Reintroduction help!

[Elysewhole30]

Not sure how this works but I am reintroducting foods next week and planning my meal schedule. For dairy, I know one of the examples to try is ice cream on the blog, but ice cream typically has other non compliant additives. Is that okay? For example, if I wanted to go to chickfila and get a cup of ice cream, is that okay to do?

My schedule is:

Day 1, legumes - peanut butter, hummus, and soy sauce

Day 4, dairy - cheese and ice cream

Day 7, non gluten grains - corn tortilla chips and gluten free pretzels

Day 10, gluten grains - whole wheat bagel

Does this sound good? Thanks!

[shortystylee]

Elyse, that's about the gist of it! You want to reintroduce a different group, wait a couple of days and see how you feel, and then try another group.

 

Some of the groups you may even want to break up further if you are really curious - for example: Day 1 dairy milk, Day 4 dairy yogurt, Day 7 dairy hard cheeses, etc. since you may get very different reactions for one or the other.

[Tom Denham]

It is okay to treat ice cream as dairy even though it also includes sugar. Most people do not need a separate reintroduction for sugar.

 

You might want to keep soy separate from everything else. Some people respond badly to soy, but not to other legumes. 

[LadyM]

Personally, I separated peanuts as well as soy from other legumes and gave them their own reintroduction days because they're known to be so problematic separate from other legumes. Plus, I was really interested in eating my beloved mung beans and red lentils now and again and didn't want soy and peanuts contaminating my experiment.

[lgt2013]

Soy sauce has gluten. To reintro just soy, use tamari sauce (wheat-free soy sauce) or other soy products like tofu.

[jent103]

You can have ice cream, but I'd steer clear of Chick-Fil-A's for reintro purposes (or any other fast food place). As you noticed, it's not just milk/cream and sugar; there's cornstarch, artificial flavors, carrageenan and other stuff in there too that you might possibly have a reaction to. It would be better if you went to a really good ice cream place with great ingredients, or got a brand with a short list of ingredients from the grocery store, like those little pints of Haagen-Dazs. The idea is to separate things out really well so that if you do have a reaction, you know exactly what it's tied to.

 

http://www.chick-fil-a.com/Food/Menu-Detail/Icedream#?details=ingredients

 

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http://www.haagendazs.us/Products/Product/2473

[Elysewhole30]

Thanks you everyone. I didn't see the replies until today! I introduced legumes yesterday and just did hummus and peanut butter and he headaches after both items. Makes me nervous about my next introduction.

[MeadowLily]

Thanks you everyone. I didn't see the replies until today! I introduced legumes yesterday and just did hummus and peanut butter and he headaches after both items. Makes me nervous about my next introduction.

There is a Sabra Hummus recall right now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/business/listeria-in-sabra-hummus-prompts-new-wave-of-recalls.html?_r=0

 

 

Symptoms include headaches, fever and abdominal pain. Consumers who were exposed to Blue Bell or Sabra products and exhibit signs of illness should contact their doctors, Dr. Tauxe....