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Welcome to the April / May 2021 edition of the newsletter!
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Praying you have a blessed and safe Easter with your family and friends!
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This month has a bit of everything. I am especially excited about the feature recipe containing suitable failsafe teas. You will also find some Easter inspiration, some Aussie recipes for Anzac day (25th April) and a couple of delicious delights to spoil mum with for Mother's day (9th May).
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Take care and happy cooking!
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Failsafe Tea's
For those who are tea or coffee drinkers when starting on the the Failsafe diet, it is one thing that is dearly missed and replacements have been hard to find. Tea and coffee are listed as high salicylates and herbal teas as very high salicylates. Decaf coffee has been the only saving grace up until now, hopefully one of the options will save your sanity!
Would love to hear your feed back on these or others you have tried.
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Happy Easter
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Easter is already here! For some great failsafe Easter inspiration, check out the Pinterest Board full of suitable failsafe Easter ideas. Kids crafts, hot cross buns, Easter baking, make your own carob and white choc eggs, and Easter egg hunt ideas.
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Idea: Stuffed Crescent Roll Carrots
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This recipe uses an American pre-made dough that isn't suitable for failsafe, but the idea is really cute! Make you own Croissants dough, and leave out the grated lemon peel in the cream cheese filling (could add thinly sliced shallots instead). Something fun to add to your Easter feast!
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Failsafe Family: Adapted for the Thermomix from Sue Dengate's recipe in Fed Up (You can find the original in her book). [recipe link]
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Cooking For Oscar: There are many versions of the ANZAC biscuit available on the Internet and no-one really knows what the original recipe was. It varied depending on who made them and what ingredients were at hand (it was war time after all). [recipe link]
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SBS Food: Vanilla slice seems to be one of those bakery goodies that's always bought and never made. You’ll be surprised how easy it is to make, though... and how utterly delicious it is when you do. [recipe link]
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ANZAC BISCUIT HOKEY POKEY ICE-CREAM SANDWICHES
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SBS Food: Caramel, ice-cream and honeycomb sandwiched between crisp biscuit slabs. Serve for Anzac Day, a summer soiree or a spectacular birthday treat. *Leave out coconut or use homemade failsafe Anzac biscuits. [recipe link]
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Domestic Diva: Meat pies with sauce are so Australian to me, I love a good meat pie. Here is my simple and quick failsafe version I whipped today that got three thumbs up from my cherubs. [recipe link]
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LAMB ROAST WITH A CELERY PESTO CRUST
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Domestic Diva: Lamb is my favourite meat to roast. Usually I do it au-natural, but this time I decided to make it a little more special. The pear seemed to give the meat a beautiful sweetness and the celery pesto was a perfect touch. [recipe link]
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4 INGREDIENT SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK CAKE
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Spoil mum on Mother's day with this beautiful cake.
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"I recently grabbed my tin from the pantry to make this simple yet delicious sweetened condensed milk cake. So fast and simple to make, and you’d be lucky to have any crumbs left over after serving it to friends". [recipe link]
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CAROB CUP CAKES WITH MARSHMALLOW FROSTING - GF
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Failsafe Foodie: "The carob cake was actually so good that I enjoyed some (We're not big fans of carob here). So today I experimented with something else - Marshmallow frosting. Bingo! We have a winning combination". [recipe link]
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Real Failsafe Meals: Treat mum to breakfast in bed!
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"I have not eaten a crumpet in aaaaages. Not since going Failsafe, as I never knew how to make them. Then I happened across this recipe on a parenting forum and WOO!! They. Are. Delish". [recipe link]
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Fed Up Fact Sheet
Challenges
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Easter is the perfect time to do an Amines Challenge. You can have the feeling of not missing out and having school holidays at the same time means you can keep tabs easier on what is being consumed at home without all the other daily pressures and interferences.
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Fed up has a fact sheet on how to do a food challenge if you are just starting out.
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The key is to concentrate on one food chemical at a time and to eat lots of it. As a rule of thumb, 3 days for artificial additives and 7 days for natural chemicals such as salicylates; however, we find that people may need longer for bread preservative 282 (5-7 days or more) and at least 10 days for milk.
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The rules of challenge that your dietitian will recommend are:
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- Several days without symptoms before each challenge (ask your dietitian – usually it's 3-5 days)
- Stick strictly to the elimination diet. Start again at the beginning (several days without symptoms) if you make a mistake.
- Stick strictly to the challenge foods on your dietitian's list
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