RE: Day to Day Ulog
That's the tricky bit isn't it, finding a diet that's going to provide for your needs. Lucky you can have black beans. Jamie has to have a FODMAP diet and it's frustrating to go to put a dish together only to realise an essential ingredient isn't on the 'can eat' list. At least you know what was setting it off. Do you think that after a time you can build up tolerance, or is a lifelong thing? I know my son's girl had awful problems - she'd throw up and be sick for days if she ate wheat, mushrooms and a whole heap of foods. She basically was super strict (and vegan) for about three years and now, after careful re-introduction of some foods, she can eat them again in moderation, and found out she can tolerate sourdough, so has been making her own. She's more than happy - the girl was over the moon to have toast again I tell you.
Well in the past I had become unable to tolerate milk, eggs, or anything carbonated, and avoided them for about seven years. I could have "incidental" amounts, like, if I ate cake that had been made with egg or milk that was fine, or if I had a sip of soda to taste it that was fine, but if I had a bowl of cereal or ate a scrambled egg or drank a whole can it was A Bad Time.
Then one day I was at work and just nodding off at my desk. This was before I had realized that caffeine did not wake me (since I didn't really drink anything caffeinated at that point in my life), so I thought, well, I'll go get a soda and just have a few sips, and hopefully just a touch of caffeine and sugar will wake me up.
Well I was working on the computer and phone and kept sipping without realizing what I was doing, until I picked up the can and realized how empty it was and thought "I AM GONNA DIE". But then nothing happened. No reaction at all. So I tried a hardboiled egg in the cafeteria after that in my salad one day, and same thing. Then I tried milk, and had hit-or-miss results, and it turns out that I am fine with grassfed milk, and not so with other milk (I mean, I can have one drink from the coffee shop or something without a problem but I can't bring a half gallon home). I'm fairly certain that's because their feed in a lot is allergens: corn and soy, and that's what the problem is, as opposed to the milk itself.
Ironically a few months after I began those experiments I did a continuing education for work, and since I worked at a famous asthma and allergy hospital, it was on allergies, and I found out that that is actually a thing they sometimes do - if you can avoid the allergen for several years, you might get it back later.
So tl;dr I'm hoping I can get some foods back someday, but it hasn't been that many years since I first got all the tests and began weeding them out of my diet, so it's not today. ;)
I totally feel that girl's happiness to get a food back, lol. I miss a lot of fruits. And whole wheat bread on grilled cheese. I do eat white flour even though technically wheat by itself tested positive, but I don't rash if it's white. I think it's probably like rice where the bulk of the allergen is in the hull/germ.
FODMAP diet, yeah, I was trying that for a while since at first the doctor told me I had IBS, but since it was an allergy issue that didn't really help. I'm glad if it helps your husband!