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

In article >,
Serene Vannoy > wrote:

>
> 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.


Lots of salads using the fresh ingredients on your list can fit into
your diet just fine. I am surprised though that soda is on the list of
permissible items. I guess I am wrong, but I thought most sodas had some
salt in them. You can also buy a juicing machine and make your own salt
free juices. With a food processor, you can make a variety of tasty
soups, and also sauces to go over modest amounts of pasta. You can
certainly make soups a head of time, and sauces and freeze them in
individual serving sizes. Salads are tough to make in advance, but they
are certainly easy enough to prepare as needed.

Best of luck with your treatment and with your low iodine diet.