What do you eat?

Everyone is always asking me what we can eat or if they would like to make us something "what can't we eat?" The main idea of the GAPS diet is to eat lots of vegetables, meat, eggs, fruit(in moderation), and nuts (soaked first) and avoid all grains, sugar, soy, and starches(potatoes, corn, rice). We avoid dairy though many people on GAPS can do dairy.

Here is the list of what is currently "safe" for our tummies:

Updated 1/11/11

• Eggs (preferably organic, pastured but I'm not so picky anymore)
  
• Any meat cooked any way(preferably organic, pastured but again I'm not picky)
• Seafood (cooked any way, including canned fish as long as packed in water) Gray is allergic to crab
  
• Nut Butters (preferably from raw organic nuts, soaked first, then ground into butter)(we use Trader Joe's Raw Almond Butter) Gray and Annabelle are allergic to peanuts
  
• Fermented Vegetables (pickles, pickled beets, saurkraut, etc)(made without vinegar)
  
• Ghee (clarified butter), lard, tallow, olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, sesame seed oil
  
• Raw, Organic Apple Cider Vinegar or white vinegar
• Weak coffee, weak herbal tea
• Occasionally dry wine, gin and scotch
• All spices and herbs Gray and Annabelle are allergic to garlic.
• Limited Honey
• White Navy Beans (soaked first), Lentils
  
• Fruit (we try to limit the kids fruit to 1-2 a day)
  

all fruit except cantaloupe, melon, and plum

• Most non-starchy vegetables: The highlighted vegetables are for sure safe. The others have not been tested. We can handle them raw or cooked (grilled, sauteed, baked, broiled, steamed, boiled---its all okay now).
  

Artichoke, French
Asparagus
Avocados, including avocado oil
Bok Choy
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Cabbage
Capers
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celeriac
Celery
Collard greens
Cucumber
Garlic (NO garlic for Grayson or Annabelle) (the rest of us do fine)
Ginger root, fresh
Kale
Lettuce, all kinds
Olives preserved without sugar or any other non-
allowed ingredients
Onions
Parsley
Peppers (yellow, red, and orange)
Pickles, without sugar or any other non-allowed ingredients
Pumpkin
Radish
Spinach
Squash (summer and winter)
String (green) beans
Tomato puree, pure without any additives apart from salt
Tomato juice, without any additives apart from salt
Tomatoes
Turnips
Watercress
Zucchini


Here are the highlights of what is not on this protocol:

• No dairy
• No grains
• No starches (potatoes, rice, parsnips, etc.)
• No sugar (no agave nectar, or other natural sugar) We cheat and have Stevia