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Default Low-Iodine Diet (LID) recipe/menu ideas?

Serene Vannoy wrote:
>
> I have a feeling that the most annoying part of thyroid cancer won't be
> the surgeries or the doctor visits (as annoying as those are), but the
> Radioactive Iodine (RAI) treatments and the attendant Low Iodine Diet
> (LID). I have to do the LID for 2-4 weeks, depending, with no
> exceptions, not even one. Also, I'll be off my meds for that two weeks,
> so I won't have much energy for cooking, so I have to make and buy lots
> of stuff ahead of time.
>
> So basically, there are lots of rules about what can and can't be in the
> food, and my personal preference would be stuff that's easily frozen and
> reheated in the oven (I don't have a microwave, and I don't think I'll
> be radioactive enough to cook the stuff with my own personal radiation. :-)
>
> Here are the rules:
>
> 1) Salt is fine, but NOT iodized salt, so no packaged foods with salt,
> and no foods that anyone else has cooked.
>
> 2) Nothing from the sea. (Fish, shellfish, seaweed, seaweed tablets,
> kelp, sea salt, carrageenan, agar-agar, algin, alginate.)
>
> 3) No dairy products or nondairy creamers.
>
> 4) No egg yolks or whole eggs.
>
> 5) No commercial baked goods.
>
> 6) No red dye #3 (#40 is fine).
>
> 7) No sulfured molasses.
>
> 8) No soy, except soy oil and soy lecithin.
>
> 9) No red kidney beans, lima beans, navy beans, pinto beans, or cowpeas.
>
> 10) No rhubarb. No potato skins.
>
> 11) No meat (they say up to 5 ounces a day, but I don't want to have to
> bother counting anything or worrying about salt injections in my meat,
> so I'm just gonna skip it. I don't care about meat anyway.)
>
> 12) Up to 4 servings per day of grains, cereals, pasta, and breads
> without iodine-containing ingredients. No rice.
>
> The following are fine:
>
> * Fresh fruits and fruit juices, except rhubarb, maraschino
> cherries (if they contain Red Dye #3), and fruit cocktail with
> maraschino cherries.
> * Vegetables, preferably raw and fresh-cooked or frozen without
> salt. (But not skins of potatoes, soybeans, and some other beans like
> pinto, lima, navy, red kidney, cowpeas).
> * Unsalted nuts and unsalted nut butters.
> * Grain/cereal products in moderate amounts (see above).
> * Sugar, jelly, honey, maple syrup, and unsulfured molasses.
> * Black pepper and fresh or dried herbs.
> * All vegetable oils. Salad dressings provided they contain only
> allowed ingredients.
> * Homemade foods (see the free Low-Iodine Cookbook from the ThyCa
> web site, thyca.org.
> * Cola, diet cola, lemonade, sodas (except those with Red Dye #3),
> non-instant coffee and tea, beer, wine, other alcohol.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Serene


Well dang, Serene! I hope everything comes out well for you - I'm
knocking on wood. Sorry I can't help during the meantime. Get well
soon.

Sky

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