Aaron's Diet


Safest Foods
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Fruits & Vegetables
SAFE (if prepared properly)
- Unsweetened, unsulfered coconut (shredded, flakes, or flour)
- Very well-cooked broccoli, yellow squash, cauliflower, and celery
- Cooked Frozen Peas (no additives, well-cooked; tested up to 1/4 cup safely)
- Avocado, raw
- Spaghetti squash
Safe in small amounts (if prepared properly)
- Butternut Squash
- Raspberries, blueberries, or strawberries in properly prepared smoothie, not exceeding 3.5-4g of sugar
Unknown
- Other squash
Unsafe
- Zucchini (reaction is mild)
- Anything with a pH below 5
- High-sugar or high glycemic index foods
- Any raw vegetables
- Watermelon, lemon, lime, grape, grapefruit, pomegranate, cranberry, apple, tomato, pumpkin, olives, cucumbers, pickles, cacao, cocoa, mangoes
- Corn, potato, asparagus, riced vegetables, sweet potatoes/yams, Brussells sprouts
- Carrots, parsnips, figs, and dates are unsafe, but might be OK in very small amounts (and, for the carrots and parsnips, very well cooked)
- Bananas are OK as an ingredient in extreme moderation (no more than about 25 g.)
- Any fruit/vegetable juices
- Riced vegetables
Grains and Breads
SAFE (if prepared properly)
- Rolled, old fashioned oats
- Coyotas cassava tortillas
- ZenB or Wellth Foods Pasta made from only yellow peas (or yellow peas + spinach)
- Simple Mills Almond Flour Baking Mix, Artisan Bread Mix (for vinegar in prep instructions, use balsamic)
Unknown
- Steel Cut Oats
- Boostcous
Unsafe
- Quick oats
- Wheat
- Corn
- Millet
- Rice (all types)
- Barley
Dairy & Eggs
SAFE
- Green Valley Creamery Sour Cream
- Skim Ultra-filtered Milk (Mootopia brand preferred; Fairlife brand works too)
- Fage BestSelf Lactose Free 2% Plain Yogurt
- Decaf coffee mixed with ultra-filtered skim milk (1/3-1/2 decaf)
Safe in small amounts
- Green Valley Lactose-Free Butter or non-lactose free butter with Lactaid (in extreme moderation)
- Green Valley Lactose-Free Cream Cheese
- Tillamook Brand Cream Cheese (with Lactaid)
- Eggs if prepared correctly (Pasture Raised preferred)
- Cheese if small amount and taken with Lactaid
- Eggs (up to 2), if prepared properly
- Parmesan cheese (with Lactaid)
- Thin sliced Boar's Head Smoked Gouda with rind removed (with Lactaid)
Unknown
- Anything with gums (guar gum is unsafe; others are presumed unsafe)
Unsafe
- Anything with Guar Gum
- Cream
- Almond, soy, rice, or other milk alternatives
- Cream cheese (outside of Tillamook brand)
- Eggs, any preparation (likely OK as an ingredient)
- Cheese (probably OK in small amounts as an ingredient)
Meat & Seafood
SAFE (if prepared properly)
- N/A
Safe in small amounts
- Atlantic Salmon (if prepared safely)
- Chilean Sea Bass (if prepared safely, rarely and with Gaviscon)
- Canned Tuna (pulverized)
- Pacific Foods Organic Free Range Chicken Broth (cooking in this is fine; consuming it is not)
Unknown
- Flaky Fish
Unsafe
- Sushi/Sashimi
- Shrimp
- Chewy or Tough Seafood
- Calamari
- Eel
Nuts & Legumes
Safe in small amounts
- Smooth (not crunchy) cashew butter or peanut butter made with only cashews/peanuts and salt
Unknown
- Other unsweetened smooth (not crunchy) nut butters
Unsafe
- All Nuts (whole or in pieces)
- Crunchy nut butters
- Seeds (small or ground seeds are likely safe as ingredients)
Sweets, Additives, & Flavorants
SAFE
- Raw Rev Creamy Peanut Butter Food Bars
- Salt
- Powdered Rosemary
- Nutmeg
Safe in small amounts
- Pacific Foods Organic Free Range Chicken Broth (cooking in this is fine; consuming it is not)
