Nutritious, delicious, intolerance-friendly recipes and advice
This creamy, coconutty vegetable curry with chickpeas is one of my simple go-to dinners. You can use whatever veggies you have in the fridge, so it’s a great way to use up excess, or if you’re just not sure what to do for dinner!
The chickpeas add a bit of protein to the dish, without the need for meat or fish. There’s extra calcium from the anchovies (any edible fish bones are packed with calcium). And it’s nice to have an easy dinner that can be whipped up in one pan in minutes!…
Hummus is such a delicious snack with seeded, wholegrain crackers or veggies sticks – think carrots, capsicum, cucumber and peeled broccoli stems are great too! What’s great is that it’s healthy too. And naturally dairy free, unlike many of the dips you buy in the shops.
You can use any beans you like, but also chickpeas. This recipe uses white beans – cannellini or butter – but any bean will do.
There’s no citrus, just apple cider vinegar, so this recipe is fine for citric acid intolerances. If you’d like low salicylates, use a different oil, such as rice bran, and leave out the cumin.
Also really tasty with fresh crusty bread – this gluten free bread is soft and has a lovely crust – and some coriander pesto, which is great for detoxing heavy metals from your system.…
I needed a pizza sauce that had no tomatoes and no citric acid. Plums are naturally low in citric acid, unlike most other fruits! And BBQ sauce is pretty awesome, so this tasty (little bit sweet, little bit sour) sauce was born….
Reactivity means, simply, that your body reacts to many things. This can be anything – foods, chemicals in the environment, criticism, emotions, pain. If you’re a reactive person, you feel everything strongly. Your system over-reacts to everything. (Feeling things strongly is not necessarily a bad thing, but reacting to everyday things can be really difficult.) Signs and symptoms cover every body system, but primarily skin, lungs, nose and eyes, nervous system (mood and headaches) and gut.
So, how do we quieten these reactions and make life easier on the reactive person? …