You need a list of what she is allergic to. Example: Dairy. Dairy does not mean just milk or cheese. Lots of things contain whey. Whey is a milk product.

My grandson is allergic to dairy stage 5 out of 5. Tree nuts, but not coconut (which is not a tree nut BTW). Legumes, peanuts is the worst, but also the other beans, except for green beans. Fish, but not shrimp unless it has been contaminated by touching fish. Shellfish is a common allergy. He is not allergic to soy, but a lot are. Gluten? Also another allergy that he doesn't have a problem with.

Vegan is not always good for allergies, because a lot of vegan recipes use cashews and other nuts.

Please post the list of what she IS allergic to and we can go from there.

ETA: Allergies can develop late in life with little or no warning. One example is the people that are developing an allergy to red meat due to tick bites!

We can probably help out with strategies if we know what the allergies are, but there's a lot of interpretation involved. Has your daughter been tested? I test moderately allergic to a heck of a lot of foods. The same level of reaction in an environmental allergen will create a obvious and compoundable reaction in me. Example, if there are five pollens that I'm moderately allergic to, I'll have a similar reaction to a single pollen allergen that I'm strongly allergic to. OTOH, I can eat normal amounts of foods I'm testably moderately allergic to without having any reaction. I don't count these among the foods that I'm allergic to. It's possible that these tax the immune system or something, but it's more likely, in my mind, that the digestive process neutralizes the allergens or something, or else maybe I'd be just as allergic if I breathed in the food as a pollen, but that's not the way eating works. :)

So, find out what makes your daughter say she's allergic to all these foods. If it's from testing, has she done an elimination diet? It's a pain and a half, and hard to do while getting on with work, family life, etc., and it can take a really long time to go through each food one by one, but it's the best way to find out which is an actual allergy vs. a suspected or tested one.

Having food allergies sucks. It just does. The more foods your daughter can tolerate, the easier her life will be. I'm not allergic to tomatoes, per se, but I've been avoiding nightshades because I started noticing an inflammatory reaction (they do that to everybody to some extent but most aren't disturbed by them, or don't realize that they are). I just produced a credible beef stew without any tomatoes, but it wasn't easy! And I love tomatoes....

So do have a frank discussion about what you can and cannot feed your daughter, and let us know how we can help you develop some recipes that will suit.

Thank You for all your replies, all ideas and suggestions are very welcome.

Yes she had an allergy test rating foods from 0-3+. 0's are ok to eat,

1's - not to many at one time,

2's if cooked but not to many or often.

Avoid all 3's.

Also I'm concerned/confused that squash is 0 but pumpkin is a 3..... Pumpkin IS a squash! Does this mean all "moschanta" types of squash are a 3? And the other 4 types of squash are a 0???

Following is her allergy list:

0's. Apricot, beef, beet, carrot, celery, coffee, grape raisin, lettuce, mustard, olive, potato-white, rice, tea, squash

1's. Apple, asparagus, bean string, broccoli, cantaloupe, catfish, cauliflower, chicken, cinnamon, clam, coconut, cod fish, cottonseed, crab meat, cranberry, ginger, haddock, halibut, herring, lime, mushroom, oats rolled, peas, potato sweet, salmon, shrimp, tapioca, trout.

2's. IF COOKED Almond, banana, bean navy, bean soy, blackberry, buckwheat, cabbage, chocolate, cucumber, garlic, hops, lemon, lobster, malt, cow's milk, onion, orange, raspberry, peach pear, pepper, radish, rye flour, spinach, strawberry, tuna, turkey, watermelon, wheat, yeast brewers,

3's Bean Lima, barley, Brazil nut 3+, corn, egg, grapefruit 3+, gum acacia, gum karaya, oyster, peanut, pecan 3+, pineapple 3+, plum/prune, pork 3+, pumpkin, sugar beet, sugar cane, tomato, walnut black 3+, Walnut English 3+

I just learned wild rice and traditional quinoa is a couple things she has been eating without problems. That gives me a couple more foods to investigate recipe wise.

Compumom Thank you for the link!!!

My link didn't come through.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/whats-to-eat--the-milk-free-egg-free-nut-free-food-allergy-cookbook_linda-marienhoff-coss/340494/?mkwid=sTuRssN5M%7cdc&pcrid=70112914152&pkw=&pmt=&plc=&pgrid=21336092592&ptaid=pla-292433309256&gclid=CjwKCAiA_ZTfBRBjEiwAN6YG4ej0CC2LitFkc-QrvE5PZ9ylwHdtgNzL2D30ZXTgqFACfUJ0OwoN9hoCPqcQAvD_BwE#isbn=0970278500&idiq=2111815

My grandson is allergic to legumes, but peanuts are at the top of the list and green beans are at the bottom. he can eat green beans, but not peanuts.