- Spices as Ingredients: Most Baking Spices, Oregano, Penzey's Pumpkin Pie Spice, Dill, Sage
Mild Reaction, but OK in Small Amounts
- Hu No Added Sugar Cookies: Peanut Butter or Snickerdoodle
- Rx Coconut Nut Butter (1 packet) - mild reaction
- Mayonnaise (no soybean oil or other forbidden ingredients)
- Olive and avocado oil
- Penzey's Apple Pie Spice, Cumin, Phoenicia's 7 Spices Blend (allspice, cinnamon, cloves, cumin, coriander, caraway, nutmeg), Cinnamon, Ginger (very little)
Unknown
- Foods in the 5-6 pH range
- Gums (guar gum is unsafe; others are presumed unsafe)
- Spices as Ingredients: Basil
Unsafe
- Sugar (any form, even natural or fruit sources)
- Sweeteners of any kind; artificial sweeteners
- Guar Gum
- Pepper and spicy things
- Soy or Soy Sauce
- Anything with pH below 5, including all vinegars
- Anything containing apple
- Onion, garlic
- Cocoa, cacao
- Carbonated beverages
Recipes
Smoothie
Ingredients
- 3 cups ice
- 1/2 cup or so of Fage BestSelf Lactose Free Plain Greek Yogurt, unsweetened
- 1 of these: 80g raspberries or blackberries, 35–40g blueberries, or 70g strawberries
- 275g ultrafiltered skim milk, Mootopia preferred; Fairlife is OK too
- About 1 cup filtered water
- Spices:
- Penzey’s Powdered Rosemary
- Penzey’s Cinnamon
- Penzey’s Apple Pie Spice
Instructions
- Combine ingredients in a blender and blend very well.
Feta Egg Scramble
Ingredients
- 2 eggs, pasture raised preferred
- Olive oil, spray with only olive oil preferred
- Boar’s Head Crumbled Feta
- Fage BestSelf Lactose Free 2% Plain Yogurt, unsweetened
- Salt
- Lactaid pill
Instructions
- Lightly grease a frying pan with olive oil spray and heat. Crack in two eggs and keep stirring over low heat to scramble them.
- When nearly done, add generous feta, salt, and a small amount of yogurt. Continue to stir over low heat until well combined. Do not allow it to fully dry out.
- Serve with Lactaid pill on the side.
Sunny Side Up Eggs
Ingredients
- Olive oil spray
- A few tablespoons chickpeas
- 2 eggs
- Water
- Salt
Instructions
- Grease a frying pan with olive oil spray. Add a few tablespoons of chickpeas down the diagonal of the pan. Crack two eggs on each side of the chickpeas.
- Cook over medium heat. When it just starts cooking, add a thin layer of water and cover.
- Cook until egg whites are firm. Add more water if needed so a layer of water remains in the pan at all times. Add salt and turn off the heat.
- Drain the water and serve.
Aaron’s Cereal
Ingredients
- 24g rolled, old fashioned oats
- Option 1: 12g unsweetened peanut powder, Nuts.com peanut flour or PB&Me
- Option 2: 1 tbsp walnut meal/flour + 4 shakes of Penzey’s Pumpkin Pie Spice
- 500g ultrafiltered skim milk, Mootopia
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Cook the oats in a pan or baking tray for 7 minutes.
- Let the oats cool.
- Combine the oats with either option 1 or option 2 above.
- Add the ultrafiltered skim milk and serve.
Aaron’s Burritos
Ingredients
- 1 cup green lentils
- Cumin
- Six-inch Coyotas Cassava Tortillas
- Green Valley Creamery Sour Cream
- Avocado
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Boil a pot of water.
- Rinse the green lentils and add to the boiling water.
- Cook for 24 minutes.
- Drain the lentils and set aside.
- Wet both sides of a six-inch tortilla and warm on a plate in the microwave on high for 20 seconds.
- Spread lentils on the tortilla.
- Spread sour cream on top.
- Add salt and cumin.
- Microwave on high for 20 seconds.
- Add avocado and fold the burrito.
