Maintenance Diet
Description
An allergy-free diet has two components: the identification of specific food allergens in the diet, and thereafter the allergen-free maintenance of the individual on a day-to-day basis.
To identify the allergy-inducing foods, an elimination diet, or avoidance diet, is begun. Once the offending foods are identified, the maintenance diet can be designed accordingly.
What is the maintenance diet?
The maintenance diet is created for the purpose of avoiding foods which have been identified as allergens using the elimination diet.
The "Hypoallergenic Cookbook" section provides recipes which already omit one or two common allergens. If necessary, these recipes can be customized to an individual's particular dietary requirements. Simply substitute an equivalent amount of a nonallergenic "allowed" food for an allergy-provoking ingredient. For example, nut milk can be substituted in a recipe that calls for cow's milk by someone who is sensitive to dairy products. The quantities of some substitute ingredients, such as flours and sweeteners, might need some adjustment to duplicate the taste or consistency of the original hypoallergenic recipe.
Use as many different substitutes as possible. If allergic to wheat, try using buckwheat, amaranth, tapioca flour, nut flour, etc., rather than solely using rice flour. Eating rice flour on a frequent basis might induce the development of an allergy to that ingredient.
Finally, continue using the food diary that was started during the elimination diet. After major food allergens are identified and removed from the diet, minor and less obvious food allergies may detected through this record-keeping method.
Sample Menu
Please customize these menus according to the individual's particular food allergies or dietary requirements. Most of the recipes can be found under Allergy-free Recipes' Menu.
| Breakfast | Meal planning tips |
| Fresh Cantaloupe | Make up plenty of granola |
| Apple Cinnamon Crunchy Granola | and freeze extra. |
| Nut Milk | |
| Sliced Fresh Peaches | Squeeze pineapple juice |
| Blueberry Muffin with | onto the peaches to keep |
| Peanut Butter Spread | them from turning brown. |
| Pancakes | Instead of a pancake, pour |
| Pure maple syrup | batter (with 1 extra tbls. |
| Turkey Burgers | baking powder added) into |
| greased pan, and sprinkle | |
| with fruit. Bake in 350 | |
| degree oven for 40 min. | |
| Oatmeal Sprinkled with Maple Sugar | |
| Cantaloupe and Watermelon Balls | |
| Strawberries and Orange Sections | Make your own sausage by using |
| Bean Soup | plain ground pork and |
| Pure Pork Sausages | seasonings such as salt, sage, |
| Biscuits | black pepper - ground. |
| Fresh Apricot Juice or Apricot- | Use pure maple syrup or |
| Apple Shake | homemade blueberry syrup. |
| Waffles with Maple Butter Spread | |
| or Blueberry Syrup | |
| Pure Apple Juice | Sprinkle bananas with lemon |
| Sliced Bananas | juice. Add seeds or coconut. |
| Potato Pancakes | Grate potatoes the night |
| Pork sausage | before and store in container |
| filled with water. This | |
| prevents the potatoes from | |
| turning brown. | |
| Lunch | Meal planning tips |
| Homemade Bread with | Cook fresh turkey; do not |
| Sliced Turkey and | use packaged lunch meat. |
| Homemade Mayonnaise | Make bread and slice. Put |
