grain-free diet

[Scarlett]

I have been advised to try a grain-free diet, in order to help symptoms of IBD/allergies.
Has anyone any experience of this- for example, which grains CAN you eat- such as buckwheat? I think rice is out. And more importantly what on earth can I have for breakfast?!

[rowanwitch]

No rice is fine in fact when you do a proper exclusion diet it is one of the very few foods you can eat along with lamb, pears and lentils,,,, Grain substitutes are soya then if you are ok with that try millet, then rye, then corn, if all ok try spelt which is a much morre primitive form of wheat and people can often tolerate this even if they cant tolerate the modern stuff.

By the way who has advised you to do this? hopefully not one of these 'sensitivity test ' bods who turn up in the local health food shop....remember where you have to buy all these special foods they tell you that you need....just think how objective they might be.

..Have twice done exclusion diets once for a suspected nightshade family intolerance and once for wheat

[Scarlett]

Hi, thanks for that! It was actually advised by autoimmunetherapies.com, a man called Jasper Lawrence who uses worm therapy to help people with diseases like asthma/inflammatory bowel/hayfever. I emailed him to ask if I could be helped as my problems were not straightforward; ie- I have ulcerative colitis but really bad joint problems, rather than bowel ones. The first thing he suggested was to stop eating ALL grains. Which i assumed meant rice too. Argh! tricky.. I am not sure what to do with buckwheat or quinoa but will do more research.