August 5, 2012
7:02 pm
Ross
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Make pancakes.

August 5, 2012
7:10 pm
LisaAJB
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Is there a recipe for quick mix pancakes without the pick mix that I could convert?

August 5, 2012
8:00 pm
Ross
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One cup flour, one quarter cup sugar. salt, half tablespoon baking powder, one egg, enough liquid to make a batter some chicken, bacon or ham fat. Add any kind of berry fruit or raisins chopped apple, cranberries. Leave out the sugar and add diced ham, onions and bell pepper and a little black pepper. You could use chicken stock for the liquid.

August 5, 2012
8:29 pm
LisaAJB
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That sounds wonderful! The tortillas worked. Not as good as wheat and kind of dry, but some homemade salsa made up for it.

August 5, 2012
9:27 pm
Ross
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You can add a little oatmeal to the buckwheat. That will help with the moisture. Don't forget rice in all of its variety.

August 5, 2012
9:46 pm
LisaAJB
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I've been eating tons of rice this week. Garden risotto! I forgot about oat flour. I've made it before. Thanks for that tip.

August 6, 2012
4:57 am
princessvanessa
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Not alcohol, too!  In order to be on such a crazy restrictive diet you probably need a good stiff drink, now and again, to get through it. lol and just kidding.

Just a note, if you drank very much coffee before the start of the special diet…you may find that you have headaches and feel flu-like symptoms.  Years ago I gave up coffee cold-turkey.  After the third day of feeling like I was on deaths doorstep I decided that I would have a cup of coffee before my demise.  Half an hour later and I felt great!  I realized that I needed to back off on my coffee consumption. You might also get some "withdrawal" symptoms from suddenly deleting foods that you used to eat regularly but now are told not to.

Are you able to eat spelt?  I've not tried it but I believe that there are online recipes for spelt bread.

I hope that whatever is ailing you is discovered and you can return to a more "normal" diet. 

My prince charming took a wrong turn, got lost, and is too stubborn to ask for directions.
August 6, 2012
7:45 am
Ross
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You can probably also make muffins with buckwheat flour and oatmeal. With dairy and soy prohibited it probably means nobutter or margarine. But rendered poultry fat and pork fat when seasoned with salt  and kept chilled make very pleasing substitutes. Just think about the drippings in a roasting pan. 

August 7, 2012
11:20 am
Miss Judy
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My daughter likes almond, brown rice,coconut,oat,and potato flours.

Her favorite go to cookbook is  Keepers at Home Gluten Free Cooking… I found this book at an Amish store.

She makes a mix that can be used cup for cup of flour in your favorite recipes.

mix:

4c. brown rice

1 and 1/3 cup of potato starch

2/3 cup of tapioca flour

mix and use cup for cup as you would flour…except…to each cup of mix

add 3/4 tsp. of xantham gum when making  bread

use 1/2 tsp xantham for cakes

use  1/4 to 1/2 tsp xantham gum for cookies.

I have never made this…my daughter has…I don't like to post on Farm Bell unless I have personally made it. So if this works for you maybe you could post on Farm Bell wink

August 8, 2012
1:17 am
Miss Judy
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@ LisaAJB…Sorry, I just re-read your post…You were just wanting info on Buckwheat and not other types of flour.

August 8, 2012
9:37 am
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No worries Miss Judy, all info is helpful!

August 8, 2012
11:03 am
Ross
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Does the sugar restriction apply to only sucrose or to all sugars? This shotgun approach to a dietary change is a little bewildering to me because if it works how will you know which of the foods was the problem?

My youngest son could eat strawberry jam or he could eat peanut butter but if he had a peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich he turned into an uncontrollable monster. It lasted for several hours and then he settled down again.

I suggest that if you don't see improvement in a few weeks that you find a different Doctor.

August 8, 2012
12:35 pm
LisaAJB
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It's artificial food that's the problem. My hormones are all screwed up and this month of food is helping purge the artificial hormones (such as that in milk) from my body and helping to balance my hormones. This is not related to a food allergy. I am very happy with this doctor. I've had this problem for over 6 years and this is the only doctor who has attempted to figure out the problem. And as I feel 1000 times better I'm convinced she was right in her diagnosis and prescription.

