That includes potatoes, their relatives, and substances derived from them--no more:

white potato
sweet potato
yams
potato flour
potato starch
Kabocha squash*
Jicama*
Tapioca*
Jerusalem (Sun Chokes)*
B vitamins (Niacin, Thiamin, Riboflavin)
enriched bread or pasta products
Vitamin D Palmitate
Dextrose
Iodized salt
modified food starch
hydrolyzed vegetable protein
vegetable broths
MSG (AKA “natural flavorings”)
propylene glycol

So basically, if it's in a box, it's got one of the above and we can't eat it. Even the boxed or bagged organic health foods have dextrose in them. There's only one kind of cookie we can buy, Nature Bake's Spelt Oatmeal. Luckily, we have a couple of good cookbooks with some tasty recipes using rice, spelt, or other alternate flours. My sour cream pastries (from spelt soaked in sour cream overnight) are out of this world and DH's rice flour chocolate chip cookies taste almost exactly like Toll House.

No wheat, either. We can have sprouted wheat, which is nice, I can use Nature Bake Surviva Bread for DD and I, hence the stuffing.

DD is intolerant to potatoes and we are both type "O"s and thus intolerant to wheat. If you have a strong constitution, like DH, you can be an "O", eat wheat, and only get mild IBS or something. If you've got arthritis like DD and I do, wheat actually makes it a hundred fold worse.

There is a point to the admittedly weird and hideously inconvenient diet--DD and I have fewer colds and enjoy better overall health and energy since we've made the changes. I was nearly imobile with pain a year and a half ago, like I was in a seventy year old's body. Now I'm only in moderate pain and a fifty year old's body. Maybe by next year I'll have my body back again.

But pumpkins and all other squashes are just fine. We discovered that butternut squash when smothered in butter and brown sugar taste almost like candied yams, so they're our subsitue for that Thanksgiving dish now.

The pies will have regular wheat crusts, so DD and I will just eat the good stuff and not eat the crust. I have a good spelt pie crust recipe, but I don't have time this year to make pies, so I'm making do.

DH's style is seriously cramped with no more potatoes. He's polish-american so mashed potatoes are serious soul food. It's proof positive of his love for me that he's going along with the diet at all.

Anhata
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