SCD diet - question

Do you not have the book, Breaking the Vicious Cycle? Yes, almond flour is allowable on the SCD. There are recipes in the book for bread, muffins, etc. Here's a link to an SCD recipe site with recipes for baked goods:

scdrecipe.com/recipes/

However, if you're expecting fluffy, light breads and crispy crackers, you may be disappointed. Almond flour baked goodies are delicious, but they have a very rich and heavy consistency, similar to cornbread.

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Yes it is difficult in the beginning to change the way you think about meals and food. A lot of people try and substitute "gluten free" bread and crackers but that is counterproductive (as well as being SCD noncompliant ). You can't really make normal bread without grains and for me grains are very bad for my UC colon. (wheat is just one of the many grains).

I don't eat bread or crackers unless it's made with almond flour and you really don't want a piece of almond flour "bread", ugh. I recently made some almond flour crackers for the first time and they are pretty decent. I had homemade devilled ham on crackers for lunch. But they are not an every day food for me.

Instead of looking for a substitute for bread I really suggest focusing on meals with protein and veggies plus fruit for dessert or snack.
The one place almond meal does shine for me is homemade biscotti which I make once a week for snacks. Great for teatime and to take when on the run as a snack. (Too much almond meal is not good when you are flaring, hard to digest).

It takes time to change the way you think about eating bread products but the remission achieved has been worth it for me.

Personally, I just cut out bread entirely. None of the alternative breads are satisfying in my opinion. The SCD muffins, crackers, and hot cereal are all great though!

Thanks for the recipes princesa i'm going to look through them tonight!

Pfft. so bored. so hungry, i'm tired of losing weight. :(

Try and get olive oil or coconut oil into as many recipes as you can to add calories along with good nutrition. If you make smoothies put extra oil in them. Eat avocado with salads (if salads are good with you) or guacamole on hamburgers--avocado has good oil as well as good calories. I even just take a spoonful of olive oil from time to time, extra virgin.

Good oils are not only good for your gut, skin and hair they are also very good for brain function. If you eat meat choose fattier cuts. Add good calories wherever you can, just takes a little advance planning and thought.

Good luck.

P.S. I'm off dairy right now but if you are OK with dairy choose full fat ice cream or make your own with real cream. Heaven

P.P.S. I love ice cream and do eat it as a special treat

You really shouldn't eat a lot of the almond products on the SCD intro diet but there is a site where you can buy some products:
http://www.digestivewellness.com/

They have great stuff but it's expensive. I gave up SCD after months of doing it because my flare up wasn't any better controlled than it was eating regularly.

Instead of crackers, you can also probably use dehydrated veggies or veggie chips (check ingredients). You can use slices of cucumbers/carrots instead of dipping crackers in dip... It's not easy.

If you eat raw foods, you run into a very similar problem because breads are cooked. My raw food friend and I used to eat together often when I was doing SCD and we were able to eat a lot of the same stuff. It's a lifestyle change for sure, you can't eat out because you never know exactly what is in the food.

I too was dissatisfied with the results of the almond flour. Yummy, yes. But a bit different. Nut butters will give a much better result (and cheaper).
This is a recipe I developed after several trial and error. Great fluffy bread-like texture. I often make it with blanched almond butter, but peanut butter is much less expensive. Peanut butter will give you a brown bread, and blanched almond butter will make a creamy-white bread.
This recipe is super quick and simple.

PEANUT BUTTER BREAD (or muffins)

1 cup of creamy peanut butter (No additives - just peanuts, or peanuts and salt)
4 whole eggs
1 egg white
1/3 cup of honey
1 teaspoon of baking soda

Prepare your bakeware: Line a 13"x9" cookie sheet with parchment paper. Or put paper liners in a 12 muffin tin.

Preheat oven to 375 F

INSTRUCTIONS:
In a 2-qt mixing bowl, beat the 4 eggs until foamy. Add half of the peanut butter and honey, and mix well. Then add the rest of the peanut butter and honey plus the baking soda, and mix well.
Beat the one egg white to soft peaks, and fold it into the peanut butter batter.

Pour the batter into the baking sheet.
Bake at 375 F for 15 minutes. Then turn oven off, but leave it in the oven for another 20~25 minutes. (The "bread" will continue cooking at a slowly decreasing temperature).

Enjoy!

I think this recipe can be made with any nut butter, but I've only done it with peanut butter and blanched almond butter. Cashew butter would also work very nicely. Also, you may use a little more or a little less honey, depending on how you'll use the bread. For example, I use only 1/4 cup of honey and blanched almond butter to make bread for sandwiches and hamburger buns.
You can get creative and add things, such as raisings, blueberries, etc., but the recipe above is the simple basic mix.

Cool recipe. It looks a LOT like my biscotti recipe, I use fewer eggs and after baking the loaf cut it and bake the slices until dry. So now I might try yours with a few more eggs and see what happens

Tell me about it. All i do is stay in the darn kitchen all day and cook my ass off. Getting a little tired of it. For anyone in this day and age its a little tiring to do half of what people used to do in the 50s and earlier (intense baking/cooking).

I don't spend much time cooking for my diet mod. We eat meat/fish/eggs for protein and non-starchy veggies. The only thing I do special is once a week bake biscotti which are snacks throughout the week.

I do make chicken broth but that's part of making dinner (soup) and then I freeze the extra broth to be used during the week also for other recipes.

In the beginning I tried too hard to whip up substitutes for foods that were on my "no" list and that took some time and money (all those special ingredients). After a while I realized the substitutes weren't necessary so just stuck to the basics. But I realize that the way we eat may be different than other people, even before I decided to change my diet we rarely ate ready-made food, rarely had pizza (maybe once a month). I think it must be much more difficult cooking for a family who might not be thrilled with gluten-free etc.

The hardest part is changing the way you think about food and eating a different palette. Eliminating gluten, dairy and starches really changes a menu and I completely understand how mind-boggling it can be.

It's easy if you eat a piece of meat and a veggie. It became difficult for me when I started wanting crackers and cookies and I had to make these things from scratch. I was making yogurt and cookies from scratch and I had to buy all of these expensive ingredients. Dehydrating my own fruit because the stuff they sell in the store has added sugar. Even store bought yogurt often has pectin...

I finally ended up getting so sick & I lost so much weight, I had to get on medication to get things resloved. I would have much preferred spending all day in the kitchen over taking a bunch of chemicals.

stereofidelic89 said...
Whoa, how did you come up with this!?

Just trial and error, many years ago. :)