| Apple Juice | wax paper in between slices, |
| Pecan Balls | wrap and freeze. |
| Chef Salad w/Sliced Chicken, | If packing a lunch, store |
| Tomato, Carrot & Sunflower Seeds | dressing in a small container. |
| Oatmeal Bread | Pour over salad just before |
| French Dressing | serving. |
| Banana Ade | |
| Avocado Stuffed with | Buy potato chips processed |
| Tuna & homemade Mayonnaise | with safflower oil. |
| Toasted Rice Cakes or Potato Chips | Make your own homemade applesauce |
| Sparkling Mineral Water | in a few minutes. |
| Applesauce |
| Rice Minestrone Soup | The minestrone soup tastes |
| Carrot and Celery Sticks | better after a day or so. |
| Waldorf Salad | |
| Oatmeal Crackers | |
| Fruit Slush or Rice Nectar | |
| Chicken Salad on Bed of Lettuce | |
| Radishes & Olives | |
| Pineapple and Banana Salad | |
| Rye Krisp | |
| Sliced Pineapple and Orange Sections | |
| Tuna Salad on Avocado Half |
| Fresh Cantaloupe Shake | |
| Split Pea Soup | Make soup in a crockpot the |
| Sliced Chicken Breast | night before. |
| Apple Nut Salad | |
| Muffins | |
| Dinner | Meal planning tips |
| Crispy Oven Fried Chicken | |
| Potato Salad | |
| Gelatin | |
| Almond Cookies | |
| Fruit Punch | |
| Sloppy Joes | Mix all the dry ingredients |
| Baking Powder Biscuits | together for the biscuits and |
| Asparagus | cut in vegetable shortening. |
| Baked Pears | Store in refrigerator until |
| ready to bake, then add liquid. | |
| Pineapple Pork Chops | Peel enough carrots for another |
| Baked Sweet Potatoes | meal. Make carrot-raisin salad |
| String Beans | first and steam carrots later. |
| Celery and Carrot Sticks |
| Chicken Supreme | Wrap extra cooked Chicken Supreme |
| Green Beans with Almonds | with sauce in individual portions |
| Banana Cake | and freeze or make up "TV" dinners. |
| All these foods freeze well. | |
| Bean Soup | Make up your own dressing |
| Fried Onion Rings | of oil and vinegar; add |
| Fried Fish with Tartar Sauce | your favorite seasonings. |
| Hash Brown Potatoes | |
| Toss Salad with Oil and Vinegar | |
| French Onion Soup | Freeze extra soup in ice cube tray |
| Baked Sweet Potatoes Casserole | & store in plastic bag. Take out |
| Roast Cornish Hen with Stuffing | several cubes & heat for a cup. |
Quick Savory Meat Loaf
Mashed Potatoes
Steamed Carrots
Watermelon Sherbet
Baked Pears
Roast Wild Duck
Brown Rice
Fried Zucchini
Grapefruit, Avocado, Persimmon Salad
| Tomato Soup | Press wheat-free dough into pie |
| Broiled Burgers with Homemade | pie pan instead of rolling dough. |
Catsup
Stuffed Mushrooms
Mashed Potatoes
Key Lime Pie
Vegetable Juice
Roast Beef w/Potatoes, Carrots, Onions
Rice Pudding
Watercress Salad w/Pineapple Honey Dressing
Vegetable Beef Soup
Roast Loin of Pork
Mashed Parsnips
Sunflower Salad
Baked Chicken with Tomato Rice
Baked Acorn Squash
Mixed Vegetable Salad
(Cauliflower, String Bean, and Carrots)
Apple Tapioca Supreme
Roast Chicken w/Mushroom Stuffing
Carrots and Peas
Brown Rice
Fresh Raspberries
Lemon and Herb Baked Chicken
Potato and Onion Soup
Barley and Mushroom Pilaf
Green Beans with Almonds
Food Exchange List
Suggested foods for an allergy-free diet
Included are suggestions of allowed foods used in your Elimination Diet. Food tolerances and allergies are specific to the individual; select foods with these in mind.
