Gluten/Casein Free Diet - Autism Spectrum Message Board

JayLynn · 07-22-2003, 03:19 AM

Hello everyone,

I am about to start my son on a gluten/casein free diet and I want to know if anyone here is trying this with their child. If so, could anyone give me suggestions on where to find recipes or could anyone give me a list of things they feed their child? My son is 2 years old and he loves bread and pastas. I know I have to cut those things out of his diet and replace it with something new.

Any help would be appreciated!

Jessica

Joanne · 07-22-2003, 08:48 PM

Well, there are some free recipes on line. I bought the Special Diets for Special Kids cookbook by Lisa Lewis. It had a lot of good recipes. You can also call all of the companies. I called all of the cereal companies, candy companies, snack foods, ext. and told them that my son could not have gluten or casein. They would tell me if a product contained either. I also called my local fast food resutaunts and spoke to the manager (Ryan is big on french fries). I explained that he could not have french fries that were fried in the same grease as the chicken nuggets ior anything else with wheat. Only french fries could be cooked in the grease. Some of the fast food places do use different fryers for only french fries. Some of them read me the ingredients on the fremch fries. Some even offered to ccok me a burger and not put it on the bun. (so I could use on that was gluten free) I also made a lot of my own food. I bought a bread maker. It was so much easier. There are also a ton of places that sell mixes for cakes and cookies. I bought everything on the internet except frozen foods which I bought from the local health food market. (Waffles and pizza crust) I also bought my soy cheese there and at some grocery stores. I can get soy yogurt from my local grocery store. (I called them to make sure there was no gluten or casein in the product. Dairy free does not always mean casein free or gluten free.) There are even hotdogs that are GFCF. You can get almost anything GFCG. I found chocolate on line. Let me know what else you need. I could go on forever. Good luck. I'll look forward to hearing from you.
Joanne

JayLynn · 07-24-2003, 10:31 AM

Joanne,

Thanks for your help. I just bought the book you mentioned online a couple days ago. I'm waiting to get it in the mail (and to learn more) before I start the diet. I also ordered Super Nu Thera and I plan to try that once I start the diet. I live overseas because my Husband is in the Air Force and we shop at the commissary on base. The commissary is limited and they never get anything new. What I am going to do is read the cookbook and make what I can on my own with what I can get at the commissary. Maybe I should buy a bread maker too! I'm a horrible baker! I am looking online at specialty food stores to buy snacks and other things to feed him during the week to make things easier. Do you know of any good food stores? I don't know if you can mention store names on the board or not. I'll look over the cookbook and see what I can do. Thanks for your help and if you can think of anything else, please let me know!

Thanks,
Jessica

JayLynn · 07-24-2003, 10:34 AM

One other thing, has the diet helped Ryan? How old is he?

Nicksmom · 07-24-2003, 03:05 PM

My son is just gluten free.......he's fine with casins so that diet is much easier for us. The diet was hard in the beginning but now it's easy. I got rid of my wheat flour and we buy brown rice flour, white rice, flour, and an all porpose gluten free flour mix. I like to use the brown rice flour and get chicken strips diped in egg and then roll it in the flour and fry it up, that's how we make our chicken nuggets now. If theres a birthday in the house, Pamala's brownie mix has a great chocolate fudge cake receipt in the back, you'll never know it's gluten free. I also buy gluten free pancake mix from the health food store that taste good, especially if you add a handfull of frozen blueberries to the mix. As for bread, they sell it in the store, but it taste really bad. I make sandwhiches on rice cakes, and also gluten free walfles. We also get spaghetti made from rice noodles. They also make spaghetti made from corn, but it doesn't taste that good. They have a lot of cook books out for people with celic's disease so they are all gluten and casin free reciepts that will really help you out.