I can have blackstrap molasses, but not honey which is bewildering. I added some molasses to some squash I roasted this weekend and it was delish!

August 8, 2012
1:43 pm
Ross
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Back to heirloom fruits and veggies. You may have to get a goat for the milk. Soy naturally has an abundance of hormones. You can buy Organic milk in this area No antibiotics and no added hormones, just what the cow produces on her own.

August 8, 2012
1:43 pm
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I've recently started 1-2 glasses of green smoothie per day … a mix of fruit and large handfuls of dark greens, all fresh and raw.  Very palatable replacement to lunch.  To my happy surprise, not only is my weight inching downward but my chronic osteo pain has dialed back enough in volume to catch my attention.  Average smoothie is 1 banana, 1 apple (not organic, so peeled), grated ginger (optional), 2 large handfuls of any dark greens (spinach, arugula, chard, kale … take out the stems), 1-2 C water and blend it till smooth.  Makes about a quart.  I freeze the banana slices, or add/sub frozen berries, maybe a couple of ice cubes to make the first glass frosty.  Chill the second glass for later.

Check out some reference material here.  I was wooed into this approach by a friend suffering IBS who did her research into a kinder diet (no thanks to the doctor) and started green smoothies daily.  Not only is her original problem gone, but her 70 year old skin positively glows with her daily regimen of greens … she still curtails dairy (eats greek yogurt only) but has been able to reintroduce whole grains again.  Like you, her system needed a rest from our food system of hidden landmines.

BTW, the issue with honey may have to do with processed, filtered commercial honey mixes from different countries which takes out ALL the good parts and just leaves gooey sweet, period.  See if you can't find a local beekeeper who sells UNfiltered honey … dark, strong and soooo good on a scoop of greek yogurt with berries & nuts.  Ummm!

August 8, 2012
6:42 pm
Miss Judy
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LisaAJB….My daughter went on the same "detox" eating program…then after 6 weeks she started adding things back in one at a time. I can see a wonderful improvement in her overall health. She is not "allergic" to wheat or refined sugar but they do trigger some of her health issues. She can occasionally eat wheat or sugar with no problem but when she eats a steady diet of it she is miserable. She has always been lactose intolerant also. She doesn't have as much problems with raw milk as with store bought milk. This was not an easy plan to follow but she will be the first to say it was totally worth it.

Maybe I can get my daughter to be a member of CitR and Farm Bell and she can post some of her go to recipes.yes

August 8, 2012
8:03 pm
LisaAJB
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Secretly, I've been sneaking my organic honey from the coop into a few things, but not too many, don't tell. Before this "phase" of the diet I was on ONLU GREEN VEGETABLES. That's all I ate for a week. So I do have an appreciation for greens now that I didn't have before. I made another batch of tortillas this time using part oat and part buckwheat flour. They are sooo good! I don't think I'm even going to bake bread because the tortillas are so yummy it's all I want to eat. I have been buying only organic milk for my husband since this started. We used to buy the organic, grass raised, no hormones milk, but then I read Animal Vegetable Miracle and thought it would be better for the earth to get the local milk (with hormones). I was wrong. On the plus side, I drank that same milk for years and years growing up, so the damage was probably already done. Hidden landlines is right!

August 8, 2012
11:35 pm
Ruthmarie
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No matter what damage the hormones in the milk might have done, it's never too late to improve a diet or reverse a problem from food.  Issues from ingested hormones are rarely permanent since each living body constantly remakes itself. 

I would agree with Ross about staying away from soy unless its marked organic as that particular crop is a major wonder of GMO in our food system … I do wonder if our digestive systems, that evolved to digest corn, wheat, soy of natural hybrids, have trouble dealing with completely new proteins created in GMO inventions.  What that does to the hormones in soy I haven't the foggiest, but there certainly seems to be an escalation of food allergies in past decades and mysterious ailments that confound the medical industry (few of which understand food, just pills).  It doesn't speak well for our western diet of production food (hence why many of us are lurking on diy forums) nor our troubled food system. 

August 9, 2012
8:59 am
LisaAJB
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I can't have soy right now anyway, but aside from a few edamame when we go out for sushi, I rarely eat it anyway. I think the major culprit of my issues is the milk and meat I grew up eating. I haven't had non organic meat in a while, so going back to it won't be a problem.

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