Practitioner Tip: Easier Eating with Sensitivities
A Batch Cooking and Meal Planning Guide for MCAS and Histamine Intolerance + FREE Printable
Hi there!
Kam here, Mast Cell 360 Health Coach, with some tips for eating when you have sensitivities and intolerances.
You may have heard our family’s story before. Our food intolerances ran the gamut – histamine, lectins, oxalates, FODMAPS, salicylates, and even sulfur.
For a few months, I wasn’t able to do much more than slowly sip down about 1 cup of liquid peptides over the course of a day. And yes, I was even reacting to that. It didn’t seem to matter what I tried, my body just wouldn’t take and use food.
It’s been a few years since I was in that boat. And I never did end up on a feeding tube. I found my bits of MCAS magic that allowed me to start eating again and then started figuring out the mold piece and gradually got more foods back.
But I don’t take being able to eat and digest food for granted after that experience. And I completely get how hard it can be to manage eating when it feels like you react to everything.
It’s pretty common with MCAS to have 1 or more food intolerances along with it.
So, first, I want you to know that food intolerances can OFTEN be dramatically improved or even reversed. It doesn’t happen overnight, but it does happen.
And in the meantime, there are a few practical things you can do in the kitchen that might make managing eating a little easier on you.
I hope today’s tips will help you:
Stop histamine from sneaking up on you
Save precious energy by cooking once and eating for days
Build a freezer full of intolerance-friendly meals so you always have something on hand
Navigate multiple intolerances with simple strategies
If you’re in a place where you are down to just a few (or maybe even no foods) your top priority needs to be getting some mast cell stability back and calming that inflammation down. In the clinic, that’s a mix of adding support and removing triggers. And the path forward is individual for each person.
If you’ve still got a few foods, then these tips might help make it a little easier to navigate eating while you work on the stability piece.
And, if you’ve got some stability but you’re still in the thick of managing it all as you heal, these tips will save you some energy you can use towards something else.
Let’s dig in!
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