This Is MS Multiple Sclerosis Community: Knowledge & Support

Oh, if you have a craving for sweets, here's a gluten-free monster cookie recipe I like, and it's very easy to make. I use regular vanilla (not the stevia variety), and I use date bits (softened a little with some hot water for several minutes before adding to the recipe) instead of honey. It's pretty easy and flexible. You can make it with, or without, the chocolate chips:

Gluten and Dairy Free Monster Cookies

Have fun.

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CCSVI Procedure 9/16/2009 at Stanford
Stent in left and right IJVs
SPMS
Copaxone and Ampyra user

thanks for the tips guys

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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I bought the cookbook "cooking for Isaiah" by Silvana Nardone

It has some great recipes, but best of all, it has an amazing recipe for gluten-free all purpose flour (that can also easily be made into a pancake mix that there's a recipe for as well)

I was spending $6 at the grocery store for this tiny tiny box of gluten-free flour and this recipe makes 4 pounds of flour and I got all the stuff at Bulk Barn for around $10!

Here's the recipe:
6 cups white rice flour
3 cups tapioca flour
1 1/2 cups potato starch
1 tbs salt
2 tbs xanthum gum

Hlm,

It's a miracle! LOL Thanks so much for the recipe!! I think I'll give it a whirl this weekend One question though....if it calls for Rice flour....why not just use that?? Sorry if that's a stupid question, but I'm not very well versed on the topic in question.......YET!

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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Hey,

Not sure, but I think it's all about flavour and maybe consistency? The author said she tried so many different store-bought flours, and different types of flours and tested them in recipes until she finally "perfected" a flour recipe that works for any purpose, baking, cooking, pancakes, etc. I keep this flour on hand now and use it for everything. I love the taste, I made muffins with it and actually prefer this flour taste to regular flour.

I'm pretty much in the same diet you are and occasionally I also get an urge of eating other foods such as tacos and so. Lately I had an urge on making some chicken and green pepper flautas, of course using olive oil. I think I'm going to go ahead and do it this thursday. I'm getting bored of salads, carrots, and berries. The diet has helped me a lot though, all the symptoms have gone away however they sometimes feel like they want to make a come back though, but I'm going to keep on trucking in regards to the diet. Keep your head up and lets keep on fighting to neutralize this illness.

Hi,
I am following the Swank/OMS program but after reading up on the BBD and leaky gut syndrome got myself an ELISA test to ensure that th the OMS was the right diet to follow.
Had my results back and I am in the clear for everything except a mild intolerences to peanuts randomly !! The dairy and red meat results are negated as the OMS diet doesn't permit these and I am over the 3 month limit of excluding them so it wouldn't show up even if I was !!
The OMS and BBD are principally the same but if I don't have any food intolerences then is the BBD for me ?
I was diagnosed following an MRI scan after one brief spell of tingling down the left side of my face (which has now gone) so I have no benchmark of whether the diet is alleviating any symptoms and my next MRI is not due until September....

Suggestions and or advice please ??

hi, what all tests did you have done as part of your diagnostic process?

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my approach: no meds so far - just balanced whole foods (partial 'paleo', much less outright elimination), science, supplements, & bloodwork
my regimen - www.thisisms.com/ftopict-2489.html
www.whfoods.com, www.nutritiondata.com

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