I think most people use CF for dairy free. It might be confusing if we change that.

Rachel

To be honest, I've always wondered if CF was necessarily dairy free, as opposed to "casein free." Sometimes, recipes will call for ghee, and I'm just not brave enough to try it.

At my previous jobs, I've maintained my own lists of acronyms. Lots of times, there will be multiple results for one acronym. If we're going to sticky this thread, or link it to a sticky thread, can you add "Specific Carbohydrate Diet" as part of the "scd" definition? (I have no problem with you leaving your definition, along with it.) If it were my list, I'd probably also have a reference to Elaine Gottschall's book, too.

As far as the refined sugar free (rsf)... I've always gotten a little confused on that one. Is it just table sugar you buy by the bagfull? Is it honey? Or stevia? Or high fructose corn syrup? Molasses? Maple syrup? So, I guess I'm asking for more than just spelling out the acronym; I want some description to go along with it. I keep thinking if *I* have these questions, there are probably one or two others who might stumble on this site and wonder too.

Oh, and I guess I've been living in California too long. At first glance, "sf" is San Francisco, but I'll figure it out.

(I saw the thread title and was tempted to write a recipe for water... combine two hydrogen molecules with one oxygen molecule. Can be boiled, frozen, or enjoyed at room temperature.)

Rainbow Not-Jello Cake DF/GRF/SCD/rsf/ef/corn free (may contain sulfites)

Start 1 cup Youngberry juice to boil.
Pour 1 cup *cold* water into a bowl.
Sprinkle 1 envelope Knox gelatin into cold water and let sit.

When the juice boils (don't let it boil off too much) pour it over the gelatin/water mixture. Whisk with a fork or whisk, if you've replaced your old gluten-y one; for 2 minutes (or less, just get it well mixed) Pour into serving bowl, or a bunch of custard cups. Let sit for 1.5-2 hours.
Repeat using apricot juice, but pour the finished mixture on top of the set youngberry mixture. You can use as many layers as you like. This is more jello like than the knox blox recipe, though its not super sweet. You can replace some water with juice, or add sugar (honey for SCD) if you prefer it sweeter. You can also use any juice (except lemonade or OJ, and possibly pineapple) Serve with fruit or whipped topping...but I think the whipped topping spoils the rainbow effect. (Not to mention is steeped with dairy and other junk :P)

That's a great point. Ghee is casein free (and we use it without a problem and I know a lot of other people who do, too), but you're right that it's not dairy free. Tough one.

LOL!!! Good one!! It does seem like once you leave out all those things that's all you're left with!

Rachel

I just went away for the weekend with some friends. It is much easier to eat gluten, dairy, egg, soy, legume, and citrus free at home than when planning meals with others. They were very understanding and pretty careful though. It would be so nice if we could just forget about food allergies for a while. They were amazed at how careful I am and decided it might be easiest to just eat dirt .

--Judy

I know there are a lot of casein free recipes out there but I also need to make sure they are Dairy free. I guess we will have to decide on one set of acronyms so corn free and casien free are not confused in the headings.

--Judy

Would it work to just spell out the words? That way nobody needs to guess at what the author intended. Plus it might be easier to do a search to find things if they are labeled with the written-out words.

Just a thought; I'm not at all sure it's the right answer.

-Valerie

Mist and Claire:

Because this has turned into a discussion thread, I've made another recipe thread: http://forums.braintalk2.org/showthr...8744#post18744

Would you mind copying your recipes over there so that we can continue using this place for discussion but not at the loss of your recipes?

I've re-done some of the acronyms. Can everyone check them out?

I'm not comfortable using cf for corn free because it's already understood by the world as meaning casein free.

our son has been put on a no "anything" diet, no yeast,rye, wheat,diary,poultry,certain nuts,cane sugar,etc..I found this alternative sugar I am sure you all might know of it, but if not, is 100% birch sugar, another name for xilytol (sp) anyway, it is a natural source not lab made, it is used for diabetics and very restrictive diets, it tastes just like sugar, 1 tsp =4 gms=9.6 calories, I get it from "ultimate meal" does anyone have any flat bread recipes-and or bread for "no anything" diets? Thanks. Beth

Since this is now a discussion thread...

The only food I can think of that is casein free but not dairy free is ghee. Are there any others?

Claire