Baking products
| Baking powder (corn-free) | Baking soda |
| Carob | Gelatin (beef) |
| Gelatin (pork) | Kelp |
| Miso, a fermented soy product | Raisins |
| Tapioca, instant | Tapioca, pearl |
| Vanilla |
| Almond nut milk | Apple juice (100% pure) |
| Apricot juice (100% pure) | Bottled spring water |
| Carrot juice (100% pure) | Celery juice (100% pure) |
| Whole milk - fresh & buttermilk | Goat's milk |
| Grape juice (100% pure) | Grapefruit juice (100% pure) |
| Orange juice (100% pure) | Pear juice (100% pure) |
| Pineapple juice (100% pure) | Tomato juice (100% pure) |
Flours, grains and thickeners
| Agar | Amaranth flour |
| Arrowroot starch | Barley flour |
| Buckwheat flour | Buckwheat groats |
| Chick-pea flour | Corn flour |
| Corn meal | Cornstarch |
| Millet flour | Oatmeal |
| Oat flour | Potato flour (cooked) |
| Potato starch (uncooked) | Rice |
| Rice flour | Rye flour |
| Soy flour | Tapioca starch flour |
| Wheat flour | Xanthan gum |
Nuts and seeds
| Almond | Brazil nut | Cashew |
| Filbert | Macadamia nut | Peanut |
| Pecan | Pine nut | Pistachio (undyed) |
| Pumpkin seed | Sesame seed | Sunflower seed |
| English walnut | Black walnut |
Fruits and vegetables
| Alfalfa sprout | Apple | Apricot |
| Artichoke | Avocado | Bamboo shoot |
| Banana | Bean sprouts | Beet |
| Blackberries | Black-eyed pea | Blueberry |
| Broccoli | Brussels sprout | Cabbage |
| Cantaloupe | Carrot | Cauliflower |
| Celery | Cherry | Chickpea |
| Coconut | Collard greens | Sweet corn |
| Cranberries | Cucumber | Black currant |
| Eggplant | Endive | Fig |
| Garlic | Grapefruit | Grape |
| String beans | Green peas | Bell Pepper |
| Kidney bean | Kiwi | Lamb's Quarter |
| Leeks | Lemon | Lentil |
| Lettuce | Lima bean | Lime |
| Mango | Mushroom | Honeydew |
| Navy bean | Nectarine | Onion |
| Orange | Papaya | Parsnip |
| Pea (dried) | Peach | Pear |
| Pepper | Persimmon | Pineapple |
| Plum | Potato | Pumpkin |
| Radish | Raspberry | Rhubarb |
| Rutabaga | Spinach | Squash |
| Strawberry | Sweet potato | Swiss chard |
| Tangerine | Tomato | Turnip |
| Water chestnut | Watermelon | Yam |
Meat, eggs, poultry and fish
| Beef | Chicken | Crab |
| Duck | Eggs | Fish |
| Frog legs | Goose | Lamb |
| Lobster | Pheasant | Pork |
| Quail | Rabbit | Salmon |
| Shrimp | Turkey | Tuna (water-packed) |
| Venison |
Oils and fats
| Almond oil | Apricot oil | Avocado oil |
| Butter | Coconut oil | Corn oil |
| Cottonseed oil | Margarine | Olive oil |
| Peanut oil | Safflower oil | Sesame oil |
| Soy oil | Sunflower oil | Walnut oil |
| Sorghum | Molasses | Rice syrup |
| Barley malt | Beet sugar | Cane sugar |
| Corn sugar | Corn syrup | Date sugar |
| Honey | Maple sugar | Maple syrup |
Miscellaneous
| Applesauce | Cashew nut butter |
| 100% Peanut butter | Rice cakes |
| Rice crackers | Rice sticks |
| Vinegar, apple | Vinegar, grape |
| Vinegar, distilled |
References
Butkus S.N. & L.K. Mahan. Food allergies: immunological reactions to food, a review. J Am Diet Assoc. 1986 May. 86(5). P 601-8.
Cant, A.J. Food allergy in childhood, a review. Hum Nutr Appl Nutr. 1985. Aug. 39(4). P277-93.
Halpern, G.M., J.R. Scott. Non IgE antibody mediated mechanisms in food allergy, a review. Ann Allergy. 1987 Jan. 58(1). P14-27.
Panush, R.S., E.M. Webster. Food allergies and other adverse reactions to foods, a review. Med Clin North Am. 1985 May. 69(3). P 533-46.
Taylor, S.L., R.K. Bush, & W.W. Busse. Avoidance diets--how selective should we be? New Eng Reg Allergy Proc. 1986 Now-Dec (7) 6. p 527-32.
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