Plllog, I'm look forward to any kinds of strategies and even food for thought you might have to offer! Yes, she also has a number of pollen allergies too but I don't have a list for those.

Sherry, Thank you for the link!

Lola, don't worry about the pollens. Unless there's something at your house that's making her more miserable than the rest of the world, there's nothing you can do about them. Something that helped me was in an old book by a doctor who seemed to be speaking to exactly the issues I have. Instead of going with conventional medical advice to take antihistamines prophylactically, to actually lay off of them unless these is an acute reaction. For me, with the environmental allergies, that's what I call "the itchy scratchies" which is the stinging runny eyes and cat sat on my face feeling. As much as possible, I go without medications. When I do take them, they have a noticeable effect. Also, the form of the medicine, and the brand, matter. It's different for everybody, but for me 24 hr. Claritin Redi-Tabs are far more effective than any other antihistamine, including the prescription ones.

So the food thing is the issue at hand. My only avoid entirely ones are 4 and above, but there may be different interpretations and numbers assigned having different meaning from your daughter's tests and mine (I've been through it twice, once as a teen and once as an adult). For me, the 2's and 3's are the ones I mentioned that I can eat without a serious or specific reaction. You said that for your daughter it's the 3's that are the real no-gos. While she's new on her program, it's probably best to limit 2's as well, but not worry about a little getting in when necessary or something like that. I'm reading your "if cooked" to mean she can have some if it's cooked. Ask your daughter how she feels about that, and if she's planning on doing an elimination diet or anything like that concerning the 2's.

The only way to know the squash answer is by asking the testers. In general, "squash" probably means the whole range of squashes, but not related fruits like cucumbers. Pumpkin, then, would mean specifically pumpkin, which besides the small amount of allergen common to all squash, pumpkin has something else that's just off the charts bad. I.e., if she's just dying for pumpkin pie, make it with butternut, which a lot of people do anyway. But check with them. It may actually be all winter squash that's no good, not just pumpkin, and that "squash" means summer squash, or some other kind of meaning.

The good news is that most of the 3's on her list are fairly easily avoidable!

What's hard to know is what she wasn't tested for. I don't see goat on the list. Many people have cow's milk allergies but can have goat's milk, which is more accessible than sheep's milk. Having some dairy milk available makes cooking a lot easier. There are also a variety of goat and sheep cheeses that she might be able to eat. Dairy milk is preferable to vegan milk for the nutritional value that's kind of assumed in basic Western cooking. I see your daughter is allergic to too many nuts to chance any kind of nut milk, and also soy. For a non-dairy milk, she might try hemp. I don't know about commercial hemp milk for nutrition, but hemp seeds do have complete protein (and are delicious).

If she can also eat goat and lamb, that would give her something besides beef, and lesser chicken, as a main protein. There's also duck and other game birds, and perhaps rabbit, frogs, etc., depending on how she feels about less ordinary proteins. The problem here is that it doesn't sound like they tested for these or else didn't think to list them on the results if they got no reaction.

The big issues are eggs and onions. It is possible to make flavorful food without any alliums at all. I've done it for a friend, but it's a pain in the rear, and garlic and onions are both 2's for her, as is radish. So this is where big questions come in. Something sharp is wanted, and those are the big three. Can she have turnips? Turnips will work as a substitute but take a lot of cooking. I haven't tried it, but partially dehydrating turnips to keep as a staple might work to make them brown more quickly.

Something which might work, as well, is to use judicious amounts of onion powder and garlic powder, rather than fresh. I don't know enough here about whether that counts as small amounts of cooked so minimal allergens with maximum flavor, or if it just means a concentration of allergens.

I also wonder if she might be allergic to unmentioned spices. There's a lot you can do with fresh spices if she can tolerate them.

I'm going to start a new message.

I seems overwhelming now, but soon it will become second nature. You will know what she can have and will be able to flip a package over and read the ingredient list in a heartbeat.

Rice milk is great and cooks fine. My grandson was allergic to egg for awhile, but then got to where he could have it in baked goods. Now he can have eggs as long as they are fully cooked (no sunny side up fried with the runny yolk).

I don't see any 5's on the list. That is fantastic. Any dairy (cow, goat, whatever) is a five for my grandson. That means EpiPen, Benadryl, and a trip to the ER for an ovenight stay.