- Serve.
Lentil Soup
Ingredients
- 1/8 cup green lentils
- 1/4 cup red lentils
- Phoenicia 7 Spices Blend: allspice, cinnamon, cloves, cumin, coriander, caraway, nutmeg
- Salt to taste
- Optional: 1/4 cup frozen peas, no sugar/additives
Instructions
- Bring a small pot with 4 cups filtered water to a boil.
- Rinse the green lentils and add them to the boiling water.
- After 12 minutes, rinse the red lentils and add them to the boiling water. Optional: add 1/4 cup frozen peas.
- Cook for an additional 12 minutes.
- Stir in generous amounts of the 7 Spice blend and salt to taste.
- Do not drain. Transfer to a bowl with the remaining liquid and serve.
Food Bars
Dry Ingredients
- 2 cups ground rolled old fashioned oats, not quick cook
- 1/2 cup almond flour
- 1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1 heaping tbsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp peanut flour, buy at Nuts.com or Amazon
Wet Ingredients
- 3/4 banana
- 1 tsp double-strength vanilla extract, or 2 tsp regular strength
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup Green Valley Creamery Sour Cream
- 1/4 cup ultrafiltered unsweetened skim milk, Mootopia or Fairlife
- Natural Way unsweetened peanut butter, or substitute another appropriate brand
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Grind 1 cup of the oats into a flour in a food processor.
- Add to the remaining dry ingredients in one bowl.
- Beat the egg in a separate bowl.
- Add the other wet ingredients to the second bowl, except for the peanut butter.
- Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients bowl and stir to combine well.
- Divide the mixture into 15 portions and bake for 5 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and add a thin layer of peanut butter on top of each bar.
- Bake for another 6 minutes.
- Remove, cool, and serve.
Aaron’s Cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup oats
- 1/4 cup shredded coconut, unsweetened
- 1/2 cup super fine almond flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Several generous shakes of ground cinnamon; optionally add a bit of ground cloves and nutmeg
- 2 tbsp unsweetened powdered peanut butter, Nuts.com or PB&Me
- 1 medium ripe banana, about 120g
- 1/4 tsp double-strength vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup ultrafiltered skim milk, or 50/50 blend of milk and decaf coffee
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Roughly pulse the oats in a food processor for a few seconds.
- Add almond flour, salt, cinnamon, and powdered peanut powder and pulse to combine.
- In a medium bowl, mash the banana well and combine with vanilla extract, milk, and shredded coconut.
- Add oats mixture and mix well to combine.
- Divide into 12 or more cookies and transfer to a baking tray with parchment paper, unbleached preferred. The cookies will not rise, so the shapes you make will be their final shape.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove and cool.
Aaron’s Atlantic Salmon
Note: This recipe is a little iffy for Aaron because of how oily it is. Aaron can usually eat it only if he is feeling well and medicates afterwards.
Ingredients
- Atlantic salmon fillet, boneless
- Olive oil spray or olive oil
- Salt
- Dried chervil
- Fresh dill
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425°F.
- Place the fillet on a baking dish and spray lightly with olive oil.
- Salt well.
- Sprinkle dried chervil.
- Add fresh dill on top, avoiding stems.
- Cook for about 17 minutes. It should be just cooked inside. Under- or overcooking makes it harder to digest.
Aaron’s Veggies
Ingredients
- Pacific Foods Free Range Chicken Broth
- Vegetable options: yellow squash, broccoli with stem and leaves cut off, cauliflower with stem and leaves cut off, celery, Del Monte Fresh Cut Canned Green Beans with Salt
- Optional add-in: avocado, raw and added on top after cooking
- Salt
Instructions
- In a small pot, bring a carton of chicken broth to a boil.
- Add vegetables.
- Cook until semi-soft, not firm and not mushy.
- Drain veggies to remove all broth.
- Salt and serve. Optionally, add fresh avocado cut into pieces on top.
BoostCous
Ingredients
- 50–75g BoostCous: boostcous.com
- 1 avocado
- Salt
Instructions
- Follow package instructions to cook BoostCous, but use the full 8 minutes.
- Cut up one avocado.
- Add salt to taste, mix, and serve.