Reactions to your HFI/DFI condition?

[millan]

Another note on cabbage.

When I was a child my mother was informed that cabbage and some other vegetables such as cauliflower were ok. This was based on the old table from the Boston university.
www.bu.edu/aldolase/HFI/treatment/diet1.html

BUT! I've always hated cabbage and cauliflower (especially cooked). My mother has always let me decide what I wanted to eat and not eat (very wise woman) and when I grew up and started collecting info about suger contents we realized that both cabbage and cauliflower does contains more sugar than I'm comfortable with.

The table Fred linked to seems to have similar values that my current table has (a list from the Swedish National Food Administration with vegetables, fruits and grains) and cabbage has around 1,5 grams of fructose - too much in my opinion.

I do not eat things with more than 1 g of fructose in them (apart from an occational tasting) and mainly prefer those with less than 0,5 g...
But then again, people seem to be more and less sensitive... :-)

Millan

[millan]

Oh, I forgot.
I eat c-vitamin in tablets from time to time.
I've found a Swedish brand that doesn't contain any sugars.
If it's difficult to find a supplement without sugars, try to include some extra spinach (46 mg vit C) and broccoli (83 mg vit C) and occationaly some lemon (53 mg vit C) in the diet.

Millan

[colormist]

Thanks for that list, Fred. I pulled it into excel, deleted the 1000+ veggies, and highlighted the 800+ veggies (as being unsafe in more than small portions). Now I think I have a reasonable list to go off of for my grocery shopping excursion today!

Now if I can only find Okra and Turnip Greens...

[sarahk]

You can find breaded okra in the freezer section--I bake it, not fry it, and eat it with mustard

[lisa]

Not to mean that I was considering letting Nate's teacher test anything. She believes me that he can't have things and has seen what happens when he gets into things that he shouldn't. (He still sneaks the wrong thing from time to time and doesn't seem to care that he'll be miserable. ) For some reason, it just makes her feel better to believe that this is a temporary condition. I've found that to be true of quite a few poeple that hear about his condition.

lisa said:

Nate's teacher was saying that she worked with a kid that was allergic to almost everything and over time, introducing him to small amounts of those things made him more tolerable of them. She was wondering if Nate might be the same way. I told her probably not, but didn't explain too much. (It just takes too much time and I've found that people like to argue. )
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