June/ July 2021 #65
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Welcome to the June/ July 2021 edition of the newsletter!

Baby it's cold outside! The winter chill is well and truly here. This edition is full of lovely warming recipes to feed your family. I love soups, stews and warm desserts in winter, the perfect excuse to indulge in these comfort foods when it's cold.

The fact sheet in this edition is about "Vitamins and other supplements". When you start to feel under the weather or a little sniffle coming on, it's automatic to reach for the standard vitamins and medicine to make you feel better. Have a read to feel equipped with what is suitable to take while on the failsafe diet.

Take care and happy cooking!
Rona
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Pulled Chicken Sliders

Domestic Diva

Pulled pork and brisket are popular meats in restaurants and with home cooks, but sadly the meat with slow cooking (amines) and the most of the sauces attached are a chemical nightmare therefore not suitable for the failsafe diet. My husband Jimmy, created this delish failsafe pulled chicken recipe so we won't miss out. It has a beautiful thick rich sauce to complement the tender chicken.
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SAVOURY LAMB PANCAKES
Gluten Free Nutrition: This is a gluten free and dairy free recipe. A good tip is that you can freeze extra pancakes to use later. They can be frozen with baking paper between each. [recipe link]
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GARLIC SOUP
SBS Recipes: This recipe from "Gourmet Farmer" is easy to adapt to failsafe, use leeks in place of onions and leave out the pepper.
"A true comfort dish, go for fresh, local garlic. The secret, I now know, is superb fresh local garlic, as much as it is the spuds you use". [recipe link]
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HOT CAROB & CASHEW DRINK
Domestic Diva: I love a good hot chocolate with marshmallows, especially once the weather turns cooler. Since we started out on the failsafe journey, I only keep carob in the house and not cocoa. [recipe link]
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BEEF CASSEROLE
Failsafe Foodie: "The cool weather has really set in now and I have to admit that I rather like it. I like scarves and warm coats, heaters and hot drinks and I really like winter food. It's quite lucky that failsafe food lends itself so well to delicious warm meals". [recipe link]
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LAMB & BARLEY STEW
Real Failsafe Meals: "Last night I 'beefed' it up a little with some potato. It became a little Irish Stew-ish I suppose. I'm thinking that Failsafe eating is easier in Winter with the nourishing one-pot stews and so on". [recipe link]
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RICE-POT VERSION OF CABBAGE CHICKEN SOUP
Right To Be Alive: A simple failsafe soup of potatoes, chicken and cabbage cooked in a rice pot. You could easily make in a slow cooker or on the stove in a big pot. [recipe link]
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LAMB & VEGGIE CASSEROLE
Domestic Diva: I love casseroles and stews, especially when they have lots of root vegetables in them. This is a regular one I make that I have adapted to suit the Failsafe diet from the “Travelling with Thermomix” cookbook. That recipe base is using stout beer, so I figured that whiskey would be a good substitute! [recipe link]
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HEARTY LENTIL & VEG SOUP
Fed Up: This low fat vegetarian soup is healthy and filling, ideal for slimmers at about 140 kJ per 100g (33 calories). [recipe link]
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CREAMY CHICKEN & BROWN RICE SOUP (FAILSAFE - MOD SALS)
Thermomix Recipe Community: Adapted from Quirky Cooking recipe. The carrot makes it a moderate salicylates, add extra celery, beans or choko to replace if on strict elimination. [recipe link]
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CHICKEN CASSEROLE WITH SAVOURY BISCUITS
Cooking for Oscar: The inspiration for this dish came from a recipe called Hungarian Chicken, which has biscuits (scones) cooked on top. I decided to use the biscuit concept with a chicken casserole and to make savoury scones. [recipe link]
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LING POTATO TOPPED PIE
Gluten Free Nutrition: A gluten free, dairy fish pie. Remember that fish and seafood must be very fresh, best eaten within 12 hours of catch or frozen and eaten within 2 weeks for strict failsafe. [recipe link]
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CARAMELISED WHITE CHOCOLATE LAVA PUDDINGS
The Kate Tin: "Chocolate fondant, meet your match! The caramelised white chocolate version! And man oh man is this good".
**Use nestle white melts or milky bar for failsafe. [recipe link]
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GOLDEN SYRUP DUMPLINGS USING BLADE COVER
Thermomix Recipe Community:
This recipe is by "Eliza.thermo.mum". A delicious dumpling recipe made in the Thermomix. [recipe link]
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CARAMEL PEAR SELF-SAUCING PUDDINGS
Women's Weekly: These sweet pear puddings draped with caramel sauce make an uplifting dessert for the whole family - especially on a cool autumn or winter night. **use tin pears in syrup and cashews in place of pecans. [recipe link]
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CARAMEL CROISSANT PUDDING
Gluten Free Nutrition: A great take on the tradition bread and butter pudding using croissants and caramel to make it decadent. [recipe link]

Fed Up Fact Sheet

Vitamins and other supplements

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This factsheet covers vitamins and other supplements that are suitable for use on a diet free of additives and low in salicylates, amines and natural flavour enhancers (failsafe).
Daily vitamin supplements are one of the commonest causes of failure on the elimination diet. You have to avoid artificial colours, flavours, chewable tablets, bioflavonoids and herbs such as rose hips. These ingredients are not necessarily listed on pharmaceutical products.
It is best to stick to RPA-recommended supplements. If you must try different brands, avoid: artificial colours, artificial and natural flavourings, preservatives (sorbates, sulphites including sodium metabisulphite, benzoates including sodium benzoate, hydroxybenzoates, parabens and PABA), herbs, bioflavonoids, fruit and vegetable extracts, and natural colour annatto (160b). Titanium dioxide (white, 171) and iron oxide colours (yellow or red, 172) are acceptable.
  • pharmaceuticals are not required to list all ingredients on the label. Even if they claim 'no artificial colours and preservatives, yeast, sugar, gluten etc', they are not necessarily failsafe.
  • all chewable or fizzy supplements contain flavours that are not failsafe.
  • bioflavonoids and other natural sources of vitamins (eg rosehips) are often used in health food-type vitamin supplements, but are likely to contain salicylates.
  • vitamin supplements from naturopaths or chiropractors are likely to contain such natural sources of vitamins that can be high in salicylates.
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