SCD Lifestyle E-Book: The First 90 Days

After reading the book, Breaking the Vicious Cycle, (a must read by they way) I was confused on how to implement the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD).  So, while searching the internet this website kept popping up on everyone's list of most helpful places. I bought their e-book, Surviving and Thriving, and I just want to say, if you are struggling on how to start this diet, this book is quite helpful.

Surviving and Thriving E-Book

We were in a place where we needed results fast.  My son was very sick and we could not afford more mistakes.  This book gave us an introduction diet plan where we began with just a few simple foods and built up from there.  It gave us a guideline on how to phase in foods and in what order.  It taught us how to cook our foods when my son was in a flare and what foods might trigger a flare.  For us this little e-book was the right choice.  It is in my arsenal if my son needs to return back to the basics.

If I have learned one thing about IBS and IBD, it is that we are all individuals.  We all relate to food differently.  We all have our own triggers and sensitivities so starting at a baseline and building our own safe food list is important for success.

With that said, I know many of you cannot afford the 38 dollars that this book costs, but would like to start this SCD diet.  Below is a list of the foods on the introduction diet.  If you are symptom free you need only stay on this phase for 2-3 days, but if you are having symptoms stay on this intro phase for 5 days.

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Food List:
Eggs: scrambles, poached, sunny-side-up, hard boiled
Meats: roasted chicken, turkey, or pork
            ground chicken, turkey, beef or pork
Vegetables: carrots
Homemade Chicken or Beef Broth
Gelatin: homemade jello with plain gelatin and Welch's Grape Juice or Apple Cider
Applesauce, no sugar added
Rooibos Tea, this is a naturally decaffeinated tea, sweetened with a touch of honey

The food list is simple, but use your imagination to create tasty meals.  Remember, this is only for 3-5 days and you are creating a food safe zone here.  By using your ground meats and some very simple spices, like thyme, sage, oregano, parsley and salt (no pepper for intro phase) you can create sausage patties for breakfast or some meatballs to go in your soup.  You can puree your carrots and create a carrot soup or slice them into your broth and add shredded chicken to create a chicken soup.  There are many ways to make chicken broth and beef bone broth; a quick search on the internet will provide many possibilities, just strain the vegetables out.  One of my favorite ways to use chicken broth is making egg drop soup, simple, quick and easy, and a good breakfast too.

I hope to put up some of my favorite recipes I used during this quick, but effective introduction phase.