I reorganized your lists, and looked them over, but have many more questions. Can your daughter have spices not mentioned? What about other proteins like duck, goat, lamb, duck eggs, goat milk, rabbit? What about other dark green leafies like chard, collards, turnip greens, etc.? What about turnips, for that matter? They're an excellent source of sharpness for people who can't have aliums. Can she have garbanzo beans? Garbanzo goo can whip up like egg whites (I haven't done it but it looks fab). What about agar agar? Flaxseed? Chia? Vegans have been searching for things to stand in for eggs and there are various items for various uses that can work pretty well. For ease of cooking and nutrition, it's easier to substitute goat milk for cow's and duck eggs for chicken's, if she can have them. I take Sherry's word for it about cooking with rice milk. Hemp milk is also good. I know hemp seeds have complete proteins, which grains do not, but I don't know if that's true of hemp milk. Assuming she can have hemp.

A big question is the alliums, especially since radish is also on the not good list, and we don't know about turnips. It's hard to cook without something sharp. While beer is obviously forbidden six ways from breakfast, it looks like she might be able to have (grape) wine vinegar. That's good for acid. But I don't know if onion powder, for instance, counts as cooked onion and a little isn't bad (or is it raw?) or does it concentrate the allergens?

Also, can she have honey? Agave? Dates? Kiwi? Blueberries?

If your daughter can stick to the 0's for a couple of weeks it might jump start her feeling better. I recently spent three months on a similarly restrictive diet, and it was awful, but I felt so much better almost immediately. The first four days I had awful hunger pangs--really, loudly painful ones, though I'd had plenty to eat and from balanced proteins, fats and carbohydrates--so it's not for the wimpy, but I took that as a sign that I was doing something right, and I waited until I could really eat something on the no list without having a response until I went off it (it was only supposed to be 3 weeks). Mine was for a different issue than the allergies, but same principle.

Because she's allergic to all the gluten bearing grains, she should probably give up all kinds of breads for the moment and stick to potatoes, rice, etc. You can oil and roast quarter inch slices of potato, with a little seasoning and sprinkle of dried herbs (if she can have those), and use them to build sandwiches. They'd have to be wrapped if lifted, but do well with knife and fork to have that sense of eating the bread, meat and veg together without actual bread. Alternatively, large lettuce leaves make fine substitutes for flatbreads in wrap sandwiches.

A nice beef stew can be made with carrots, celery and squash and potatoes, plus turnips if allowed. You can get those darker green mixed baby lettuces in a bag for salads.

The biggest stumbling block at this point is not knowing the status of all the other foods that aren't on the list at all.

Thank you!!!

I have allot of areas to study from all your helpful information above. Also books and websites to investigate.

Sigh..... So many things I have never dreamed about before. Hopefully I will be able to un-complicate the world of food allergies in the near future.

So, this is how I've been thinking about your yes/no list. There are enough nuts and fish on it to just say no to all nuts and fish/seafood unless proven otherwise. Similarly, I'd say no to anything in the cabbage/cruciferous family, which is unfortunate because of the dark greens. Also no citrus, so the question is what acid is okay?

To start with these are yes:

Protein: Beef. Some chicken.
Carbs: Rice, White potatoes
Fats: Olive oil
Sweetner: Raisins
Acid: Vinegar? It doesn't say, but I'm hoping if grape raisins are unrestricted, wine vinegar is also, or at least rice wine vinegar, which you can find in the Japanese stores.
Flavoring: Coffee, Tea, Mustard seed

Other bulk (pseudograins): Quinoa, wild rice

Root Vegetables: Carrots, beets
Leafy Vegetables: Lettuce, Celery
Savory Seed Pods: Squash, olives
Sweet Fruits: Apricots, raisins

The lack of vegetables on the eat all you want list is challenging, but even with this list, it's possible to create a fairly varied number of dishes. At least there's something.

I'd get a good spice grinder. Adding a little ground mustard seed or coffee bean, or even tea, can brighten up a lot of things. I hope she can also have salt and pepper, but even those can be worked around.

If your daughter is used to eating bread, the first thing to do is try making potato cakes (egg free) and rice crackers. Also, try making crusty rice, like you might find in a paella or Persian casserole.

Make some plain beef and chicken stock--roast the bones for flavor, and cook down bones and scrap meat in water, then strain.. Freeze in smallish containers, and also ice cube trays, both as soup/stew bases and to add flavor to other cooking.

The next thing to do is find as many different things you can make with these basics as the stars. Like you can make roasted beets, chilled beets, beet and raisin sauce, beat and celery salad, beet and wild rice stuffed roast chicken, etc. Along the way, you'll find many things that you can almost make from your 0 list just if you could add a little of a 1.

One more thing to think about for your daughter is to talk to her allergist, or see a GI specialist about gut health. I wanted to stick to the foods, first, since that was your question, but my question is if this came on newly rather than being something she's always been dealing with, what happened? I have experienced my food allergies getting much worse after a bad respiratory infection and lots of antibiotics. A gut fix diet (which is killer, but works) got the food allergies back to where they had always been.

What are her symptoms, if she eats the foods rated 3+, 3 or 2?