What to Eat When You Can't Eat Anything: The Complete Allergy Cookbook

by Chupi Sweetman, Luke Sweetman, Patricia O. Quinn (Foreword)

Living with food allergies and intolerances used to mean one had to stick to a restrictive, often tasteless, and sometimes downright unpleasant diet—but not anymore. In What to Eat When You Can't Eat Anything, Chupi and Luke Sweetman, who had to rethink the way they ate because of their own food challenges, offer over 120 healthful and delicious dishes that put the joy back into eating. These mouth-watering recipes accompanied by 40 stunning photographs—covering breakfast to dessert—are perfect for all types of food sensitivities, from wheat, sugar, and yeast to dairy products, gluten, and artificial additives, and best of all, they allow readers to indulge in many of the everyday foods that we all know and love. With the collaboration of Patricia Quinn—one of Ireland's best-respected nutritionists—this book is filled with important information and sound advice on specific food allergies and intolerances, what foods and ingredients to stock, how to buy them, and much more. What to Eat When You Can't Eat Anything is guaranteed to add fun—and great taste—to every food-sensitive diet.

Genres: Nonfiction, Cookbooks

176 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2004

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

I use this little cookbook all the time - the recipes are simple, delicious, and healthy. All you need are a few key ingredients and you can make almost everything in the book.

[Missy LeBlanc Ivey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the recipes from this little cookbook written by a couple of kids, a sister and brother team, Chupi and Luke, 15 and 18 years old, respectively, who had to change their diet due to food allergies. If you have digestive issues, and you like the flavors and spices of India, such as curries, then this would be a good little cookbook to start with. They have a very good sense of taste.

My top favorite recipe in this cookbook so far: p. 126-127, Brian's Spicy Chicken Curry with Organic Brown Rice...delicious!!! The absolute best curry dish I have ever tasted! This recipe alone will encourage you to cook more from this book. I LOVE the flavors of India and am very excited to try more. So far, this cookbook gets 5 stars!

[Amy · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a joke!

Eggs, milk, wheat pasta, cheese, tomato, vegetable oils, rice, potatoes, butter, onion, tablespoons and tablespoons of baking powder ... these are the ingredients required for the recipes in this book, when they should be listed as allergens instead.

[Miss Adventures In The Dating World™ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just borrowed this book from the library today. I read through it quickly as I need to figure out my food intolerance/allergy problem fast to avoid further discomfort. As a FIN (food intolerance newbie) I gasped at the idea of eating spelt flour--turning my once colored diet to very boring, very quickly...but I really like this book and I really like the recipe section for "ultrasensitive", "sensitive" and "unsensitive", however they list some items I still cannot eat as they release "histamine"

I have yet to try out any of the recipes, but when I do, I'll come back to edit and list the recipes I enjoyed/could tolerate φ

[Deirdre · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an interesting look at cooking and foods that reduce the possible allergen factors. The trick to this one is to actually read the introduction and see what notes they make on the recipies. They often offer choices that are actually interesting. The idea behind this book is exploring sensitivity, not really complete exclusion and then adding back in some foods and seeing if you can eat them.

The recipies look good and the ideas are good but it's not really a complete allergy cookbook, it's more an explore your sensitivity cookbook.